Year-Long Rite of Passage Process
Coming of age, leaving home, falling in love, becoming a parent or grandparent, losing a loved one, facing an illness, entering midlife or menopause, losing a job, changing careers, becoming an elder, rediscovering a long-lost passion, marking a milestone birthday, ending a friendship or intimate relationship, moving to a new home. These are some of the many passages that touch our lives. But how often do we step into these moments as opportunities for profound change?
Rather than letting these moments pass us by, a Rite of Passage is about working with them consciously, allowing them to change us from the inside out. Through ritual and ceremony, following the seasons, creative practice, and exploring dreams, myths, archetypes and symbols, we discover the narrative thread beneath the surface of our everyday lives and our forgotten wisdom, ready to be claimed.
This Year-Long Rite of Passage process is a sacred offering at a defining moment in your life. Together we will unravel what is most important and help you discover meaning and purpose at an otherwise confusing and overwhelming time.
Rather than letting these moments pass us by, a Rite of Passage is about working with them consciously, allowing them to change us from the inside out. Through ritual and ceremony, following the seasons, creative practice, and exploring dreams, myths, archetypes and symbols, we discover the narrative thread beneath the surface of our everyday lives and our forgotten wisdom, ready to be claimed.
This Year-Long Rite of Passage process is a sacred offering at a defining moment in your life. Together we will unravel what is most important and help you discover meaning and purpose at an otherwise confusing and overwhelming time.
Across the year, we’ll touch on and work with many of the common elements that mark a Rite of Passage, such as:
- Loss of identity
- Change in values
- Encounters with solitude, seclusion and nature
- Facing new challenges
- Learning new things and gaining access to sacred knowledge
- Discovering & learning from mentors or elders
- Working with relevant myths, symbols, and dreams
- Using creative practices
- Recording and sharing your story
- Marking your process through ritual & ceremony
How it Works
Initial Consultation. This meeting comes before registration – this is also an opportunity to determine if this process is the right fit for you (Free of charge).
Creating Your Sacred Container. This 60-90 min foundational session sets the context for our work ahead and creates a sacred container to hold you over the year.
Anchoring rituals.
Monthly mentoring sessions. Nine one-hour mentoring sessions to uncover your personal mythology. We'll explore symbols, archetypes, dreams, fairy tales, and creative longings to prepare the ground for your emerging wisdom. Following each meeting, I'll send you a brief summary of our discussion and suggest deepening practices to take you further into the themes we discussed.
Ceremony Design. Through a 90-min meeting and follow-up emails, we'll co-create a ceremony that honours your Rite of Passage journey and celebrates what you're claiming for your new identity. A beautiful Ceremony Script will be created with all of the details of the ceremony, which you can keep. This includes the option of inviting others to your ceremony and designating roles for your guests.
Ceremony Facilitation. I will facilitate your ceremony over Zoom and this can be recorded to be cherished for years to come.
Creating Your Sacred Container. This 60-90 min foundational session sets the context for our work ahead and creates a sacred container to hold you over the year.
Anchoring rituals.
- A custom birthday ritual designed and emailed to you
- Twelve beautifully designed Moon rituals based on the theme of each Full Moon, emailed to you
Monthly mentoring sessions. Nine one-hour mentoring sessions to uncover your personal mythology. We'll explore symbols, archetypes, dreams, fairy tales, and creative longings to prepare the ground for your emerging wisdom. Following each meeting, I'll send you a brief summary of our discussion and suggest deepening practices to take you further into the themes we discussed.
Ceremony Design. Through a 90-min meeting and follow-up emails, we'll co-create a ceremony that honours your Rite of Passage journey and celebrates what you're claiming for your new identity. A beautiful Ceremony Script will be created with all of the details of the ceremony, which you can keep. This includes the option of inviting others to your ceremony and designating roles for your guests.
Ceremony Facilitation. I will facilitate your ceremony over Zoom and this can be recorded to be cherished for years to come.
Cost:
Option #1: Full Payment of $2,999 USD
Option #2: Payment Plan: 12 monthly payments of $266.50 USD each ($3,198 total, across the year)
*Canadians: you can send an email money transfer in Canadian dollars if you prefer (taxes will apply).
**Please note: I will only be offering 2 new Rite of Passage spots a month, so start time is subject to availability.
Option #1: Full Payment of $2,999 USD
Option #2: Payment Plan: 12 monthly payments of $266.50 USD each ($3,198 total, across the year)
*Canadians: you can send an email money transfer in Canadian dollars if you prefer (taxes will apply).
**Please note: I will only be offering 2 new Rite of Passage spots a month, so start time is subject to availability.
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If you're interested in this year-long offering, please contact me for a free consult to explore if this is the right fit for you.
“Kristen held and hosted me in a year-long rite of passage into a new stage of my life and she did so with skill, beauty, grace and presence. It culminated with a collective circle and Ceremony for my 50th birthday. In the moments when I might have leapt away from the whole thing, Kristen hosted and welcomed my uncertainties, my inner voices, darkness and doubts, and her belief in me and this process helped me come back to myself and my deepest commitments to this sacred passage into mid-life. Her exquisite thoughtfulness and creativity, from the tiny details to the big mythic picture, wove its way into our conversations as well as our silences. Together, we created a deeply meaningful, incredibly juicy personal and collective ritual, from grief to celebration. Kristen, thank you, it sings in me still.” ~Vanessa Reid, Co-Founder of The Living Wholeness Institute
"As I reflected on the past year, I realized how important our time together was… It reconnected me to the feminine, to my source. It helped me re-member who I was, gave me tools to slow down, reflect, and connect with nature, especially grandmother moon. The ceremony forced me (I know it was an invitation) to be vulnerable, to ask and receive without necessarily giving something in return (that was so hard!) and gave me an opportunity to be creative and to write bits of my story. It was a magical moment and such a meaningful way to fully claim my “Wise Blood”. Thank you for journeying with me and being so patient with me. It’s good to be connected to my spirit and to feel the spirit moving." ~Louise Pitre, Principal, Louise Pitre Coaching & Consulting