Our founder Michele Davidson wears many hats.  She is a professionally trained Celebrant and a long-time practicing Buddhist, ordained as a religious representative to serve the Buddhist community in ceremony but also, very importantly, to offer ceremonial services that promote understanding and connection between those of differing faiths. As a board member of BASIS — the Buddhist Association Supporting Interfaith Services — Michele leads ceremonies, spiritual salons, spiritual book clubs, and other services to promote deeper understanding in the broader community.

Spiritual Salons

Michele’s lively Spiritual Salons welcome people of all faiths, cultures, backgrounds, and heritage to come together. The intention is to have meaningful dialogue and conversation about universal human experiences.  Topics vary from salon to salon.  For instance, we may discuss Happiness. Or take an ethical dilemma and hear one another’s perspectives on how to approach it.  These are community building evenings that take place in the Sea to Sky corridor.

REMEMBERING – How do we remember the people we love who have died? Why is remembering important? What need does it fulfill.  Allows a chance for each person to honour a remembered person, experience, or animal friend.

THANKFULNESS – What does gratitude mean to you? How do you and your family express thankfulness in your lives and community?  In what ways it this missing

Spiritual Book Club

Michele is starting a spiritual book club in Squamish, inspired by several years of success leading Pema Chodron book discussion groups in Vancouver.  Interested?

Suicide Support

Michele is the survivor of a loved one’s suicide.  She has also been called to work with grieving families to create meaningful and truthful memorial services to honour people who have chosen to end their life.  You are invited to call upon Michele for these services, or to simply offer prayers.

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Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies

Michele creates deeply personal wedding and commitment ceremonies that honour the unique love story of each couple. Whether you envision an intimate gathering on a mountaintop, a joyful celebration in your backyard, or a multi-faith union that weaves together different cultural traditions, she works closely with you to craft a ceremony that reflects your values, beliefs, and dreams for your shared future. No two ceremonies are ever alike — each one is co-created through thoughtful conversation and mindful collaboration, ensuring that every word and ritual feels authentic and meaningful.

For couples who come from different faith backgrounds, Michele’s interfaith expertise shines. She skillfully blends elements from multiple traditions — a Buddhist loving-kindness blessing alongside a Celtic handfasting, a reading from the Tao Te Ching paired with a Jewish breaking of the glass — always with deep respect and a clear intention to foster connection. She also offers secular, spiritual-but-not-religious, and same-sex ceremonies, welcoming all expressions of love without judgment. Her goal is to hold a space where you feel truly seen and celebrated as you begin your married life together.

Beyond the wedding day itself, Michele supports couples with pre-ceremony coaching, helping you articulate your intentions and navigate family dynamics with grace. She can also design anniversary renewal ceremonies and private vow exchanges that mark significant relationship milestones, allowing you to continually honour your commitment in fresh, heartfelt ways.

Blessings for New Beginnings

Life continually offers thresholds of newness — the birth or adoption of a child, moving into a new home, launching a business, retiring from a career — and these moments deserve to be met with intention and sacred attention. Michele offers blessing ceremonies that help individuals and families anchor these transitions with gratitude and hope. A baby blessing, for instance, can serve as a gentle alternative to a traditional religious baptism or as a complementary ritual that welcomes a child into a wider community of love, without binding them to any single doctrine.

Each blessing ceremony is tailored to the occasion and the heart of those involved. For a new home, Michele might lead a housewarming ritual that honours the land, acknowledges ancestral caretakers, and invites warmth and harmony into every room. For a new business venture, she can craft a ceremony that invokes clarity, prosperity, and ethical purpose, perhaps incorporating elements of your cultural heritage or personal spirituality. These are not rigid templates but fluid, responsive creations that make the invisible visible — that celebrate the courage it takes to step into the unknown.

Families often tell her that the blessing ceremony becomes a cherished memory, a touchstone they return to whenever they need to reconnect with the original spark of that beginning. Michele also provides keepsake materials — written reflections, poems, or small symbolic objects — that ground the experience in tangible form, so the blessing continues to unfold over time.

End-of-Life Celebrations and Memorials

When a loved one dies, we need ways to honour their life that feel true to who they were and what they loved. Michele designs funerals, celebrations of life, and memorial services that go beyond conventional formats to capture the essence of the person who has passed. She sits with families, listening to stories, learning about quirks, passions, and the quiet moments that defined a life. From these, she weaves a ceremony that may include music, poetry, ritual, shared silence, or open-microphone storytelling — always shaped by what the person meant to those who mourn them.

Her approach is inclusive of all faiths and none. She has crafted Buddhist-influenced ceremonies with meditation and incense offerings, as well as entirely secular gatherings where the focus is on shared memories and the legacy of love left behind. She can incorporate elements from nature — scattering petals into a river, lighting candles at dusk — or create a simple, dignified tribute that allows grief to be held in community. For those facing terminal illness, Michele also offers living memorials, where the person at the centre can participate, hear words of appreciation, and experience the fullness of their connections while still alive.

Michele’s years of working with the Sea to Sky community mean she is attuned to the diverse needs of families in this region, including those who want an outdoor ceremony in a place dear to the deceased, or who need guidance on navigating the practical aspects of death care alongside the emotional and spiritual. She walks alongside you with compassion, ensuring that the ceremony becomes a healing step in your journey through loss.

Rites of Passage for Youth

Growing up is a profound, sometimes tumultuous journey, and too often our culture lacks formal ways to mark a young person’s transition into adolescence or adulthood. Michele offers coming-of-age ceremonies and other rites of passage for youth that provide a meaningful container for this transformation. Working with the young person and their family, she designs a ceremony that acknowledges the shift — from child to teen, from high school to the wider world — and invites the community to witness and support them. These can be as simple as a small family gathering or as elaborate as a full-day retreat with peers.

Michele draws on timeless wisdom from diverse traditions: a solo time in nature borrowed from vision quests, a giving of gifts that symbolize new responsibilities, or a circle of elders offering words of guidance. Yet each ceremony is grounded in the youth’s own beliefs, personality, and aspirations. A teen passionate about environmental activism might have a ceremony that includes planting a tree and making a pledge to the Earth; a young artist might receive a blank journal and have their family speak about the power of creativity. The point is to create a felt sense of crossing a threshold — something the young person will remember as they navigate the challenges and joys ahead.

In addition to one-on-one ceremonies, Michele occasionally facilitates group rites of passage for multiple families, building community bonds while honoring each child’s uniqueness. She also offers support for parents and guardians, helping them find language to express their love and their hopes during these pivotal moments. These ceremonies plant seeds of self-awareness and resilience that can guide a young person for years to come.