Posts by Lost Borders
Young Adults Wilderness Rites of Passage
Every summer the School of Lost Borders offers a wilderness rite of passage for young people ready to confirm their entry into adulthood. Nearly every culture on the planet shows evidence of a ceremonial marking of the passage from youth to adulthood, undertaken consciously and witnessed by the community. Without such acknowledgement how do young…
Read MoreThe Four Shields of Wholeness for Women
Patrilinear hierarchical systems have pushed life on earth to the edge of social and ecological sustainability. As women we feel the pain of the global crisis resonating in our bodies and personal lives, as well as in the lives of our communities. At the same time, the ancient evolutionary imperative to remember wholeness, to move…
Read MoreCO Two Week Training
The two week training offers the participant an immersion into the vision fast ceremony, including the beginning skills necessary to lead it and an understanding of how the principles of the vision fast can be applied to a profession, community, or client. Trainees are encouraged to learn the form, the process, and then give it…
Read MoreThe Great Ballcourt Initiation – Fall Fast
Death is the ultimate agent of transformation—be it a physical death or “the little deaths” encountered throughout life. Indigenous cultures developed rituals to aid and guide people through these stages of change and renewal, utilizing the power of death to enhance and intensify these experiences. For the Mayan people this ceremony was played out on…
Read MoreTransforming Ancestral Trauma through Nature, Ritual, and Community
This program provides an opportunity to consciously explore how the shadows of the past remain undigested in our personal and collective lives. To what degree are we aware of their impact on our present day experiences? How does our behavior reflect some trauma or dysfunction from the past? What resilience and wisdom have we inherited…
Read MoreBettina Straub
Bettina Straub is a rites of passage guide, educator, creator, earth steward, dancer and aunty. She teaches outdoor education and nature-based counseling at Naropa University. With over a decade of guiding experience, Bettina also brings a background as a mental health counselor and mindfulness instructor, having led meditation retreats and provided counseling in private practice…
Read MoreScot Deily
Scot Deily LCSW, SEP (he/him) is an adoring father of two spunky wonder-filled children, caretaker/giver of land and ceremonialist with an ear to the ground listening for what it means to be human in increasingly inhumane times. Scot brings care-filled levity to his commitment of creating safe havens for all peoples to courageously commune with mountains…
Read MoreWill Scott
Will Scott (he/him) is a life-long lover of the natural world and a dedicated student of the human-nature relationship. He has worked as a guide with Youth and Adult programs at Lost Borders since 2007, and has been a trainer with School since 2016. Will’s lineage comes primarily out of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Great Britain, Italy,…
Read MoreFall Newsletter 2020
The Experiment of Lost Borders – By Sara Harris Once upon a time there were two people. Both had big minds, huge souls, and an even bigger hunger that they shared. The desert called their names and they answered. They first took kids over the Sierras at night in a big school bus. There were no…
Read MoreHello, our great and beautiful family!
This is Gordon from the beautiful soil of Kenya in East Africa. Its been awhile and am happy to share with you about what’s going on with my life during this transition into this other full moon. Lot has happened. A road that was both challenged with pandemic that caused a stand still to schooling…
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