ritual

Ritual began almost thirty years ago when I started studying the well-being of people who work in the helping and healing professions: humanitarian workers, clergy, domestic and global health care workers, public school teachers, and more.
​Special thanks to the incredible staff at Catholic Relief Services, Caritas and Jesuit Volunteer Corps!
Our research was going strong, but everything we learned was stored away in esoteric academic journals. In 2012, I began to develop ways of turning research into useful tools and practices.  This video captures the early stages of that work:
In 2014, we launched WorkWell, an app that turned some of the best insights from science into practices and resources that could help boost and sustain well-being:
We kept refining and changing WorkWell until we had an app that people really loved. In 2019, we launched Ritual, the first and only app to offer a wide variety of science-based practices in partnership with wise experts like Barbara Brown Taylor, Alex Elle, Kate Bowler, Steve Kerr, James Martin, Parker Palmer, Deborah Roberts & Al Roker, and many more.