Rituals are a significant facet of our human experience. They enrich and give meaning to our life, and they make everything more fun- if done right!
If we didn’t have rituals, our days would just meld into each other as would our weeks, months and years… Our life would not have distinctive segments to focus on for personal care, productivity, creativity, relaxation, connection, fun and enjoyment… It would be a string of passing time without it being acknowledged and properly experienced…
Rituals help us delineate time as in our daily routine. They help us celebrate accomplishments, holidays, and other significant events. They facilitate the rites of passage and mark life-cycle transitions or milestones. They give meaning to our experience.
But they are even more impactful than this – they connect us, they give us identify, they give us family/relationship cohesiveness, they transmit legacy, they deepen our experiences. And most importantly they can serve as a mechanism for creating change…
In today’s episode I’m honored to share time with the wonderful Dr. Evan Imber-Black a prominent contributor to the Marriage and Family Therapy profession. We have a lovely conversation about the significance of rituals, their purpose, what makes a great ritual and how to create them, and how they are impactful in special family and relationship circumstances like step-families and multicultural families.
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship and Meaningful Life.
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🌟ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Dr. Evan Imber-Black is the Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Mercy University. Dr. Imber-Black was the editor of Family Process, 2004-2011, the major scholarly journal in family systems research and family therapy. She founded and directed the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City, where she is affiliated as senior faculty. She was also a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, where she founded and directed the Urban Institute for Families and Family Therapy Training. And, Dr. Evan Imber-Black was a past president of the American Family Therapy Academy.
Throughout her internationally recognized career, Dr. Imber-Black has made major contributions in thematic areas that cut across different models of practice, including Families and Larger Systems, Family Rituals and Family Secrets. She is the author of over 80 original papers, and several books, and has received major awards for her contributions. Learn more about her here.
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🌟MENTIONED INSIDE / RESOURCES:
Book – Ritual for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships
Article – Rituals in the Time of COVID‐19: Imagination, Responsiveness, and the Human Spirit
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