RITES OF PASSAGE AND INITIATION | TEENAGERS :: GIRLS AND WOMEN

Welcome to this section of the website.

Here you can find out what a Rites of Passage and Initiation is and why they could be useful within our culture.

You can read excerpts from interviews with young people who have attended ten day Rites of Passage camps and how these experiences have made a difference in their lives.

Johanna interviews Amrita to find out more about her thoughts about Rites of Passage and then she was interviewed about her time as an exchange student.

A Story About A Girl speaks of Amrita's dream of Rites of Passage being a part of community living. Johanna, a wise young woman is interviewed by Amrita.

In day to day life we go from one thing to another, often without conscious awareness of what is going on underneath the superficial layers of our activity. We can pass from one important phase in our development to the next without acknowledging what we are moving through either.

Times of Transition

When we do not mark important times of transition - a girls first menstruation, a boys first wet dream, leaving school, first sexual experiences, leaving home - life simply goes on - ho hum.. like. Until one we day realise I'm not a kid anymore or I'm just about to die and we think What happened to my life?

RITES OF PASSAGE AND INITIATION CAMPS

After running Harmony Holiday camps for a number of years I realised that there was something missing. I felt that young people were asking to be challenged, to be prepared for adulthood in a different way so I developed ten day programs that became Rites of Passage camps.

These offered a time-out from everyday life, to take stock, become conscious of where were were at this stage, gather new insight, make conscious our spiritual connection and be prepared to move into another phase of life.

A true Rites of Passage marks a time of transition. Adolescence is probably the biggest one we are called upon to make.

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