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| Two Invitations from the Authors Our First Invitation As people hear about A Healing Divorce, many tell us about parting ceremonies that they have created and performed, or that have been created and performed by friends and loved ones. We believe that the more people who share their experiences using ritual and ceremony in the service of a healing divorce, the more society will change its attitudes about divorce and transform the process of divorcing. The Myth of the Bad Divorce can only wither and die in the face of affirmations from divorcing couples and individuals who have created a more humane and life affirming way to end their relationships. If you would like to help change how we divorce in our society, we invite you to send us examples of parting ceremonies and divorce rituals. If you know of some we've overlooked that have been published, great, we'd like to hear about them. But we're especially interested in ceremonies and rituals actually created and performed by you or your friends and loved ones. If you'd care to include the story of your divorce or parting (along the lines of those that appear in the book), we'd love to hear those, too. It is our commitment to you to collect these rituals, ceremonies and stories in another book in order to continue to encourage and empower others who want to live into a healing divorce. We'll also post some of them here, on our website, for easy reference by those seeking more immediate assistance. As we have done in A Healing Divorce, we promise to do a minimum of editing. We believe it's important that anything we publish be in your own words and reflect your own personal experience. If you would like to contribute a ritual or ceremony, and/or a story, please send them to us via e-mail. Don't forget to include some way for us to contact you in case we need more information. Our Second Invitation If you have questions you would like to ask either of us, please feel free to contact Barbara or Phil. We will do our best to respond. However, since this is a new endeavor for us and we do not know how much mail we'll receive, please be patient. If the mailbag fills up, it may take us a while to get back to you. If your question is an urgent one about creating and performing a parting ceremony or divorce ritual, please remember that in the back of our book you can find a list of contributors, lay and clergy, who have volunteered to share their experience and expertise. If you would like either of us, or both of us together, to speak about A Healing Divorce to a group or at an event, please e-mail Barbara at barbara@healingdivorce.com or Phil at phil@healingdivorce.com with the following information: your location, the type and size of your group or event and your phone and FAX #s.
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