Rituals of Remembrance
Learn to Create Ceremony For Pregnancy Loss
In partnership with Butterfly Support Network (a fundraiser)
Saturday, June 6th 2026
10am – 1pm PST
Explore the role of ritual in pregnancy & infant loss
Join Megan Sheldon, co-founder of Be Ceremonial, for this unique opportunity to explore ritual and ceremony throughout the pregnancy loss journey. Megan is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant, end-of-life doula, and a mother who has experienced recurrent pregnancy loss. She brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this deeply personal work.
Who Should Join?
This workshop is for anyone navigating pregnancy or infant loss ~ whether you’re trying to conceive, have experienced miscarriage, TFMR, stillbirth, or infant loss, are approaching a due date after loss, marking a death anniversary, or pregnant after loss. This space welcomes parents, partners, family members, and care providers who want to learn how ritual can hold the long arc of grief. You don’t need prior experience with ceremony, just a willingness to explore and connect.
What To Expect?
During this 3-hour interactive workshop, we’ll explore the visible and invisible moments that surround pregnancy loss. This is part education, learning the basics of ceremony design, and part experiential, learning how to create your own rituals. We’ll explore concepts like retroactive rituals, ceremony do-overs, and how multiple ceremonies can honour the same experience. This is also a space to hold our grief together, connecting as a community of care and sharing our stories.
What You'll Learn
You’ll learn practical frameworks for creating small, daily rituals as well as larger ceremonies that can acknowledge your individual experiences while tapping into the universality of ritual. Whether you want to create a private ritual, gather your community with intention, or simply understand how ceremony might support your grief journey, you’ll leave with tools, ideas, and inspiration as you seek to honour and remember your loss in ways that feel unique and meaningful to you. You’ll also connect with a community of care.
An Overview
This 3-hour virtual workshop offers a compassionate introduction to ritual design specifically for pregnancy and infant loss. Through shared learning, reflection, and connection, we’ll build our relationships with ceremony and explore ritual practices that can help us acknowledge loss, honour memory, and find our way through grief; not around it, but through it, together.
When & Where
When: Saturday, June 6th 2026
Time: 10am – 1pm PST (1pm – 4pm EST)
This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared with all registered participants the following day if you can’t join live.
Investment
We’re offering Sliding Scale tuition to ensure this workshop is accessible to all who need it. Your tuition includes access to the live workshop and recording, as well as presentation notes, reflection prompts, and additional resources. This is also a fundraiser for Butterfly Support Network, so partial proceeds will be donated to support their vital work.
- $40 ~ Supported by Community
- $60 ~ Standard
- $80 ~ Supporting Community
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the foundational elements of ritual and ceremony design that can be adapted to pregnancy loss experiences
- Identify key moments in the pregnancy loss journey where ceremony can provide acknowledgment, meaning, and support
- Create personalized rituals that honour your unique story, beliefs, and needs without requiring religious frameworks
- Explore concepts like retroactive rituals (creating ceremony for past losses) and ceremony do-overs (revisiting rituals that didn’t feel complete)
- Recognize how multiple ceremonies can mark different aspects of the same loss experience
- Develop self-care rituals to support your own grief journey
- Understand community care rituals and how to invite others into witnessing your loss
- Navigate conversations about ceremony with partners, family members, and communities from diverse backgrounds
- Access the universality of ritual while honouring your individual experience
- Connect with others who understand this unique grief
Rituals of Remembrance ~ Application
FAQs
Megan Sheldon is the co-founder and CEO of Be Ceremonial, the world’s first guided ritual and ceremony app. As a cultural mythologist with an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, humanist celebrant, and an end-of-life doula, Megan specializes in creating secular ceremonies for life’s profound transitions. She is also the author of the upcoming book, Ritual Without Religion: A Humanist Guide to Creating Secular Ceremonies.
Megan is also a mother who has experienced recurrent pregnancy loss. She brings both professional expertise in ritual design and the lived experience of navigating this particular grief. Her work focuses on what she calls the “seemingly invisible moments of change” ~ experiences that often lack ritual recognition in secular society, including pregnancy loss, terminal diagnosis, and death anniversaries.
Megan has trained over 5,000 students globally through workshops, courses, and coaching programs. She is passionate about democratizing ceremonial knowledge and empowering individuals to create meaningful rituals grounded in their own values and stories.
Butterfly Support Network provides compassionate support to families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss. Partial proceeds from this workshop will support their important work in the community. Learn more about their work here: https://www.butterflysupportnetwork.ca/
This 3-hour workshop is virtual and will be recorded if you can’t join live. We’ll begin at 10am PST and wrap at 1pm PST. We ask that those joining live do their best to have videos turned on to create a sense of community and safety. There will be opportunities to connect with each other and share as feels comfortable ~ participation in sharing is always optional and you can engage at whatever level feels right for you.
We will balance education (learning about ritual design) with space-holding (honouring our grief together). This is both a learning experience and a community gathering.
Absolutely! We hope that more and more care providers will see this training as an opportunity to learn, reflect and share how we can approach pregnancy loss with more intentionality.
I will also be offering a Caring for the Care Provider workshop later this year, where we will approach ritual design and ceremony creation through a care provider lens. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to learn more about that: www.beceremonial.com/newsletter
No. This workshop honours loss at any point in your journey, whether your loss was recent or decades ago, whether you’ve experienced one loss or many, whether you’re currently trying to conceive or pregnant after loss. Grief doesn’t follow a timeline, and neither does the need for ritual.
That’s exactly why you should come. This workshop will help you understand what ritual can offer and determine if and how it might serve you. There’s no pressure to create ceremony, we’re simply exploring the possibilities together. We’ll be exploring ritual without religion, meaning there’s no dogmatic approach to our ritual conversation. We tap into the universal elements of ritual design and decolonize our ritual practice by ensuring we’re not appropriating from cultures that are not our own.
We will be holding space for grief, loss, and difficult emotions. This workshop acknowledges the reality of pregnancy loss ~ both its pain and the ways ritual can help us move through (not past) that pain. We’ll create a container that honours wherever you are in your journey. Take care of yourself and trust your own capacity to engage.
Payments are non-refundable as you will have access to recordings, slides, and resources we share in our virtual classroom for up to three months following the workshop. If you register and find you’re not able to attend live, you’ll still receive access to all materials.
In order to make this workshop accessible to all who need it, we’re offering a sliding scale model where you can pick the tuition price point that feels best to you. This offering is also a fundraiser, with partial proceeds supporting Butterfly Support Network.
Choose the price point that feels accessible to you. We offer sliding scale pricing to ensure this workshop is available to anyone navigating pregnancy loss, regardless of financial circumstances. No justification needed. Trust yourself to choose what’s right for you.
$40 – Limited financial resources
$60 – Can cover costs comfortably
$80 – Able to support accessibility for other
