Stop Circling. Start Mapping.
Ceremony and ritual are a universal human technology that resolves our need for closure and our desire to remember. Without ceremony and ritual, we'll do foolish things so we can “just move on” or we’ll forget why we’re doing things at all.
Functionally, ceremonies and rituals do similar things at different scales and frequencies.
Ceremonies often include many other people as additional witnesses, for creating anchor memories and strengthening community ties. Rituals are private moments for honoring the good, acknowledging the bad, and making small shifts.
Ceremonies and rituals are formal claims of intent. They don't magically fix things, just like a wedding doesn't necessarily make a partnership better.
Recognizing that so many folks want to bring ceremony and ritual into their lives, I leaned into my training and experiences to offer you the support necessary to build one.
A ceremony crafting call can help reduce part of the burden you carry when creating a ceremony by allowing me to write the ceremony in collaboration with you. With one 60 minute Zoom call and 48 hours you could have a written ceremony with suggested stage directions that you can adjust as necessary and even handoff to a civilian celebrant leading the gathering. In the call we would discuss what the ceremony is marking, elements of the ceremony you'd like to include, and the tone you'd like the ceremony to have.
A ritual brainstorming call can help you to think through what kinds of rituals you can practice to stay present to today and oriented toward your chosen path forward. During a 30 minute Zoom call we will identify what you'd like the ritual to do, bounce possible formations off of each other, and craft the outline of your daily or weekly ritual.
I craft ceremony and ritual as a trained celebrant and minister through Freedom Folk and Soul. My life also trained me through inherited Christianity, a handful of indigenous-informed traditions I've sat with as a guest, and personal experience navigating a space where the sacred and the secular blur. I don't pretend to fully know or hold any tradition. That looseness gives me the freedom to build something that fits what you actually need, irrespective of what you do or don't believe.