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Power of Rituals | How Can We Create More Meaning in our Lives?
15/10/2025 - From 19h15 to 21h30 - Members OnlyRegistration mandatory
This interactive workshop explores the human need for connection and meaning. Traditionally institutional religions guided people through important transitions, offering rituals for calendar events, life cycle events, and moments of crisis. As fewer people rely on these traditions today, we are left with the question: How do we mark important events in our lives now? This question is gendered because women have often been the people responsible for the family rituals, such as cooking, decoration, and traditions around death and dying. In this workshop, we explore the broader significance of both religious and secular rituals. We suggest that rituals can ground us, give us more sense of belonging, and help to find purpose and meaning.
In practice, we will:
- Create more awareness on intentionality about rituals.
- Discover ideas for creating personal rituals.
- Make a visual/tangible element, often used in rituals. We will stimulate the creative side of our brain with a hands on exercise – no previous experience is required!
Facilitators:
Dr. Hanna Tervanotko is an associate professor of Religious Studies whose research interests include gender, magic, divination, health, healing, and religion. Her first monograph analyzed the figure of Miriam in antiquity, and her second (forthcoming) book examines Jewish divinatory methods. She has written over 30 academic articles, and her work has appeared in public forums such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Women in Higher Education. Hanna divides her time between Brussels and Hamilton, Ontario.
Find out more through www.hannatervanotko.com or LinkedIn!
Alexia Struye is an Antwerp-based multipotentialite working across the art world. Her roles are many — artist, writer, mentor, coach, project manager, and speaker — all are driven by a deep commitment to creative inquiry and forward thinking. She moves fluidly between making, thinking, advocating and supporting others in the arts. Anything she hasn’t tackled yet, is super exciting. In this case: helping you create a ritual.
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