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Over the past years, Anniek Gavriilakis has made this her mission. She has designed and guided countless rituals, tailored to companies, families, friends, households, women and men alike. In this book, she inspires you to turn meaningful moments in your life into ritual experiences. She shows you how. She invites you to engage all your senses, to see the imagery, to discover the power, and to experience the poetry of symbolic acts.

Whether you are a CEO passing on the torch, a couple navigating separation who wish to create a shared coming-of-age celebration for their child, a man longing for a fresh start after a broken marriage, a financial professional wanting to close one chapter with intention before starting a new job, parents seeking ways to honor their daughter’s first menstruation, or partners choosing to consciously uncouple.

Whether you are facing an empty nest, a move, a merger, a bankruptcy, or the loss of a loved one.

This is a book for you. A book to sit with. To truly savor. A book whose reading can become a ritual in itself, and one that gently invites you to give rituals a place in your own life.