As a facilitator, host and certified Life-Cycle Celebrant (through the Natural Transition Institute), I help people celebrate, honour and acknowledge life’s important moments – in a meaningful and memorable way. In a way that’s good for the soul!
All Good Gatherings start with a friendly conversation! Next, we thoughtfully start co-creating an experience that aligns with what YOU value and hold meaningful. I can then facilitate all or part of the event for you, or I can provide guidance so you can host it yourself. I can also craft self-guided custom experiences that feel more like an adventure and unfold over an evening or weekend! Every gathering is uniquely and creatively designed to help you celebrate, honour and acknowledge your important moment – whether it’s on your own, or with friends, colleagues, neighbours or family.
Important moments like…
Birthday parties. Mother-to-be showers and baby blessing/welcoming circles. New teenager/coming of age rites of passages. Engagement parties. Farewell and moving in/away gatherings. Family reunions and special vacations. Career transitions. Family business succession transitions. Business openings, anniversaries and closings. Team building sessions and retreats. Retirement parties. Elder ceremonies. End of life honourings and celebrations of life. Neighbourhood and community gatherings. And more!
Fees are quoted according to the unique nature of each gathering. Self-guided custom-designed gatherings for friends and family typically range somewhere between $250-$500 and in-person facilitated gatherings typically range between $500-$1000. Corporate gatherings are priced at standard business rates.
A Good Gathering Story
After living in one area for more than twenty years, a close friend of mine was moving to a new city and a new province. She didn’t want a party and said she would say her goodbyes to friends on an individual basis. I suggested something we could do in addition to that; a customized ritual that would help honour all the places she had lived and the nuggets of wisdom she had gleaned from each place. So we set out one afternoon and did just that, visiting a number of her favourite spots and engaging in simple practices of reflection, storytelling and gratitude. Afterwards she shared that this had been a deeply meaningful experience for her and helped her bring honourable closure to a significant chapter of her life. Her decision to move felt more complete. Now she felt much more rooted in her own story, ready to start her next chapter with a full heart.
Thank you for today! Very moving and meaningful. This experience will help set me up for success in the transition to a new role and way of being.
– Neighbour going through a significant career change
Laurel, Thanks for a wonderful retirement send off which brought back so many wonderful memories and people I have had the pleasure to work with. Your way of extracting a life’s work and relationships was amazing and I would have never had it to cherish if it wasn’t for you and your thoughtfulness.
- Former colleague in the construction industry