Friendship Rituals
An Interactive Workshop & Community Gathering
Co-hosted with Kate Love, Registered Psychotherapist
April 10th | 10am – 12pm PST
Honouring the Friendships That Sustain Us
Our friendships are among the most profound relationships of our lives, yet they unfold largely without ceremony. We don’t celebrate friendship anniversaries. We don’t mark the moment two people become close. We rarely acknowledge when a friendship shifts, evolves, or ends. Unlike romantic relationships, our culture offers no rituals for the transitions that matter most in these life-sustaining bonds.
Join us for an intimate exploration of how we can bring more intentionality to our friendships—from their tender beginnings to their difficult endings, and through all the seasons of change in between. Together, we’ll discover how ritual and ceremony can help us honour these relationships with the depth and care they deserve.
Who Should Attend?
This gathering welcomes anyone who:
- Seeks to bring more intention and ritual to their friendships
- Is navigating a friendship transition—beginning, deepening, changing, or ending
- Carries unexpressed feelings within a friendship
- Wants to celebrate friendship milestones and longevity
- Believes friendships deserve the same care we give other important relationships
What To Expect?
This 2-hour interactive workshop includes:
- Teachings on friendship seasons and cycles
- Esther Perel’s “multiple marriages” concept applied to friendship
- Guided practices for marking friendship transitions
- Small group sharing on unspoken friendship dynamics
- Ceremonies for beginnings, shifts, challenges, and endings
- Tools for celebrating friendship milestones
Friendship Cycles
We’ll explore how ritual can help us:
- Honour friendship beginnings with intention
- Mark shifts as friendships deepen or change direction
- Navigate challenges with consciousness and care
- Grieve friendship versions that end
- Celebrate longevity and sustaining connections
- Recognize we can have multiple friendships with one person across time
The Sacred Nature of Friendship
When was the last time you celebrated a friendship anniversary? Marked the day you met someone who changed your life? Acknowledged the longevity of someone who has been there through it all? Our culture celebrates romantic milestones ~ first dates, engagements, weddings, anniversaries ~ but friendships, the relationships that sustain us through heartbreak, career changes, moves, and marriages, go largely unacknowledged. This workshop invites us to reimagine what it might look like to honour our friends with the same intentionality we bring to romantic love.
Understanding Friendship as a Life Cycle
We often think of friendships as either “on” or “off,” but the reality is far more nuanced. Just as Esther Perel speaks of having multiple marriages to the same person as we evolve and change, we also have multiple friendships with the same person throughout our lives. This workshop explores how to honor the ending of one version of a friendship so a new iteration can emerge. We’ll examine the grief that accompanies these transitions and learn how to hold space for transformation rather than forcing connection to stay static.
Ritual as Care ~ for Ourselves and Our Friendships
Ritual isn’t just about grand ceremonies; it’s also a form of self-care and relationship care. We’ll discover how small, intentional practices can help us process the emotions our friendships stir—from the joy of deepening connection to the grief of growing apart. You’ll leave with practical tools for creating your own friendship rituals, whether celebrating an anniversary, navigating a difficult conversation, or marking the end of a chapter.
Registration Details
Investment: $25 USD
We believe friendship deserves accessible rituals. This workshop is intentionally priced because honouring our most important relationships shouldn’t be a luxury. Your presence enriches our collective exploration of friendship’s sacred nature.
Non-refundable: Your registration is non-refundable as the ceremony will be recorded. If you cannot attend live, you’ll receive the recording within 48 hours to create your own friendship ritual when the timing feels right. The recording allows you to return to these practices as you navigate the many transitions friendship holds.
Community Connection: We warmly encourage joining with your video on. There’s something powerful about being witnessed as we explore these often-unspoken aspects of friendship. Seeing each other’s faces—even through screens—creates a container for meaningful sharing. You’re welcome to use a virtual background, and there’s always grace to turn your camera off when you need privacy.
What to bring: A journal and pen, a photo or object that represents a meaningful friendship (past or present), a candle to light, and a willingness to honour the friendships that have shaped your life. connect with others.
*Upon payment receipt, you will be sent the Zoom meeting information and we will be in touch with more details closer to the date.
*Upon payment receipt, you will be sent the Zoom meeting information and we will be in touch with more details closer to the date.
Curated By
Megan Sheldon
Kate Love is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) practicing virtually across Ontario and the Director of Learning at Be Ceremonial. She specializes in perinatal mental health, grief, and life transitions, bringing a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to her work. Kate holds Canadian Certificates in Perinatal Mental Health (CC-PMH) and Perinatal Grief (CC-PG), and has worked extensively with clients navigating parenting challenges, perinatal loss, anxiety, and the many forms grief takes in our lives.
Kate Love
Kate Love is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and Director of Learning at Be Ceremonial. She specializes in perinatal mental health, grief, and life transitions, bringing a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to her work. As co-founder of Seeking Ceremony with Megan, Kate integrates her therapeutic expertise with her passion for ritual and ceremony. She believes that everyone is doing the best they can with what they have, and that ritual can be a powerful tool for emotional regulation, meaning-making, and moving through life's inevitable transitions.
FAQs
No, though you’re welcome to. Some participants come with a particular friendship they’re navigating, while others come to explore the concept more broadly. Both approaches are valuable, and the practices we’ll share can be applied to any friendship—past, present, or future.
Perfect—this workshop is designed for everyone, regardless of experience with ritual. We’ll introduce simple, accessible practices that don’t require any special skills or prior knowledge. Our approach is secular, universal, and adaptable to whatever feels meaningful to you.
We’ll be exploring the full spectrum of friendship—the joy, the grief, the complexity, and the beauty. While we’ll make space for difficult emotions, this isn’t a grief-focused workshop. It’s about honoring all that friendships hold and discovering tools to bring more intention and care to these relationships.
Not at all. This workshop is for anyone who values their friendships and wants to bring more intentionality to them. Whether your friendships are thriving, in transition, or somewhere in between, there’s something here for you.
You’re invited to share as much or as little as feels comfortable. We create a container where everyone can participate at their own level—there’s no pressure to disclose more than you want to.
You’ll receive a recording within 48 hours of the workshop, allowing you to engage with the content on your own time. While we encourage live attendance for the community connection, the recording is yours to revisit whenever you need it.
All registrations are non-refundable and non-transferable. Because the workshop is recorded and made available to all registrants within 24 hours, we’re unable to offer refunds or transfers regardless of attendance. Whether you join us live or watch the recording, you’ll have full access to the workshop content and practices to engage with on your own time.
