Designing Transformative RITUAL

Ages 18+ | TBA 2024 | Return to Community Workshops & Events

“By participating in a ritual, you are put in accord with the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being reminded of the wisdom of your own life.”
-Joseph Campbell

In this time of separation and uncertainty, it is even more critical that we explore ways that ritual can help maintain and strengthen the connections that nourish our spirits — connections to each other, to nature, and to ourselves. Beyond all our imaginings, Rite of Passage Journeys is discovering ways in which digital communication technology can be helpful in our efforts at staying connected. Extraordinary times require extraordinary efforts! The new online format of this weekend will be spacious, and will emphasize grounding and centering practices, as well as collective learning.

Your workshop is designed with your online interaction in manageable sections, and engaging with individual activities, readings and practices in between Zoom sessions. As we explore the art of creating ritual, we will make an effort to maintain the feeling of the ritual space for the entire weekend, as we do when we gather together in person. To do so, we encourage participants not to schedule anything else from the time we begin until we complete our weekend together, just as you would if this were the in-person version.

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tba 2024

An advanced course in ceremonial design and ritual leadership led by Journeys Elder, Randy Morris.

In this advanced workshop in ceremonial design and ritual practice, we will look more closely at the nature of self-generated healing ceremonies. Drawing upon ideas of the indigenous soul and the healing capacities of nature, we will enact a variety of ritual gestures available to seekers of earth-centered healing transformation.

Over the course of the weekend, we will design our own self-generated healing ceremonies and then enact them in the presence of compassionate witnesses. Previous experience with ritual enactment, preferably the Journeys workshop on Creating Soulful Ritual, is highly recommended, though not required.