The Need for Community in Rites of Passage
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…
Interview with Linda Sartor & Doug Paxton
Interview with Linda Sartor & Doug Paxton Recently our newsletter editor Renee Sweezey had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Linda Sartor & Doug Paxton, who were preparing to lead a…
A Leadership Conversation
A Leadership Conversation Nurturing soul-based leadership that is grounded in the natural world has become an increasingly important concern in our work at Rites of Passage. In a recent…
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…
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…
Why This Work is Important To Me
Why this Work is Important to Me Let me introduce myself: I’m Mike Bodkin, the Executive Director of Rites of Passage. This is my first attempt at blogging, so…