Council of All Beings
Sat, Sep 13
|Unity Spiritual Centre Windsor
Embracing the Ecological Self Through Communal Rituals.


Time & Location
Sep 13, 2025, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Unity Spiritual Centre Windsor, 3640 Wells St, Windsor, ON N9C 1T5, Canada
About the event
This colorful, sometimes solemn, and often lusty communal ritual allows us to step aside from our human identity and speak on behalf of other life-forms. It is excellent for growing the ecological self, for it brings a sense of our solidarity with all life, and fresh awareness of the damage wrought by one upstart species.
Following a ritual opening, participants allow themselves to be chosen by another life-form, for whom they will speak in Council. They prepare themselves to do this by reflecting on their life-form, often by making a mask to represent it, sometimes practicing moving and speaking as that life-form, and finally gathering in a formal, structured Council to speak of the grave threats faced by nearly all life-forms today.
Each Council, being the extemporaneous expression of those present, is different from all others. Each has its own character and flow. Some release torrents of intense feelings; others…
