
Ritual Design Practitioner Training
The Moment Makers’ Mastermind

The Path
A Powerful, Playful, Profound Year-Long Journey
Four seasons.
Six modules.
Infinite possibilities.
I am bringing together two decades of experience in ritual creation, experience design, creative training and magical mentoring in my first ever Ritual Design Practitioner Training.
Are you an Experience Designer seeking to deepen your practice?
Are you a Celebrant craving fresh inspiration and a broader offering?
Are you a Coach, Therapist or Healer who would like to develop your creative toolkit?
Are you on a journey of personal, professional development, seeking to bring meaning, wonder and creativity into the work you do and the life you lead?
Would you like to experience how your practise might expand to include nature, the senses and the imaginal realms?
Do you long for more connection with like-minded creators?
Do you feel ready for a community of fellow practitioners who will become collaborators, allies and friends for life?
Why would you want to apply for this training?
Reasons to master the art of making moments of meaning
Experience Design is a burgeoning field - and you are ready to grow.
In the past decade, the world of Experience Design has spawned an Extraordinary College and an online international Experience Design Certification Program - I have been a Professor at both and they’re wonderful.
What this training offers is a bespoke experiential journey and personalised guidance to explore the expansion of YOUR gift.
You crave community - and you are seeking like-minded creators who bridge the sacred and the secular.
How would it feel to walk your path alongside other truly wonderful human beings, who care deeply about helping others?
Those of us who create profound experiences so often find this deep work demanding, isolating and challenging as well as deeply rewarding - and we need more support.
If your application is successful, you’ll be part of a carefully chosen cohort, curated to be your dream collaborative creative community of moment making magicians.
You are feeling the call to explore a new path - encompassing the personal and the professional.
This is a real life quest, created and curated for you, tailored to amplify your soul’s calling and to design a truly meaningful life, milestone by milestone and moment by moment.
In our exploration of how to honour the moments of life, love and death, from the biggest thresholds to the tiniest transitions, we will discover what it truly means to be human, as well as deepening our understanding of what elevates an experience from a routine to a ritual.
As well as learning how to create transformative moments for others, you will practise in your own life, finding and creating meaning and magic in the mundane as you see the world afresh.
This is not about a qualification.
This is about a quality of being and becoming.
This is about energising, enhancing, embodying and exploring experience itself.
This is about your presence, your playfulness, your personal practise and your professional purpose.
In recent years, the world of immersive experience design has grown hugely.
The field has spawned its own conferences, colleges and communities – yet is dividing into two distinct paths.
One is about spectacle and big ticket sales, leading to the creation of sell-out theatre productions such as Punchdrunk or site-specific experiences like Disney cruises.
The other is about the creation of a more beautiful, meaningful world, a path being carved out afresh by each creator, or group of creators, exploring the possibilities in their own way.
Right now, there is no sacred educational arm within the immersive experience design world.
And yet, experiences – and rituals – unite us all in moments of meaning, honouring our shared humanity.
This is for experience designers, multi-disciplinary artists, celebrants and ritual practitioners who want to:
Expand their practice and feel creatively ignited
Learn from me and my unique methods weaving wonder and creativity into the work
Practice new approaches to the art of ritual and meaning-making
Reconnect to body, earth, imagination, community and soul
You’ll leave this journey with:
A practical toolkit of skills to guide you through ritual design processes
A deeper professional practice rooted in real world experiences
Confidence in your unique voice and offering
Deep relationships with fellow practitioners
Fresh energy, ideas, and inspiration to carry into your work and life
The programme will entail:
12 hours of one to one coaching, tailored to your unique journey
Attending 2 residential retreat long weekends, teaching about rituals, in a beautiful setting
1 exclusive intimate retreat for Moment Maker Masterminds only!
A series of one day wonder workshops in all sorts of magical places, from forest labyrinths to urban adventures
Extensive access to my library of courses, techniques and tools
Expert lecturers including industry leaders sharing their work and their wisdom with our cohort
Workbooks and toolkits to support your lived experiences
CREATING THE JOURNEY
MILESTONES & MOMENTS
& RITUAL DESIGN 101
MODULE ONE -
MILESTONES & MOMENTS & RITUAL DESIGN 1O1
As we step into this turning point, this threshold between the old and the new, we will have some space and time to imagine where it is we are going on this brand new adventure as we step into a fresh horizon - and to frame the moments up ahead as opportunities to exercise your skills as a maker of moments of meaning.
In person, in written, drawn and spoken form, sometimes alone and sometimes with others, we will go through a powerful, playful and profound series of exercises using a time honoured practise of reflection and creation.
On day 1, we will look back at the year that is ending, by taking our time to look back over 2025 and reflect on all the myriad micro moments and major milestones it contained.
We will gather up all the learnings, the losses, the gifts and the treasures from where we have been, transmuting the moments and the milestones into material for our artistic experiments, crafting our experiences into creative expressions of the life we have been living.
On day 2, we will turn our attention to the year ahead, getting creative about your hopes, dreams and priorities for 2026, imagining the moments and milestones up ahead along our sparkly path.
The weekend will also include my Ritual Design Toolkit which you will learn to put to use in a real life experience that you will design, with help, guidance and all the creative support you might need, to commit to the creation of one ritual of your choosing to take place in the year ahead.
This weekend workshop can be treated as a standalone module and will help you come to completion with the old and create your year to come with the time and attention it deserves.
BEGINNINGS
BIRTHDAYS, BLESSINGWAYS, MORNINGS, NEW CREATIVE PROJECTS
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BEGINNINGS & BIRTHING THE NEW
Rituals for new beginnings are hopeful, energising and celebratory. They corral our energies and stimulate our joy, excitement and focus to give a new project, person or chapter the best possible start in life. In this section, we explore rituals that welcome the new, from kickstarting a project, celebrating a birth or simply starting your day with a ritual.
Nurturing the seeds that lie dormant in our deepest dreams as the spring gently brings them out of the depths and into the emergent light, this module will include developing your individual professional practise, exploring working with beginnings and understanding the rites of birth and baby namings.
Key Topics: Blessingways and non-material baby showers, baby naming – meet the Oddparents, beginning a new project and kickstarting your creativity, IVF/freezing your eggs, morning rituals
THRESHOLDS
PORTALS, PRONOIA AND PURPOSEFUL QUESTS
MODULE THREE -
THRESHOLDS, PORTALS, PRONOIA AND PURPOSEFUL QUESTS
This module takes place in the city where we will be adventuring with your fellow practitioners, including:
Learn how to find magic portals into other worlds at will,
Practise “pronoia” in a city adventure consisting of of covert acts of kindness and random acts of beauty
Step more fully into your purpose using my creative quest kit to transform a challenge and gamify a goal
Cultivating a community practise to sustain your development in times to come
LOVE
ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS
MODULE FOUR -
ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS
From celebrating friendship to honouring our diverse sexuality, this module explores rituals that honour love in all its forms. Weddings no longer need to be a one size fits all ceremony, so we will explore new versions of this ancient rite, from interfaith ceremonies to the woman who married herself, as well as discussing new ways to create rituals that touch the heart and connect us to each other as well as ourselves.
Key topics: Reinventing the wedding ritual and the self marriage, Hen Nights with heart and Stag Dos with soul, friendship festivities, coming out and celebrating diverse sexuality, sacred sex and inspiring intimacy, a Valentine to yourself: dating for one, reinventing vow renewal, honouring an anniversary, love letters to strangers
ENDINGS
DEATH, DYING & COMPLETIONS
MODULE FIVE -
DEATH, DYING & COMPLETIONS
Everything and everyone has an ending. Death is the one certainty we all face and yet it is still taboo. This section is about the role of ritual in helping us to face our mortality, to honour our grief, to remember our loved ones and to find closure within all our completions. From the funerals of the future to embracing our endings, ritual is never more powerful, meaningful and helpful than when it helps us complete our stories with grace.
Key topics: Funerals of the future – the radical undertakers, death doulas, miscarriage and stillbirth, grief rituals, organ donation, cord cutting for divorces and break ups, emptying the home of a loved one after death, Dinner with the Dead – reinventing the Mexican ritual, a Balinese ritual for a death anniversary, rituals for the end of the day, endings.
NEXT STEPS
MAKING A LIFE OF MEANINGFUL MOMENTS
MODULE SIX -
MAKING A LIFE OF MEANINGFUL MOMENTS
Rituals aren’t just for the big moments in our lives - they help us to appreciate the everyday with a new spirit of celebration. This section explores the ways we can find magic in the mundane, at work and home, in our family and our environment. We look at how rituals can make us physically healthier and emotionally stronger, from giving up an addiction to embracing our natural cycles, and discover new rituals for all ages, from children’s playtime to teenagers in transition through to becoming an elder. We also look at the role of the senses in the creation of ritual, the celebrations encompassing food, music and nature.
Key topics: creating serendipity, immersive theatre, family fun and rituals for playtime, teenagers in transition, meaningful meals, making a house a home, work rituals for productivity engagement and inspired teams, the role of nature in pilgrimage, quests and daily walks, health – beauty, healing, and giving up an addiction, women’s rituals and the empowering our cycle, celebrating the seasons, digital detoxes and data deities, stepping into Elderhood - menopause, retirement and reframing ageing.
Encompassing the harvest of all that we planted in spring and Summer 2025, this term will include birthing your own creative project, meeting your future self, going on a magical portal walk in the forest and honouring our ancestors with a dinner for the dead. We will complete the semester by coming together on the Winter Solstice with a retreat where we will be holding our light steady in the darkest times.
Having been through the range of similar workshops in the Silicon Valley tech world, Tiu’s approach is better than any of them. It was mischievous and thought-provoking.
Eric Johnston
Senior Quantum Engineer, PSIQ (Formerly at LucasFilm & Nasa)
How it works:
The Ritual Designer Practitioner Programme is built on three pillars:
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Seasonal Retreats
Step into worlds of wonder in several residential retreats taking place across the year, each one a portal into the rhythms of the seasons and the cycles of life.These retreats offer the opportunity to go deeper, connect with the group and explore Ritual Design and supporting creative practices.
There will be digital detoxes, solitude and shared silence, deep rest and nature connection as well as the opportunity to experience a wealth of experiential workshops and practical tools in person.
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Personal Mentoring
Picture yourself stretched out on the sofa in my beautiful boat, in slippers, wrapped in stillness.These sessions are entirely tailored to your journey: gently guiding you across thresholds, awakening your sense of wonder, reconnecting you to creativity, and helping you release the old so you can open to seeing the world with fresh eyes.
Along the way, you will be given personalised assignments, creative tasks and bespoke guidance, bringing out your unique gifts in the work you are here to do.
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Analogue Adventures
You’ll have exclusive access to my hand-picked library of powerful and transformative one-day in-person or DIY workshops, each designed by me to spark creativity, wonder, and deep connection.From urban pronoia adventures to storytelling in nature, labyrinth walks and more, these experiences will enrich your personal journey.
You’ll adventure alone and together with a group of human beings who contain multitudes and who become lifelong friends, allies, learning partners and soul siblings.
12 hours of 1:1 sessions, with me
Designing your Unique Journey
Our one-to-one sessions, alongside the group experiences, will take you through a profound life shift, carrying you through a playful, purposeful adventure, as you transform any or all areas of your life, from your work to your relationships, your creative expression to finding your unique spiritual expression.
From the start of your journey to the celebration of your completion, I will be here supporting you along every twist and turn of the way, to help you step fully into a life, that inspires, delights, and nourishes you: mind, body, and soul.
And if you are able to come to London, I will take you to a labyrinth I discovered in an ancient cemetery and nature reserve, where you will experience a powerful process to help you to release the past, embody the present and - quite literally - step into your brand new future.
You can learn more about the one to one part of this process here.
These sessions follow your pace - you can see me once a season for a 3 hour deep dive, or you can have an hour a month, or a 2 hour session every few weeks. Or leave it completely open and just see when you feel ready.
Creative adventures include:
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Crossing the First Threshold
Our first day together as a group, in person, where we will get to know each other and step with intention into a new realm of possibility, exploring techniques to map our path and empower our inner myth-making.
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Birthing Your Project
A day of colour, creativity and connecting to the soul of the project you are bringing into the world, with a session including the creative writing technique David Bowie used to write all his songs.
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Magic Portal Walk
We will practise a powerful technique that will enable you to step through a magic portal into other worlds – quite literally - leaving you feeling connected, creative, inspired and able to access your sense of wonder.
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Serendipity In The City
An urban adventure called the Pronoia Project where we sneak around committing random acts of kindness and covert acts of beauty in the streets of London, all the while learning how to engineer serendipity at will.
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Fireside Stories & Lighting the Way
In the deep midwinter, we will have a residential weekend with a powerful ritual to reflect, release, reintegrate and return to the world, restored and resourced and perhaps even transformed by our adventure.
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Completion & Celebration
Our final in person day together, to look back at where we have been, celebrate how far we have come and send our hopes and wishes forward to our new future.
Some of the Tools and Techniques:
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Meet Your Future Self
Imagine being able to time travel to have a meaningful encounter with yourself in your radiant healthy old age. This is a tool that allows you to access your innate wisdom, your inner resilience and your self-love, any time you need to.
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Meet Your Idea
When we relate to our creations as sentient beings in their own right, we unleash our creative energy. When we “partner” with our projects, we not only have more fun, freedom and flow, we also work in collaboration with the ideas themselves.
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The Cut Up
We will experience the creative technique that David Bowie used to write all his songs, a simple yet powerful tool you can use any time you want to access fresh thinking, new modes of expression or simply get unstuck and shift into playfulness again.
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Dinner for the Dead
This is a beautiful evening ritual timed around the Day of the Dead /Halloween, where each of us brings a beloved dead person to dinner - and shares their signature dish along with all that they meant and mean to us. A truly magical and moving meal for body, heart and soul.
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Kinder Oracle Readings
We are all meaning-making machines, so why not add a little fun - and chocolate - when seeking an answer to a big question? The Kinder Oracle is surprisingly powerful - we will literally interpret the toy within as the Universe’s answer…
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Ritual Design 101
You will learn how to design a moment of meaning which you can immediately apply in your life and work. Humans have long created rituals to mark milestones and honour transitions – and you will learn how to use my Ritual Design Checklist in all areas of your life.
Rooted in Real Life
I don’t know about you, but I want less screen time and more human and nature connection.
That’s why this training is NOT an online course.
For all its impracticality and inconvenience, this journey is deliberately in person, face-to-face, and embodied. We’ll gather around fires, share food, walk through forests, and create rituals that can only exist when we’re together.
Yes, there will be the bare minimum of Zoom calls to keep us connected and share resources — but the heart of this programme lives offline, in analogue explorations, real-world rituals, and human connection.
The Journey will be full of sensory joys and analogue activations… think:
Faces by firelight, candlelight, glowing in sunset gold and twinkling in the pre-dawn darkness.
Eye contact, not the slightly askance gaze of a zoom, conversations that come with the full sensory surround sound of breath and presence and warmth and a hug at the start and end.
Juicy pens and creamy notebooks, for poems, possibilities and ponderings.
Feeling the sensation of the living earth under bare feet, indeed up to your shins, rooted.
Planting nascent living things in rich, dark soil and watching them grow.
Cutting up words, collaging pictures, severing cords and harvesting plant cuttings.
Stirring stories and spells into delicious dishes, sharing our ancestors recipes.
Carving out time and space to gaze at the skies and do nothing at all.
Petrichor and psithurism over emails and essays (both favourite words - if you don’t know them look them up, consider it your first micro step towards this training.)
Tree trunks as set texts.
Non negotiable nap time.
and Practical Processes…
The price:
How do you want to introduce the price? Do you want to disclose it now, or in the Q&A?
I don’t know how to thank you for the massive change you have made in my life. In many ways it felt effortless and light as a process - and yet it also revealed some deep insights through magical and mysterious means.
The transformation has been phenomenal.
I have got back my sense of play and adventure through wonder and bringing in childlike joy.
I’ve smashed away the boundaries and I am now on my way to having a limitless life.
Nardia Bowden
Sustainability Analyst
Next Steps:
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Attend my live Q&A session on zoom at [Time X] on [date x]
Want to learn more about the programme? Have some questions? Not sure if this is right for you?
Come along to my Q&A for more information. Click here for an invite to the Zoom session. -
Register your interest
There will be a screening process to select the right people for the programme. Please register your interest and apply via the form here.
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Shortlisting, intro call and deposit
If you’re selected for the programme, you’ll be invited to an introduction call with me, where we can chat more about the programme. If we are both happy, I’ll then send you a link to secure your spot with a 50% deposit.
I feel as though multiple doors have been unlocked within me, as a result of traversing this Path.
This experience, the togetherness, the circle of women, with their shared wisdom, has transformed, reenergised, refocussed, expanded my being.
I have learned an incredible amount, but what I treasure is the experiences, the embodiment work – the different tools in my toolshed.
I have a wonderful pencil case of treats that have enriched my life and I am thrilled with where I am at the final stages of the Path.
Dharini Collins
Senior Lawyer
As we go, we will agree on actions and mini-adventures that ensure you are following a truly inspirational path, step by sparkly step.
We will:
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Track Progress
Track your progress in creative ways as you explore new terrain, both within and without: you might make a treasure map, a reward chart, a scrapbook, a video diary, or paint your very own yellow brick road — and more.
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Gamify Your Goals
Gamify your goals so you always feel eager, excited and engaged in your explorations - with me there to encourage and support you every step of the way.
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Course Correct
Course-correct as we go, checking in on a regular basis to ensure you feel fully alive, creatively inspired, and empowered.
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Reflect & Fine-tune
Take time to factor in deep rest, reflection and dream time along the way - this is about attuning to what feels right, including time away from the trail when you can simply stop, breathe and be.
I describe Tiu de Haan as the ‘Marina Abramovic’ of coaching.
That’s shorthand for saying Tiu brings an unusual creative, artistic, shape-shifting, shamanic genius to her coaching.
If you want to explore some breakthrough changes in your life, I recommend setting up a call.
Charles O Malley
Senior Advisor, United Nations Development Programme, Founder, Responsible Leadership Forum
On the journey, you will also have lifetime access to all my Online Courses
Whether you want to calibrate your inner compass to more meaningful goals or master the creative toolkit I use with artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, and CEOs, you will have complete access to my whole catalogue.
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Birth Your Creative Project
What are you longing to create?
Unblock your creativity, unleash your inner genius, nourish your playful spirit, and learn brand new ways of making meaningful progress that turns ideas into projects.
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Creative Quest Kit
Transform how you see challenges, forever.
When you see a problem or a project as a creative quest, it becomes a call to adventure. When you gamify a goal, you are more likely to access your courage, your curiosity and your creativity.
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New Year Reflection & Creation
Two 90 minute online classes for the turning of the year. One looking back to reflect upon the treasures, the challenges and the meaning you are making of the year that has just ended. The other is looking ahead to the year that is beginning, to create meaningful metrics and magical milestones along the path.
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Four Seasons
Stay on track with your New Year meaningful metrics with these four seasonal 90 minute classes.
Take time every quarter to reflect and release the old and create the next chapter, creating the life you want, moment by moment, milestone by milestone.
So, ask yourself these questions:
Are you…
Ready to recalibrate your inner compass to a fresh point on the horizon, one that lights you up and calls you forward?
Seeking more meaningful moments of deep connection, both with yourself and others?
Feeling a call to step up and live into your purpose, exploring your personal legacy, whatever that might be?
Longing for more fun, more creativity and more time to play, to feel like an adventurer on a mythical quest as you seek - and find - the clues to your unique treasure?
Would you like to…
Be part of a magical mastermind group of like-minded, like-hearted people, all committed to humbly exploring their life calling and their deep quest for meaning?
Reconnect with your creativity, your imagination, and your ability to dream bigger?
Reset, recharge, and recommit to what really lights you up?
Look back on 2025 to 2026 as the most extraordinary year, one that changed your life for the better - forever?
And sometimes, it just feels like time.
Time to explore new horizons.
Time to commit to your path, your intention, your creativity, your legacy.
Time to shift into a new kind of consciousness - and to do so with spaciousness, solidarity, support and serendipity.
Ready for the next step?
Well, then the
Path Begins Here
How to find out if this is the path for you:
About Tiu
Let me be your guide along the Path of Possibility…
I have spent the past 20 years creating and curating experiences designed to shift your perspective, wake up your wonder and remind you how to find the magic in the mundane. I’ve worked with everyone from CEOs to 7 year olds, created experiential events for globally renowned organisations at a point of change to individual people seeking more meaningful, magical moments in their lives and careers.
I’ve helped people face death, both their own and those of their loved ones. I’ve helped people to birth new projects from books and albums to businesses to lifelong legacies. I founded a non profit, all about connecting children and parents through play, and I am working on my own legacy project - a physical place which acts as a magnet for magical people and projects that make experience itself an art form.
I myself have been a lifelong spiritual practitioner and learner, hobbled by grief and exalted by grace, exploring many paths and gathering wisdom along the way, learning, ultimately, that there are multiple ways to the same mountaintop.
The Path to the Possibility of Wonder brings together all my most powerful, playful and profound offerings, in one extraordinary experiential adventure.
You can find out more about me here.
But really, you could just get in touch and have a conversation about whether this Path is right for you.
I trust your curious, courageous heart to tell you whether it is.