Rituals for every stage of life.

Deepen your connection to ceremony by designing your own rituals to honour the moments that matter most.

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Megan Sheldon, humanist celebrant and end-of-life doula

Welcome to Be Ceremonial

This is a place to pause and mark the moments that shape a life: milestones and anniversaries, endings and new beginnings, the losses we grieve openly and the thresholds we cross quietly. Whether you want to create a ritual of your own, learn the art of ceremony, or have someone walk alongside you, you're in the right place.

Be Ceremonial is led by Megan Sheldon, Lifecycle Celebrant and INELDA-trained end-of-life doula, based in North Vancouver, BC. She is the author of the #1 Canadian bestseller Ritual Without Religion and has trained over 5,000 students in ceremony design.

Learn From Us

Learn how to create rituals and ceremonies for yourself and for others from our founder Megan Sheldon. Our Ceremony School offers both live and self guided workshops, courses and community gatherings.

Create Your Own Rituals

Our custom technology inspires and empowers you to create your own rituals and ceremonies. You can draw from our curated rituals or design your own based on specific life events.

Ritual Without Religion

You don’t need to be religious to weave meaning, connection, and ceremony into your life. Our humanist guidebook helps you reimagine ritual in personal and meaningful ways, drawing on the universality of ritual and the power of storytelling.

For Families

Megan Sheldon is a humanist celebrant, end-of-life doula and ceremony coach based in North Vancouver, BC. You can hire her to guide you through a significant life event, lead a ceremonial gathering, or help mark a silent threshold in a way that's meaningful to you. She works in person on the North Shore and beyond, and online anywhere.

For Organizations

Bring Megan into your organization:

  • When a team member dies. She helps your people grieve together and honour the person they've lost.
  • When your team faces another kind of loss. This could be layoffs, a business closing, or a colleague going through illness, divorce or another personal loss.
  • Before these moments arrive. She helps you prepare thoughtful practices so you're ready when those moments come.

Ceremony Stories

A circle of red adirondack chairs surrounding a fire pit

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A Birthday Celebration of Life

Aimee missed most of her husband Tom's first celebration of life. With Be Ceremonial's help, she created a do-over Celebration of Life on his birthday for 128 people.

Danielle's ceremony space on the Toronto waterfront before her brain surgery

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A Ceremony Before Brain Surgery

Danielle shares how she used Be Ceremonial to create a ceremony to release the grief of losing her job and set intentions for her upcoming brain surgery.

Lisa Hemingway's family gathered for the death anniversary ceremony for her dad

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A Death Anniversary Ceremony

With the help of Be Ceremonial, Lisa Hemingway created a yearly ceremony to acknowledge her dad's death anniversary after he died from cancer.