Community

Our community of friends, graduates and kindred spirits spans the globe.

United States

California

The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai Santa Paula highway
Ojai, CA 93023 - United States
http://www.ojaifoundation.org/
Rites of Passage: individual and group ceremonies and retreats for adults, youth, corporations, couples, families. 24 hour solo fasts as part of month long work retreat program. Many ways of life, honoring transitions, births, weddings, divorces, coming of age, death.


Emerald North
Earth Tones
CA - United States
http://earthtonesart.com



Wilderness Youth Project
3905 State St. Suite 7-518
Santa Barbara, CA 93105 - United States
info@wyp.org
http://www.wyp.org/
Wilderness Youth Project is a community-building 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that inspires and guides youth, adults, and families toward finding, expressing, and manifesting their inherent gifts through mentoring and creative nature experiences.


Corinna Stoeffl
CA - United States
http://www.CorinnaStoeffl.com
I offer coaching in person or via the phone for people in life transitions or who desire to grow personally and spiritually.





LeapNow
11640 Highway 128
Calistoga, CA 94515 - United States
info@leapnow.org
http://www.leapnow.org/index.php
LEAPNOW offers experiential for-credit alternative college programs in Asia and Latin America, gap year programs throughout the world, rites of passage programs for young men, independent study options for high school completion, and service, teaching, orphanage, arts and environmental internships throughout the world.


Betsy Perluss
Psyche and Nature
CA - United States
betsy@psycheandnature.com
http://www.psycheandnature.com
This site explores the relationship between psyche and nature and the mysterious union that exists between these two realms.


Colorado

Jeffrey Duvall
CO - United States
http://www.jeffreyduvall.com/
In addition to facilitating men's healing retreats around the country Jeffrey also works one to one offering personal rites of passage support through solo fasts from his home in Colorado and with coaching/ mentoring phone sessions. He has supported people in life's transitions, healing process, self directed ceremonial/ritual creation and youth rites of passage for 20 years.


John Davis
CO - United States
jdavis@naropa.edu
http://www.johnvdavis.com
John Davis, PhD, leads vision fasts through the School of Lost Borders. He is on the faculty of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he directs a low-residency/online MA program in Transpersonal Psychology and the low-residency/online concentration in Ecopsychology. At Naropa, he teaches courses on ecopsychology, transpersonal psychology, and wilderness therapy. He has written about this work in several places, including the recent ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND NATURE. He also teaches the Diamond Approach of A. H. Almaas in the US and Canada.

http://www.johnvdavis.com



Ruth Wharton
Whole Health Wellness Center
1790 30th St., Suite 200
Boulder, CO 80301 - United States
ruthwharton@yahoo.com
http://www.ruthwharton.com/
Therapeutic Services Offered:

* Child Psychotherapy
* Play Therapy
* Wilderness Therapy (children, teens, & adults)
* Gestalt Therapy
* Wilderness Rites of Passage
* Groups



Hawaii

Chris Kaiser
Pacific Quest
PO Box 540
Na'alehu, HI 96772 - United States
pacificquest@email.com
http://www.pacificquest.org
Pacific Quest is an empowerment program for adolescents on the island of Hawaii. It integrates wilderness rites of passage with a sustainable living community of young people who explore themselves and each other through art, culture and recreation.


New Mexico

Silvia Talavera
Living Bridges
369 Montezuma Ave. #451
Santa Fe, NM 87501 - United States
SILVIA667@msn.com
http://www.livingbridgeseducation.org/one/index.php
Living Bridges serves the needs of individuals facing life transitions, primarily those facing the end of life, as well as the needs of their families and caregivers with a special emphasis on their spiritual, emotional and psychosocial needs. Living Bridges seeks to inform and facilitate teachings on hospice and palliative care, life transitions, and end of life care.


Oregon

Susan Maida
Four Shields of Leadership
Newberg, OR - United States
susan@diamondheart.com
http://www.fourshieldsofleadership.com
Council training,vision fasts, leadership training for women, life coaching.


*WILDERNESS GUIDES COUNCIL
Net Keeper- Munro Sickafoose
OR 95404 - United States
munrosickafoose@yahoo.com
http://www.wildernessguidescouncil.org/


Anne Stine
WILDERNESS RITES, LLC
480 Herbert St
Ashland,, OR 97520 - United States
astine@wildernessrites.com
http://wildernessrites.com/
WILDERNESS RITES offers a variety of earth-based healing practices related to this ancient way of being with nature. Each experience is held in a natural setting and within a loving community which provide the support and guidance for regeneration and transformation. Ecopsychology, consultation and mentoring; Elder Passage Wilderness Quests; Earth Walks; Trainings in the Way of Council; The Art of Deep Listening and Mirroring; Wilderness Quests for Women only, CEUs


Washington

Larry Hobbs
Inland Whale
WA - United States
larry@inlandwhale.com
http://www.inlandwhale.com


Other Countries

Austria

Shambhala Wilderness School
- Austria
Franz Redl
http://www.wilderness.at
Shambhala Wilderness School -
Founded in 1997 after the influence of " School of Lost Borders" from Claudia R. Pichl, Peter Wetzler and Franz P. Redl in Austria. We offer Vision Quest
groups, 4 Shields, Ceremonies, Sweatlodge seminars and special themes connected with the power of plants, and Rituals. Seminars in Austria, Italy, Croatia, Sinai, Grenada and Namibia-Bushmanland.
Also 2 to 4 year training groups.


Hellwig Schinko & Regina Koenig & Norbert Kern & Christian Kirchmair
Earth & Vision
93105 - Austria
aruna.info@t-online.de; no.ke@aon.at; christian-kirchmair@chello.at
http://www.earth-and-vision.net/
Seminare fuer Selbsterfahrung und Selbstfindung in der Natur. Visionssuche in Oesterreich, Deutschland und Italien.
Seminar for to find and experience yourself in nature. Vision Quest in Austria, Germany and Italy.


Germany

Haiko Nitschke
Visionssuche/ecosys institute
schatzbach 16
Bad Birnbach, D-84364 - Germany
nitschke.vs@t-online.de
http://www.visions-suche.de


Hellwig Schinko & Regina Koenig
Aruna Institut
- Germany
aruna.info@t-online.de
http://www.aruna.info/
Schule fuer Eros, Liebe und Meditation
School for Eros, Love and Meditation


United Kingdom

Pippa Bondy
Ancient Healing Ways - www.ancienthealingways.co.uk
- United Kingdom
info@ancienthealingways.co.uk
http://www.ancienthealingways.co.uk
Offers Nature-based healing practices rooted in indigenous traditions, including Vision Fast and Ancient Council. We touch your primal essence from the wild and edge-y to the eternal nature of a flower or a mountain. Supported with safety and kindness, we carry these old ways to open hearts and honour our beloved Earth.

Snowdonia - North Wales. U.K



Jeremy Thres
The Earth Mystery Initiation School
Devon, - United Kingdom
Ojl1@btconnect.com
www.regenco.uk.net
Initiating a deeper relationship with Nature: Offers support and training for those called to a Wilderness Quest for Vision and Self-healing, WalkAbout - inner and outer journeys at introductory and deeper levels, and ReSourcing, fresh and time honoured ways of aligning one’s life and work with Nature. Also offers seed planting talks around rites of passage for young and old, and how they can inform and support us in times of change.