Ritual games are for anyone who wants to:
Bring more easeful, natural moments of play into daily life
Bridge the gap between abstract ideas and tangible, sensory experiences
Unearth unconscious beliefs and gain fresh insights into life’s ongoing challenges
Recognize and honor the tools, practices, and relationships that already support you
Immerse in playful storylines that make room for the complexity of who you are
Ritual Games are guided, story-based experiences with imaginative settings, characters, and playful challenges. They’re designed to help us engage real-life struggles in new ways—through creative daily practice and reflection.
How it works
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Start with a free consult
This 30-minute call is a chance to learn about ritual games, reflect on how you’d like to play, and share current challenges.
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Within 1-2 weeks, receive your game
You’ll receive a personalized, self-guided ritual game blending play, story, and daily practice. Note: In July & August 2025, you are invited to donate to an Indigenous land stewardship effort as the reciprocal exchange.
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Play for up to 30 days, with ongoing support
You’ll try the game out in 5–10 minute daily play sessions. I’ll check in via messaging to help it stay fun, purposeful, and doable.
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Conclude or continue
At the end, we’ll meet to reflect and decide whether to extend, redesign, or close the ritual game.
Frequently Asked Questions
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My approach to designing ritual games is rooted in my M.A. thesis on community-based participatory learning, combined with immersive training in rites of passage, ancestral connection, and play. From 2020 to 2023, I studied ritual and ancestral work with Lara Vesta. Between 2023 and 2024, I deepened my skills in trauma-informed grief facilitation through Marika Heinrichs’s Embodied Ancestral Inquiry program and additional training with Shauna Janz. I also draw from experience in community organizing, improvisational theater, and Theater of the Oppressed (a practice developed by Augusto Boal, and I am particularly inspired by Barbara Santos’ adaptations).
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Ritual games are in conversation with other creative modalities as immersive, expressive, and transformative spaces. They function as ritual containers—spaces of creativity and devotion and they are not clinical, therapeutic, or directive sessions. I show up as a peer mentor, offering tools rooted in lived experience, ancestral practice, and ongoing study. The focus isn’t on diagnosing or fixing—it’s about inhabiting a slightly different perspective in your life that you design and adapt with support.
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There can be if that’s important to you! Games hold space for the mundane and sacred in their many forms. I welcome and adapt ritual practices to honor a wide range of worldviews—whether secular, spiritual-but-not-religious, or grounded in specific religious or ancestral traditions.
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That’s totally okay. These games are not about doing anything perfectly. We’ll shape something that genuinely supports your life, and adapt it together as we go.
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Yes. I’m available on Signal or WhatsApp to offer support, share ideas, and help you feel excited about and connected to the game.
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Not yet, but that’s a dream! I live in Curitiba, Brazil and am in active conversations about building trans-local care networks that would include in-person ritual games and meet-ups.
“Building a ritual with Zoë was incredibly transformative. I left feeling so much more centered and grounded than when I began.”
— K. G., 2024 participant
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