Fun and affordable On-line Workshops

People often ask me all the time if I teach or lead courses in reflective process and in rites of passage. To meet this growing need, I have designed a series of fun, affordable, and non-traditional six week online workshops.

My goal is to inspire you to bring a deeper level of meaning into your most pivotal life experiences or simply to enrich your life. Because one of my guiding principles is to help others awaken to the magic, the poetry, and the mystery of their lives, I have tried to make the courses affordable by presenting them for $42.00.

Upon signing up, you will receive your first assignment by email with one following each week for a total of six weeks. Each assignment is a series of topics to reflect upon on your own, with exercises designed to inspire and awaken meaning in your life.

You work on your course on your own time, at your own pace. It is yours to have forever.

The courses are still in the development stage; so do make sure you add your name to my newsletter list. I’ll announce the launch of these lively courses will be announced in the newsletter!

  1. Premarital Couple & Relationship Building
  2. Preparing for the Emotional Journey of Motherhood
  3. Working Mindfully through Grief
  4. Living a More Meaningful Life

Premarital Couple and Relationship Building

Many couples approach me hoping I offer a premarital couple’s workshop or course that suits their modern personalities, lifestyles, and unique beliefs. I took a look and well, there are not a lot of options out there!

Working with a clinical counselor or other trained therapeutic professional may be more than many couples can afford. And while some faith institutions hold their own premarital counseling or training, the traditional content does not suit every progressive couple. And yet for these couples, and many more just like them, the intention they want to bring to their wedding ceremony is reflected in their wish to learn healthy marriage and relationship tools before the marriage begins.

Drawing upon my years of working with couples as they prepare for marriage, my own marriage, and the couple building work my husband Dan and I have done together, I have decided to offer a Couple Building Course.

This inspiring Premarital Couple & Relationship Building six week course provides an opportunity to learn about yourself, reconcile your needs, and challenge your assumptions. Who do you want to be in your marriage? What does it mean to you to be a wife or husband? How might your relationship change? Have you asked your partner what ‘wife’ or ‘husband’ or ‘partner’ means to them? Such obvious questions, yet we so often leave them unanswered.

Here’s to beginning your marriage with awareness and intention!

Preparing for the Emotional Journey of Motherhood

Give yourself the gift of dedicated time to journey inwards and discover the remarkable destiny you are about to fulfill. Guided journaling and contemplative exercises help you reflect on the many, and often unrealized, opportunities of motherhood. You will work through a process designed to help you embrace this new chapter of your life and that encourages you to connect with the spiritual feminine experience of childbirth by seeing your experiences as natural and integral to the sacred web of life. You will feel free to acknowledge any natural fears and worries and consider what it means to you to love deeply, without holding back.

Your relationship with yourself and others will change as you both cross this threshold of life. What are you be leaving behind? What are you moving towards? Discover your own ways to nourish yourself as an individual, while giving yourself to motherhood and family. Finally, you will create a plan to build simple ways to feed your soul into your daily life.

Working Mindfully through Grief

Death brings instability to our world. We have to weather the storm even when we feel like we cannot possibly go on. Yet our deepest sorrows present the most profound opportunities for personal transformation. It truly is possible, but the key is a supportive environment where we are safe to grieve freely and fully.

Grief can be made worse when our well-meaning friends and family do not know how best to help us, or what to say. That is why, ultimately, it is your inner journey through grief that counts the most. There is a lot you can do to nourish yourself and you will learn empowering tools to help you move towards acceptance and integration of your loss.

Well-crafted topics and reflective exercises offer you a chance for fresh perspective and will help you claim growth from your sorrow. You will learn tools to foster a sense of connection or relatedness, which is really important in times of crisis when we tend to feel isolated. This is often referred to as a time of “forgetfulness of being”. Over the six weeks of reflecting and learning at your own pace, you will journey closer to “mindfulness of being”.

It is never too late. Always remember that you are the hero or heroine of your own journey!

Living a More Meaningful Life

Life is a journey. Most of us say it, and nearly all of us believe it! So why then are we so darned focused on the next big step that we do not honour where we actually are along the path? Signing up for this course says ‘I value myself’. Over the six weeks, you will dedicate time to reflect upon the significant events of your life and you will learn to see your joys and losses as motivational calls to adventure.

This guided course will help you learn how to reveal the deeper meaning of your experiences and unleash the potential these hold for transformation. Reflective exercises and journaling on each of the weekly topics will allow you discover personal rituals and traditions that will enrich your life. You will discover the emotional richness of connecting and surrounding yourself with what inspires you – poems, quotes, objects, readings, people, and places in nature. Bet ya’ can’t wait to get started!

Modern Celebrant Michele Davidson,
Interfaith & Intercultural Officiant,
Vancouver & Whistler BC