Services Offered

Ceremonies

I believe wholeheartedly in creating rituals to honor, celebrate, and name life passages and special moments. Of course, that includes “the big ones,” like weddings and memorial services. Life also includes other significant times  where marking the time feels important (i.e., divorce, adoption, new job, changing careers, retirement, receiving a diagnosis, illness, becoming a parent, new home, coming out, baptism, choosing a new name, etc.)  Creating rituals helps us hold space for what is actually happening in our lives and invites us to make meaning in seasons of major transitions.

Weddings

I am an ordained minister who enjoys working with people ready to commit to loving lives together by giving them a wedding that fits their core values and dreams. I am LGBTQI and Queer-friendly, and I believe we can define our families and loving partnerships. I would love to work with you to create the right ceremony that celebrates your love.

Celebration of Life/Funerals/Memorials

It might sound strange to hear me say this, but I absolutely love officiating funerals, memorials, and celebrations of life. Yes, they are often sad times, but they can also be times of hearts broken open in love. All the more reason to be together, drawing comfort from one another, and honoring someone you loved.

Speaking and Teaching

I offer presentations, sermons, and workshops to large and small groups, in conference halls, congregational settings, offices, and living rooms, on myriad topics, tailoring my message to the participants. I often weave images, songs, and poetry to enhance the message. 

Topics for Talks, Workshops, and Worship Services:

• New Beginnings
• Forest Bathing
• Homosexuality and Scriptures
• Blue Christmas/Longest Night of the Year
• Writing Pantoum Poems
• Body Prayers
• Swimming in Compassion
• Grief, Loss, and Love
• Spiritual Pilgrimage
• Enneagram Workshops
• Times of Transition

Retreats

For 20+ years, I have facilitated retreats in congregations, work organizations, with boards of directors, multi-disciplinary teams in hospital and hospice settings, and in non-profit environments. It is one of my greatest joys and callings. Call or email me to discuss your group’s needs and interests and to check my availability. Here is a sampling of retreats I’ve led, but I can adapt themes and formats to fit the schedule and needs of your particular group:

• Getting to Know Ourselves: The Enneagram as Guide 
• Meeting People Where They’re At
• Healing Moral Injury
• There’s Always Hope
• Seasons of Change
• Forest Bathing; Returning to Our Senses
• Rest & Renewal
• Right Relationships: Working Through Conflict
• Where There is Sorrow, There is Holy Ground
• Doing Less is More
• Living An Awakened Life: The Lessons of Body
• Swimming in Compassion
• Creating Covenants in Beloved Community 
• Reinventing Ourselves, Revitalizing Congregations, Reconstituting the World
• Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Being True to Who We Are
• In Search of My Mother’s Garden, I Found My Own