This is Not a Ceremony is a cinematic VR piece that asks us to 'collectively bear witness to tragic events in the lives of two Indigenous men — Adam North Peigan and Brian Sinclair — and entrusts us to share what we've seen and heard.' It uses 360 3D documentary storytelling techniques to create opportunities to bear witness to stories of Indigenous trauma, and then that is juxtaposed with a more impressionistic, ancestral realm beyond space and time that's filled with with trickster poets, Matriarchs elders, and Inii (buffalo). The end result is a deeply layered experience that seamlessly blends mundane physical representations with more etheric virtual representations that provides a new way for how VR can be used for cultivating empathy.