COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING

Prepare yourself to begin working with youth, or to deepen your work, with our core rites of passage training experience. Restoring Youth Rites of Passage: Leadership Fundamentals Intensive is a four-day intensive course designed and presented by core Rite of Passage Journeys Guides and fellow organizations. Together we’ll cover the fundamental topics, skills and capacities you need to be ready to step into service with youth, as volunteers, staff, guides and mentors. Through presentations, discussions, experiential activities and ceremonies, along with the practice of Council, this course is designed to not only provide skills and information, but to support participants on their path of personal growth, healing and professional development. When supporting youth through rites of passage, who we are with them is just as important as what we do!

Two-weekend Format

This course takes place over two consecutive weekends. These two weekends are not stand-alone, and participation in the first weekend is essential to being able to attend the second weekend (if you have a schedule conflict for a portion of a weekend, contact us to discuss whether it might still work to attend).

Weekend 1 The Terrain of Transformation and the Crucible of Youth focuses on core principles and frameworks for rites of passage, and the exploration of an Eco-Soul-centric approach to understanding adolescence and the human life cycle.

Weekend 2 Designing and Holding Transformative Experiences dives deeply into developing the capacities we need as guides to hold space for transformation, as well as the art of creating meaningful and authentic ritual and ceremony with groups.

Topics include:

• Core frameworks and models for Rites of Passage

• Coming of Age: Youth and the Journey of Identity and Belonging

• Techniques for Centering and Grounding

• Mirroring: The Art of Listening and Reflecting

• Conversations amidst Conflict

• The Magic of Mythology and the Art of Storytelling

• Practice of Council

• Ceremony and Ritual: Holding Space for the Sacred

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• Familiarity with several well-established mentoring frameworks and programmatic approaches to offering rites of passage and similar experiences

• An introduction to adolescent development from neurological, psychological, cultural and ecological perspectives

• Training in theoretical and practical fundamentals in creating rite of passage experiences, including Council, ritual and ceremonial design, working with different populations, logistics and safety

• Tools and practical skills for cultivating your own personal center and ground from which to powerfully support youth

• Exposure to the network of organizations doing Rites of Passage work with youth here in our region, and around the world

Program Details

The Leadership Fundamentals Intensive is an Online Webinar via the Zoom platform.

Tuition: $300-$650, sliding scale

Journeys is committed to making this program accessible to all who are called to it, and we hope that this sliding scale will be of support. We invite you to self-select at the most appropriate amount, given your circumstances. Consider the following as you decide:

Assuming we end up with a full or nearly full group of participants, we estimate that:

$300 per person will fall short of covering our direct expenses for this program

$400 will cover the direct expenses of this program

$500 will also cover the general and administrative overhead costs

$650 will support those needing to pay on the low end of the scale, and will support further investment in program development and relationship-building

Thank you for supporting this movement towards greater financial equity and transparency!

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