Join in the celebration of this opportunity with us. Here are a few possible ways-and please feel free to offer others as well.

1. Reading:  Please read the pilot program we are embarking on over the next year and consider how this might be replicated in your communities in the years to come.  Follow the link to the grant proposal below. 

2. Outreach:  Look around your community, the schools, the youngsters of your friends and relatives, begin at home, and encourage them to come for an initiation ceremony.

3. Training:  If you are a guide, think what more you might like to offer this program, or if you want to join in the training of youth leaders, and contact us.

4. Resources:  If you have information you'd like to offer to the additional materials and resources we will be preparing please recommend them to us. If you need assistance with a presentation or a sharing about ROP you might be doing, contact us and ask for our support.

5. Sponsorship:  If you would like to sponsor a young person please donate to the Scholarship Fund.

6. Evaluations and Reporting:  Please let us know of your successes, challenges, and yes, even failures. Write down stories that serve others to hear, collect numbers & addresses that reflect interest and need, and the ripples of your efforts.

7. Last but not least:  Consider yourself an ambassador of the School for sure, but also of ROP everywhere and anywhere. Thank you for your care, your time, and your contribution.

Our story, way and practice:  For over 35 years, the School of Lost Borders has been training people to guide rites of passage for all ages. As part of this work, we offer one or two open quests to young people every summer in the Owens Valley and in Colorado. Also, S0LB guides carry the ceremony into school systems (for example, Waldorf) and organizations as large as the 4H program.

In all of our adult trainings, each of us finds the moment to focus on the importance of ROP for youth, and we teach and train guides accordingly. And hopefully, while we are all out-and-about in our various bioregions we spread the word and nudge the young people we meet, as well as work to empower and grow those who may be true elders in their communities.

The staff of the School carries strongly the profound importance of initiation and connection with the earth, with nature-as-teacher, and nature as community-sharing it with others through programs, trainings, and everyday interactions.

Though the School is small, the true school, Nature (as teacher), is large. We are committed to awakening people to this classroom as often as we can. We see the experience of participating in the community of nature as essential, as connecting with family, tribe, culture, race-especially if we care to continue on the planet as one human family. Though we may not serve masses of peoples, the ripples of our work have been wide and long lasting. We are grateful for this opportunity to send out a few more ripples, and look forward to keeping the community informed of all that unfolds.