Rituals

Informed by my background in retreat work, teaching, and facilitation, I offer rituals that invite participants to safely attune to what their grief is teaching and asking of them. We then seek to integrate that knowing into lived experience.

That may sound abstract, yet thousands of years of anthropology and ecology echo to us the power of ceremony, ritual, and observance. I provide the container and as much or little of the content and materials as needed to turn the internal compost. We hold together whatever surfaces. These rituals are designed for individuals, couples, small groups, or entire organizations at any stage of change or grief.

(Does the term grief bring up curiosity or complexity for you? Go here.)

Rituals offer participants the opportunity to gently transmute suffering in connection with self and/or others. Into fuel? into acceptance? into agency? into love? into retreat? into rage? into clarity? Whatever arrives, we will at least welcome it intentionally.

We face many deaths while alive: of people we love, of selves we have been, relationships we valued, the planet we live on. Grief may ask our “hearts to break until they remain open.” These rituals ask that we be held lovingly in our breaking.