Celebrating life transitions

Synonyms:

Rites of passage
Signalling individual transitions

Description:

Honouring the common events in everyone's unique journey through life. The effect is to enable man to move into the next phase of his life with more conviction.

Context:

An integral part of remodelling celebrational life to give ultimate significance to the life of everyone.

Implementation:

Tactics include: life phases to enable everyone to celebrate the four life stages; passage rites to empower each man to honour transitions marked by an event such as graduation; major decisions to encourage every individual to dramatize life decisions by celebrating them; individual journey to help every individual acknowledge, with celebrations, his unduplicated life; and community evolvement to celebrate the landmarks in the journey of a community. An example is a send-out conversation that would enable a student graduating from high school to realize the transition and embrace the future.

Broader:

Celebrating life
Rehearsing common rites
Facilitating transitions
Celebrating the mysteries
Reclaiming birth and death
Remodelling celebrational life

Narrower:

Sanctifying
Celebrating birth
Commemorating death
Signalling eventful journeys
Symbolizing rites of passage
Fostering rites of passage without circumcision

Facilitates:

Easing highschool entry transition

Values:

Life

Subjects:

Life → Life
Society → Individuals
Recreation → Celebration
Religious Practice → Rituals

Type Classification:

D: Detailed strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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