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5th Annual (Virtual) California Gathering
Join us Friday September 4 through Sunday September 6 for the 5th Annual California Jedi Gathering! We’ve moved this event online this year, so the gathering is open to everyone, free of charge. Please RSVP to the linked meetup events for any day you wish to attend (each day’s header…
California Jedi Rules of Conduct
We as a group have had a code of conduct for quite some time. Anyone who has attended a gathering has seen some version of this. But it’s been vague and not obviously posted anywhere to read and follow, so here it is: our official policy for discussion and behavior.…
An Open Letter to the Jedi Community
In 2015, I was knighted in the Jedi Federation. The year leading up to that, I had started a lot of hard conversations in the Jedi community about sexism, about homophobia and transphobia, and about racism. I’d been trying to call folks in, to encourage them to think about the…
How to Start an Offline Jedi Training Group
I started California Jedi in 2012 with zero experience on how to run an organization or be a Jedi leader. I’d been in the community for over a decade, and was preparing for my second knighthood process when my then-boyfriend now-husband and I moved across the country back to California.…
Maintaining Social Wellness During a Pandemic
In the California Jedi Knighting Standards, the core knowledge is broken down into the five areas of wellness, taken from The Jedi Circle. These are Physical Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Social Wellness, and Spiritual Wellness. While many of us will have to isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic, its an…
There Are More Ways to be a Warrior Than Playing With Swords
When I first conceived what it was to be a Jedi, I included a martial element to what I thought the path should entail. Some of this was part of my background before setting forth to become a Jedi. I was a black belt martial artist and instructor. Before that,…