COMING OF AGE Rites of Passage
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Boys'
Passage, Mentorship & Skill-building
• Boys
To Men (BTM)
provides boys with a coming of age Rite of Passage Adventure
Weekend where positive qualities such as integrity, courage,
respect, passion, and leadership are modeled by adult male staff.
• Through a series of carefully facilitated processes, each
boy discovers something of the scope of his own humanity. Boys are
challenged and supported in new ways, and find that they can respond
in new ways. They find their own integrity, courage, respect, passion,
and leadership and they discover that they can access these qualities
and put them to work.
• It is an exhilarating, life-changing experience that many
say they will never forget.
• After the weekend, the "Journeymen" (as they are
called) attend twice a month J-groups with peers and mentors.
Hawk
of May (HOM)
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Boys ages 9 and up can participate in Hawk of May
Council. The Boys
Council curriculum is a strengths-based group approach
to promote boys’ and young men’s safe, strong and healthy
passage through pre-teen and adolescent years.
• They can also participate in Hawk of May
Journey training modules in various modalities
like Wilderness Education, Adventure Leadership and Empowerment
Arts.
• At the end of their mentorship year, they can participate
in a 5 day Threshold Challenge
Quest to complete their Coming of Age Passage. more |
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Girls'
Passage, Mentorship & Skill-building
• Girls
Initiate
provides girls with an assortment of programs where life-serving
qualities such as acceptance,
authentic self-expression, empowerment and leadership are modeled
by adult female staff.
• For girls ages 9 & up, Girls Circle,
in afterschool, weekend and camp formats, are curriculum modules
that address specific themes and issues facing girls today.
• They can explore ways to make empowered and independent
choices that support their own personal goals. Girls are taught
to honor themselves and each other with confidence, strength and
conscious decision-making.
• For girls ages 12 - 17, Coming of Age Passage &
Mentorship program is co-created by girls and their families.
Girls can start to look at what it means to be a woman... depicted
everywhere throughout history and culture and how it relates to
them now. They can choose from four basic formats: Girls
Transition focus on education and exploration; Girls
Express focus in arts; Crescent Moon Mysteries
focus on the Feminine depicted in ancient / native traditions, archetypes
and the Moon cycles; Daughters of the Earth
focus on wilderness mentoring. more
• The passage weekend will be an immersion into the exploration
of each girl's personal passage needs in a group context with the
support of staff and their mentor-muses.
• After the weekend, for 9 months, each young woman and her
peers are held in a Mentorship-Circle of nurturing and affirming
women; an environment that she may cherish as a place to be herself.
• Girls are given support and encouragement to find their
voice and to consider their evolving identity and changing body
image. Each girl can explore where she fits in and with whom she
identifies as part of her self-discovery process as an emerging
young woman. more
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