Rite of Passage Journeys

The Art of Storytelling: A Winter Online Series -

The Art of Storytelling: A Winter Online Series Storytelling is as old as the human imagination. It is an art form that extends beyond entertainment and performance, reaching into the depths of the soul as a reflection of identity, meaning and cultural significance.

Rites and Responsibilities: Last Opportunity to Register + Info Session on Friday! - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15385925

New Spring Quest Through the Feminine Lens -

New Spring Quest Through the Feminine Lens The practice of wilderness questing is an ancient and cross-cultural way of clearing oneself out to listen and converse with the voices of our bodies, psyches, and the more-than-human world. People chose to undertake a quest for many reasons. You may be in or approaching a major life transition, suc...

Two-Day Journey of Self-Inquiry & Energy Connection -

Two-Day Journey of Self-Inquiry & Energy Connection This two-day journey will immerse you in your inner world and include sitting, movement, and sounding meditation. There will be many forms of meditation, as well as activities that connect us to field sensing, using our bodies as an oracle, and a practice I call auric listening.

New Community Program: Rites & Responsibilities - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15382645

Traveling Safely Home - Did you know you can help? -

Traveling Safely Home - Did you know you can help? Dear Friend of Rite of Passage Journeys, Today is Giving Tuesday and we are asking for help to purchase new vans! Yep, we need new rides that will transport many youth to wild and unknown places. Our aged fleet will need replacing over these next few years. Our oldest van is a '97 Dodge and this bea...

Embrace Your Elder-Years - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15380489

Drummaking Registration Closes Tuesday, Embracing Elderhood Open Now! - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15378757

Join us Summer 2024! Registration opens, October 15th.

https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/explorethe-wonders-ofthe-wild-summer-2022-registration-is-now-open-15378173

Cultivate Skills and Create Containers of Transformative Growth - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15376513

Drummaking & Grief Retreat - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15376037

We did it! thank you -

We did it! thank you

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Please consider donating to our long-time Journeys participant, Andrea, in attending the Immersion Program at Wilderness Awareness School to support her vision of becoming a wilderness guide!

Help Andrea go to Wilderness Awareness School, organized by Andrea Villarreal Hi everyone, my name is Andrea Villarreal and I am on my journey to be… Andrea Villarreal needs your support for Help Andrea go to Wilderness Awareness School

One Week to Reach Our Goal - Can we do it? Only with your help! -

One Week to Reach Our Goal - Can we do it? Only with your help! She immigrated from Mexico to the United States at age 13 and speaks about the sense of home she received from Journeys, the way she was held as a youth and now her adult wilderness quest experience at the age of 20.    There is shared purpose in supporting multi-year Journeys like Andrea's ~ MA...

20 days, the Pacific Sideband Snail & Meet Andrea

While change is necessary, individuals, communities, and the earth itself must be able to adapt to and integrate catalytic events in order to support sustainable and natural evolution

Through the lens of Rites of Passage, integration or the “Incorporation” after a transformative event is vital to healthy human development. However, within our current culture it is often the least supported aspect of change.

Do you know how to bring major life changes home, to your everyday living?

Have transformations in your life been supported by your community?

In our modern culture, the field of Incorporation is complex, and in order to tend to this vital phase we must lean into the inquiries:

What practices support the integration of our lived experiences into our bodies?

How can we incorporate large and small changes into our habitual ways of being?

What is the role of “community” in supporting our full cycles of transformation?

Join us in-person, Sept 7-11, to explore best practices for Incorporating change into our lives.

https://www.riteofpassagejourneys.org/integrating-transformative-experiences

Drummaking & Grief Retreat - https://mailchi.mp/riteofpassagejourneys/embrace-your-elder-years-15373681

Integrating Transformative Experiences - New Adult Program! -

Integrating Transformative Experiences - New Adult Program! Through the lens of Rites of Passage, integration or the “Incorporation” after a transformative event is vital to healthy human development. However, within our current culture it is often the least supported aspect of change. 

Come welcome new summer staff! -

Come welcome new summer staff! Join us for our seventh Heart of Journeys gathering for an evening of sharing, connection, and inspiration on June 10th, celebrating the coming summer with the new guides and apprentices who will be mentoring the youth on our trips.

New Scholarship Grant - Share with a child who could benefit! -

New Scholarship Grant - share with a child who could benefit!

https://youtu.be/aeaQRRCgppQ

Are you an adult interested in Questing with Rite of Passage Journeys?

Check out the recording of our live Q&A with Adult Wilderness Program guides Alchemy of Prana. Here they provide a thorough description between Adult Mountain Quest (7/12-7/24), and Adult Wilderness Quest (8/18-8/29).

Please share with folks who you think might be interested in exploring the territory of inner and outer wilderness!

Q&A with ROPJ Adult Wilderness Guides Thompson and Colleen

Are you considering participating this summer on one our Adult Wilderness Programs?

Join us, Monday, May 15th, 6-7pm PT for a live Q+A with wilderness rite of passage guide team, Colleen and Thompson Bishop of Alchemy of Prana.

Date: Monday, May 15th

Time: 6pm-7pm PST

Where: Zoom Room https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83544396409

No pre-registration needed

We look forward to being curious with you. Come if you are thinking about attending a quest this summer or sometime in the future!

https://www.riteofpassagejourneys.org/events-backend/2021/9/4/heart-of-journeys-gathering-mkrrl-haalg-5kwsz-trtnl-y67xw

Meet the Guides: Adult Wilderness and Mountain Quest — Rite of Passage Journeys Meet our Adult Wilderness & Mountain Quest guides, ask questions, and learn about the life changing aspects of questing. Hear how it has changed their lives and the ways they listen and respond with their unique soul callings in offering this through Rite of Passage Journeys.&am

What if community isn't a noun but a verb - an action or something we do?

A way of showing up that links us in a web of others.

An intention to "do community" is key and feeds the body, heart, mind and soul.

It feels good because we as humans are wired for this belonging. And yes, these wires get crossed and not belonging does not feel good. We teach youth this is normal! It's part of the learning process to "trust" the doing and being of community!

Community isn't consumptive, it's reciprocal and evolutionary to build this trust. We do this by teaching the daily practice of community. It rewires and reframes belonging. We see it on our Rite of Passage trips again and again. Community happens through doing community!

Rites of Passage Journeys as an organization does daily community practice. It's at the heart of what we do. And Journeys isn't just staff, guides, the board, parents or youth. It exists only because of the myriad of people that show up through the spirit of community.

Our daily community practice today is to provide an opportunity is to participate in the Greater Seattle Community GIVE BIG campaign. Not just drawing attention to our fundraising needs - that's for next week (a truth and also for a laugh) - but acknowledging that lots of people in the world are doing lots of good things to make the world a better place.

Here is our GIVE BIG LINK. Donating today can be your community daily hygiene. When you do this, you are a part of a larger field of people "doing community" in service to a better world.

https://www.wagives.org/organization/Rite-Of-Passage

Community Is A Verb - GiveBig Today What if community isn't a noun but a verb -  an action or something we do? A way of showing up that links us in a web of others. An intention to "do community" is key and feeds the body, heart, mind and soul. 

https://www.riteofpassagejourneys.org/blog/2021/10/29/nn-psmca-ewx4f-azcry-haa4f-fwtj4 Lux Gypsum

Moving Beyond Polarization — Rite of Passage Journeys ​​A tendency towards polarization – division between sharply contrasting ideological perspectives – is very alive in today’s world . When we reduce each other to ideological labels – leftist, right-wing, communist, racist - we fail to see each other as humans. Whatever “side” we...