03/28/2025
Please spread the word! Journeymen Ashevilles Rites of Passage Adventure Weekend (for teen boys!) is fast approaching! Link to learn more and to register in the comments!
For millennia, our ancestors marked young men’s transition into adulthood through well-planned and challenging rites of passage.
Rites of passage initiations were never just a formality or a threshold.
These tests put boys and young men in uniquely challenging situations where they had to learn about their inner strengths and gifts in order to succeed.
What’s more, these rites of passage infuse their natural drive for freedom and risk with a sense of personal responsibility!
Unfortunately, in today’s culture, these intentional rites of passage for young men and boys entering adulthood have been almost completely lost.
As a result, young men and boys today are more likely to “initiate” themselves in unhealthy ways, like their first experiences with drugs, alcohol, and s*x, as well as excessive video gaming, screen time, and social isolation.
In this age of disconnection and overstimulation, where depression, social anxiety, academic struggles, and a lack of belonging are rampant among young men and boys, the obstacles to their healthy development are massive, and for parents, these challenges can seem insurmountable.
That’s why we firmly believe that today, the need for constructive, intentional, and positive rites of passage for young men and boys is greater than ever.
