Media & Resources
If we’re not going back
and they’re not moving
forward then we will
stretch the bubble of time
in both directions until
it bursts, and then we
will meet in that field
that Rumi talks about,
lay down in it, and try
to remember what it
always meant to be kin.
Kaitlin Curtice
Publications
Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up
By Darcy Ottey
Lost Borders Press, 2022
Cross Cultural Protocols in Rites of Passage
Serving as an anchor-point and guide star of our cross cultural community, Youth Passageways’ Cross Cultural Protocols (CCP) in Rites of Passage offer a powerful resource and map for how to lean into cross-cultural work and ceremony. Developed almost a decade ago by members of our community, guided by a powerful working group, the CCP form the baseline of how we continue to learn and move together as a community.
The Wild Lab Podcast: Rite of Passage and What it means to Be an Adult with Darcy Ottey
The Wild Lab, explores how wildness still lives in our bodies, our relationships, and the natural world. Through story, conversation, and practice, we investigate how to reawaken what the modern world made us forget. We talk with trackers, horsemen, monks, plant shamans, hunters, coaches, and wild-hearted thinkers. In this episode, Ned Weidner speaks with Darcy Ottey about her book Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up. They explore the complexities of adulthood, the importance of community in personal development, and the paradox of writing a guide to growing up while emphasizing the need for communal support. Darcy shares insights on identity formation and the journey of understanding oneself within a community context. She also talks about the importance of understanding our ancestry.
Keeping Time and time-keeping: Re-calling our ancestral calendars
Written by Darcy Ottey, Shula Pesach and members of the Re-Calling Our Ancestors Team
Money, Reciprocity and the Flow of Resources…
In Community, Ceremony and Rites of Passage. A two-hour CCP Session, Featuring Darcy Ottey and Shay Sloan Clarke, and hosted by Restoring Lifeways.
September 9, 2025