EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS AND GATHERINGS

Ritual Foundations Workshop

Saturday, Feb 1st, 9am - noon
TILC office: 3840 Packard Rd., Suite 160, Ann Arbor, MI

Cost is $50 (Registration required)
For TILC members and Evenstar’s Chalice staff, cost is $35
Appropriate for tweens and older.
Workshop capacity: 8

Would you like to know more about what ritual really is and how it can be a powerful tool for connection and transformation? Or perhaps you are looking to deepen your practice?

The ability and need to ritualize is part of our human heritage. Ritual is a language of the soul. It is a conversation between the seen and unseen aspects of existence. In this workshop, we will learn about some foundational principles and components of ritual, practice creating meaningful ritual together, and harvest any wisdom that arises from our time together.

Ritual Foundations will be facilitated by Mara Evenstar, Director of Conscious Rites. Our mission at Conscious Rites is to use ritual and ceremony in meaningful ways to foster deeper awareness, connection and conscious evolution.

Conscious Rites Quarterly Gathering - Sunday Jan 12, 1-4pm

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What's your latest milestone? Finish a project, retire, cut a new tooth, start or end a relationship?? This family-friendly quarterly gathering will be to come together, enjoy good food, walk our new mini-labyrinth,and celebrate our individual milestones, big and small, in intentional community.

New to the community? Come find out more about Conscious Rites and how we may serve you! We look forward to seeing you there!

FREE - but please RSVP by this FaceBook Event or by email: info@consciousrites.org for food coordination. Join our email list for the latest information!

PAST EVENTS & GATHERINGS

Conscious Rites Quarterly Gathering: Saturday, September 14, 7-9pm

Leah Myers

Held at Evenstar's Chalice, 36 N. Huron St., Ypsilanti, MI

Help! The World's on Fire!

We've been tuning in to what is needed at this time. And as we tune into the upcoming seasonal turn to Autumn, a time of harvest, we feel it is time to begin harvesting the gifts coming out of all of the turmoil in the world. Our focus on the 14th will be on using ritual to alchemize the anxiety and negativity many of us are experiencing these days into something more positive ... like HOPE.

This evening is for teens and older. Please bring open hearts and minds. Light snacks and beverages will be provided. Love offerings will be accepted and go to support the costs of Conscious Rites' quarterly gatherings and program development.

Hope to see you there!

Conscious Rites Quarterly Gathering: Saturday, June 1 7-9pm

Josephine Wall

Held at Evenstar's Chalice, 36 N. Huron St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197

For this gathering, we will be exploring the foundations and the language of ritual. Ritual is a language of the soul. It is a conversation between the seen and unseen aspects of existence. The ability and need to ritualize is part of our human heritage. Using Maiden/Mother/Crone as a 3-phase metaphor, in the first phase of this session, the Maiden, we will open to knowledge and new possibilities – learning about some of the foundations of ritualizing. In the phase of the Mother, we will co-create and birth a ritual experience together. And in the final phase of our time together, we will reflect and harvest wisdom from our experiences.

Love offerings accepted. Contact us at info@consciousrites.org with questions.
FaceBook Event

Conscious Rites Quarterly Gathering: Saturday, November 10th, 7-10pm

Josephine Wall

Our theme was "Letting Go and Letting Come"

We had a really powerful meeting, using "focal space" to explore, encounter and engage with our topic of letting go and letting come. This event was the first held in The Intentional Living Collective' new office space in the Packard Office Center.

Generation Waking Up Symposium

INSPIRATION. CONNECTION. PURPOSE-FULL ACTION.

Join us for a powerful, interactive symposium exploring the challenges and opportunities of our generation and this moment in history.

Save the date. Invite your friends. Stay tuned for further details!

This is a free event put on by volunteers of your peers, and happily sponsored by Conscious Rites, a program of The Intentional Living Collective, and The Human Trafficking & Social Justice Institute at The University of Toledo.

Generation Waking Up is igniting a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world.
Learn more at www.generationwakingup.org.

Quarterly Community Gathering: June 30th, 2018

Please join us on June 30th, 7pm at Evenstar's Chalice in Ypsilanti for a community-based Rite of Passage ceremony in which we will focus on the "new beginnings" aspect of the life transitions we're facing - individually and collectively. We will gather in intentional community to help midwife these new beginnings for one another.

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Quarterly Community Gathering: March 10, 2018

Ariels' Flight by Josephine Wall

In alignment with the seasonal patterns of change, we focused on the "new beginnings" aspect of transitions this time around. We gathered in intentional community to help midwife these new beginnings for one another.

Awakening the Dreamer Symposium: November 12th, 2017

We were proud to host and co-sponsor this transformative educational symposium created by the Pachamama Alliance that explores the challenges facing humanity and opportunities for us to collectively create a new future. This symposium was:
• A half-day workshop developed by the Pachamama Alliance delivered to hundreds of thousands of participants in over 80 countries since 2005.
• A chance to learn where we are as a human family and how we got here, discover your role in creating a sustainable future, and connect with like-minded, openhearted people and move into action.
• Open to the public. The $25 registration fee included admission, light beverages and snacks.

Stay tuned, we will host other symposiums created by the Pachamama alliance in the near future!

Quarterly Community Gathering: October 28, 2017

We at Conscious Rites created an opportunity to come together in intentional community for an evening to support, witness, and celebrate life change.

Set in the ritual space at Evenstar's Chalice in Ypsilanti, we co-created an experience and ceremony that honored the changes in all our lives, individually and as a collective. We supported individuals wanting to mark this time in their lives with this community-based rite of passage, including 5 individuals that chose to use this powerful opportunity to honor and mark their big transitions.

Grand Opening Ceremonies for Evenstar's Chalice: September 22, 2017

Conscious Rites provided Opening Ceremony for the retail shop Evenstar's Chalice in Ypsilanti, MI

[pictured: Hillary Carpenter of Conscious Rites guides the new owners and staff in a braiding ceremony.]

Left to Right: Mara Evenstar, Jeanne Adwani, Russell Jones, Hillary Carpenter, Rheisa Barres.