I help people
design personalized rituals and rites of passage
to navigate through the unknown
with clarity and focus.
Weekly Online Ritual Offerings
Each offering combines a short presentation with an interactive ritual led by Center for Ritual Design’s founder, Betty Ray, unless otherwise indicated. Suggested donation is $9-$22, but nobody turned away for lack of funds.
JANUARY 2021
From Habits to Rituals: Finding Meaning in the Mundane
There are many ways we can infuse our daily routine with practices to help us feel more centered and focused. In this hour, you’ll reflect on your own life, and find opportunities to transform unconscious habits into conscious moments of connection. By the end of this session, you should have ideas for one more more ritual practices to incorporate in your existing routine.
Sunday January 10, 1p Pacific
Register here (Zoom link sent on registration)
Suggested donation $9-$22
Venmo: @Betty-Raydio
Paypal: centerforritualdesign AT gmail DOT com
Connecting with the Sacred
Rituals allow us to leave the world behind for a bit, and enter the liminal space where revelation and change is possible. This week we’ll have almost no presentation; instead we will engage in a ritual to cultivate connections to that which is sacred for each of us.
Sunday January 17, 1p Pacific
Register here (Zoom link sent on registration)
Suggested donation $9-$22
Venmo: @Betty-Raydio
Paypal: centerforritualdesign AT gmail DOT com
Inner Work for Social Justice
Dismantling racism is an ongoing process. For those of us raised in a racist society (e.g. all of us born in the U.S.) we are called to examine the stories, images, ideologies, values, and systems that are lodged deep in our unconscious so that we can release and replace them. This week's ritual will invite us to examine these unconscious narratives and replace them with new stories that promote healing and justice.
Sunday January 24, 1p Pacific
Register here (Zoom link sent on registration)
Suggested donation $9-$22
Venmo: @Betty-Raydio
Paypal: centerforritualdesign AT gmail DOT com
Part how-to and part contemplative practice, today's ritual will support you in identifying some personally meaningful objects, and creating a space in your home that inspires reflection and supports your intentions. Please register in advance, as there is a small bit of pre-preparation for this ritual.
Sunday January 31, 1p Pacific
Register here (Zoom link sent on registration)
Suggested donation $9-$22
Venmo: @Betty-Raydio
Paypal: centerforritualdesign AT gmail DOT com
Talks and Presentations for Your Event
Creating Meaningful Rituals for Life Transitions
Humans have created ritual to manage life's unending stream of challenges since the stone age. Today, neuroscience tells us what our ancestors knew all along: Rituals can be designed to catalyze a temporary state of ego dissolution, which frees the mind up from conscious thought and offers new insights, intuitions, and creativity that can be applied to our daily lives. Betty researched and developed this work via the Mira Fellowship.
How to Help Young People Transition to Adulthood
Our kids are entering a future that looks nothing like the present. In this talk, Betty shares a contemporary coming of age program that combines what we know from the educational and psychology research with traditional rites of passage to create a contemporary non-denominational and student-centered initiatory experience for young people. (See more about this approach in Betty's article on the Greater Good Science Center)
Ritual Design Coaching
Betty offers coaching services to help individuals or groups design meaningful rituals for a variety of transitions including:
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Coming of age for youth
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Divorce
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Moving
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Empty Nest
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Grief
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Midlife
Please email CenterForRitualDesign AT gmail DOT com.
