Boy to Man – Rites of Passage
Male adolescence is a formative period of change and development- an exciting moment that can be full of potential but can also be a period of great vulnerability.
Boys to Men is a five-day rites of passage camp that allows boys to explore and understand themselves, to delve into deep aspects of relationships, stereotypes, vulnerabilities, social pressures, sex and sexuality, values and dreams whilst supported by their significant adult male and a community of men.
The Boys to Men program builds a sense of belonging and resilience and offers a significant contemporary rite of passage whereby the boys will transition to and be acknowledged as healthy young men by their peers and community of men.
Trek Learning Centre’s Boys to Men program provides deep healing and connection for boys and their fathers or significant male at a time when boys are searching for leadership, belonging, meaning and their own edges.
Research shows that it is crucial boys are met in this moment of transition and are consciously brought through to young adulthood with wisdom, love and experience.
Without positive male guidance, boys will seek out their peers to understand their confusion, they will mask pain and insecurity and succumb to negative influences, seek freedom without taking responsibility and miss their true rite of passage into healthy adulthood.
Girl to Woman – Rites of Passage
Adolescence can be both a wonderous and confronting time for girls as suddenly new freedoms are experienced alongside pressures that often revolve around external concepts of beauty, personal value and power.
Trek’s Girl to Woman Rites of Passage is delivered across a five-day camp whereby girls are witnessed through the portal of childhood and into healthy young adulthood with a sense of their strength, resilience and personal power with a lasting community of healthy belonging alongside their mother or significant female adult.
Girl to Woman provides girls with the opportunity to explore health, mental health and wellbeing as well as healthy relationships with self and other, leadership, future dreams, social pressures and stereotyping, sex and sexuality and to challenge external forces that apply gendered pressures.
The program offers a deep reconnection for girls and their mothers or significant females, one built on mutual trust and understanding, moving the relationship forward from adult-child to one of adult-young adult.
Research shows it is imperative that girls and women find each other, and themselves, as allies, supports, and trustworthy people. Evidence shows that strong friendships and connections that are safe, honest, robust and true are cornerstones to health and wellbeing and having female champions to turn to is a valuable safeguard against the pressures and realities of gender-based discrimination.
Girl to Woman builds a community of belonging, provides a foundation whereby each participant has a new ability to love and value themself, and ensures each young woman is seen and witnessed as a young adult as they traverse the rite of passage from childhood and step forward into healthy young adulthood with the new supports, freedoms and responsibilities that accompany this change.
Reset: A 16-day camp for young people 15-17 years old.
An outdoor, self-discovery experience designed to address the impacts of over-reliance on social media, sleep disruption, social disconnection, sadness or general malaise in our young people.
‘Reset’ takes young people back to basics in an outdoor experience, where they learn to work together collectively to build and maintain a harmonised community with shared responsibilities essential for daily living.
Young people will learn a range of bushcraft and survival skills, and will participate in challenges requiring problem solving and teamwork as well as discovering a deep understanding of themselves, their place in the world and their value in it all whilst grounded in nature.
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