Throughout time people have undergone rites of passages to help them navigate the big steps in their life, taking on a new identity, name, and purpose as they move from one state of consciousness or stage of life to another. We offer a modern rite of passage to help you find yourself and your way. Come explore and experience Circle Passages in your life.

Without vision people perish, so people through the ages have gone into the wilderness to gain insight about who they are, where they have been, and are going. Yet, in modern times people have lost their way and the vision quest that guided them. As a result, we are experiencing epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and suicide--particularly amongst our youth. Circle Passages was designed to help these individuals and their families find safe passage as they navigate the journey of their lives. 

Like any rite of passage, you walk alone into the wilderness, but you are also held by a partner and a circle to provide safe passage home. There is a reason we are called circle passages. We evolve & move in circles. As Black Elk says, everything that the native does in circle because this is the way of nature.

Do you feel a call to have fun, make friends and live a life that is natural, real and free? Are you called to a deeper relationship with yourself, family, community and world? Circle Passages offers renewed hope, health, happiness, and gratitude by fostering a love of life based on deep self-acceptance and true self-esteem. Found to reduce everything from anxiety to depression, suicide to addiction, rites of passage guide you to where you want to go. We help you live a life that is wildly authentic: YOU.

We are called to help you heal yourself & the world, to live our life purpose & offer our gifts to the world, because the world needs us. We know that not all who wander are lost, but we have lost our way & the ways that we have evolved through the years. The epidemics of depression, suicide, anxiety & addiction testify to a world in which we are not living in balance or not really living. Youth & young adults in particular have been adversely impacted by COVID, ecological crisis, grief & an increasingly unstable world. It's on ALL of us to help recenter & return to a natural homeostatic balance & Vision or Wilderness Quests are the time-honored way to do this. Let's GO!

You can create a necklace, rattle, or drum to help hold your vision. Necklace packages come with the course that allow you to draw a symbol of your vision, along with a rattle. Drum supplies can be purchased.

The rites of passage are designed by each person to reflect the unique vision and experience of their own process. While a basic structure is provided, individuals are encouraged to create their own circle of support and self-generated ritual, including options in terms of where and how the rite of passage takes place. While in the past the rite of passage was determined by culture and gender, we believe that people’s processes are best reflected in initiating ceremonies of their own design. So, we help facilitate this process for & with you, whether in person or in a kit, integrating the different elements of the rite of passage for you to create your own self-generated ritual & meaning.

Rites of passage hold us, providing safe passage from one state or state of consciousness to another through 3 stages: separation; transformation; and integration. In these stages we go through 3 steps or Rs: reflection; respect; and remembering. In these 3 steps we leave our old self and life, entering into the unknown liminal space to cross over and claim a new name, life, and calling.

We know that each individual, family and community has a story that informs the rite of passage, guiding our life. So we spend time discovering and retelling our stories in journals, art and ceremony. By honoring the unique experience of each individual, we recognize and honor their heritage. We believe that in order to move forward into our futures, we need to connect with our past, researching our roots through stories and inner reflection that help us understand ourselves. In retelling our story, we reclaim our power f.

A circle is whole because it includes everyone, young and old, black and white, male and female . . . and everyone in between. Circles are unbroken, holding diversity within unity in which each part and person is needed as a whole to be whole. They symbolize an equality based on difference not sameness. With a primary focus on creating authentic, self-generated rites of passage, we embrace and celebrate all you as you. 

Circles have been used throughout time to gather people together. Circles create a sense of safety, equality, wholeness, healing and community. They offer a model of leadership and sharing in which all voices are heard and honored. Circles hold diversity in unity, everyone together helping each other. Circles are found in nature and reflect our nature.

"Everything the world does is done in a circle. The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together to make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth" Black Elk

On your rite of passage you grow up and root deep, rippling out in circles of influence like the growth rings of a tree. Like the forest that supports the tree, we foster independence as interdependence. Our circle reflects the forest as a systemic whole, offering a holistic support network to nurture sustainable growth above and below ground. We grow within the circle of community.

Through these circles we work (and play) with individuals, their families, and communities. We map our journey using the cycles and seasons of nature that allow seeds time for dormancy and growth. We provide support before and after your initiation, giving you resources to help you transplant into your life. We want your tree to survive and thrive.

We are a circle gathered to help support your growth. Balancing age and gender, wisdom and knowledge in our leadership circle, we offer a powerful combination of knowledge and experience. With circles that include participants and parents (with youth), we have gathered a circle to meet the unique needs of each individual and group that gathers.

We meet in a field beyond judgement where we can be ourselves.