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This year's Human Light hosts, Ruth McGregor and Louis O'Reilly, invite you to save the date and plan to join us for our annual heartfelt celebration.
The evening will begin with our virtual cocktail hour and personal candle lighting. Please have your drink ready for toasting and your candle ready for lighting!
As many of us know ritual in our lives help us understand change - to celebrate or to accept.We feel that we all can all benefit from bringing ritual into our lives so we have invited Megan Sheldon of Be Ceremonial to be with us tonight.
Megan has asked that we each bring paper and a marker for on screen sharing.
Megan Sheldon is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant and end-of-life doula. Megan will lead us in an exercise to co-create our own rituals to acknowledge the end of the year. She'll also create space for members to connect, share and set intentions for the year to come as we look to a new year for Humanist Canada!
Thanks to the generosity of 76 donors, we’ve reached our achievable goal of $10,000 for the Humanist Canada’s Hope for Humanity Campaign! This milestone reflects the incredible commitment of our community to advancing Humanist values and creating positive change.
But we’re not stopping here! Let’s aim to reach 100 donors and raise $15,000 to amplify our impact even further. Every additional contribution helps us expand programs that inspire reason, compassion, and equity.
If you haven’t donated yet, now is the perfect time—and your gift will also be tax-deductible if made before December 31. Join us in reaching this exciting stretch goal and making an even greater difference!
To our new members: We would like to personally welcome you to Humanist Canada. We will review all of our member benefits, tour your member portal and answer your questions. If you are interested in becoming an officiant we will answer all of these questions at the end of the call.
Join Megan Sheldon, co-founder of Be Ceremonial, for this unique opportunity to consider the role of ritual and ceremony at the end of life. Megan is a cultural mythologist, humanist celebrant and end-of-life doula who has curated hundreds of ceremonies across the lifecycle.
During this 3-hour interactive workshop, Megan will introduce you to the essential elements of ceremony and ritual design. She will also explore the visible and invisible moments that surround the end of life, and the many opportunities to weave ceremony into those moments.
Together you will learn how to craft and convene an end-of-life ceremony, while also considering your own relationship with grief and loss rituals. Some of the ceremonies you'll explore include:
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Members Connect moves to Thursday evenings
Please note that our popular Members Connect zoom open chat is moving to Thursdays beginning in January 2025. The new format will run from 6pm to 8pm - drop in as you can, as long as you can! Please look to your member portal for the link. All members are welcome!
Are you interested in becoming a Humanist Officiant in Ontario?
If you are interested in becoming a Humanist Canada Officiant please visit this link to access the application and to learn more about the process.
Intake is now taking place for Fall 2025 training sessions. Please note that you need to be a member for at least one year before applying.
The members of our popular book club have made their book choices for the next several months, please see below. Anyone is welcome to join. Read the book and join via your portal at 7:00 PM EST on any of the dates below.
January 7th - Can We Talk about Israel by Daniel Sokatch
Our book club invites you to send along suggestions for their 2025 line up. Please send your book titles to Thomas at bookclub@humanistcanada.ca.
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Plan a dinner at a public restaurant, art gallery tour, pub night, any event which interests you.
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Our local member gatherings are informal meetings of humanists - a simple idea with big results. Community!
This week, Humanist Canada's Daniel Dacombe interviews social psychologist and author Dr. Will Gervais. Dr. Gervais recently published his first book: Disbelief - The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species. and was gracious enough to sit down and talk about it with us. Based on years of research, Disbelief is a compelling and evidence-based look at how human beings came to be religious, and how some of us came to be secular.
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