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Training, empowering, and supporting Life-Cycle Celebrants™ and death care professionals who honor life’s milestones: Weddings, end-of-life transitions, funerals & every meaningful moment!

Twenty-five years ago, the roots of a movement were taking hold.We invite you to hear that story from someone who was th...
09/12/2026

Twenty-five years ago, the roots of a movement were taking hold.

We invite you to hear that story from someone who was there.
Charlotte Eulette, the original International Executive Director of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, shares the remarkable story of CF&I's beginnings and the roots of the North American celebrant movement.

What began with a vision for bringing celebrancy to North America grew into a community devoted to something profoundly human: helping people honor life's most meaningful moments through ceremony, story, connection, and care.

Twenty-five years later, that legacy continues through Natural Transitions Institute.

Read Charlotte's story and discover the history behind the movement:
https://www.naturaltransitions.org/blog/25th-anniversary-of-9%2F11-and-CFI

As we honor 25 years, we're also looking toward the future.
If celebrancy has touched your life, your family, your community, or your work, we invite you to help us carry this legacy forward. In honor of this milestone, consider a gift of $25 for 25 years, or any amount meaningful to you, to support NTI and the next generation of celebrants.

Honor the legacy. Support the future.
https://www.naturaltransitions.org/donate

We are delighted to welcome Elle Sojourner as the new Executive Director of Natural Transitions Institute.Elle is a Cert...
09/05/2026

We are delighted to welcome Elle Sojourner as the new Executive Director of Natural Transitions Institute.

Elle is a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, founder of Spirit Fire Life Ceremonies, and a passionate advocate for the power of meaningful ritual. She brings a rare blend of ceremonial expertise, business strategy, and a deep belief that celebrancy enriches lives and strengthens communities.

As NTI enters its next chapter, Elle will help carry forward our 25-year legacy of excellence in celebrant training—while deepening the resources, connection, and professional support available to those who answer this calling.

Please join us in welcoming Elle.

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✨Become a Life-Cycle Celebrant™📆 Registration is open at the Natural Transitions Institute, where we guide you in honori...
07/14/2026

✨Become a Life-Cycle Celebrant™

📆 Registration is open at the Natural Transitions Institute, where we guide you in honoring life’s passages with heart and intention.

❤️ If you feel called to be wedding or funeral celebrant OR to support others through rites of passage, threshold ceremonies, and meaning-making, this is your moment.

☎️ Book a Q&A call with us.

🔗 Start your Life-Cycle Celebrant journey with us today: https://www.naturaltransitions.org/certification

There are so many thresholds we cross without ceremony, not because they don’t matter, but because we haven’t yet built ...
07/09/2026

There are so many thresholds we cross without ceremony, not because they don’t matter, but because we haven’t yet built the ceremonial and ritual scaffolding to hold them.

In this powerful session, Megan Sheldon invited us to turn toward the “silent thresholds” ... experiences like miscarriage, divorce, diagnosis, menopause, and other deeply human moments that shape us, yet often go unmarked.

Through story, ritual, and thoughtful practice, Megan offered not only language for these spaces, but also meaningful tools to help us create ceremony where none yet exists.

We are deeply grateful to Megan Be Ceremonial for illuminating these unseen passages with such care, and for equipping us to meet life’s most tender transitions with intention, presence, and ritual.

You can still register for the recording 👇🏼

🔗 https://www.naturaltransitions.org/offers/LqaRSJvt/checkout

The Silent Thresholds 📆 Mark your calendar for our next Connecting Our Community session with Megan Sheldon on July 8th ...
06/27/2026

The Silent Thresholds

📆 Mark your calendar for our next Connecting Our Community session with Megan Sheldon on July 8th - 8pm (EDT) ZOOM

Megan Sheldon: Life-Cycle Celebrant™, End-of-Life Doula, and co-founder of Be Ceremonial - the world's first guided ritual and ceremony platform.

This session explores the ceremonies that live in the gaps: the silent thresholds that rarely appear on any calendar, but leave a mark nonetheless. Megan will share ceremony stories and ritual examples drawn from these often-invisible experiences, as well as practical tools for creating meaningful ceremonies when there's no existing template to follow.

🔗 https://www.naturaltransitions.org/offers/LqaRSJvt/checkout

What Sets Us Apart?The Natural Transitions Institute carries forward more than 25 years of CF&I celebrant training, and ...
06/23/2026

What Sets Us Apart?

The Natural Transitions Institute carries forward more than 25 years of CF&I celebrant training, and the standard remains the same: Life-Cycle Celebrants™ who go into the world ready, culturally dexterous, deeply skilled, and grounded in the craft of ceremony.

Train Where the Standard Was Set.

🔗 explore our certifications: https://www.naturaltransitions.org/certification

💬 Or book a 1:1 Q&A call (link in on certification page 👆)

📆 Mark your calendar for our next Connecting Our Community session with Megan Sheldon on July 8th - 8pm (EDT) ZOOMMegan ...
06/14/2026

📆 Mark your calendar for our next Connecting Our Community session with Megan Sheldon on July 8th - 8pm (EDT) ZOOM

Megan Sheldon: Life-Cycle Celebrant™, End-of-Life Doula, and co-founder of Be Ceremonial - the world's first guided ritual and ceremony platform.

There are so many changes we move through without ceremony, not because they don't deserve one, but because we haven't built the cultural scaffolding to hold them.

A miscarriage. A diagnosis. The loss of a job. Menopause. Divorce. An IVF cycle that didn't work. Reaching the age a loved one was when they died. These moments are real. They change us. Yet, we don't always know how to acknowledge them because the world hasn't given these transitions a name, a form, or a ritual container.

This session explores the ceremonies that live in the gaps: the silent thresholds that rarely appear on any calendar, but leave a mark nonetheless. Megan will share ceremony stories and ritual examples drawn from these often-invisible experiences, as well as practical tools for creating meaningful ceremonies when there's no existing template to follow.

If you want to serve people in the full complexity of their lives, this is a session for you.

🔗 https://www.naturaltransitions.org/offers/LqaRSJvt/checkout

❤️ Thank you Morning Altars for your moving and insightful Connecting Our Community session on “Marking Thresholds”. Day...
06/12/2026

❤️ Thank you Morning Altars for your moving and insightful Connecting Our Community session on “Marking Thresholds”.

Day Schildkret’s presence and teachings beautifully affirmed the essential role that thresholds hold in our lives … those tender, powerful spaces where transformation unfolds and meaning is made.

🙏🏼We are deeply grateful for Day’s spirit of collaboration and for the way his practice continues to expand and enrich our shared understanding of ritual, grief, and ceremony.

🔗You can still register for the recording: https://www.naturaltransitions.org/offers/LXivEVjF/checkout

🔔There is still time to register. 📆 Mark your calendar: June 11th - 8pm (EDT) on Zoom.💫 Join us for the next Connecting ...
06/07/2026

🔔There is still time to register. 📆 Mark your calendar: June 11th - 8pm (EDT) on Zoom.

💫 Join us for the next Connecting Our Community event “Marking Thresholds” with Day Schildkret of

Explore the importance of marking thresholds with a particular focus on altar making as a way of consciously recognizing transitions and moments of change. His session explores how ritual, creativity, and presence can help people honor endings, beginnings, and the spaces in between in meaningful and embodied ways.

🔗 link to Register: https://www.naturaltransitions.org/offers/LXivEVjF/checkout

🚨 New blog post alert.Benjamin Martin reflects on his most recent ceremony as it intersects with the learnings and lesso...
06/01/2026

🚨 New blog post alert.

Benjamin Martin reflects on his most recent ceremony as it intersects with the learnings and lessons from two speakers in our Connecting Our Community series.

🍃 A seasonal nature altar used at a funeral served as a grounding, participatory ritual that invited family—especially the children—to actively express love, memory, and connection through symbolic offerings.

Read here: https://www.naturaltransitions.org/blog/Altars%20and%20Children

Our next Connecting Our Community Session is with Day Schildkret of Morning Altars.

Learn more: https://www.naturaltransitions.org/offers/LXivEVjF/checkout

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