Embracing Animism for a Grounded Future

Becoming a mother heightened my concerns about our world.

There is a common thread in the Indigenous communities I worked in—a sense of belonging to a people, land, and heritage. How could I equip my children with such a sense of belonging?

As a busy parent, I needed my aspirations to integrate seamlessly into our daily lives, informing our actions and values. Because how we see the world informs our values and the important decisions and actions we take.

Folklore, traditions, old-world skills, language, cultural heritage hold the remedy to demolishing the hierarchies and systems that keep us from recognizing our interdependence with all of life.

I found the answer in a single word: animism, which asserts that everything is alive, sentient, and possesses its own agency. Embracing an animistic worldview shapes our values, guiding our decisions in harmony with the natural world.

The Wisdom of Children: Embracing Unconventional Paths

The final piece of the puzzle came from an unexpected yet invaluable source- my greatest teacher, my daughter. She is my inspiration for creating this course for families.

As a neurodivergent child, she came out of the womb railing against the status quo, making us question everything we thought we knew.

Over the last nine years, as I helped her navigate her inner and outer worlds, I realized that in a time when we lived in close-knit communities and valued diversity, her unique traits would have been harnessed to benefit the community.

In the absence of such a supportive, traditional community, how could I step into that role? How could we transform her challenging behaviors and traits into strengths? We had to spin straw into gold.

I began by celebrating her most intense traits as ancestral gifts cultivated over millennia to ensure her success in life. Trusting the process and embracing the lessons, I discovered that ancestral wisdom is not something we acquire, but rather, it resides within each of our cells.

Supporting, honoring & nurturing our children’s diverse mindsets is crucial for creating transformative change in the world. Those who resist modern structures and struggle to conform can teach us invaluable lessons about living differently & embracing unconventional paths.

We are magic.

The wisdom of every one of your Ancestors who ever walked the Earth has been finely tuned across space and time & you embody it. Our bodies – flesh, blood, & bone house the love, wisdom & magic of our Ancestors.

We embody our Ancestor’s dreams.

We are the ones who can help build a better world, starting with creating a more aligned life for ourselves & our families. When we are aligned we are more empowered & have the resources to serve our families & communities.

Unlocking Ancestral Wisdom with Old Ways for Modern Families

Old Ways for Modern Families empowers you to access the skills, traditions & knowledge passed down by our ancestors, which are already embedded in your DNA. This sacred wisdom will help you infuse your modern life with magic & connectedness, creating the harmonious existence you desire.

You’ll discover that the daily acts & rituals you perform hold the key to shaping the world you want to live in, as every action, big or small, creates ripples that influence the world around us.

This course demonstrates that the fantastical life you long for is not mere escapism. Fairy tales, stories, and art can reflect a lifestyle aligned with the world we aspire to create and inhabit, guiding us toward the life we need.

When you sign up for Old Ways for Modern Families, you’re getting more than information. You’re investing in a whole new way to relate to your children & the animate world, honoring their individual spirits + spiraling back to your innate wisdom at the same time.

Here’s everything you get when you sign up for Old Ways for Modern Families

5 Pre-recorded Modules

Each module comes with downloadable materials, which include:

• A workbook
• Resource Materials & Suggested Readings such as stories, myths & movies to share/discuss with your children
• Journal prompts to help you dive deeper into the work & how to incorporate it into your life
• Practical work, rituals & recipes to embody & utilize the material

An invitation to connect with me for help or questions.

There are so many courses on spirituality for women, but children are so often an aside. I appreciate the acknowledgment that many of us are care givers to youngsters, and that there are particular issues that go with that. I would recommend this course to another mother because it’s simply helpful for mothering folks who want to include children on their animist journey, and then it’s also profoundly helpful. The modules are springboards to deeper practices with our children, but each also stands on its own as a guide anyone benefit from, even if you are short on time or resources.

-Adriana Hoyle

I love your passion for these topics and the authenticity with which you deliver the content.
If they are interested in these topics I don’t think there’s anyone I’ve come across better than you to weave together these themes with family life/children, and bring them into daily life.

-Charlie Rigg

You provide concrete ways to approach topics that can feel nebulous and unapproachable. It’s hard to know where to start on this journey of providing a spiritual foundation for our kids that doesn’t follow the current cultural norms, but you provide incredibly helpful guideposts. Down-to-Earth. I appreciate that you invite us into your own journey of discovering this path and don’t present yourself as a guru who has unlocked the one and only way of doing things.

-Adrienne McDonnell

Some concrete benefits that past participants experienced as a result of taking Old Ways for Modern Families.

• “I’m thinking a lot more about what form our responsibility and stewardship should take. Instead of asking my daughter what a plant is, I ask her who it is.”
• “I have taken the first baby steps to connecting to my ancestors in a way that feels good to me.”
• “More confidence with what I’m already doing and to incorporate some new bits into our family life.”
• “Feeling less confused about how to include my children on my path when it feels so eclectic and exploratory.”
• “I feel more equipped with a vocabulary and a template after taking this course.”

I’m Jenn Campus. Author, anthropologist & mythologist. I’m also a busy mom of two young kids who I want to raise with the animistic worldview of my Ancestors.

As a Mythologist and Scribe of The Old Ones, I translate the unspoken words of the unseen world into stories that captivate our imagination & stir us to come into right relationship with the world & all its inhabitants.

As an Anthropologist, I distill those esoteric experiences down to their essence to create various practical frameworks to inspire you to create your own simple daily rituals & traditions that you can apply today to become re-enchanted with the world around you. These traditions can then be left as a legacy to the ones who come after us.

I’m a two-time best-selling author (my books, A Guide to Celebrating the 12 Days of Yule and Love in Every Bite: The Secret to Cooking Healthy Recipes with Positive Energy). I have a degree in Anthropology & Indigenous/Native American Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA + decades of independent research of European folklore, mythology & history.

As a Third Road Initiate & ongoing student of Seidr & Ancestral Lineage Healing in addition to continued self-study of the esoteric arts, I have decades worth of experience creating seasonal celebrations, rituals & family traditions.