CO Three Week Training
Wilderness Rites of Passage have been practiced in cultures around the world as a way to celebrate and transition from one phase of life to the next – to leave behind what no longer serves and step into life as it is now. These can be developmental phases of life, like moving from adolescence to…
Read MoreCO Mirroring the Four Shields of Human Nature: The Art of Story Telling and Listening
The shields of human nature turn with the experiences of life, from the smallest cell to the great seamless whole of the biosphere called earth. It begins with the body (summer), turns into psyche (fall), becomes activated form (winter), which dissolves into spirit (spring) — which is born again in the body (summer). The four…
Read MoreCA Month-Long Training
The month-long intensive is designed for those who seek to explore and develop their vocation as wilderness guides within the tradition of the School of Lost Borders. Participants are given the opportunity and mentorship to fully immerse themselves in the ceremonial and practical aspects of modern day wilderness rites of passage that have evolved throughout…
Read MoreBecoming Human: The Four Shields Model of Nature-Based Therapeutics
The Four Shields model offers us guidance in the form of a map to help us find our way back to our origins on this living planet. This earth-based wheel of human nature was handed down to Steven and Meredith in the early days of Lost Borders and has become essential in helping us regain…
Read MoreDark Nature: Matrix of Initiatory Growth
Of all the shields of human nature, the dark or fall shield can be at once the most compelling and the most frightening. It calls on us continually to risk everything, to let go of what has come before, to step over the edge, to go where life is lived inwardly in the mansions of…
Read MoreCA Two Week Training (Full with waitlist)
This training gives the student an immersion in the vision fast ceremony, including the skills involved in leading the vision fast and an understanding of…
Read MoreCA Mirroring the Four Shields of Human Nature: The Art of Story Telling and Listening
The best stories are about human nature — that is, the human of us which is, after all, nature in her basic manifestations as physical, psychical…
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