It all really does begin here. I’m so looking forward to you coming on this deep inspired potent powerful journey.
Each month you will feel more and more connected to your GUIDE identity, you will gain knowledge, assimilate your own wisdom and with my guidance, you will create ceremony and circle with your very own special flavour, at an advanced level of truth and understanding.
Welcome
RITES OF PASSAGE CEREMONY & WOMEN’S CIRCLE FACILITATOR TRAINING 2025 Dates
Our year runs in February to November with an opportunity to join at various times and complete it within 14 months.
This course includes ALL videos, audio initiations, study schedule, recorded classes and assignments as well as four online LIVE masterclass workshops and the opportunity to attend an in person full day ceremonial retreat.
You are asked to submit assignments every month on a Googledoc, with a break in the summer to catch up with any outstanding work. You have online support too - this is going to be powerful!
Live Masterclass Workshop Sessions
Our own Women’s Circle
Recorded classes for each module
Audio Initiations
Video Resources
Written Guides
Downloadable materials
Mentoring Day
Study Support Day
And
an In Person Retreat DAy
Guidance throughout your training
A full carefully created study format with time in nature and quests to inspire, motivate and support you
Feedback on your written work throughout the year to help you create the most authentic offerings you can
2025 Dates
Our online LIVE Masterclasses run on UK Time alongside your recorded tutorials.
February you get full access to resources, then live classes begin:
4th March 7pm, 25th March 7pm UK time
and then the following dates at 9.30am UK time
April session 3: 26th April
May session 4: 10th May
June session 5: 14th June
July session 6: 12th July
August – Break
September session 7:13th Sept tbc
October session 8: 18th Oct
November session 9:29th Nov
Complete and graduate between November the same year and April the following year, you have 14 months to complete the course
Plus
A gifted in person whole day retreat and ceremony day in Hertfordshire on Saturday 20th September 2025
Study session in October 2025 and Mentoring Session November 2025 to work on coursework together, develop ideas, catch up on assignments and pick Angie’s brain! (dates to be arranged)
This course requires 100 hours of study over 9 to 14 months.
2026 Dates
Dates be similar to 2025 falling on equivalent weeks and months on a Saturday morning at 9.30am, avoiding UK school holidays, our Retreat day will be in September, date tba.
This course requires 100 hours of study over 9 to 14 months.
Please submit your videos to me via Wetransfer or Whatsapp and written ceremonies by an ongoing file on Googledocs.
You need to submit one video by the end of the course demonstrating a ceremony in progress. Submission of additional videos and additional work can count towards a Distinction in your final assessment.
Your Resources
1:1 Knowledge is Power Session
Book your one to one Knowledge is Power Session with me to connect to your unique gifts and skills and connect with what you are bringing to your life and work on this immersive journey with me.
A chance to explore how to get confidence with your ceremonies and circles.
RISE
The Resource Book.
This is your reading ally, a companion and invaluable resource - a book written by me with love.
May it bring you much empowerment and inspiration for this training, and for many more years to come.
Be sure to complete each of the journaling sections provided with the earth festivals to immerse you in their meaning.
Rites of Passage …
… have defining moments of potency, power and meaning, and creating ceremony, ritual and circle make time stand still in one incredible space of total intention.
Part 1: The Fly and Expand Modules
Connecting to your Soul, Essence and Power
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Earth Festivals
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The Five Elements
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The Goddess Archetypes
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Phases of the Moon
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Birth, Death and Rebirth
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Wellbeing and balance in your life
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Written, Audio and Video Resources
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Time out in nature - immersive home study
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Becoming open to your authentic gifts
We will………
Go deep into themes
Get immersed in The Book
Have initiations
Participate in Masterclasses
Undertake Ceremonial Quests
Commune with nature
Plan your month
Attend a live Masterclass and access Masterclass Recordings
Submit a written ceremony on an ongoing Googledoc file
Read, journal and prepare
Go out in nature
Audio initiations
Plus, as an option which will help you greatly: submit a short video of your ceremony (up to 3 minutes is fine but longer if you wish).
You will need to record a ceremony at the end of your training for assessment so its good practice to do a few prior to that. This can count towards a Distinction in your final assessment.
You will need to submit at least one video of a complete ceremony by the end of your training.
Planning your month will enable you to make the most of your training and allow it to flow.
Spread the study over 10 hours a month, so about 2 hours a week.
The more you put in, the more you will get back.
Plan your written work
You need to submit one ceremony by email per month (and if you wan tto, record a shorter video version of your ceremony and submit it either by we transfer or whatsapp.)
Use the template provided here to set the foundation for your ceremonies and then copy and paste this onto an email.
Start to keep a folder of these outlines as a file for all of your future ceremonies once you have amended your ceremony following feedback.
You will get really good at this do spend time making it as FULL as possible.
Submitting your final work
Once you have completed the training you will need to submit all of your ceremonies together for a final assessment AND at least one video of a ceremony from start to finish.
OUTLINE OF YOUR WRITTEN WORK
(copy and past these headings for your emails)
Ceremony name
Ceremony aims
Ceremony themes
A start
A middle
An end
The segments in between
The equipment you need
The length of time it will take
The variations on this ceremony
The challenges
The inspiration
What I am doing to immerse myself in the process to create
The written ceremony format
Notes on what you discovered in this process
Plan your video work
Recording your final Ceremony
You can consider recording one ceremony each month, but this is completely optional. As explained above this is a shorter version of your written ceremony if you wish.
At the end of your training you will need to submit at least one video of a ceremony you have created, and record yourself doing the ceremony.
You can also record yourself during your training in nature, indoors or during your moments of contemplation while you prepare for your ceremony or while you are studying with any thoughts that arise and include this if you wish.
Don’t feel pressure, as its not meant to be a polished a cinematic masterpiece, just as long as you can be seen and heard, it will capture the essence of what you are creating and experiencing, its about recording your creative process.
Feel free to include photographs you take of things that inspire you and screenshots of research. You can send them to me via WeTransfer the free service which you can access by clicking the icon.
Your recording or recordings will help to support your written work as part of a valuable and sacred body of work you are actively creating, it will be WONDERFUL!
The format to our online sessions
Our live sessions will be divided into two sessions, the first will be a women’s circle, the second will be the training.
Our Women’s Circle
Meditation
Oracle Cards
Talking Stick
Sharing Circle
Our Masterclass Sessions
This will consist of a live class and q&a, learning about the corresponding theme and subject for those months and specific time on how to create authentic ceremonies and circles.
Please prepare for this class in advance by watching the videos for that specific month, which are supported with the Masterclass video library. This will allow time to look into personal themes and challenges and go deeper into the themes explored in the live tutorial.
Welcome!
How to begin…
Start with looking at February when you have access to materials, and work through the Earth Festivals and Spring Equinox materials as preparation and foundation for your work, regardless of the time of year. This will enable you to create a template for your ceremonies. Your first month of this training is busy, I’ve deliberately created it that way as you can then become fully immersed and relax into it from then into your own rhythm and flow.
You see, this is YOUR new beginning, and that is what Spring is all about. So we begin with Spring and take it from there.
Prepare this first Spring Equinox ceremony and submit it as your first assignment. This will be in at the deep end and well out of your comfort zone, but it will be what helps you to feel at home with your gifts as soon as possible.
Watch the video on creating your first ceremony and all the wonderful resources below to help you with this.
After you have finished this, go onto the corresponding month and study the materials before your first Masterclass. Please submit your video and relevant written ceremony each month as close after the Masterclass as you can.
I can’t wait to have you in circle!
Set powerful intentions to start …
February & March:
Four Earth Festivals & Becoming Open to your Authentic Gifts
During this first month you need to prepare yourself to lay the foundations of your training.
You will need to do more this month as you set the foundations for yourself, you create what will become a template for future ceremonies. Complete this module and all the study before you join us for the first Masterclass.
You will also need to watch all the video(s) for the corresponding month before our Masterclasses.
By the end of this module you will have an in depth understanding of Four of the Earth Festivals and begin to create ceremony for Spring Equinox, using this as a starting point, template and guide for future ceremonies.
Your Live Online Masterclass this month
Earth festivals explored including Spring Equinox Themes
Our Theme
Video to watch: Four earth festivals
Video to watch: Opening and closing a ceremony
Video to watch: Becoming open to your authentic gifts
Video to watch: Creating your first ceremony
Immersive Study from the RISE resource book
Chapters 1 - 6
Initiation
Audio: An initiation into the four earth festivals
Your Quest - Submit your first written Ceremony
Create and plan a Spring Equinox Ceremony consisting of three rituals - there is no right or wrong - this is the opportunity to be creative and expansive in your thinking and to enjoy the process of self expression and where it takes you.
You do not need to purchase any additional books or resources for this training, but keep a note of the recommended resources for when you do buy your next book! I have included a building your resource library section as a suggestion for books you may wish to look into in the future. You have all you need from RISE the book, and so anything suggested through the course is for creating future resources should you wish.
Building your resource library
This month I recommend
Glennie Kindred - Sacred Earth Celebrations
COMMUNE WITH NATURE
This month you will go out and find your wise woman walking stick.
You will go on a meditative silent walk in nature and mediate before you start, setting the intention to find your companion consciously.
Ask mother earth to guide you, being aware of your body connecting to the earth as you walk, observing the landscape, each bird, each leaf.
Take time to do this and if you do not find what you are looking for at first, it is the gift of going out again which will open up an opportunity for a new experience.
Go with an open heart.
Feel like slowing down.
Create the space to find you in the trees.
Thank the earth, the air, the sun, the sky and leave a humble offering in its place once found, a hair from your head will do, or a song or a prayer.
Tell me how you get on - email me before our next meet up with some insights.
Initiation into the Earth Festivals
Allow an hour to be totally alone.
Lie down in the dark on the floor, wrapped in blankets and cushions. Press play.
SPRING EQUINOX!
A new beginning. Let us explore the themes together and prepare for this incredible time of unfolding.
The four earth festivals
Opening and closing a ceremony
Creating
your
first
ceremony
COMMUNE WITH NATURE
This month you will go out and meditate with trees.
You will go on a meditative silent walk in nature and mediate before you start, setting the intention to connect to our tree friends consciously.
Again, ask mother earth to guide you, being aware of your body connecting to the earth as you walk, observing the landscape, each bird, each leaf.
Take time to do this and if you do not find what you are looking for at first, it is the gift of going out again which will open up an opportunity for a new experience.
Go with an open heart.
Feel like slowing down.
Create the space to find you in the trees.
Find a space amongst trees to slow down and begin to LISTEN, to become aware of their energy, their vibration.
Tell me how you get on.
March: The Five Elements
By the end of this module you will have an in depth understanding of the elements and begin to create ceremony with this theme. Please prepare for this module by working through all of the materials before your March Masterclass.
Your Live Online Masterclass
The Five Elements in nature
Our Theme
Video to watch: Five elements
Video to watch: Trees - time in nature
Immersive Study from the RISE resource book
Chapters 7 and 9
Initiation
Audio: An initiation into the five elements
Your Quest: Submit Your written ceremony
Create and plan a ceremony incorporating one element or more, making that element a central part of your ceremony
Building your resource library
This month I recommend Rituals for Life by Isla Macleod
Initiation into the Five Elements
Allow an hour to be totally alone.
Lie down in the dark on the floor, wrapped in blankets and cushions. Press play.
With thanks to Glennie Kindred from her beautiful book Sacred Earth Celebrations for her descriptions.
The five elements
Connection to nature:
Time with trees
PRAYERS….
As we share what we feel, we may do this at various stages..
When we are preparing our ceremony
When we are preparing our circle
When we re invoking intention and energies
When we are blessing sacred objects or sacred space or a person or a group
When we open the floor and invite our participants to bring in prayers
Keep it simple, keep it positive and make these prayers affirmations. Also be clear about what your intentions are and state this at the start. Then release the prayers to the elements (choose one element or more) and you might even use this element to carry the prayers away to SOURCE.
Give the prayers away and allow SPIRIT to carry them, so you are lighter and freer and allow unconditional love to flow, taking them away.
Then finish with a blessing.
April: The Goddess Archetypes & Wellbeing and Balance in Your Life
By the end of this module you will gain an in in depth understanding of four Goddess Archetypes and the confidence to research and connect to others, you will also be able to create a ceremony which brings in these elements.
Live Online Masterclass
Goddess archetypes explored and Sacred Self Care - looking at putting yourself first, creating boundaries and healing the past through nurturing rituals
Our Theme
VIDEO
The Goddess Archetypes and Creating Goddess Ceremonies
Your Initiation
Audio: An initiation into one of the Archetypes
Your 1st Quest: Submit your written Ceremony
Creating a ceremony for your Archetype
Your 2nd Quest: Wellbeing Immersion
Sacred Self Care - how do we look after ourselves? Listen to the audio in this section and create a wellbeing plan, share it with the group in the next Masterclass.
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapters 10 & 11 and begin to work through the journaling questions in the Earth Festivals chapter through your training.
Your Archetype Initiation
Also please take time to read Chapter 12 and choose the initiation which speaks to you from the Archetypes below from the Audio sharing.
Building your resource library
Stella Tomlinson - Cycles of Belonging
Communing with Nature
This month go out and create a natural Mandala.
Get inspiration and set the intention to lose yourself in this process.
Go out in silence and contemplation, gather leaves, twigs, flowers, whatever you are drawn to, give thanks as you gather these materials and spend time in contemplation, meditation and gratitude.
Do not judge your efforts or compare them, just CREATE and be in the joy of doing something for yourself in honour of the essence of life itself.
Build it indoors or outdoors - with love.
Enjoy playing and connecting to your inner child and inner artist. Mandalas in nature can be incredibly simple but make powerful altars and works of art honouring nature and creation. See this link for inspiration.
Join me as we journey through the Archetypes together. This video is also part of the Masterclass series, and the link is available again at the end of this page.
Initiation into four Archetypes
YOUR ARCHETYPE INITIATIONS
Allow an hour to be totally alone. You are about to experience powerful initiations and this requires sacred time within a container of divinity and safety. I invite you to choose one Archetype but if you want to create a process you can choose all four, but do this as one initiation a day, and follow the same process for each.
These powerful initiations will open your energies to receiving the love and support of each of your Archetypes.
Lie down in the dark on the floor, wrapped in blankets and cushions.
Press play.
Nature Immersion
Sitting with a new moon and journaling on her phases
Creating and a new moon and full moon elixir
May: Phases of The Moon and Time in Out In Nature, Getting Immersive
By the end of this module you will gain knowledge to use the rhythm of the moon and the lunar cycles for ceremony and self reflection. You will also be able to create a ceremony.
Live Online Masterclass
Moon energies explored and making your own elixir
Theme
VIDEO
The Phases of the Moon, Rituals and Ceremonies
Initiation
Audio: An initiation into the lunar rhythms and cycles
Your Quest: Submit your written Ceremony
Creating a new moon and full moon ceremony for yourself or others
Nature Immersion
Sitting with a full moon and a new moon and creating a full moon elixir
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapter 8
Building your resource library
Awen Clement - Moon Wise
and
Johanna Paungger and Thomas Poppe - Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles
Working with the Menstrual Cycle: The Moon Blood Tracker
Although we don’t look at this closely in this training, a few years ago I created this chart (probably before apps!) which can help you in your research, and which are a little more creative than an app, particularly if you want to work in this way with Menarche Ceremonies or with ceremonies centered around menstruation. You can download this document here.
The Phases of the Moon.
If you graduated from the introductory rituals course you will be familiar with this recording. Before listening to this video gather some ivy and make a flower crown using some raffia or string if needed to tie in place, as elaborate as you wish, you will be guided to a self initiation half way through the recording.
June:
Birth, Death and Rebirth
By the end of this module you will have an in depth understanding of the cycles of life and a working knowledge of sitting with, contemplating, processing and honouring each one. You will also have experience of working with nature and understanding landscape, spaces and the energy of trees.
Live Online Masterclass
Birth, Death and Rebirth explored
The Theme
VIDEO Birth, Death and Rebirth
Initiation
Audio: An initiation journey through your own rebirth process
Your First Quest: Submit a written Ceremony
This will be to create a ritual to honour the three stages of your life Birth, Death and Rebirth - from a deeply personal perspective based around your experiences and your understanding of your life and what you need from it now.
Your Second Quest: Submit a written ceremony
Write your own funeral and eulogy. Take time to create a ceremony to honour your own life and choose songs, poems, rituals to create a ceremony which embraces your impermanence and the sacredness of your life to living it to the fullest. Record a video diary recalling your ceremony after you have given it including thoughts on the processes and your journey.
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapter 18
Building your resource library
Francis Weller - The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Nature Immersion
Wise woman walking stick - a quest
Exploring Birth, Death and Rebirth
3 videos asking questions and inviting you to create a process for yourself to explore these powerful themes
Songs
Air I Am
Ancient Mother
The River is Flowing
Mother I feel you
We are a Circle
and
Ladies Spin Your Circle
Part 2: The Embody and Create Modules
Creating the Space for Conscious Awakening
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Womb Medicine Ceremonies
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Stepping Into the New Ceremonies of Joy
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Grief Ceremonies for Women
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Creating Tools for Ceremony
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Women's Circles Facilitation
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Creating Goddess Days for Groups and 1:1
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Creating Bespoke Ceremonies
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Writing your ceremonies for groups, 1:1 and community
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Becoming Creative with the Sacred
Summer Solstice Ceremony and Ritual
Wellbeing immersion
1.Creating space for our own womb health and Yoni Steaming.
2. Balancing your life and looking after your inner and outer wellbeing
July:
Womb Medicine Ceremonies
By the end of this module you will have an in depth understanding of sacred work with womb
The Theme
Video on Womb Medicine Ceremony
Initiation
Audio: An initiation meditation to heal stuck trauma and activate the Sacral Chakra Energies
Your First Quest : Submit a written Ceremony
Create a ritual around womb health and womb healing
Your Second Quest: Submit a written Ceremony
Create your own Ceremony to connect to your Sacral Chakra and your own Divinity. Also please include notes recalling what it was like to experience it and your journey to writing it.
Wellbeing immersion
Creating space for our own womb health - womb creativity, identity, sexuality, how we identify with our womb energy and our health and looking at how we live in terms of our own balance.
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapters 13 and 19
Building your resource library
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run with the Wolves
Live online masterclass
Womb emotional medicine and trauma and celebration explored
Womb healing
Possibly at the heart of it all, the essence of our Sacral Energy speaks through our experience, how we see ourselves, our relationship to our bodies and to our identity.
September part 1: Stepping into the new, ceremonies of Joy and Creating Tools for Ceremony
Video: Creating a ceremony for new beginnings
Quest: Submit a written Ceremony
Create a New Beginnings Ceremony for yourself
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapter 16
Live Online Masterclass 1: Joy Ceremonies explored
Building your resource library
Earth Alchemy Glennie Kindred
New Beginnings
September part 2:
Grief Ceremonies for Women and Sacred Tools - looking at Drumming, Singing Bowls and Chimes
Video: Grief Ceremony
Video: Sacred Tools
Quest: Submit a written Ceremony
Create a Ceremony to honour grief for someone else
Quest: Submit a written Ceremony
Create a Ceremony to honour your own grief
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapter 20
Live Online Masterclass
Grief ceremonies explored
Building your resource library
The Sensory Herbal Handbook by the Seed Sistas
Grief Ceremonies
Sacred tools
An autumn ceremony
This is an online ceremony which explores the themes of the autumn and ways to honour yourself in this time of balance and reflection.
October: Women’s Circles, Oracle Cards and Listening
Main Video
Women’s circle’s
Quest: Submit a written Ceremony
Creating a Women’s Circle Gathering with three formats using song, talking circle and ritual
Additional Videos
Oracle cards and the art of listening
Creating the Space
How to be intentional
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapter 17
Masterclass:
Women’s circles explored - the art of listening and holding space when it flows and when it doesn’t
Building your resource library
The Empowerment Handbook by Starhawk
Creating the space
How to be intentional
Creating Tools for Ceremony and Sacred Craft work
Immersive Study from the Rise Resource book
Chapter 14
Video:
Sacred Tools and Sacred Craftwork
Building your resource library
Sacred Circles by Robin Carne and Sally Craig
Sacred Tools and Sacred Craftwork
Creating Goddess Days for expanding on Women’s Circle offerings
Videos
Creating Goddess days
and
Preparing the Space
Rise book
Return to chapter 12 and also look at chapter 15
Building your resource library
The Women’s Circle by Anoushka Florence
Creating Goddess Days
Preparing the space
Ebook Resource:
A guide for you on boundaries and creating sacred space for circles.
November: Writing your Ceremonies for Groups, Bespoke Ceremonies and 1:1 Ceremonies
Masterclass
Writing formats explored, getting inspiration and writing for Groups, Bespoke Ceremonies and One to One Ceremonies
Rise Book
Chapters 5, 6 and 8
Building your resource library
Red Tents Marie Ann Clements and Aisha Hannibal
Circle Songs Catalogue
A collection of songs for you
also in November
Rise Book
Chapters 10, 11 and 12
Building your resource library
If Women Rose Rooted Sharon Blackie
And
Your Online Graduation Ceremony for those who are ready to Graduate!
Spirit,
Intention
and Prayers.
This is training for you created by myself here at The Academy of Sacred Women’s Ceremony, Circle and Ritual. This is a course accredited by The Complementary Medical Association.
A Gift for You: An In Person Ceremonial Day
For those of you in the UK or who can travel - I am offering a gifted additional day alongside your training. A whole retreat day of ceremony and ritual in September 2025 in Hertfordshire., near Potters Bar.
This will honour your training and give you the opportunity to create ceremonies with me. This is a gifted place if you are on this course and a paying event otherwise.
Date: Saturday 20th September 2025.
I can’t wait to greet you there!
Video archive for all of your Masterclasses
Click on the links to watch the recordings
Your additional audio guide
We will now cover a special module on the behind the scenes essentials:
Marketing
Building Community
Admin & Insurance
Indoor & Outdoor Venues
LISTEN HERE:
ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF YOUR TRAINING
YOUR SELF GUIDED GRADUATION CEREMONY RITUAL ALONGSIDE YOUR ONLINE LIVE GRADUATION CEREMONY
This is a powerful self guided ritual and ceremony to honour your graduation from this training. May it bring you much happiness and fulfilment.
AFTER GRADUATION
A POSTGRADUATE INVITATION
On successful completion of the Ceremony and Circle Facilitator Training you will be invited to undertake further Certified Training or an Apprenticeship if you wish.
This immersion taking will take you deeper into shamanism and your potential with ritual, ceremony, initiations and divine feminine shamanic practice.
Let’s explore how I can help in your growing areas of interest.
