Meaning at the Thresholds
A home for exploring how people and communities navigate change, loss, illness, belonging, and the ongoing journey of becoming.
We spend our lives crossing thresholds.
Some thresholds arrive unexpectedly through illness, grief, loss, caregiving, or a life-changing diagnosis. Others are entered intentionally through ceremony, pilgrimage, spiritual practice, vocation, marriage and the commitments that shape a life.
These crossings ask something of us. They invite us to let go of what has been, encounter what is, and step toward what is emerging.
My work is centered on accompanying people and communities through these thresholds, sacred journeys, and the process of becoming.
My name is Devlyn Bohman and for more than two decades, I have explored this work as a board-certified chaplain, educator, ritual leader, community organizer, writer, researcher - all arising from a deep love of people.
Whether sitting beside a hospital bed, walking with someone through grief, training future chaplains, creating ceremony, organizing with my neighbors, exploring emerging research, or reflecting on the deeper questions of this thing called life, I return again and again to the same questions:
How do people navigate life’s most significant passages in connection with meaning, integrity, and wonder?
And when we lose our way, how do we return?
Three Rivers
My work unfolds through three streams that source from the same waters. Whether you are seeking support, looking for a speaker or educator, interested in collaboration, exploring research, seeking a mentor or simply curious about the work, I would be glad to hear from you.
Care
Direct accompaniment for people navigating grief, serious illness, caregiving, end-of-life concerns, spiritual questions, and life's major transitions.
This work takes place primarily through Aurelia Grove, a spiritual care practice offering one-on-one support, ceremonies, memorials, and compassionate accompaniment through life's most challenging seasons.
Support • Spiritual Care • Grief • Serious Illness • End of Life • Ceremony • Funerals
Learn more about my spiritual care services here
Teaching and Speaking
Education, mentorship, speaking, and professional formation for chaplains, healthcare workers, clergy, helping professionals, and communities.
This work includes spiritual care education, workshops, leadership development, public speaking, and supporting the cultivation of skills needed to accompany others with presence and compassion.
Teaching • Training • Speaking Mentorship • Leadership
Learn more about teaching here
Explore
Field Notes from a Chaplain, current areas of inquiry, selected writing, and research projects.
This stream explores grief, serious illness, spiritual care, ritual, justice, meaning-making, and Threshold Work. It asks larger questions about meaning, transformation, community, healing, mortality, and what it means to live in integrity and connected with meaning. Questions of belonging, responsibility, and our place within an interconnected world.
Through writing, research, and public inquiry, I explore the experiences that shape us and the practices that help us navigate them.
Reflections • Research • Pilgrimage • Ritual • Threshold Work