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    • Youth Programs
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    • Guide Training Program
    • Soul & Spirit Mentoring
    • Leadership Programs
    • Couple’s Quest
    • Alumni Support
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Author Archives: Mike Bodkin

Into the Wilderness in the Time of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter

Director's Blog, Rites of Passage, Wilderness QuestsBy Mike BodkinAugust 3, 2020

Into the Wilderness in the Time of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter     At 5:30 am in the morning on March 16, 2020, my wife and I departed Costa…

Soul & Spirit Mentoring

Leadership, Rites of Passage, UncategorizedBy Mike BodkinJune 12, 2020

Soul & Spirit Mentoring     This work provides earth-based guided learning and exploration designed to support you as you learn to live into your authentic, whole, vibrant self.  It…

When Leaving is About Returning

Director's Blog, Rites of Passage, Wilderness QuestsBy Mike BodkinSeptember 12, 2018

When Leaving is About Returning   A rite of passage, as a friend once said to me, is a process that begins with a death and ends with a birth.…

Men, Soul Work, and Service

Director's Blog, Rites of Passage, Wilderness QuestsBy Mike BodkinApril 22, 2018

Men, Soul Work, and Service   Men carry a lot of grief and shame underneath our heroic exteriors.  We’re socialized to deny and repress it, and even to criticize other…

Aloneness and Community

Director's Blog, Rites of Passage, Wilderness QuestsBy Mike BodkinMarch 21, 2018

Aloneness and Community   “The tension between being alone and together is a creative tension. As human beings we balance our longing to belong to one another, or to the…

Rites of Passage Teach Lessons of Life

Director's Blog, Rites of PassageBy Mike BodkinFebruary 10, 2018

Rites of Passage Teach Lessons of Life   What has it meant, all these years of leading people to the river of wild nature and holding watch for them as…

Fire and (hopefully) Rain

Director's BlogBy Mike BodkinDecember 21, 2017

Fire and (hopefully) Rain   A year end message from Executive Director Mike Bodkin at Rites of Passage Here we are again, approaching the death of an old year and…

The Need for Community in Rites of Passage

Director's Blog, Rites of Passage, Staff Visions, Uncategorized, Wilderness Quests, YouthBy Mike BodkinSeptember 9, 2016

The Need for Community in Rites of Passage   Who of us in our digitalized and remote lives has not wondered about our disappearing sense of connectedness — face to…

Talking with Mother Earth

Director's Blog, Rites of Passage, Wilderness QuestsBy Mike BodkinFebruary 9, 2016

Talking with Mother Earth   Good night, Mountains, you must protect us tonight.  We are strangers here but we are good people.  We don’t mean harm to anybody.  Good night,…

Leadership Vision Quest: Interview with Dane Hewlett

Interviews, LeadershipBy Mike BodkinDecember 22, 2015

Leadership Vision Quest: Interview with Dane Hewlett   Dane Hewlett participated in the Leadership Vision Quest in September of this year.  An independent consultant, Dane works primarily with fast growing…

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