Ann8Nature Boulder, Colorado, US Nurturing the Feminine into Empowered Emergence. Guiding and Mentoring Young Women 17-26 into Adulthood. Playing and Mentoring youth of all ages into the magic of…
Center for Youth and Community, Inc Glastonbury, Connecticut, US The Center for Youth and Community Inc. is an organization, which partners with communities to co-create an experience that can positively impact young people as…
Challenge Day Concord, California, US Challenge Day is the world leader in providing empowering and transformational workshops for teens and adults. Challenge Day’s life changing programs create a safe, open,…
Circles of Empowerment Arroyo Grande, California, US Founded in 1990, Circles of Empowerment formed as a way to better support the growing need for ceremony in the community and to support the…
Conscious Youth Coaching Los Angeles, California, US The mission of Conscious Youth Coaching is to support youth to develop greater self-awareness, intuitive wisdom, confidence and success. It is also to provide parents…
Cornerstones Of Care Kansas City, Missouri, US Cornerstones of Care is dedicated to partnering for safe and healthy communities. We leverage our decades of expertise and certification in trauma-informed care through the…
Courageous Hearts Youth Services, Inc. Los Angeles, California, US We are a Nonprofit, For Purpose organization with a mission to educate and empower at-risk youth for a life of success and fulfillment. We work…
DeAnna L’am – Red Tents in Every Neighborhood Sebastopol, California, US In 1995 DeAnna L’am coined the term ‘INNER MAIDEN’ as a result of recognizing the deep need in all women for soothing, healing, and reclaiming the adolescent…
Earthways LLC Sebastopol, California, US EarthWays LLC is a collective of passionate and capable wilderness guides, committed to restoring relationship with the natural world by bringing people out into direct connection…
Feet on the Earth Programs Boulder, Colorado, US Feet on the Earth Programs supports children and adults to develop deeper relationships with nature, self, and community through long-term nature connection mentoring and community-based,…
Fire & Flower: Girls Rite of Passage Program Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Fire & Flower is a coming-of-age rite of passage program for girls ages 12-14 starting this May in Vancouver. The 4-month program will provide a…
Gabriel Keczan Nelson, British Columbia, CA As a facilitator I combine place-based, nature-connection practices with art therapy for all ages as well as depth personal growth and transformation work with adults. …
Generation Waking Up Oakland, California, US Generation Waking Up strives to: – Awaken in young people a clear sense of who we are as a generation, an understanding of the urgent…
Golden Bridge International: Surfing the Creative Boulder, Colorado, US In response to young people’s longing for deep exploration and cultivation of themselves as creative change agents, Golden Bridge offers movement – based rites of…
Inner Guide Expeditions Ashland, Oregon, US Inner Guide Expeditions offers transformational wilderness trips for teens in the Pacific Northwest and customized family expeditions all over the globe. Through personalized attention, heartfelt…
JOURNEYMEN Vashon Island, Washington, US Journeymen is a newly formed 501c3 organization currently based on Vashon Island, WA. Our vision is to regenerate modern society through the inspiration of young…
Juniper Canyon Recovery Center Loa, Utah, US Juniper Canyon Recovery Center is a wilderness therapy program located in the high Deserts of the Colorado Plateau (political boundary of Southern Utah). Since 2017,…
Kroka Expeditions Marlow, New Hampshire, US Kroka is a non-profit wilderness expedition school for young people based on a year-round, organic farm in Marlow, New Hampshire. We believe that the consciousness…
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education Calistoga, California, US “Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist: it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to…
Legacy Outdoor Adventures Loa, Utah, US Legacy Outdoor Adventures is a wilderness therapy program located in the high Deserts of the Colorado Plateau (political boundary of Southern Utah). Since 2012, Legacy…
LYRIC [Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center] San Francisco, California, US Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center (LYRIC) is a community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth. We focus on: school…
Make Trybe Center for Transformative Design Kansas City, Missouri, US The Make Trybe Center is founded on the study and practice of Transformative Design as it relates to developing a sense of deep community, or of…
Marisa (Sasa) Taborga Byrne Seattle, Washington, US Marisa (Sasa) Taborga Byrne, born and raised in California, comes from an Irish, German, Bolivian and Spanish lineage. She is a Nature Connection Guide, Rites…
Matthew Blank Lafayette, Colorado, US Matthew envisions cultural change through intergenerational mentoring and the realization of coactive visions. His work has primary grown from the platform of the Teen Institute…
Motivated By Wisdom Burnaby, British Columbia, CA Teen Journey is an organization created to inspire youth and create a community of empowered, impassioned youth who connect with inner strength and in a…
Oaks Counsel Santa Fe , New Mexico, US Oaks Counsel is a counseling and initiation ceremony program I am developing to offer to adults, young adults and adolescents for the development of Self!…
OUT There Adventures Bainbridge Island, Washington, US Experiential learning processes enable participants to actively engage challenging real-world scenarios in order to harvest within them an appreciation for leadership and resiliency. In this…
Pacific Quest Hilo, Hawaii, US Pacific Quest’s innovative Sustainable Growth™ model continues to pioneer a cutting-edge approach to outdoor therapy. Pacific Quest offers a holistic yet highly clinical approach to…
PassageWorks Institute Boulder, Colorado, US PassageWorks Institute provides educators and school leaders a practical, relationship-centered approach to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools and districts. The PassageWorks Institute is a…
Pathways Foundation Ltd Narooma, New South Wales, AU The Pathways Foundation is a Australian national harm prevention charity that is dedicated to assisting children. Its principal purpose is to promote and assist the…
Puertas Abiertas Leadership Academy Eugene, Oregon, US The Puertas Abiertas Leadership Academy is an academic and cultural enrichment experience for Chicano/Latino high school and middle school students in Lane County. The primary goal…
Queer Asterisk Boulder, Colorado, US Queer Asterisk is a team of queer and trans therapists and educators serving LGBTQPIA communities in Boulder, Denver, and Longmont, Colorado. We offer quality and…
Queer Nature Boulder, Colorado, US THE ECOLOGY OF BELONGING Queer Nature is a queer-run nature education and ancestral skills program serving the local LGBTQ+ community. We recognize that many people,…
Queer Odyssey El Cerrito, California, US Dedicated to bringing Rites of Passage visibility as a map for navigating life transitions to Queer, Transgender & Gender-Diverse people & organizations unfamiliar with ROP. Providing…
Regenco, LandTime Manaton, Devon, GB Initiating a deeper relationship with Nature. Landtime and Landtime Quests for Vision & Self-Healing, Supportive time in the Wilds for adults and young adults. LandTime…
ReTribe Rites of Passage Retreats and Programs Plainfield, Vermont, US ReTribe’s mission is to support youth to become powerful, self-realized adults who, together, will foster a “New Culture” built on radical acceptance and connection to self,…
Rite of Passage Journeys Seattle, Washington, US Rite of Passage Journeys, established in 1968, fosters self-discovery, community and connection with the natural world. Our mission is to mentor youth, adults, and elders…
Rites of Passage Santa Rosa, California, US Rites of Passage is a non-profit organization that guides people into nature to mark and celebrate life transitions, changes, personal and spiritual growth. Our programs…
Sacred Groves Bainbridge Island, Washington, US Sacred Groves is a ten acre forest sanctuary located on Bainbridge Island, in Washington state, a little eco-retreat run by Thérèse Charvet and Tere Carranza. It…
Safeteen Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Safteen seeks to transform the youth culture of emotional survival and fear into a culture of empowerment and safety in all schools and communities across…
Sandstone Community Care Broomfield,, Colorado, US Sandstone Care (www.SandstoneCare.com) provides substance abuse & co-occurring mental health treatment services for teens and young adults. We accept most major insurances and have two…
School of All Relations Aegina, Sterea Ellada, GR The School of All Relations is an educational program for international youth aged 18-25, based on the Greek Island of Aegina. Rooted in nature and…
School of Lost Borders Big Pine, California, US Every summer, the School of Lost Borders offers wilderness-based rites of passage ceremonies for young men and women ready to confirm their entry into adulthood.…
Spreading Seeds: Mind – Body – Spirit Los Angeles, California, US A rites of passage and personal change training that cultivates, activates, and nurtures innate abilities and gifts of young women and men labeled “at-risk” or…
Springhouse Community School Floyd, Virginia, US Springhouse Community School is an independent learner-centered environment that supports 7th through 12th grade students to discover their unique gifts and become passionate problem-solvers, skilled…
Street Poets Los Angeles, California, US Street Poets Inc. creates circles. Poetry circles. Drum circles. Multi-cultural multi-generational circles. Creative healing circles within which at-risk youth and young adults can breathe, write,…
Teen Talking Circles Rollingbay, Washington, US Teen Talking Circles is a 501-c3 organically grown nonprofit organization founded on the principle that both a mature self-identity and healthy relationships develop naturally when…
The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain is an Earth Sanctuary and Learning Community dedicated to Healing the Human-Earth Relationship. Our educational farm and regenerative sustainability learning…
The Hero Project Durango, Colorado, US The Hero Project inspires youth to awaken their heroes within by re-living the adventures of some of the world’s greatest heroes and heroines. Program Development Services…
The Journey Network Stadt, Berlin, DE The Journey Network is about the process of uncovering who you really are. We see this as a journey of initiation; one in which you…
The Ojai Foundation Ojai, California, US The Ojai Foundation offers Rites of Passage Threshold Retreats, partnering with schools to develop and implement 2-5 day experiences for youth. ROP marks transitions in…
The Rite Journey – School Based Rites of Passage Adelaide, South Australia, AU Over the last decade of teaching it became more and more clear to me that I was working with students who were grappling with a…
The School of Human Nature Praha, Praha, hlavní město, CZ We connected a ring of men and women who share a deep respect for the earth , human nature, rituals, uniqueness, and each other. We share…
Tia Chucha’s Young Warriors Sylmar, California, US Young Warriors is a community project created by youth for the youth of the Northeast San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles and based in Tia…
Weaving Earth Sonoma, California, US Weaving Earth [WE] provides nature-based programs & services that build connection, foster reciprocal relationships and cultivate the healthy development of whole people and communities. Why…
Westcountry School of Myth and Story Dartmoor, Devon, GB The Westcountry School of Myth and Story is a leading U.K. myth, ritual and wilderness Program. From a year course on myth and storytelling through…
Wilderness Awareness School Duvall, Washington, US Wilderness Awareness School, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1983, is an internationally-recognized leader in outdoor education. Our mission is to help children and adults cultivate healthy…
Wilderness Reflections Fairfax, California, US Wilderness Reflections has been leading youth rites of passage since 2001, with programs ranging from 1 week all the way up to 8 months long.…
Wilderness Torah Berkeley, California, US Wilderness Torah’s mission is to awaken and celebrate the earth-based traditions of Judaism to nourish the connections between self, community, earth and Spirit. We create…
Wolf Connection Acton, California, US Wolf Connection was founded in 2009 by Teo Alfero, whose life ambition is to be of service to future generations. For that reason, Wolf Connection is not the…
WSU 4-H Rite of Passage Pullman, Washington, US What is 4-H Youth Rite of Passage? 4-H is this nation’s premier youth development program. It is based on developmentally appropriate practices and research-validated curriculums that…
YIP [International Youth Initiative Program] Järna, Södermanlands län, SE The International Youth Initiative Program (YIP) is a holistic educational program that strengthens young people’s capacity to take initiative in the face of current global…
Your Voice, Your Gifts, Your Power Vancouver, British Columbia, CA My current work in rites of passage is rooted in best practices I have both developed and gathered through guest leadership in rites of passage…
Youth in Focus Seattle, Washington, US Our mission at Youth in Focus is to empower urban youth, through photography, to experience their world in new ways and to make positive choices…
Youth Mentoring Connection Los Angeles, California, US YMC empowers at-risk youth by matching them with caring and skilled mentors who see their unique gifts and help them achieve their life goals. YMC…