Rites of Passage announces 2025 Wilderness Quests, offering nine-day programs that help participants mark life transitions through solitude, fasting, and nature connection, continuing a tradition established in 1977.
-- Rites of Passage announces its 2025 schedule of Wilderness Quests, continuing a tradition established in 1977 of guiding individuals through transformative experiences in nature. These nine-day programs offer participants a structured opportunity to mark significant life transitions through solitude, fasting, and deep connection with the natural world.
The Wilderness Quest format draws on ceremonial traditions from multiple cultures that help participants navigate personal transitions, heal past wounds, and discover deeper meaning. Originally called Vision Quests, these programs were renamed in 2019 to respect the specific cultural heritage of Native American traditions while continuing to offer meaningful rites of passage for contemporary individuals.
Each Wilderness Quest follows a structured format. Participants begin with preparation days in a base camp setting, where they receive guidance on safety, wilderness skills, and ceremonial practices. The central experience involves three days and nights of solitude in nature, typically including a period of fasting. This time alone creates space for reflection, connection, and personal insight. Following the solo period, participants return to share their experiences and integrate their insights with support from experienced guides.
The organization states on their website: "Our mission is to bring about a healed relationship between the human world and the natural world, as well as the healing of individual, family and cultural wounds." Rites of Passage welcomes people from all backgrounds, honoring the universal human need for meaningful transition rituals.
The 2025 Wilderness Quests will serve individuals facing various life transitions, including career changes, relationship shifts, recovery from trauma, entry into adulthood or elderhood, and those seeking renewal and deeper purpose.
Rites of Passage was the first non-indigenous organization to offer vision quests to the general public, beginning in the 1970s. Their approach creates a ceremonial container that is both respectful of indigenous traditions and accessible to people of diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds. The organization's values include integrity, sacred trust, challenge, soul-based learning, and a nature-based approach to personal transformation.
Participants often report profound insights and healing from their Wilderness Quest experiences. The combination of natural settings, ceremonial structure, and supportive community creates conditions for meaningful personal growth and renewal. Many find that the challenges of solitude and fasting help them face fears, affirm inner strengths, and listen to their own inner truths.
June 21 - June 29 Men’s Wilderness Quest
November 15 - November 23 Fall Wilderness Quest
For more information about Rites of Passage and their programs, visit https://wildernessquest.org/
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