Rites of Passage
Leadership Programs with Rites of Passage
Building conscious, generous, eco-centric, soulful leadership

 

 

Mike Bodkin 

 Mike

 

Dana Carman

Dana 

 

 Deb Zucker

Deb 

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   Rites of Passage

PO Box 2061

Santa Rosa, CA

95405

707-537-1927

Vision Quest for Transformational Leadership

 

August 6-14

White Mountains (Southern California)

Tuition: $1245, includes food, all back country fees, preparation handbook, and follow-up sessions after the program ends.

Staff:  Mike Bodkin, Dana Carman & Deb Zucker

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The Vision Quest for Transformative Leadership is an opportunity to purposefully step out of the momentum of our lives, our work, and our service - to give ourselves and the world the gift of our own humble inquiry into our deepest truth.

 

This program follows the Rites of Passage Vision Quest model, with three full days of solo time in a wild place of your choosing.

 

As we individually and collectively step into the challenges and uncertainties we face on our planet today, how are we doing so? We may be so caught up in our mission, cause, and urgency of purpose, that we may rarely take time to stop and check in on a deep level with ourselves. How aligned are we on a daily basis with our own body, mind, soul, and spirit?

In recognizing that the health and vitality of the individual and collective are interdependent, how can we truly serving our communities and our world, if we neglect ourselves? To be clear that the work we are doing is in alignment with the greater good, we need to be in alignment with ourselves.

As we intimately encounter wild nature we find that the reflection of the earth's vitality around us, nurtures and awakens our own source of creativity within. As we develop a personal relationship with the land, our capacity to listen deepens. The collective wisdom found beneath our feet and within ourselves begins to intimately inform our sense of self, community, and the nature of our service in the world.
  

Uniting Mind, Body Spirit & Soul:

A nature-based workshop in embodied visionary leadership.

  
September 22-25
Buckhorn Springs, Ashland, Oregon
Tuition: $525, plus room & board at
Staff:  Mike Bodkin, Dana Carman & Deb Zucker

 

Join us for a unique nature-based integral leadership program that deeply grounds consciousness in our bodies and on this earth.  Together we will discover how opening deeply to our connection with the natural world awakens our own inner nature, our soul's wisdom.  We will explore what it means to truly live our leadership and embody our unique offering as we embrace the paradox that who we truly are is both beyond this body and yet of this body. 

 

This experience will serve as a mirror for our lives, a deep exploration that will put us in touch with the ground beneath our feet and allow us each to tap into the source of our creativity and vision.  In order to be alive in a way that is deeply integral we are called to discover what it is to live fully in our bodies, living on the body of this beautiful planet. 

 

This workshop is for individuals who:

�   Recognize that the old paradigm of leadership is not sufficient anymore, that our leadership needs to come from a different ground, with a new spectrum of capacities and skills.

�   Feel a dissonance between their current life situation and their sense of a greater calling, potential or soul's purpose.

�   Desire to be of service to the greater good, yet do not know how.

�   Need to rekindle a sense of depth, clarity, and inspiration in their work and lives.

�   Want to learn how to embody their leadership - simultaneously coming from a deeply grounded presence and an expansive consciousness, with the adaptability and creativity to engage with the ever increasing complexity of our rapidly evolving world.

 

All the True Vows 

 

All the true vows

are secret vows

the ones we speak out loud

are the ones we break.

 

There is only one life

you can call your own

and a thousand others

you can call by any name you want.

 

Hold to the truth you make

every day with your own body,

don't turn your face away.

 

Hold to your own truth

at the center of the image

you were born with.

 ....

 

David Whyte

Other Upcoming Programs

 

Including 9 day Vision Quest, 3 day Soul Quest, and 1 day Vision Walk, presented in different locations.  Go to our website under Schedule for scheduling information and costs for each program.

 

Colorado Vision Quest

Rocky Mountains, June 25-July 3

Staff:  Mike Bodkin & Tom Anderson

 

Summer Vision Quest

Mono Basin, July 16-24

Staff:  Linda Sartor & Damien McAnany

 

Vision Walk

Seattle, WA, July 16
Staff: Deb Zucker

 

Vision Walk

Napa, CA July 23

Staff: Alison DeLong

 

Soul Quest

Seattle, WA, August 26-28

Staff:  Deb Zucker


Soul Quest

Kansas City, MO, October 14-16

Staff:  Tom Anderson 

 

Men's Vision Quest

Death Valley National Park, October 22-30

Staff: Mike Bodkin & Munro Sickafoose