Collective Storytelling with Tarot

Explore the tarot as a tool for collective storytelling and group connection in this in-person workshop with tarot tutor Bel Senlle and James Jude, joining us from his tarot residency at TarotArts in Los Angeles.

Tarot is often understood as a private dialogue between reader and cards. However, it also holds powerful potential as a group tool. The cards can reveal shared patterns, connections and stories that emerge only when people read them together. This approach transforms the tarot from a deck of insights into a social language that can bring us closer together and reveal the common threads between a room full of strangers.

What to expect

This is an interactive, participatory day in which we will work with tarot as a tool for constellation building. Working with your own tarot card alongside those of your neighbours, you'll generate interlinked past, present and future stories. As these narratives are shared, considered, altered and retold, the group builds a collective 'spread', profoundly meaningful for all as connections emerge across the room. 

You do not need any familiarity with tarot to join this experience. Bel and James will guide you through different interpretative techniques rooted in visual language, tarot numerology and free-associative and intuitive skills. 

This in-person workshop includes:

• An interactive, collaborative group tarot reading 
• Techniques for building tarot constellations across a group
• Various interpretative approaches to the tarot
• How to apply tarot in group readings, events, creative work and social gatherings

Who is this workshop for?

Everyone is welcome to join, whether beginner, seasoned tarot reader or someone unfamiliar with the deck. This workshop is for you if you're interested in:

• A day of creativity, storytelling and meaningful connection
• Learning how to use tarot in groups
• Enhancing your interpretative skills
• Tarot as a tool for self-reflection
• Applying tarot to a creative practice

This workshop is a truly one-of-a-kind experience. Book now to explore the tarot as a living, collective language shaped by everyone in the room.

Meet your tutors, Bel Senlle & James Jude

College tarot tutor Bel Senlle created the deck Claridad, published in Spanish in 2019 and released as an English co-edition by Watkins in 2023. James Jude founded the Los Angeles Festival of Tarot and hosts the Tarot Talk Show with Laetitia Barbier. Bel's visual, ritual-based practice and James's narrative, scholarly approach make them a perfect pair to guide this workshop at The College of Psychic Studies. 

Previous participants say:

"There was so much rich information. It was also such a pleasure to be in person."

"It was a great class, and I enjoyed engaging more deeply with Tarot."

"The workshop was very informative, rich and lots of fun!"