Dwelling Farewelling

“Home is where your story begins.”

– French proverb

A Home Transitioning Ceremony supports a process of Dwelling Farewelling, and New Space Embracing.

In other words, saying a fond goodbye to a current home and a shy hello to a new possibility.

Planning a Home Transitioning Ceremony can support a big move in many lasting ways:
• builds soul resiliency
• streamlines the practicalities of moving
• strengthens family & community connections
• supports a willingness to let go of what is passing
• cultivates curiousity for a new beginning
• inspires an acceptance of one’s biography

A carefully prepared ceremony can bring a surprising new sense of life for the one who is moving, their family and community.

The effects of a meaningful Home Transitioning Ceremony can deepen over time, especially within a caring community which celebrates its members’ life events through ongoing ceremony and ritual.

Life Threads Ceremonies offers moving on ceremonies to individuals, families and communities. Preparations begin long before the move occurs, and may include several sessions of interviewing and choosing appropriate rituals and planning a Farewell Feast and Ceremony.

Imagine how you would like to walk out of your house for the last time.
Tossing white rose petals behind you?
Singing a favourite song with friends?
Walking under an archway of tinkling bells?

Its your Dwelling Farewelling…make it special!

It is in the shelter of one another that people live. 

– Irish saying

Abegael, I was very touched by our experience of being together—by the connection, the openness, the depth of emotion, the sacredness of what we created together. I appreciated the form that you provided, combined with the flexibility to take the ceremony in whatever direction it wanted to go. I thank you, my friend, for what you did to make our leavetaking ceremony so special and memorable.

KOA, North Vancouver, Houseleaving Ceremony

On Moving
We toast to new things and to glorious change.
To change ourselves and to change our world.
To know the need for it.
To deal with the pain of it.
To feel the joy of it.
To undertake the journey without
understanding the destination.
The art of gentle revolution.

   – Michael Leunig