Our culture lacks meaning.
My work in the world is to create it.
Change.
We’re in a time of massive cultural change and upheaval. Our families are stretched too thin, too many of us feel isolated and all of us, bombarded by constant distractions. We are groping for normal but normal seems nowhere to be found.
Life continues.
But even so, life still happens: Babies are born, people die, couples divorce, kids leave home for college. Big and small moments that make life life. But they need something more from us. They always have. They need us to make them meaningful.
Meaning-making is what restores our humanity and is my life’s purpose.
I’ve spent the past 20-years empowering tens of thousands of people in 5-continents to make their lives more meaningful while connecting them to the moments that matter. My work transcends borders and cultures because it teaches people they can make sense of life, especially as it changes, by returning to the fundamentals: Nature, art, and meaning.
People everywhere are hurting because many of us don’t know what to do when life changes. I work with individuals and communities to cultivate resources and skillfulness in the face of change. So instead of feeling helpless and unsure, there is a resiliency available within them to turn toward the change courageously and purposefully.
Businesses and corporations have an unprecedented opportunity to repair or create more damage to our culture. Too many businesses are focused solely on speed and productivity which leaves its employees feeling like their humanity has no place at their workplace. I work with companies and organizations to shape their culture by designing work-rituals to celebrate successes and failures, reinforce identity, stimulate emotional connection, build a sense of belonging.
I am doing everything in my power to heal our broken culture and believe ritual is one of the missing links.
I Teach
I Create Art
I Write
“Day Schildkret’s book Hello, Goodbye is the most direct and moving guide to ritual that I have ever read. Schildkret is a gifted artist whose medium is ritual. Learn from him how to deepen your relationship to yourself, your loved ones, time, space, and everything.”
— Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author of The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons
About Day
Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as the author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art. BuzzFeed calls his work, “a celebration of nature and life.”
With nearly 100K followers on social media and sold-out workshops, installations, trainings, and public speaking events worldwide, Day is a thought-leader devoted to healing the culture by teaching people to ritualize the big and small moments of our work and our lives.
Day is the author of the up-coming book, Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change (Simon Element), hitting #1 on Amazon for two days straight, as well as the author of Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual (Countryman Press).
Day has taught workshops and created installations at Google, The 9/11 Memorial Plaza, The Hammerstein Ballroom, The Andy Warhol Foundation, California Academy of Sciences, Esalen, and many others.
His work has been featured on NBC, CBS, Buzzfeed, Vice, Well+Good, My Modern Met and four times in Spirituality & Health Magazine.