Ceremony Coaching
One-on-one guidance to craft a ritual or ceremony for the moments that matter, especially the silent thresholds that don't have a script to follow.
Some transitions are easy to name ~ a birth, a marriage, a death. Others are harder ~ the end of a friendship, a diagnosis, a move away from home, a grief anniversary. Ceremony coaching offers one-on-one virtual guidance for marking any of these moments with a personal ritual or community ceremony that feels meaningful to you.
Megan Sheldon, humanist celebrant, end-of-life doula, and cultural mythologist, combines the craft of ritual design with the art of holding space. Together you'll shape something meaningful, whether you're creating a ceremony for yourself, for someone you love, or for a moment you're not yet sure how to hold.
What a session looks like
Before
After payment is confirmed, you'll complete a ceremony intake form so Megan understands the moment you want to mark, the details involved, and the feelings you're hoping to capture.
During
A one-hour virtual session where Megan guides you through questions, reflections and ideas to create your own ritual or ceremony, drawing on symbols, stories and experiences.
After
You'll receive a written summary of our meeting and a practical guide to your ceremony that you can adapt, follow or build on. You can request our session be recorded as well.
Ways to work together
Single Session ~ $250
A single threshold. One hour of one-on-one virtual coaching, plus your ceremony intake form and a written ritual summary to keep. Ideal when there's a single moment or milestone you're ready to mark.
Three Sessions ~ $600
Name, design, hold. Three sessions to help you name the moment that needs marking, design the rituals that will carry it, and prepare everything you need to hold the ceremony yourself. Our most popular option.
Three Months ~ $1,200
A season of change. Six biweekly sessions with Megan walking alongside you through the moments and milestones. Ideal when you're facing a longer transition or a rite of passage with more than one threshold to cross.
Prices are in CAD for Canadian clients and USD for international clients. Be Ceremonial members receive 10%.
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I reached out to Megan for help finding a meaningful way to close my Death Cafe sessions. From the moment we connected she was warm, engaging, and easy to talk to — we laughed, we cried, and I left with not only the perfect ceremony but a genuine connection with a remarkable person. I can't recommend Megan highly enough; her ability to create meaningful, deeply human experiences is a true gift.
I'm so thankful for your thoughtful suggestions and support in planning my sister's memorial. We received so many kind words from friends and family, thanking us for including them from afar. My brothers thanked me for the sweet ceremony — it made the day feel like my sister was with us, and like we released some of the bitter grief that surrounded her passing. The coaching session helped me realize I could do this myself, with your guidance.
Megan supported me in creating a ceremony to remember and acknowledge all that I have accomplished in the last 20 years without my parents. In the end, the ceremony became about my survival rather than their deaths, and the beautiful life I have built — and, of course, all that my parents have missed. Megan's support was instrumental in helping me figure out what I needed and wanted as I celebrate a birthday that marked living longer without my parents than with them.
I have had the profound gift of being supported by Megan as a ceremony coach through many different stages and thresholds of my life — beginnings, endings, losses, and transformations. She has a natural ability to create space that feels compassionate, grounded, and deeply human.
Megan offers a sense of safety that makes it possible to move through life's hardest and most meaningful passages with greater trust and less fear. Her work is deeply moving and beautiful, and has left a lasting imprint on how I meet change, transition, and the sacred thresholds of life.
As someone who used to present and facilitate regularly, I really appreciated how clear, insightful, and engaging your structure was. You created such a thoughtful flow to the session and left space for questions and reflection throughout. I especially loved how you unpacked the ideas of ceremony and ritual.