Mark the Moment — Rituals for Life's Transitions

The Problem

"Change can feel lonely when nobody marks it. Many of us have lost the rituals that once carried people through births, comings of age, commitments, losses and fresh starts. Rituals do not need a crowd or a budget: meaning, attention and a simple marker are enough to say this moment matters."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

Tell a routine from a ritual, and turn one into the other
Design rituals for welcoming, becoming, loving and renewing
Mark losses and endings gently, in your own time
Create a ritual for your group and a calendar of traditions

The science behind it

What you'll learn

Feiler's research on why we need ritual, and how to create one
The three phases of a life transition, and what to mark in each
Rituals of remembrance and continuing bonds, and marking endings that are not deaths
How hopeful stories and shared acts help families and communities through change

What's included

Everything you get

26 tools across 7 modules, 12 of them built for this course
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool and a course audio guide
Private fillable workbooks for every tool, kept on your own device

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For families and friends, team leaders, teachers, residence and society leaders, faith communities, and anyone facing a change.

Our lives turn on moments of change, and for most of human history people marked them together. A companion to Bruce Feiler's A Time to Gather, with his Life Is in the Transitions, this course helps you design rituals, small or large, for the moments that matter: welcoming a child or a newcomer, a coming of age, a commitment, a loss or an ending, a fresh start, and the traditions your family, team or community keeps.

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Design the rituals that mark welcoming, becoming, loving, mourning and renewing

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