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Religious groups confess their sins. A ritual of rational confession might involve people going around a circle raising, examining, and discussing errors they've made and intend to better combat in the future (perhaps with a theme, like a specific family of biases).
You can also sing songs that are generically about decision theory, metaethics, and epistemology, rather than about specific doctrines. You'd have to write 'em first, though.
I genuinely don't know how I feel about the "rational confession" idea. On the one hand, the idea of "confession of sins" squicks me out a bit, even though I enjoy other rituals; it reminds me too much of highly authoritarian/groupthink-y religions. On the other hand, having a place to discuss one's own biases and plan ways to avoid them sounds seriously useful, and would probably be a helpful tradition to have.
It sounds like you like the content, but not the way I framed it. That's fine. I only framed it like a religious ritual to better fit Adelene's question; in practice we may not even want to think of it as a 'ritual,' i.e., we may not want to adorn or rigidify it beyond its recurrence as a practice.