Event · In-Person
Reimagining Ritual: A Fireside Chat with Megan Sheldon and Chloe Hunter
- When
- Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 6:30 p.m. PDT
- Format
- In-Person
- Location
- Rivendell Retreat Centre, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
Most of us inherited our rituals, or the absence of them. We've lost many of the shared structures that once carried us through birth, death, love, and the invisible moments of change we move through, and yet the need to mark those moments hasn't gone anywhere.
Join Megan Sheldon and Chloe Hunter beside the fire at Rivendell for an evening of conversation about what it means to build ritual on our own terms. Drawing on the themes and threads of Megan's book Ritual Without Religion: A Humanist Guide to Creating Secular Ceremonies, the two will explore how ceremony shows up in ordinary life, why our thresholds deserve tending, and what becomes possible when a community decides to mark things together.
This is an open evening for the Bowen Island community ~ free to attend, with plenty of room for questions and conversation.
Who should attend?
- Anyone curious about ritual and ceremony
- People navigating a threshold of their own ~ a beginning or an ending
- Celebrants, doulas, caregivers, and anyone who holds space for others
- Readers of Ritual Without Religion, and those meeting it for the first time
- Bowen Island neighbours looking for an evening of good conversation
What to expect
An hour and a half by the fire ~ part conversation between Megan and Chloe, part open exchange with everyone in the room. We'll move through the ideas at the heart of the book: why ritual persists, how to design ceremony that actually fits your life, and what our thresholds ask of us.
Copies of Ritual Without Religion will be available for purchase on the night, and Megan is glad to sign them. Come as you are. No preparation needed, no experience with ritual assumed.
Facilitators
Megan Sheldon
Megan Sheldon (she/her) is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant, end-of-life doula, and co-founder of Be Ceremonial, the world's first guided ritual and ceremony platform. She is the author of Ritual Without Religion: A Humanist Guide to Creating Secular Ceremonies, and has spent years crafting ceremonies across the life cycle, with a focus on grief and the less visible moments of change and transition.
Chloe Hunter
Chloe Hunter is a coach, doula, and ceremony facilitator devoted to guiding people through life's crossings and sacred transitions. She began her practice in 2011 as a birth and postpartum doula, and through more than a decade of training and mentorship has expanded her work to include end-of-life doula care, life coaching, and somatic attachment work.
