| Santa Barbara, CA - Rite of Passage Adventure Weekend |
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| Boys to Men is an engaging, innovative, and safe program that helps
boys 13-17 gain the skills and insights they need for their journey to
manhood. We help boys: Discover and live their dreams Assert themselves
without violence Express their feelings constructively and with clarity
Maintain integrity, accountability and self-respect Become healthy,
happy, and powerful adult men The program begins with a Rites of
Passage Adventure Weekend (RPAW) where positive qualities such as
integrity, courage, respect, passion, and leadership are modeled by
more than 35 well-trained adult male staff. Through a series of
carefully facilitated processes, each boy discovers something of the
tremendous magnitude of his own humanity. Boys are challenged in new
ways, supported in new ways, and find that they can respond in new
ways. They find their own integrity, courage, respect, passion, and
leadership and they discover that they can access these qualities and
put them to work. It is an exhilarating, life-changing experience that
many say they will never forget. But it is only an initiation—a
beginning. Over the months that follow, young men work with mentors and
their peers to build on what they gained during their RPAW. Our groups
are planned to meet every other week. Boys receive support and the
chance to support others. They are empowered to learn for themselves
and to be part of others’ learning. They discover their own form of
leadership, give voice to their truth, risk experiencing and expressing
their feelings, and are affirmed for the unique gifts that they bring
to the world.
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Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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0ur goal is to create a model program that
can be replicated on a community level to
help young men throughout the world.
From the beginning we were seeing some incredible,
positive changes in the boys...
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