In traditions around the world, stretching back in time, ceremony has allowed us to step out of the mundane elements of our lives and into a deeper conversation with each other and the world around us. Felt on all levels of our being, it provides us an opportunity to sink into other realms of being and understanding, to call and respond to the ‘larger than ourselves’, to interface with and directly experience ‘the mystery’.

Ceremony can gives us meaning and it can unify us. It is the way we come together to trust, to share, to celebrate … to experience and to experiment with what it is to be human.

So what does ceremony mean for a culture in which it has largely been lost? How do we conduct ceremony with integrity, whether we belong to or believe in a particular tradition or not.

In this residential course, we take…