celebrate your journey
LIVE EVENTS
Life is full of beautiful milestones to celebrate, and as an ordained practitioner, I am honored to help you cherish those unforgettable moments.
Whether you are celebrating life with a baby naming ceremony, honouring your commitment with a handfasting, exchanging vows in a marriage ceremony, or honouring the life of a loved one, I will work closely with you to create a personalized, one-of-a-kind event that reflects your individuality and love.
Various sessions/packages available.
The list provided is not exhaustive. All events are customized to the needs and request of clients.
In addition, I offer end of life guidance/planning. In these sessions, your end of life wishes including personal directive, DNR and designated decision maker will be discussed. These can be prepared in session and completed on your own, or I can complete copies for you to sign.
We will also discuss what documents the government will require from your next of kin after you have passed.
I can also refer you to a compassionate and talented lawyer if you require one to complete any legal documents during this time.
COMMITMENT/MARRIAGE
When you have decided to spend your life with one/ones you love, it is not something to be taken lightly. I can help you to create a plan for your perfect day. That might entail the curated script to a ceremony for you to use along with a government recognized officiate. Maybe you’ll have a friend or family member perform the ceremony for you in a less formal, yet possibly still official event.
Whatever you decide to include in this event is up to you. As I am a non-denominationally ordained practitioner, I am happy to incorporate ideas, images, and or scripture from the faith(s) you practice. I can also pull from secular or non traditional sources to curate your commitment/wedding ceremony.
I have connections to local officiates and can provide guidance in non clergy members gaining “one day” officiating licensing for your day if needed.
PARENT/MOTHERHOOD
In wider western society, one of the greatest transitions that will ever happen to a human is largely overlooked. This change of roles from being someone else’s child to being the parent is awe inspiring and should be celebrated as such.
Whether you’d carved out time during a baby shower type event or are planning a stand alone celebration, we can design a ceremony/celebration to mark this once in a lifetime occasion. I can provide a script and step by step instructions for parents’ to do themselves at home or during an already planned event, such as a baby shower, or I can attend in person or online to perform the ceremony for the parent(s) only or with family and friends in attendance.
You have made one of the most profound commitments of your life and taking the time to recognize it and announce it to those most important to you will serve you well in your journey through parenthood.
NEW LIFE WELCOME
For many people in modern western society, the welcoming of their children is not marked as a right of passage. Outside of various faith based practices, there is little done to sanctify the joining of a new life to one’s family.
These ceremonies/celebrations can be birth/adoption based if you’d like to have them close to the time the child physically joins your family. Alternatively, a naming type of celebration can be developed when you’d like to allow some time to come together as a family first.
These celebrations can use a time during a post birth/adoption baby shower type event, be private immediate family type of rituals, or be included in larger stand alone events. Whatever your faith or secular beliefs and values, we can work together to create a memorable moment for the beginning of your child’s life in your family.
MOONTIME ARRIVAL
The transition for childhood to adult/womanhood is a significant event that does not get the attention that it deserves. This might be to folks moving away from their organized religious up bringings. Leading to the loss of confirmations or other faith based ceremonies. It is also part of growing developmental psychology data. We know objectively that our children are adolescents and then young adults (a distinct but similarly immature developmental stage from adolescence lasting until age 25) and that during that time they still require adult interventions of varying degrees. However, I believe that this absence of rite of passage has the potential for harmful effects for the individual as well as their families and the wider community.
Using Menarche, the onset of menstruation, as a cross-cultural/inter-faith point in life to mark out as the start of the transition into adult/womanhood is a way for modern folk to adopt a rite of passage without the need for religious or legal definitions. That being said ceremonies should reflect the individual and their community. I will assist in the creation of a plan to implement this rite of passage and will be happy to include scripture, ritual and ceremony from your faith or cultural practices.
This celebration of moon time’s arrival can be as private and simple as the curation of a monthly selfcare routine to be taught and practiced, more visible and involved - think a moon themed Sweet 16/Quinceanera party, or something in between.
MOONTIME DEPARTURE
There is a time of transition that is very misunderstood and often the but of pop culture jokes. You will see this time of change called “going through menopause”, however this is not only bad grammar, but a misnomer. Menopause, much like menarche, is a one time event. When the twelfth month without a menstrual cycle has passed, that marks menopause. After that date fifty percent of the globe will be “postmenopausal”. It is the time leading up to menopause that we often associate with the above quoted phrase. This is a stage that is actually called perimenopause.
Perimenopause is not only misunderstood, but often dismissed. Both by medical practitioners as well as society at large. Rites of passage for this time in life either do not exist in most cultures, or were secretive and we not able to be passed down due to immigration and colonisation. That doesn’t mean that it should continue to go overlooked.
It can be a harrowing and difficult time physiologically as well as emotionally and mentally. Recognizing this immense transition that is both hormonal and societal is essential. To hold on to one’s power as the body shifts its focus from the potential to create life to collecting and sharing knowledge to sustain life, is the goal of this rite of passage. Through developing a one of a kind plan to celebrate your transition it is hoped you will feel more in control of the process and be able to embrace the version of yourself on the other side.
This plan can be simple, such as a daily, weekly or monthly routine to reaffirm your new and continued roles. It can be more elaborate, including a ceremony (privately performed alone or with me) or even a stand alone event to celebrate with your community the addition of another knowledge collector.
We will create a process that fulfills your needs including faith, cultural and self care practices, as well as the recognition of the journey of your life so far.