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Major life transitions can wreak havoc on our lives.  

Suddenly (or not-so-suddenly) things aren't what they used to be.

This can challenge our work, relationships, values, and sense of who we are. 

Unfortunately, major life transitions don’t come with a playbook and we often struggle through. But humans have some practices we've used for millennia to metabolize and integrate these “lifequakes.”
 
Rather than being paralyzed in grief or uncertainty, we can use these time-tested and (evidence-based) tools to draw on these events as sources of deeper wisdom -- to help steer us towards greater clarity, focus, and purpose. 

What we do

Combining evidence-based practices from modern psychology with archetypal ritual structures, the Center for Ritual Design works with individuals going through all sorts of lifequakes, whether by choice or not. These include: 

  • Illness 

  • Divorce

  • Marriage 

  • Job transition

  • Home or financial instability 

  • Death of a loved one 

  • Becoming a parent
  • Gender transition 

Betty Ray is a wise, passionate and compassionate guide on using the alchemy of ritual to transform something confusing and painful into something poignant and sacred. The 5-week Transitions workshop helped me design a very personal experience and therefore, a new context around the 2 recent deaths of loved ones in my life.  I now have something I can refer to that I created for myself that has depth and beauty around the significance of these losses. 

 

-- M.W.

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