Becoming - Rites of Passage within Modernity

Join us for an evening exploring rites of passage, and the essential quest that humanity has always practised in relationship with the living world.

_🌀 In times of upheaval, chaos and great change, what can we anchor into? _

_ **🌀 When the world is in flux, what does it mean to practise our own personal journeys? ** _

This seminar explores themes of change and modernity, and offers us some of the essential practices that have always guided humans across thresholds.

Expect experiential & reflective practices woven through expert input and guidance. Come learn how the process of individuation is essential for a healthy whole community. Join us to follow the thread of soul that weaves through all stories, all cultures, all times, and is more essential now than ever.
This is event is a taster for the 6-week long offering:Becoming: A Rite of Passage for these times.

_Uncover the wholeness that lies within and without. _

**This is for you if you : **

• Need **support in navigating the tumultuous times we are collectively living through. **

• Are experiencing a moment of transition in your life and need more clarity and new directionality on your life path

• Are curious about nature based rite of passage work

• Feel that humanity is currently challenged and needs to grow up and take **collective responsibility for our shared home **

• **Are yearning for deeper connection, full presence, more aliveness **

• Feel called to deepen your connection to nature and the ancient, and to learn how to work with the world as a mirror and a guide

• Want to become more clear about your **unique soul expression and contribution in this life. **

For centuries, across many different cultures, humans have spent time alone in nature - have communed with the land, with the elements, and the ancestors.

To remember who we are.

To recall the beauty and wonder of being alive.

To unearth soul.

To mark transitions.

To step into new roles.

To sense make and meaning make.

To feel fully alive.

To illuminate the individual, and enhance the collective.

Now - it is a radical practice of r eclamation and resistance - in a world full of business, burnout and disconnect, of peak extraction and pathology - we focus on slowing down to **reclaim the wholeness that is ours. **

What you receive

• Guidance from 2 highly trained & experienced guides proficient in Nature based vision questing, somatics, community building, grief work and resourcing.

• A guided landing and grounding practice to connect, resource and orient

• Exploring the context of modernity a s well as the philosophies of soul-centric development and deep ecology for meaning making and real life modern applications

• Learning about rites of passage work - how it applies to each individual, and to the collective - and how deep ecology builds kin-centric community in our six week offering called “ Becoming: A Rite of Passage for our Time. A six-week journey into nature, meaning, and the remembering of self.

_We acknowledge and honour the indigenous wisdom in which all of this work is rooted - a widely pancultural tradition of humans communing with land, the elements and the ancestors. _

Our own lineages are rooted in Celtic and Germanic traditions, and we gratefully receive and pay forward the teachings we have had the privilege to access.

Your Guides

Carolin Goethel

Carolin is a nature-based guide, facilitator, and community weaver, living between Berlin, Germany, and the East Coast of the United States.

Rooted in her academic studies (MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy), her work in leadership education and systems change, Carolin blends her passions for deep ecology, outdoor exploration, and cultural transformation into a holistic, embodied practice. She has cultivated a versatile toolbox to accompany profound life transitions and inspire deep culture change.

Carolin’s own transformative vision quest led her to study eco-soul centric practices with the Animas Valley Institute and train as a rite-of-passage guide with the School of Lost Borders. For the past five years, she has guided nature solo experiences and seasonal rituals with the Wild Minds Collective and the Church of Interbeing, fostering a sense of interconnectedness between humans and the natural world while attuning to the Earth’s rhythms.

Through her political work for climate and deliberative democracy projects, Carolin weaves together the threads of inner and outer change, inviting us to step into our agency and co-create a more regenerative, just, and flourishing future.

Jenny O’Hare

Jenny is an Irish deep ecologist and facilitator. Her work focuses on the relationship between humanity and the rest of the living world, and is deeply inspired by her own sense of belonging to living systems.

With a background in Natural Sciences and Ecology, and inspired by the ways that life informs life, she draws on Eco-psychology, Spiritual Ecology and extensive training in Eco-therapy, WTR, Solo nature experiences, ritual and beyond.

A core member of community group Siolta, a founding member of Wild Minds Collective,and a contributor to Education for Sustainability, she works with a broad range of people, offering diverse work, such as Climate Literacy workshops, Nature based immersions, Grief retreats, Interbeing explorations and 1:1 mentorship.

Her faith is always in how we continue to be present to what both enlivens and troubles us.

Listening to the living world is her most powerful guide!

Learn More

Check out Jenny's and Carolin's conversation about the importance of rites of passage, their own experiences with solo time in nature and the power of reclaiming these practices for our modern Western societies.

You can also check out the following resources:

• How a solo experience in nature helped me come to terms with the prospect of death—and this moment of mass extinction. - previous Deep Dive participant
• “Wilderness Solo - how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours.” - Guardian Article
• “Can Nature really heal us?”- Guardian Article