A Look Back: Alison DeLong Interviews Mike Bodkin
A Look Back: Alison DeLong Inerviews Mike Bodkin Alison DeLong interviews Rites of Passage Executive Director Mike Bodkin about how he came to this work and the journey he’s…
Jumping Mouse Leadership
Jumping Mouse and the story of authentic leadership…. By Tom Anderson In his book, Seven Arrows (New York: Random House, 1972), author Hyemeyohsts Storm tells a remarkable story about…
Dana Carman Brings Visionary Leadership to ROP
Dana Carman Brings Visionary Leadership to ROP Imagine a world where CEOs, Directors and our nation’s President all make decisions that honor our interdependence with the earth and that…
Community
Rites of Passage & Community By Mike Bodkin, ROP Director Life is rooted in a matrix of community relationships, communities of both the living and non-living (minerals, water, soil, sun)…
Bringing Gifts from the Mountain
Bringing Gifts from the Mountain By Munro Suckafoose In October of 2008, two men from the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne in upstate New York came to a Rites of Passage…
Voice from Down Under
Voice from Down Under: Opening to a New Vision Rites of Passage honors the wisdom that each participant shares. Aussie participant Vicki Dean shares her insights in her story…
Bears
Bears by Tom Anderson According to a new CNN poll, seventy-three percent of Americans said that they were somewhat or very scared about the way things were going in…
Parents at the Threshold
Parents at the Threshold By Alison DeLong My son’s first birthday was a joyous event this month. Deserving equal celebration, my husband and I toasted our glasses, in a…
Youth Quest
Youth Quest: Dreaming this World into Being by Steven Encinas Coming down off the mountain, a fire of passion and personal power radiated from their eyes and smiles. This…
Youth and Elders
Youth and Elders A few years ago, I applied for some public funding for a program based on rite of passage principles. The funder told me that they were…