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Hero's Journey® Foundation is opening doorways to awaken vital living.

Our home at Lifebridge Sanctuary offers a unique space for groups to retreat in the pursuit and awakening of personal purpose, growth and transformation. The Hero's Journey Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides unique transformational experiences, making use of inspiring and challenging wilderness environments to deepen self awareness and embrace unifying life experiences. People come from various traditions, cultures and countries to experience this deep level of personal and communal support. This work greatly assists those who seek successful rites of passage through significant life transitions, as well as those who seek to overcome personal obstacles and self-imposed limitations that hinder personal development and unity of mind-body-spirit.

“The mark Hero’s Journey Foundation ® and any copyrighted material authored by Joseph Campbell are used under license from the Joseph Campbell Foundation (www.jcf.org).”

10/28/2026

“It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story." – Thomas Berry

Autumn brings a landscape alive with color at Lifebridge! Each tree responds in its own time, creating a tapestry that changes day by day.

Berry’s words invite us to consider the stories we are shaping together. What do we believe is possible? Whose voices help us see more clearly? How do our daily choices express the world we want to inhabit?

A new story takes shape through our participation, and through the courage to imagine and the willingness to act.

What possibilities are you helping bring to life?

10/25/2026

What allows one person
to help another
come more fully alive?

Vitalization Training
For therapists, coaches, facilitators
and depth practitioners

Beginning November 11
Lifebridge Sanctuary

November 11–15, 2026
January 13–17, 2027
March 17–21, 2027

Learn more:

https://herosjourneyfoundation.org/vitalization-training/

10/23/2026

Who is Vitalization Training for?

Vitalization Training gathers therapists, counselors, coaches, facilitators, supervisors, and other experienced practitioners who find themselves drawn toward the deeper reaches of one-to-one work.

This work asks us to listen in two directions at once: toward the inner world of the person before us and toward what is being awakened, unsettled, or called forward within ourselves.

Together, we cultivate the inner freedom to remain present in uncertain places. We learn to recognize the first stirrings of something emerging, trust what is unfolding between us, and give emerging possibilities the time and space they need to take form.

Vitalization Training offers a community for those who want to deepen their practice while feeling less alone in the demanding, enlivening work of accompanying another human being.

Vitalization Training at Lifebridge Sanctuary

November 11–15, 2026
January 13–17, 2027
March 17–21, 2027

Learn more:

https://herosjourneyfoundation.org/vitalization-training/

10/14/2026

There are moments when the old ways of understanding our lives no longer hold. We find ourselves at a threshold, troubled by what we cannot yet make sense of, called inward toward something we have not yet lived into.

In this new reflection, Michael Mervosh writes about the patience and courage it takes to stay with what is difficult. Sometimes a deeper truth becomes available only through the experience itself, and through the presence of another who can remain with us as we find our way.

Illuminations on Myth and Meaning – 3: Turning Inward: Coming to Terms With Our Need for Deeper Truths, Part One

https://michaelmervosh.substack.com/p/illuminations-on-myth-and-meaning-6ca

10/07/2026

It’s officially fall at Lifebridge. We tested the fireplaces this week, and they’re ready. 🔥🍂

Through the colder months, these fires will warm the rooms and anchor the spaces where people come together to reflect, connect, and find their way toward more vital lives.

We’re glad to welcome the season.

10/05/2026

“The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there’s no doubt about it… Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.”

- Joseph Campbell

What allows a practitioner to help another person come more fully alive?

Vitalization Training begins with the inner life of the practitioner. Designed for therapists, coaches, supervisors, and others engaged in ongoing one-to-one work, it explores how we create the conditions in which meaningful, transformative processes can emerge between two people.

Grounded in psychodynamic principles and enlivened by the Hero’s Journey® myth, this training helps practitioners deepen their capacity for presence, spontaneity, and responsive engagement. Participants learn to recognize, support, and work with the moments when something deeper begins to stir.

It is also an opportunity to feel less alone in the work and to learn alongside others who want to remain fully alive within encounters that can be challenging.

Vitalization Training: Week One
November 11–15, 2026
Lifebridge Sanctuary | Rosendale, New York

A dynamic synthesis of facilitation skills, emergent psychological processes, and the Hero’s Journey® myth.

10/03/2026

“We engage in creative tension-holding every day in every dimension of our lives, seeking and finding patches of common ground.” - Parker J. Palmer

At Lifebridge Sanctuary, this is the work we witness and welcome every day- groups gathering to listen deeply, navigate difference, and discover new ground together.

Set on 96 acres of upstate New York forest, Lifebridge offers a space where reflection and relationship can unfold side by side. A place where the inner work of transformation meets the outer work of community.

We are currently booking weeks in 2027, and welcoming inquiries for new work seeking space to retreat.

09/23/2026

Today was the first day of Hero’s Journey® Group Facilitation Training at Lifebridge Sanctuary.

At the heart of this training is more than a collection of skills or techniques. We're learning to become fully present to the living field of relationship: to notice what is emerging, stay with what matters, and understand how our presence can help create the conditions for growth and for lasting transformation.

Throughout our time together, we return to one fundamental question for each of us and for the group together:

“What can happen here that is unlikely to happen anywhere else?”

09/20/2026

Change is deeply personal, and it also needs witnesses.

We need people who can stay near while we loosen our hold on an old identity and begin to speak from the life that is emerging. In a trustworthy circle, we hear ourselves more clearly and remember that we do not have to cross every threshold alone.

For ourselves, but not by ourselves.

09/18/2026

Michael Mervosh's recent Substack is a reflection about what it means to claim a life that is our own. He draws from this summer’s Hero’s Journey® Men’s Wilderness Intensive, where he watched men speak something raw and real, and then almost immediately begin to take it back.

Trusting what we have lived, listening to what our bodies know, and finding the courage to take the next step toward what matters to us requires courage and company

“The activation of your daring awakens your courage.”

-Michael Mervosh
Read Michael's Substack writing here: https://michaelmervosh.substack.com/p/illuminations-on-myth-and-meaning

Address

333 Mountain Road
Rosendale, NY
12472

Website

http://www.herosjourneyfoundation.org/

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