Passage-4 month (May-August 2017)
Course details by month
Month 1 (May): Nevada City, CA
Description: This home-base weekend will introduce the elements of the program and prepare participants for wilderness weekends. We will engage in activities to familiarize the group to practices that we will use throughout the course. Activities will include self and group reflection, introductory biography work, hiking, nature immersion, and group cohesion activities including group cooking and group gear.
Focus Topic: Relating to the self. Who am I? What do I care about? What are my gifts? How do I limit myself?
Parent Workshop: The foundations of resiliency. Supporting growth and integration through understanding, curiosity, and empathy.
Month 2 (June): Backpacking-Sierra Crest (meet in nevada city)
Description: This will be our first wilderness-based weekend. The trip will consist of moderate backpacking that will lead to some high mountain lakes on day one, followed by a cross country hike over a rock pass into the 5-lakes basin. The trip will combine adventure, challenge, solo reflection, and group inquiry. We will deepen the biography work and inquiry practices that we began during the first weekend.
Focus Topic: Relating to challenge. How do we relate to our challenges? How do we develop the ability to be with hardship? What happens when we develop the capacity to meet our difficulties without fleeing? How to we find balance between movement and stillness? What is the value of rest and integration?
Parent Workshop: Fostering the ability meet challenge. Distress tolerance, courage, willingness, and resiliency.
Month 3 (July): Backpacking-Sierra Crest (meet in nevada City)
Description: This will be our second wilderness immersion weekend. The trip will consist of backpacking to a remote location with a possible peak summit. We will continue biography work while furthering inquiry practices. The trip will combine adventure, challenge, solo reflection and group inquiry.
Focus Topic: Living in community.What do I offer the world around me? What challenges do I face in my community, family, or school life? How do my gifts and vision benefit the community that I am part?
Parent Workshop Focus: Motivation and a sense of purpose. Supporting understanding that I have something valuable to contribute to my world.
Month 4 (August): Wilderness location TBD (meet in Nevada City)
Description: This will be our final wilderness immersion weekend. The trip will consist of a challenge that is relative to the needs of the group. The trip will combine adventure, challenge, solo reflection and group inquiry.
Focus Topic: Living as an integrated person. How do I offer my vision into the world? What skills, capacities, do I possess? Who are my supports and how do I connect with them?
Parent Workshop Focus: Being an ally to my child. Supporting the integrated child.
Program Cost $3,500-$5,500
Tier 1
Includes:
- 4 Immersion Weekends
- Monthly Parent Workshop-Videoconference
- Monthly participant session with MFT
- Participant session with MFT
Tier 2
Includes:
- 4 monthly Immersion Weekends
- Monthly Parent Workshop-Videoconference
- 2 monthly participant session with MFT
- 2 parent/family sessions with MFT
Tier 3
- 4 monthly Immersion Weekends
- Monthly Parent Workshop-Videoconference
- Weekly participant session with MFT
- Bi-Weekly parent/family sessions with MFT
*A 3-month course to be offered in Sept-Nov, 2017