The last decades have seen dizzying levels of cultural, political, technological, and ecological change –  and those changes appear to just keep moving faster. These changes call on us to remember and re-engage the wisdom and traditions of our elders and ancestors at the same time we learn from the children and those future generations who will be living in a future that we cannot yet even dream.

How do we tend to our ever-changing personal and professional realities as we honor and reckon with the complex lineages we have inherited, and move forward into unknown futures? 

How do we navigate the inner and outer barriers to change we experience as we simultaneously hospice that which is dying and  midwife that which is already being born?

Practices of initiation—conscious crossings from who we have been to who we are becoming–offer us a powerful and time-tested means of navigating change. Engagement with these processes help us step ever more fully into our leadership, as well as offer a specific set of tools we can offer to our community. When we restore rites, the whole community can flourish.

In this 5-day seminar, we’ll build a community of practice and inquiry together. Through ceremonial process, critical analysis, and hands-on practice, we’ll explore key tools for bringing forth meaningful, culturally responsible rites of passage.  We’ll help each other uncover what it means to step fully into one’s role in our families, communities, and society, and how to most effectively carry our gifts with responsibility and grace.  As we study, share, reflect, practice, grieve, organize, and celebrate, we will create space for our points of connection and shared experience as well as honoring the differences between us.

For more program details and to register, visit our event site here.