Rituals + Retreats
Tending to your group’s needs through retreats and rituals can be transformative and healing. These experiences are underutilized, even though they are some of the most powerful technologies.
RETREATS: collaborate with me to design and/or facilitate a retreat locally in Michigan for your team. The retreat may focus on: solely rest and spaciousness, strategic reflection and design, team building, or a combination of aims and needs. With my background as a wilderness camp director, somatic practitioner, and facilitator, I can integrate all of these skills to create a retreat that supports your team.
RITUALS: a ritual is a container and process to support you as an individual, or a group with a shared identity, a team, a group of colleagues, or another formation, through a particular experience. Whether the ritual is for grief, loss, community-building, processing, healing, celebrating, honoring, rage or another need/hope, they are created with care, intention and integrity. I bring an earth-based, ancestral inquiry and collective approach. Rituals facilitated by me are offered both on a needs-basis as well as offered from me for community. With my background in restorative justice, anti-racist practice, ritual-learning, and facilitation, I am honored to support in holding rituals for you and your team.
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“Simply said, ritual is any gesture done with emotion and intention by an individual or a group that attempts to connect the individual or the community with transpersonal energies for the purposes of healing and transformation. Ritual is the pitch through which the personal and collective voices of our longing and creativity are extended to the unseen dimensions of life, beyond our conscious minds and into the realms of nature and spirit… I call ritual an embodied process.” — Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
“Anna co-facilitated a grief circle for my organization after the tragic loss of our beloved colleague. Anna and her co-facilitator were skilled at creating a container that allowed people to feel safe, vulnerable, and expressive, which is hard for some people to do in a work setting. We built an altar together which was an amazing way to honor our colleague. The grief circle allowed for all sorts of sharing to arise - sadness, rage, fear, joy, gratitude for this person’s impact on all of us, and even laughter. This grief circle was a profound offering that allowed us to digest our collective grief together.” — A.P.
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