Why?
We know that boys and young men are at increased risk of mental illness, violence, risk-taking behaviours, and suicide.
The years that mark the transition from teenage boy to a young man are critical to the formation of a healthy, mature, mentally well man.
For most of history, boys were raised by the community and had a range of male mentors and uncles to help guide them during this transition. But today, in western society, this is often not the case.
And often the result is someone who is physically a man, but still retains many of his boy-like behaviours.
What is a Rite of Passage?
Reconxted is a contemporary Rites of Passage camp for teenage boys and their father (or male mentor, who could be an uncle, stepdad, or family friend). Using the Rites of Passage framework developed by Dr. Arne Rubinstein (author of Making of Men), we will guide the boys so that they can create a vision of the kind of adult they would like to become.
