Vision Fasts and Training Resources

Vision Fast

Earth Lullabye by Trevor Thomson
Elderhood Initiation: A Personal Story by Larry Hobbs
Huffington Post: What is a Vision Quest and Why Do One?

Vision Fast Training

Joseph Lazenka interviewed by Welde- Ian Carmichael: Modern Rites of Passage and the work of the School of Lost Borders.
Rites of Alignment in a New Global World: By Meredith Little Transcribed for her talk at the, Into the Wild Conference, Eastern Germany, 2011
THE FOUR SHIELDS OF WHOLENESS:[ Excerpts from The Four Shields: Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature, Lost Borders Press]
How Then Shall We Live? by Virginia Coyle and Roger Milliken, Jr.
Vision Fast & Four Shields Booklet

Youth

Wilderness Rites Of Passage: Healing, Growth, and Initiation John Davis, Ph.D.
School of Lost Borders Nature-based Rites of Passage by Gigi Coyle
#4- Sacred Hoop Interview
#3- Sacred Hoop Interview
#2- Sacred Hoop Interview
#1- Sacred Hoop Interview
The Teaching of the Wild Place- Interview with Steven Foster and Meredith Little
Passage Into Manhood: by Steven Foster

Living and Dying

Die Daily, Live Fully Rev. Kristin interviews Joseph Lazenka

Living Practices

Remembering Rites Of Passage
Psyche, Nature & Cosmos: Interview with Stanislav Grof and Betsy Perluss.
Joseph Lazenka interview by Clinton Callahan
Walking My Medicine by Sage Abella
Beyond the "Big Lie": How One Therapist Began to Wake Up by Sara Harris

Academic Papers

Academic Papers
Rites of Passage through a Psychosynthetic Lens By Jon Keen
Academic Papers
DISCOVERING PSYCHE IN NATURE: ByPatricia Pint Patricia Pint
Academic Papers
Touching Earth, finding spirit: A passage into the symbolic landscape. Betsy Perluss, E. (2006).

What will we make of the life before us?

How do we translate the gifts of solitary

beauty into the action required for true

participatory citizenship?

Terry Tempest Williams