RITUAL DESIGN (PS-1461)

Throughout history, humans have utilized rituals to negotiate the complexities of life transitions, to explore the deeper, spiritual aspects of living, and symbolize and story their experiences. This course explores 5the dynamics of what ritual is and what ritual does by engaging participants in both developing ritual design skills and in understanding the roles that ritual can play in a variety of spiritual leadership contexts. Together we will ask, how d we engage communities in arctivities that carry values and deepen meaning? How do we create practices that embody beliefs and form people for particular ways of being in the world? What role do embodied spiritual practics play in people's spiritual lives and in the work of social transformation and how do we employ them? [Auditors with Faculty Permission]