Guided Ceremony Packages for Disaster-Affected Communities
Ascend provides trained facilitators and complete ceremony packages, combining guided rosary meditation with therapeutic group strolls and symbolic biodegradable balloon releases. We address acute mental health fragmentation and collective trauma following disasters.
Hours after a hurricane, your entire neighborhood gathers at dusk for a guided rosary walk down your own devastated street. In unison, you touch prayer beads with strangers-turned-neighbors. As the sun sets, together you release 500 biodegradable balloons skyward—each one a prayer for recovery—creating an ethereal cloud of shared hope rising above the devastation.