Beyond the Threshold was born from a cry of the wilderness heart. It is a rite of passage partnership based in Perth, Western Australia where we run two to three vision fasts (max 8 places per quest) from April through to October.

Both Glenis Taylor and Gary Williams are experienced fast guides who have done their training and solo times with Rite of Passage Inc and the School of Lost Borders respectively.

For more information and fast times, email: guides@beyondthethreshold.net '

"Lose yourself over the dreamtime threshold, downunder"

The European Council Network (ECN) connects people all over Europe, Israel and the Middle East as a whole, who practice council in their work and their life.

We want to expand and strengthen the field for council in Europe and help to bring council in groups, organisations, institutions, relationships, etc.

This Website is a place where one can find local trainers and a schedule of events for each European community.

Educo Africa makes use of the wildness found in deep mountains to encourage the growth of young people who are challenged by poverty and various social ills such as AIDS.  The mountains provide a reframing experience oftentimes moving the young person from cycles of despair to one of hope and aspiration.  The work of Educo Africa has particular emphasis on a concern for the environment, community building and cross cultural cooperation, while at the same time promoting the spirit of Ubuntu.

Judy Bekker and Valerie Morris have been guiding vision fasts in the Cape, South Africa for the last 16 years. Their eleven day programs begin and end next to the Indian Ocean and the solo fast is set in a huge tract of private wilderness three hours out of Cape Town. The land is beautiful and generous and filled with the art of the bushman people who once roamed and hunted there. Judy and Valerie run up to four programs a year in the summer months between October and March.

Women and Earth was founded in 1996 by Susann Belz. With a circle of different teachers from around the world, we offer many programs.  All the training's are earth-based teachings and have many different settings: Weekend Groups, Vision Fasts, week-long trainings in healing ways, and Rituals for the 8 Seasons.

The School is a place for women. Together we learn and grow, always in mind to what serves Mother Earth and all her beings who are a part of this great family.  A very important ingredient of the learning is living together during these seminars in a beautiful house just on the border of Switzerland and France - a chance to deal with our own borders and boundaries.

The word "istoki" means sources, beginnings.  Beginnings of life, knowledge, forces and spirit.  We invite people to find their answers and celebrate their changes iwth the help of the sources - wild nature, and ancient traditions.  Georgiy Kushnir and Kateryna Babenko, the leaders of Istoki and pioneers of rites of passage work in Ukraine, have been invited and supported by Keith Kilburn and School of Lost Borders.  Since 2005 they develop practices of rites of passage in Ukraine and Russia.

Istoki provides Vision Quest programs, sweat lodges, educational programs for future guides, workshops devoted to different rites of passage.  Istoki invites guides from different countries to lead seminars in Ukraine and to introduce this work to our people.