• Learning to be a commanding, healing presence inside and beyond ceremony

• Leading through embodied spiritual fitness 

• Identifying your personal allies and teachers; your ‘medicine’

• Discerning needs for future training in specialized fields

• Honing Scope of Practice and personal limits

• Honoring personal capacity and avoiding burnout

• Using your lived experience for ‘nutrient-dense’ leadership

• Cultivating personal courage and resilient strength as a ceremony leader

• Daily practices and ongoing preparation for ceremony

• Drawing on your unique spiritual root and being grounded in authenticity

• Central altars and what to include

• Smokes, scents, whistles, bells

• Prayer and speaking directly to Spirit

• The role of instruments and  individual/group singing (Hint, hint!  It’s not a performance!)

• Cofacilitators and shared roles

• Kairos and Chronos - Invoking ‘ceremony time’

• Discerning the right ceremony; who and what is called for?

• Determining time frame; one hour to multi-year 

• Determining the purpose of each ceremony and your ceremonies as a whole (who, why, when, what, etc)

• Ongoing/repeating ceremonies and deepening relationships

• Identifying the right physical space

• Working with regular spaces; indoor, outdoor, and guest spaces

• Clean ceremonies in your home

• Shared ceremony spaces and how to protect your work

• Clearing and protecting brand new spaces, plus what to avoid

• The Big Picture: Living ceremonially and nesting your ceremony containers

• Ceremony as a temple and how to build it together

• Starting with the sacred pause and coming into present time

• How to open and close ceremonies with clarity and intention

• Honing personal intuition and tools for reading the room

• Creating a felt sense of safety in spiritually challenging situations

• What elements to include in your ceremonies - healings, prayers, shared candles, cleansing fire, etc.

• Formats for personal and group prayer

• Spontaneous experiences and leaving room for Spirit

• Participant rights and group agreements

• Understanding why people come to ceremony

• Getting free of social ‘shoulds’ in ceremony space

• Discussion of how different psychedelic medicines impact people and the ceremony

• The magic of in-the-moment participation and how to guide people into it

• What happens when someone’s having a big process and how to use mirror neurons and neurological grounding

• Honoring differences amongst participants while still holding a clear container

• Involving participants for maximum effectiveness

• To follow up or not? Different perspectives

• Chop wood, carry water: Spiritually grounded ceremonies and tending to your own ego

• Identifying spiritual bypassing in your business and financial structures

• Financially clean ceremonies; balancing priceless work and your earthly needs

• Some suggestions for price structuring and financially accessible ceremonies

• Marketing through clear +  specific communication that honors your ceremonies and participants

• Feeling inspired by competitors and opening to collaboration

• Separating from difficult personalities and letting go of ‘fixing’

• The power in taking full responsibility for your ceremony practice

Six guided 'homework' assignments for you to practice what you're learning in class that will include a combination of the following:

• 6 different kinds of spaces (indoors, outdoors, new, familiar, etc>)

• 6 different groups of participants including family, solo, anonymous, and the beings of Nature herself

• One year-long ceremony 

• Lunar, solar, or otherwise seasonal ceremony

• Life milestone ceremonies such as a marriage/renewal of vows, birth, memorial/death, graduation, etc.

• Movement and body based ceremony