Liminal Leadership: An Initiation into Guiding Transition
Become the lantern that helps people walk through their darkest moments
Winter to Spring
Jan. 13, 2027
April 14, 2027
Every Wednesday · 13 weeks
4:00 – 5:00 PM
PT*7:00 – 8:00 PM
ET**Daylight saving begins March 14. Depending on where you live, your local time may shift 1 hour mid-course.
Transitions are inflection points in our lives. We can break, or we can build. They are powerful moments of alchemy that, if we navigate them well, lead us to higher levels of consciousness and purpose. If navigated poorly, we can spiral into addiction, dissociation, disease, and even death.
As a collective, we are in a time of great transition, and it can be felt everywhere, the way we have been is no longer sustainable, and we are being called into a new way of being, and that feels scary.
Now more than ever, people who have learned through their own lives to hold the field of uncertainty and grow from those moments when things fall apart are those who are most needed to guide others in this collective threshold moment. This training equips you with the confidence, community, and skills needed to support others in navigating the fear and grief of change and alchemizing that pain into evolution.
This program equips you with the embodied skillset to hold the liminal field for others to navigate moments of transition in their lives.
BY THE END OF THIS PROGRAM YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Lead 1:1 sessions
For people in a threshold moment, using ritual, art, and witnessing as pillars.
Hold community spaces
For modern ritual practices and initiations that help people move better through transition
Hold yourself in all passings
With more presence and peace in times of transition and loss - deeply embodying the medicine you serve
WHO YOU ARE
You’ve experienced the transformative power of death and rebirth first hand. Maybe you’ve known great loss, or navigated great change, maybe you had support, maybe you needed support and didn’t have it - but you know that having a lantern, a guide in this dark time is essential - and you’re ready to step into that role.
For:
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Therapists, doulas, ceremonialists, and counselors who want to expand their practice -
Anyone who has gone through times of death and rebirth and want to serve others in their journey -
Those who can’t stomach what’s on the market - either too woo, or too clinical - and want to be the change they want to see
Our Pillars
Modern Ritual
We recognize ritual as the foundation upon which all is built and how we conversate with what we cannot control. We weave the ancient and the modern in a way that makes it accessible to a wider circle of people
Art as Alchemy
We understand the power of the creative process to pull us out of the depths of fear and sorrow and into renewal and rebirth
Community
We do not do this alone. Being witnessed is of service to our process and the process of others.
The Journey
Gates 1-6
Holding Yourself in Your Transitions
You dive more deeply into your personal journey to integrate anything that may still be alive so you can truly embody the work. Through this integration you become aware of your unique path in how to serve the medicine of transition guiding.
OUTCOME: The golden thread you extract from your personal journey will serve you in developing your niche and practice in transition work.
Gates 6-9
Transition Guiding in 1:1 Settings
You will explore best practices in creating a brave, ritual, space for transition in 1:1 contexts. You will learn rituals, creative, and witnessing practices to help people get unstuck in their journey. You will put these skills to work doing practice guiding sessions with your fellow cohort members and receiving feedback.
OUTCOME: Able to lead impactful 1:1 sessions for people in transition
Gates 9-12
Communal Transition
You will learn how to design and facilitate collective rituals for transitional times - how to keep the space energetically clear, and integrate afterwards. You will be invited to practice by designing a ritual to host in your community that is an expression of your unique wisdom.
OUTCOME: Able to lead collective ritualized containers for moments of transition
Why is it the right time to become a Transition Guide
The grief support market is expanding fast — projected to grow from $3.67 billion in 2025 to $5.83 billion by 2030 at nearly 10% annually - but the field is dominated by clinical counseling and telehealth models that treat grief as a private, individual condition to be managed. That leaves a wide-open niche: grief around transition as a collective, embodied, and creative process rather than a symptom.
By weaving art, ritual, and community into the practice, we meet a need the counseling-and-app model structurally can't - the human hunger to do this work together, to move it through the body, and to mark loss with meaning.
This is our competitive advantage: not another service delivering support to isolated individuals, but a living container where grief of change becomes shared, and is part of a creative, and transformative process of rebirth. As the market floods the differentiator is exactly what can't be digitized and what we’ve always known how it needs to be done with - ritual, creativity, and community.
$3.67B
2025
$5.83B
2030
Join the Liminal Leadership Program Today!
Dates: Jan 13 – April 14, 2027
Day: Every Wednesday
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM PT / 7:00 – 8:00 PM ET*
Length: 13 weeks
*Daylight saving begins March 14. Depending on where you live, your local time may shift 1 hour mid-course.
A 13-week professional training in grief guiding, ritual, embodied practice, and community support.
This program equips you with the embodied skillset to hold the liminal field for others to navigate moments of transition in their lives.
BY THE END OF THIS PROGRAM YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Lead 1:1 sessions for people in a threshold moment using ritual, art, and witnessing as pillars.
Hold community spaces for modern ritual practices and initiations that help people move better through transition
Hold yourself with more presence and peace in times of uncertainty, loss, and change - deeply embodying the medicine you serve
“Only when we truly understand death can we truly understand life.”
-Gabrielle Bonneville
Your Facilitators
Gabrielle de Bonneville
FounderGabrielle de Bonneville is a somatic practitioner, ritualist, and founder of the Academy of Living and Dying, created in honour of her late father to transform our relationship with death, grief, and the thresholds of life. Her work is rooted in the understanding that transitions are initiations, and that when we create the conditions to meet them consciously, they can become gateways to profound change
Alexandra Alden
Co-FounderAlexandra is a ritualist, spaceholder, and musician whose artist name is Electric Indigo. She has been on the path of grief, transition, rebirth and art as alchemy her entire life. She is a Scoprio stellium - enough said. She has undergone deep personal initiation on the path of transitions and spent years studying rituals and practices to better hold that for herself and others. She holds the Grief Dance as an integration of her work across ceremonial spaces, ecstatic dances, and deep inner work. It is her offering to the collective to help better relate to the shadow and in doing so live with more full spectrum aliveness.