Marking Your Life Stage

At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it?

A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms, and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up.



At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual.

It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

A programme for adults 18+

A gender inclusive and inter-generational gathering that welcomes adults to consciously mark the life stage or transition that is emerging.

This programme has grown out of 20 years of offering GMMT and Ebb & Flow (formerly Tracks and Tides Training), our men's and women's rite of passage weekends, which are still on offer in spring each year.



Transitions can include: leaving home, births, deaths, sickness, stepping into eldership, and the many more thresholds we encounter throughout our lives.

The weekend also offers an opportunity for couples, siblings, or parents and their adult children to experience a facilitated marking of their life stage, journeying together.



Marking Life's Stages brings together over 20 years expertise and experience of the Rites of Passage Foundation, co-created by the leading team of Tracks and Tides.