Kit: Individual Rite of Passage
This course comes with a complimentary session with Heather, Buck, or Jordan.
Your Passage
Circle Passages is a wilderness rite of passage program designed to help you find yourself and your way as you embark on a new stage of your life. The rite of passage is an ancient approach based on the healing power of nature as the original therapist. Research shows rites of passage help you: improve your mood and health; think more critically and creatively; decrease your depression and anxiety; feel more connected to yourself, others, and nature. At its heart, the rite of passage allows you to shed old, dead skin to come more fully alive. This is a kit to help you grow.
Who is this path for?
What are people saying . . .
Our family healing rite of passage has been profound for me, facing the pain I caused, regaining harmony, feeling the love we all have for each other and our life, remembering and laughing together, all this has been a joyful transformation.
.I learned things about myself and from that made forward movement in healing which is great, huge and appreciated!
ROP Participant
Dr. Taylor was able to walk us through a group dynamic with remarkable ease. I was concerned that it would be emotional and resurrect our historical conflict. We were able to move through obstacles and reunite as a family. It was a truly transformative process.
My rite of passage opened me to a new perspective and a new love of life.
My rite of passage opened me to a new perspective and a new love of life.
ROP Participant
The family right of passage led by Dr. Heather Taylor-Zimmerman brought our family not simply closure on the past but a future. We were able to process old wounds and see each other in a new way. We have transformed our relationships to emerge with a deeper understanding, compassion and love for each other.
ROP Participant
The experience was transformative. My parents had not talked for decades and we had years of emotional trauma. I was hoping to simply be able to communicate with each other. What occurred far exceeded my expectations. We are not only able to communicate but my parents have become good friends. We were able to reclaim our family.
ROP Participant
Why walk this path?
Buck
Licensed Counselor, MAROP certified leader
Jordan
Youth CounselorROP certified leader
Heather
Eco-Art Psychology, PhDROP certified leader
Nature is the real instructor.
Certified: 4H, WSU, & School of Lost Borders
A Circle Holds You
The Circle Provides safe Passage
A Circle Opens You
Your are Your Guide
Circling Up
Creating structure: You are held in CIRCLE
A circle of ONE
You are alone on the land
A power PARTNER
You check in with a partner
A group CIRCLE
You are held within a circle
This is your ceremony.
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This does NOT have to be hard.
10 weeks guide you to a new sense of yourself
Stepping into Community
Week 1 Creating an initial circle
A Circle to Hold You
Week 10 Expanding your circle
Coursework and play . . .
Week 1 Introduction
Introduction of the Circle
Week 2 Separation
Circle for Preparation
Week 3 Preparation
Circle for Design
Week 4 Intention
Circle for Intention
Week 5 Transformation
Circle for Transformation
Week 6 Ritualization
Circle for Power
Week 7 Initiation
Circle in Community
Week 8 Integration
Rippling Out
Stages of your PASSAGE
Separation and Preparation
A time to separate from what you want to leave behind and move into your future, preparing for your passage.
During separation you begin to prepare for your journey, going through a life review to see where you have been and determine where you are going. It is a time to let go.
Transformation
On your rite of passage you pass through a threshold of transformation and initiation to claim your power.
In your period of transformation you overcome limiting patterns of thinking, feeling and acting as you set off on a ritual journey of self-empowerment and discovery.
Integration
As you come back from your rite of passage, you return to your life, integrating your new vision, power, and identity.
Integration is a time to gather and harvest the experiences, teachings, and gifts of your rite of passage and weave them into yourself and your life. It is a coming home.
Continuation
Travelling into your life, you embrace the calling of your rite of passage and bring it more fully into the world.
Continuation is the path that goes ever on, as you move more fully into your vision and power, claiming your identity to give the gift of your calling to the world.
Drop
Learn the tools used by the world's top professionals
Root
Learn how to create amazing products
Grow
The skills you need to become a real professional
Give Back
Boost your confidence, master the field
Circle Passages brings you back to yourself
Nature is alive
Envision your future
Return to your archetypal roots
A power instrument
Reflecting traditions throughout the ages, you get to create a rattle or a drum to help hold your vision. Constructed throughout your journey, you draw or decorate your instrument with symbolic images from your initiatory journey, embodied in an instrument that empowers your life.
A power instrument
Reflecting traditions throughout the ages, you get to create a rattle or a drum to help hold your vision. Constructed throughout your journey, you draw or decorate your instrument with symbolic images from your initiatory journey, embodied in an instrument that empowers your life.