Heart Quest Passages
NEW PROGRAM FORMING: “Mining the Jewels of your life” What is the difference between becoming an “older” or Becoming an Elder?”
Heart Quest classic Rite of Passage for the 14 year old and their families forming for spring 2025
Also offering Rites of Passages for pre-teens year olds and their families.
Rite of Passage Overview
A Rite of Passage entails basically 3 parts, and then the reintegration with our new orientation afterwards in community. When you embark on a Rite of Passage, you are on a journey to complete a part of your life with acknowledgement and community celebration! In our society we have learned to just flow along without these transitions and “markers” in our lives. We miss so much for ourselves and our loved ones.
We long to be seen in a new way, we long for connection with the powers of the earth, sun, the ancestors & nature!
As the Great Wheel of life keeps turning us more and more into ourselves, let’s take the opportunities to Celebrate ourselves and serve each other in Rites of Passage circles!! It will feed our inner world, and place our feet in connection to what is Real.
This program has a 2-4 month preparation using Internal Inquiry through Art Process, small group sharings, guided imagery, and eventually making Ritual Art Medicine Tools. These tools will be taken to the Enactment weekend.
The Enactment weekend entails 3 days in nature with our Elder/mentors, the facilitators and the other initiates with a culmination celebration in which our extended small community comes to celebrate with us. It is a very potent time when we use the Ritual Art Medicine Tools that represent our inner processes. The magic of ritual is experienced, witnessed and complete on the earth, under the sun in nature.
When we go to our Vision Quest night to pray, we are asked to stay awake to ourselves so that we may gain insight upon the Dawning of the New Day for our new living to come.
Thank you for stepping in, now let’s have some fun.
What is a Rite of Passage and what is not a Rite of Passage
A "Rite of Passage" is a 4 part ritual enactment that mindfully acknowledges and supports change. It offers “tools for transition” to negotiate the many passages we encounter in our lives. The Rites we offer include community support as well as personal journey work and vision quest Rites. Consciously addressing and healing our past and creating a new emerging self is the heart of our quest.
Getting your driver’s license, your first drink or puff, and your first sexual encounter is not a Rite of Passage, but simply a Passage.
“Enacting life changes through art, music, movement, drama and ceremony in a group setting is a wonderful way to gain deeper understanding of ourselves and others.”
-Kia Woods
Here is an example of some of the art process we will use. This is an inquiry based program, where questions are presented, and participants do simple art process.
The Hand of God – with Elders
This image is the result of in depth journey work. The first image went through three revisions. The “me” that was tossing and turning in waves, the discovery of a paddle to assist my direction and then the support of Elders.
Are you ready for a Rite of Passage?
Way of the ancient ones, Path to the future
Since our whole society is in the middle of a Great Passage Process,
perhaps we are each preparing for our Rite of Passage. Including “community” can make ALL the difference.
A Rite of Passage is appropriate for you if you are grieving the loss of a person, pet, marriage, job, home, time of life, or sexual identity.
A Rite of Passage will assist you in a deep way in addressing personal change in your journey work as you seek to evolve from
unserving habits to more satisfying life choices. Please email Iris Kelly to arrange a personal consultation!
For more information please contact Iris Kelly at:
iriskelly@holynights.org
Also check out Iris's other Art Process program to learn about how to interact with synchronicities that are occurring around us all the time:
HolyNights.org
Art Process done January 4, 2022, titled Dancing Sunlight
HELP WANTED: WE ARE SEEKING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LEARN THIS AMAZING RITE OF PASSAGE PROGRAM