Be Ceremonial, North Vancouver, BC (2026)

02/01/2026

✨ Vision Mobiles for 2026 ✨

At this year’s New Year Ritual Retreat, we crafted something truly magical together.

Guided by Lisa of , each of us assembled a vision mobile ~ a physical manifestation of our intentions for the year ahead.

The materials we gathered told their own story: driftwood I collected with my daughter on Hornby Island, shells with their natural holes, wire, sea glass, feathers, and golden shards from our release ritual with 💔 pieces of poetry we smashed and painted gold.

We layered in words, images, colors, and textures from magazines ~ anything that called to us.

My word for 2026 is catalyze.

At first, I thought this meant being the spark — constantly igniting change, igniting community. But through this ritual, I realized something deeper.

To be a catalyst, I first need embers. Quiet, stored up energy. Embers I can return to in stiller moments, hold in my hands, and draw from when the world calls me forward.

This weekend, that’s exactly what happened. I convened two community events — A Year of Seasonal Ceremony and our Ceremonial Training — and I was able to show up fully, because the embers were there, fueling me. 🔥

My vision mobile hangs in my office now. A living piece I return to every day ~ shifting, playing, reconnecting with the energy I’m building for this year.

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01/31/2026

Today we launch something we’ve been dreaming into being. 💝

A Year of Seasonal Ceremony 2026 — 8 gatherings across the calendar year, co-facilitated by and myself.

Four seasonal ceremonies at the turn of each season. Four connection circles for the in-between moments — the quieter, less visible shifts we so often move through alone.

Together, we will slow down. We will acknowledge the visible and invisible moments of change that each season brings — not just in the world around us, but within us.

This is a space for self-care that becomes community care. For people from all over the world gathering on the same Zoom call, tuning into the same rhythms, showing up for each other.

It’s a year-long commitment to ritual. To connection. To moving through the seasons with intention.

Applications are now closed for this first year — but sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know about future offerings.

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01/26/2026

The world feels impossibly heavy right now.

From Iran to Minnesota, Ukraine to Gaza, we are holding collective grief that can make it hard to breathe. Our nervous systems are stretched thin, and if you're feeling the weight of it all, you're not alone.

But alongside the grief, something else is happening. People are rising. Communities are gathering. We are remembering an ancient truth: we were never meant to carry this alone.

Ritual and ceremony have always been the ways humans gather to mark what matters, to witness one another's pain and joy, and to remind ourselves that we belong to something larger than our individual struggles. When everything feels like it's falling apart, circle holds us together.

This is not the superficial version of self-care. This is the raw, honest, communal practice of showing up for one another ~ creating containers where we can name what we're feeling, grieve what we've lost, and tend to each other with care that actually sustains us.

This weekend we're launching two offerings because right now, more than ever, we need to gather:

Ceremonial Training (6 weeks) — Learn the building blocks of ceremony through a decolonized lens, exploring how to hold space, gather with intention, and care for ourselves, each other, and our earth.

A Year of Seasonal Ceremony (with ) — Journey through the seasons together in a community of care, witnessing and supporting one another through the visible and invisible changes across the year.

We are stronger together. Rituals help bring things to the surface so they don't go unacknowledged. Come acknowledge the experience of being human with us.

Link below to join us. 🕯️

http://beceremonial.com/events

01/26/2026

✨ Winter 2026 Ceremonial Training: The Elements of Ritual ✨

Join us for a 6-week guided journey exploring the roots of ritual and ceremony through the five elements.

Starting February 1st, we’ll gather on Sundays (10am-12pm PT) to learn, share, and co-create ceremonies in a compassionate community of care.

What you’ll explore:

🌍 Earth - grounding & presence
💧 Water - healing & cleansing
🔥 Fire - storytelling & transformation
💨 Air - cycles & seasons
🌟 Ether - connection & expansion

Perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

All sessions recorded.
$450 USD | $100 subsidies available

Link in bio to apply 💫

01/21/2026

Four days.
Twenty women.
Five decades of lived experience.

I’m coming home from our New Year Ritual Retreat with a full heart and renewed faith in the power of gathering. We came together to release what the past year left behind ~ the fear, the anger, the overwhelm, the feelings of disconnection that so many of us carry. We found beauty in the brokenness and resilience within ourselves.

And then, slowly, we began to build something new.

We formed a community of care. We witnessed one another. We listened ~ really listened. We saw each other’s gifts and shared our stories without rushing, without fixing, without looking away.

We crafted visions for the year ahead, drawing on the ancient languages of symbolism, metaphor, and ritual to set forth the world we want to inhabit, the lives we want to create.

It was everything I dreamed it would be. There were so many moments of calm, of pause, of reconnection ~ with ourselves, with each other, with what matters most.

This is the work. This is the medicine. This is what becomes possible when we give ourselves permission to slow down and tend to what’s sacred.

Thank you Rivendell for holding us and to my phenomenal team for co-creating magic with me!

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Until next year! Sign up for my newsletter to stay in the loop ✨

01/13/2026

What if we didn’t try to fix our grief, but learned to carry it together?

Join Megan and on February 10th for Holding Space for Grief: Creating Rituals for the Losses We Carry — a 2-hour workshop exploring how secular ritual can help us navigate personal loss, fractured relationships, and the collective uncertainty we’re all feeling.

We carry so much: friendships that ended, jobs lost, the weight of daily news cycles, the sense that the ground keeps shifting beneath us.

This workshop offers a different path forward — not through fixing or bypassing our grief, but through the power of ritual, community, and carrying it together.

In this gathering, you’ll explore:

✨ Different types of grief: personal, relational, and collective

✨ How to create ceremonial containers for what feels overwhelming

✨ The power of micro-communities to create ripples of larger impact

✨ Practical tools for transforming isolation into connection

Led by Megan Sheldon, Humanist Celebrant, End of Life Doula, and author of Ritual Without Religion, this workshop weaves teaching with community practice. You’ll share in small and large groups, discovering that grief becomes lighter when we carry it together.

📅 Feb 10, 2026 | 4-6pm PT

💫 Sliding scale: $25/$50/$75

Partial proceeds will help support AHA’s vital programming

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Because even small rituals, practiced together, can hold enormous power. 🕯️

01/11/2026

✨ Only 2 spots left ✨

What if you moved through 2026 held by a community that honors every shift, every turning, every threshold?

This year-long virtual immersion brings together an intimate circle of ceremonial practitioners from around the world as we mark the seasons together ~ the spring equinox, summer solstice, fall equinox, winter solstice, as well as the subtle in-between moments that often go unnoticed.

This isn’t just about the big celestial events. It’s about attuning to the small, invisible changes ~ the first frost, the return of birdsong, the quality of light as it shifts week by week.

You’ll receive our newly designed Seasonal Ceremony Living Calendar, complete with ritual prompts, quotes, and inspiration to support your practice throughout the year.

If you’re ready to move through 2026 with intention, presence, and the support of kindred spirits, this is your invitation.

Co-hosted with 💝

Link in bio to join us.

01/06/2026

“The learning and the deep connections we made from different corners of the world was exactly what I needed.” ~ Nicole Sammut, past participant

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Join us for A Year of Seasonal Ceremony ~ a transformative journey that attunes you to kairos time, the sacred rhythm of the seasons rather than society’s chronos clock.

Through this course, you’ll:

🌿 Deepen your connection to the land and seasonal transitions

🌙 Learn to witness both visible and invisible changes in nature

💞 Connect with a global community of ceremony practitioners

💫 Discover the magic that emerges when we’re truly present

Ready to shift from the rush of linear time into the cyclical wisdom of the seasons?

Link in bio to learn more and register 🔗

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01/03/2026

My word for 2026: CATALYZE 💥

In a world that often feels fragmented, I’m choosing to focus on what brings us together.

This year, I’m committed to catalyzing change ~ not just talking about it, but actively creating spaces where people connect, ideas collide, and communities form around what matters most.

Now more than ever, we need to come together. To share our stories. To acknowledge the transitions we’re moving through. To honour both the joy and the struggle of being human.

I believe ritual and ceremony are essential ingredients for living with intention. They’re how we mark moments, process change, and root ourselves in meaning. But we’ve lost so much of this ~ the everyday practices that help us pause, reflect, and celebrate together.

So I’m flexing my ritual muscles. This year, I’m creating more opportunities to gather in ways that nourish us. And I’m inviting you to do the same.

Because transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when we show up for each other, when we make space for what’s sacred, and when we’re brave enough to catalyze the change we want to see.

What’s your word for the year? 💫

01/01/2026

This new year doesn’t need to begin with resolutions and restrictions. What if, instead, we started with intention, connection, and ritual?

Join us for our Opening the Year Ceremony on January 7th at 5pm PST for a virtual gathering where we’ll pause together, share our vision for the year, and step into 2026 with purpose.

In this 90-minute interactive workshop, we’ll explore universal rituals for new beginnings, explore your personal word for the year, and connect with a global community of ceremony seekers who believe in the power of intentional living.

We’ll create space to recognize this threshold moment and set the tone for the months ahead through meaningful practice and shared witness.

Investment: $30 CAD (50% off for Be Ceremonial members)

Can’t make it live? You’ll receive the recording within 48 hours.

Link in bio to register 🕯️✨

01/01/2026

Last night, I gathered family and friends at the beach for our closing ceremony ~ a sacred moment to honour what was and welcome what will be.

🔥 We wrote down what we needed to release from 2025, then safely burned those words into the salt air.

💧 I poured out my wish water from last year, the water I’d gathered with my 2025 intention: DEEPER. That word carried me through this year in ways I’m still discovering.

🌅 As the sun melted into the horizon, I swam into the sea and held space for everything I’m calling into 2026. I emerged and bottled new water, claiming my word for this year: CATALYZE.

📝 Then I drew my 12th and final wish from our year-long A Year of Seasonal Ceremony offering. I was hoping for something wild, adventurous, electric…instead, I pulled: PATIENCE.

It’s not the word I wanted but it’s exactly the word I need ~ especially as I focus on sparking movements, creating change, and venturing into new territory.

So I’m holding both: catalyze as my public declaration, patience as my quiet reminder. 💥 🌬️

Wishing you a New Year full of attention and intention ~ full of glimmers of hope ✨

And remember ~ chronos time says today is January 1st, but kairos time reminds us that any moment ~ this week, this month, this year ~ is ripe for ritual. For releasing what no longer serves. For inviting in what we most need.

And we’re here to support and inspire you along the way 💫

12/30/2025

Join our international virtual community in 2026 for a year of seasonal ceremony. Here we will honor the turning of the season together and explore how to create more meaningful seasonal rituals in our lives and communities.

Learn more or register here:
https://www.beceremonial.com/events/a-year-of-seasonal-ceremony/

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