Agenda

We propose this idea as a framework for future Gathering. What do we mean?

We invited you to our country where rites of passages are forgotten and unknown. It is a big question for us – “How to invite our people?”
There was the time when you invited us. How do we now invite other countries to these practices? Maybe they are waiting.
How to invite youth?
How to invite business using the language business people can understand?
How to invite new guides? How can new guides find their place in community?
Old traditions and new forms--how do we blend these in the best way?
What transitions faces the modern society? What rites of passage does the modernworld need now? What ceremonies can truly support the needs of modern people?
How we can invite our collective history into our work – wars and their trauma and reconciliation, traditions that have historically served to divide people from one other, natural and manmade cultural disasters (i.e. tsunamis and nuclear accidents)?

We now are working on the agenda of the Gathering. We especially would like to invite workshops on the following topics.

Modern ceremonies for modern people
How to present the work to the community?
How to invite people?How to popularize rites of passage?
How to find “simple” words to describe our “complicated” work
Work with youth and children – special forms, ideas, ways
Women quest, men quest, different forms of work and work with different categories of people
Creating our own rattles and drums
Mentoring people in life transitions and preparing people to Vision Quest
National/cultural traditions and ceremonies
How a “young guide” can start the work
What “language” to use in working with business and how to invite business people to rites of passage work
Singing ritual and spiritual songs of different nations and traditions

And we definitely invite any other topic you would like to speak about or you are interested in. Waiting for your response!

Detailed agenda is now in the process of development