Workshop · Virtual
Grief Rituals & The Holidays 2025
As the holiday season approached, this intimate virtual gathering explored meaningful ways to weave sorrow into seasonal rituals and create room for grief and gratitude to coexist.
- When
- November 24, 2025, 4:00-5:30pm PT
- Format
- Virtual
- Price
- $20.00 USD
Who is this for?
This workshop welcomed anyone carrying grief through the holidays, seeking tangible rituals for absence and remembrance, longing for community connection, or supporting someone who was grieving.
What to expect
The 90-minute gathering included simple rituals participants could adapt for holiday traditions, space to share grief stories and traditions, community connection, and collective witnessing.
What you'll learn
Participants explored how ritual can acknowledge who and what is missing, transform holiday traditions to include grief, communicate needs to family and friends, and deepen presence during a tender season.
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.
