Ceremony Making

What She Said:
The only cure I know
is a good ceremony,
that’s what she said.

Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977

If you would like to imagine and create an important ceremony that marks a beginning, ending or transition, I can be your creative companion.

Our collaboration will support you to amplify your own voice, expression and inner wisdom. Through the process you will activate and strengthen your own intuition and encounter your inner strength.

  • Collaborating with you to design a unique ceremony marking a significant transition in your life. An intentional, creative and cathartic ceremony that honours the natural process of death, renewal and embodiment active in all of us.

  • Collaborating with you to design an intentional ceremony that honours yourself and your experiences in a relationship that has ended. The process and event, is one of devotion, commitment and loving epiphany.

  • Collaborating with you and/or a small group to develop an intentional and intimate gathering honouring the life and gifts of someone who is dying.

  • Collaborating with you and your daughter to develop a meaningful gathering to honour your daughter’s initiation into womanhood. Alternatively, you may like to devise a missed experience, the womanhood initiation ceremony you never had.

Some Details

Designing any kind of ceremony is an intentional expression of devotion to yourself, perhaps also within a community of people. It is an honouring of the natural cycles of death and rebirth and an alchemic container of personal and collective renewal.

We will listen for the type of ceremonial gathering that wants to come into being in your life. You will feel confident to design and inhabit your place, expression and action within the ceremony. You will consider your chosen community of participants and their involvement. Once imagined, you may decide to lead the ceremony yourself with my quiet support in the background, or we might share the leading, whatever feels good.

A ‘ceremony state of being’ begins when you first consider making a ceremony. Even the growing awareness is a nascent emergence of a change wanting to express itself in your body and psyche. It is so much fun to listen to this and let it take the form and shape unique to you in this significant moment.

I have developed my craft in ceremony making through a range of long-term relationship based trainings and my applied arts practice. My theatre training and directorial experience is key alongside my expertise in developing large and small scale mythopoetic theatre events. I work inside an embodied knowledge of regenerative wisdom stories from across cultures and I am informed by long-term learning in relationship with senior elders across cultures. My process is informed by Jungian approach to dreams, archetype and embodied imagination.

It is an honour to be invited into this deeply intimate and personal space to be a journey-companion to you through crisis, metamorphosis and transformation.

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What people say…

  • Miriam helped me create a really special experience for my daughter’s menarche party. Miriam was exquisitely sensitive to our needs and wishes, offering and weaving in her deep contribution in a way that felt right for us. I am so grateful for her solid, warm, and welcoming presence, and her creative spirit.

    Sally

  • Miriam has deeply felt natural abilities to listen into a wide range of situations; she is thus able to carefully prepare space. As a participant in an especially poignant gathering I saw her open grace welcome all of us. The co-creation of such round tenderness prior to the immanent passing of our dear love, was and will remain a lasting gift to each of us..

    Peter