Rites of Passage Guide Training
How to facilitate Nature Based Rites of Passage Programs for girls and young women ages 11-18.
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Hello Women with Deep Passion & Sacred Visions for Life,
Thank you for hearing the call to walk in this world as an initiated adult and to offer Rites of Passage ceremonies for the young women in your life, your community, and beyond.
This Rites of Passage Guide Training is an intensive 12-month journey.
We will follow the flow of the medicine wheel, also known as the 8 Shields Model.
Each month your will receive access to a main section starting and ending in the Northeast. within each main section are 8 sub-sections that also mirror the medicine wheel.
Each main section includes:
- 8 video teachings
- Written material and invitations for your own growth, skill building, & integration
- Rituals, songs, games, teachings, & more that can be integrated into your Rites of Passage offerings
- A balance of theory & practical teaching through doing & sharing through stories & experiences
This is not meant to be a sampler plate, it is an in depth training, designed to offer you what you need to start offering Rites of Passage for young women in your life, community and beyond. This is not a spectator sport, it’s participatory.
I recommend allowing for 6-18 hours per month, for each main section. 1.5 to 4.5 hours a week. As with most of life, you will receive what you put into this journey.
The content is full and beautiful and is coming from a yearning to serve young women and our planet by skilling up Rites of Passage Guides. That’s you!
Join me!
SACRED RECIPROCITY
$1,400 USD for the Rites of Passage Guide Training
You can choose a payment plan that allows you to pay in 4 payments of $350 USD, or 12 monthly payments of $117 USD.
Upon completion of the training you will be invited to join our Thresholders Collective. This is a group of folks tending to Rites of Passage in the myriad of forms Death Doulas, Midwives, Youth Rites of Passage Guides, and more. This is a place for those of us who do this work in our communities to share best practices with one-another and to elevate our service together through connection and teaching one another.
YOU WILL RECEIVE:
- A digital version of my book, Honoring the Threshold: How to Offer Rites of Passage for our Daughters
- Monthly Video Teachings by Indigenous Elders, & Seasoned Rites of Passage Guides
- Monthly newsletter highlighting inspiring things happening in the Thresholders Community
- Continued Mentorship from me & the community
- A place to support one another & these ceremonies
- Monthly delivery of Rites of Passage songs
- Invitation to our four-day Annual Thresholders Gathering, September 10-13, 2021 in Asheville North Carolina
- Sacred Reciprocity of the Thresholders Collective Memebership: $26 a month or $264 a year ($22 a month).(This is separate cost from the ROP Guide Training, 9-Month Intensive.)
Feb 22, 2021 - Feb 22, 2022 Registration is OPEN!
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 Schedule
- February 2nd: Northeast Section revealed
- March 20th: East Section revealed
- May 1st: Southeast Section revealed
- June 21st: South Section revealed
- August 2nd: Southwest Section revealed
- September 22nd: West Section revealed
- October 31st: Northwest Section revealed
- December 21st: North Section revealed
- Feb 2nd 2022: Final Northeast Section revealed
Current 2020 Training Schedule
- Fall Equinox: September 22- Northeast Section revealed
- November 22, 2020- East Section revealed
- December 22, 2020- Southeast Section revealed
- January 22, 2021- South Section revealed
- February 22, 2021- Southwest Section revealed
- March 22, 2021- West Section revealed
- April 22, 2021- Northwest Section revealed
- May 22, 2021- North Section revealed
- June 22, 2021- Final Northeast Section revealed
Your Instructor
Who I am Bio:
Through her contagious joy and energy, Lena motivates and inspires people to take action to bring peace, beauty and justice on Earth.
She is gifted at finding creative solutions to problems, from the details to the cultural re-weaving. She guides and leads by listening to her intuitive wisdom and encouraging others to drop into their inner knowings. Her authentic curiosity and question asking invites others to find truth.
Lena offers empathetic listening in a way that deeply meets the needs of others to be heard and understood. She is blessed with a generosity of Spirit, positivity, and open heartedness that welcomes all she meets and loves.
Lena is continually located as an uplifter and protector of childhood, human and Earth rights, and ceremony.
She is a thresHOLDER. She holds Rites of Passage ceremonies for Birth and Becoming a Mother, Marriage and Self Marriage, and she has artfully tended the threshold from Girlhood into Womanhood for the 11 years through Earth Path’s 5 day Rites of Passage Ceremony for young women.
Lena is a carrier of fierce grace, singer for the Earth, blesser of waters, creative artist of cultural renewal and seed planter. She flys with hummingbird medicine and walks with the power of the wild cats.
You may find her playing her flute to the rising sun, arranging flowers for a celebration, hiding in a bush during a Deer and Coyote game with kids, singing under a waterfall in the middle of winter, or helping to create dignified jobs for women living in communities vulnerable to extreme poverty and human trafficking.
Her love and communication with the plant world is a wonder and she’s a devoted student, teacher, mentor, mother, wife, daughter and friend.
What I’ve done/Am Doing Bio:
Deeply committed to the Earth Path, Lena is passionate about celebrating this life on amazing planet earth. Lena was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Lena graduated from University of North Carolina at Asheville with a degree in Cross Cultural Sustainability. She has her Permaculture Design Certificate, and graduated from the Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness Program at the Regenerative Design Institute.
She is the founder and director of Earth Path Education est. 2008, where we help grow a culture of listening to the earth as our wisest mentor through facilitating deep Nature Connection with children and adults and guiding girls through their Rites of Passage into womanhood. The programming she has designed and implemented for girls and young women is very unique in that the empowerment and connection begins when a girls is 8 and supports them for the next decade until they are 18 and taking a leadership role in the organization. Lena leads a transformative earth skills and ceremonial arts immersion for adult women called Women Rewilding. Lena enjoys playing with her daughter Naia Grace and tending Earth and Home with her beloved husband Sam. They blossom alongside their flower farm called Blossoming Hearts and can be found singing to the plants, making bouquets, planting more fruit trees and falling ever so madly in love with the great mystery of the natural world. Lena’s has a passion for travel, indigenous rights, traditional ecological knowledge and cultural and ecological health and regeneration. In 2021 she will co-guide the Guatemala Eco-Adventure & Service Trip with Jeremy Shewe through Inchanted Journeys.
She co-founded of School of the Traveler, a backpacking and cultural guide organization in Copper Canyon, Northern Mexico. Lena is a proficient Spanish speaker. She has guided university students on trips to the mountains, rivers and caves of North Carolina and beyond, through the highly respected UNC Asheville Outdoors Program. She empowered youth working with Free the Children– the largest youth-led organization in the world– as the Regional Network coordinator for the Southeast.
In 2013-14, Lena directed a Nature Awareness Program through the Riekes Center on Human Enhancement and guided Silicon Valley youth into the redwoods and into greater nature connection. Lena loves mentoring, singing, lightning bugs, growing food, foraging, running, dancing, ancestral crafts, deep breaths, bringing people together and waterfalls. Lena has taught music at the Children's Earth School and Spanish, Music, handcraft and Nature Connection at The Learning Village in 2015-2017. She initiated in 2010 and annually organizes Soil Sisters, the young women's program for the Southeast Women's Herbal Conference and the Moon Maidens young women’s program at the Spirit Weavers Gathering since 2016.
Course Curriculum
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StartFlute Intro (1:05)
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StartThe Words that Come Before all Else (2:34)
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StartMy Intention and some words on Cultural Appropriation (5:02)
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StartText Guide to Northeast and Tasks for Integration
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StartImportance of Rites of Passage (0:47)
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StartComing of Age Meditation (8:04)
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StartThe Original Thanksgiving Address (5:06)
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StartWhen to Bring the Hearts and Minds Together (2:21)
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StartCleansing, Loving Presence, Discipline (5:44)
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StartNortheast Song (5:46)