NOD News

Due to a major and long overdue upgrade of our website, we have been offline for two weeks to do the necessary work. But now we are happy to announce that our new website is online! 

With this new website, it is the first time in about 10 years that we change the layout completely. This choice has been made to make sure that the website would load faster and at the same time become more mobile-friendly. Also our menu navigation has been updated, so that it is easier to find back the many different parts of our website.

What has not changed, is what we offer on our website. You'll still find our college and courses in the way you are used to. Also the activity wall, member profiles, groups, forums, Oran Mor e-zine, Celtic Library, ... are still there!

We understand that it may have been inconvenient for you that the website was offline for 2 weeks. For that reason, and of course to celebrate the launch of our new website, we offer a discount promotion on our Upgraded Memberships!

From now until the end of September 2024, you will get a discount of € 10 on your Upgraded Membership. This applies for new upgrades as well as renewal upgrades. If you are already upgraded, you can choose to upgrade again and the new upgrade period will start after your current upgrade period is completed, that way you don't lose any days!

With this discount, a 1 year upgraded membership will be € 19.95 instead of € 29.95. A 2 year upgraded membership is € 39.95 instead of € 49.95. But only if you upgrade before the end of September!

The discount is automatically applied when you upgrade your account. You do not need to enter a discount code.

Please be aware that this discount does not apply on family discount memberships. In order to cover the financial costs of the website update, we will donate € 3 instead of € 5 per upgraded membership with discount to The Nature Conservancy. If you wish to donate more, you can do so directly at Nature.org. 

We thank you for your patience these past weeks, and hope you enjoy our renewed website!

Due to vacation, the webmaster and membership administration departments will not be available until July 24. Any questions sent to these departments will be handled afterwards.

Thank you for your understanding and have a great Summer!

We are happy to announce that the Druid Youth Course is now also available in Dutch. This course follows the Bardic Youth Course and Ovate Youth Course, which have already been available in Dutch. Students need to have completed these two courses before they can enrol into the Druid Youth Course.

At this moment, the Dutch Druid Youth Course does not have a mentor available yet, as there are no graduates of the Dutch Ovate Youth Course at this point. However, the course book can already be purchased from our online bookstore at this link:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/new-order-of-druids/de-wortels-van-het-woud/paperback/product-4pe7jg.html?page=1&pageSize=4 

With thanks to Ben (Ontwaken) for the Dutch translations.

Due to vacation, the webmaster and membership administration departments will not be available until July 25. Any questions sent to these departments will be handled afterwards.

Thank you for your understanding and have a great Summer!

The membership administration and webmaster department will be on vacation until July 20, 2021. Support tickets and other inquiries may not be answered until after July 20. 

Thank you for your understanding.

We are happy to announce that we have launched a new self-study Meditation Course. The course does not come with mentoring, but is free for all members of NOD. Its main purpose is to help students of other courses with their meditation practice, but you can also take this course if you're not enrolled in any other courses.

The Meditations Course is a practical journaling course involving meditations and visualisations which are intended to demonstrate your own personal growth in this aspect of personal practice. The course provides 39 meditations and journaling exercises to be performed over a period of 13 months. By keeping a journal you will be able to look back on your entries and see the progress you make and this will aid in your future development.

You can find the Meditation Course here:

https://www.druidcircle.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=24

In 2006, we introduced the "Oran Mor", the quarterly Celtic E-Zine of the New Order of Druids. It was introduced as a service for upgraded members, and each edition contains a variety of articles, including NOD news, seasonal-related articles, book reviews, stories, artwork, poetry, and much more.

In order to improve communications with NOD and its members, the Council has decided to make the Oran Mor e-zine open to all members of NOD, and no longer just the upgraded ones. This means that, as of today, you can download the latest edition of our e-zine every time it comes out, as well as every previous edition published between 2006 and now. Many hours of reading enjoyment guaranteed!

What do you need to do to access the Oran Mor?
All you need is to be a member of NOD with a registered account on our website. It doesn't matter if you're a free member or an upgraded member.

Once you've logged in, go to "My Services" and then to "Oran Mor E-Zine". Then you just click the "download" button, which will bring you to the list of all editions of our e-zine. The most recent edition is on top. 

You can also just go to this link directly (after you're logged in) and then to "download":
https://www.druidcircle.org/druid/index.php/en/services/oran-mor

We will still send an e-mail to our NODNews mailing list every time a new edition of the Oran Mor is released (4 times a year), so you'll know the newest edition is ready for you to read whenever you wish!

Our e-zine is published in PDF-format. This means that, just like the handbook courses of our online Druid college, you'll need a PDF reader installed on your computer or device in order to open it and read the Oran Mor. Acrobat Reader is most commonly used, and is a completely free program, though other PDF readers exist as well.

We are happy to announce that, as of August 3, the New Order of Druids has expanded its borders with a new vernemeton (local grove) in Spain.

We welcome Nemeton Keltoi, located in Barcelona, in our international community! If you live in Spain or are interested to find out more about Nemeton Keltoi, please check out their website and social media for more information:

Website: https://keltoi.morganabarcelona.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APIKeltoi.GroveNemetonKeltoi/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apikeltoi_grovenemetonkeltoi/

In addition, we would also like to announce that the international website of the New Order of Druids is now also partially available in Spanish. This means that the basic functionality is now available in the Spanish language, which you can access by clicking the Spanish flag icon at the top of the page (or use the language selector in the left menu when you use the mobile version of the website).

Keep in mind that not the entire website is available in the Spanish language. Content and information articles, news announcements, courses and support communications are still only available in English (and Dutch) at this time. Whenever an area of the website is completely unavailable in Spanish, you will be automatically redirected to the English version of the website.

We are happy to announce the launch of a new course in our Grove of Dana online Druid college. The course "Active Druidry" is intended to encourage you to meet your own needs and add new practices or knowledge that are meaningful to you. In turn this Course will help you to document your learning, and then to reflect and review in order to develop a continuing practice of increasing your Druidic knowledge and skills. The Active Druidry course focusses on self-study, based on the Nine Strands of Druidry, and requires a profound learning plan as well as your own learning journals.

This course comes with mentor guidance, and is only available to upgraded members of the New Order of Druids. To enrol in this course, go to Druid College > List of Courses > Specialisation Courses > Active Druidry Course. There, click on "Join Course" and fill out the application form. You will then receive an email with your enrolment key to enter the course.

If you are interested in taking this course, but you are not an upgraded member, you can find more information about upgrading your account at this link:
https://www.druidcircle.org/druid/index.php/en/membership-options

We would like to thank Hawkmoon for creating and providing us with this new course, and hope that the students in this course will thoroughly benefit from it!

We are happy to announce that the specialisation course "Becoming Aware" is available as of today to our upgraded members. This course had been closed down in the past due to lack of mentorship, but is now reopened.

The Becoming Aware Course is designed to bring you awareness of the world around you by simply re-learning how to use the senses and how to listen to the messages they bring. This course is about You. It is about honing in on who you are and where you are by listening, seeing, smelling, touching and tasting. 

You can enrol in this course in the usual way: go to the menu "Druid College" and then "List of Courses". In the "Course Categories" dropdown-menu, select "Specialisation Courses", and then scroll down until you find "Becoming Aware Course". Click on "JOIN COURSE" on the right, fill out the application form, and follow the instructions you will receive by e-mail.

If you are interested in taking this course, but you are not an upgraded member, you can find more information about upgrading your account at this link:
https://www.druidcircle.org/druid/index.php/en/account-settings/upgrade-my-account