What do a funeral, a football game, and a good dinner party have in common?
Are there patterns that underlie collective state experiences as grammatical patterns underlie language, or electrical and chemical patterns underlie the physical world?
Can we use the tools and principles of ritual and ceremony to bring about greater wisdom and joy, for the benefit of life?
Training
The Art & Science of Ceremony is a course curriculum and training series that aims to give participants a practical knowledge of foundational principles that support high-quality ceremony design and hosting in a wide variety of contexts.
Research & Experimentation
Our work combines insights from academic research on ritual, ceremony, and the neurological correlates of collective state experiences with practical knowledge from traditional and contemporary ceremony practitioners, and our own experience and experiments.
About
The Art & Science of Ceremony is a project initiated by Adam Francis McKenty, a Canadian autodidact ceremony geek, researcher, and facilitator, after two decades exploring ceremonial practice and ideas in groups and organizations in Canada and Europe. You can follow Adam’s experiments on his substack newsletter A Sometimes Expanding Universe, or occasional posts on what was called twitter.
Stay in touch
We’ll send you an email when we have new courses or other offerings.