By Stan Crow, 1939 - 2009, Director Emeritus, Rite of Passage Journeys
In a recent seminar, someone said, "You have said, several times that a good mentor challenges the mentee to meet various goals, do their best, etc. That sounds combative to me, is that what you mean?"
I had to admit it could sound that way, and, I guess at times it could even look that way, but it certainly isn't my stance.
By Patti Kwok
…She walks the perimeter of chairs containing a reservoir of grief seen in the dark forest pools of another’s eyes, that arrested posture, the smell of secret longings, a place for uncovered grief to finally rest; tremors of hesitation break the sound barrier of forgotten depths where ritual matters.
By Randy Morris, PhD
An experience that is common to participants at Journeys is the strong sense of solidarity that is created while on a wilderness trip or experiential weekend. What heads out as a group of strangers often returns to base camp with deep friendships that seem more intense than much longer relationships back home.
By Chris Laliberte
Stan Crow founded Rite of Passage Journeys and directed it for almost four decades before he passed in 2009. I started my time here at Journeys in 2018, though was lucky enough to have encountered Stan “in the wild” twice during the formative years I was mentoring youth in the wilderness. At the time,
By Tamara Walker
...to show up with everything you’ve got. It could be with a group of friends or strangers, or might simply be alone. Ritual is a delicate candle flickering or a drumming, thrumming explosion of sound. It’s most perfect place is exactly where you are: a beautiful cathedral, an old cracked basement, beside a laughing brook, or in the empty lot across the street. If you can stop long enough and resist the world of running and getting, to notice the texture of small things, find your way to that imaginal place where deeper conversation begins.
