The Rites of Passage Wilderness Quest
There comes a time when you must leave family, friends and work behind and go off alone, looking within to discover your purpose and your gifts. A modern enactment of…
Sonoma Academy High School Vision Quest
Sonoma Academy High School Vision Quest By Ellie Dwight, Dean of Students, Sonoma Academy This past January we contracted with Rites of Passage, Inc., to lead a nine-day Vision Quest…
Reflections on the Youth Vision Quest
Reflections on the Youth Vision Quest by Steven Encinas “Where do I stand? What do I believe?” These were the questions one student stated that she hoped to find clarity for…
The Next Step on the Wheel
The Next Step on the Wheel by Sam Horton, Sonoma Academy The Owlshead Mountains on the southern boundary of Death Valley are high desert. The desert with its inherent challenges of alien vistas,…
Stages of a Rite of Passage
Stages of a Rite of Passage Anthropologists have found that across different cultures, rites of passage follow a three-stage process that can be said to be universally human, arising from…
International Programs
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS We know that the work of reintroducing rites of passage in nature speaks to people on an international, pan-cultural basis. We have always guided people of diverse ethnic,…