Jeffrey has been leading trainings and programs devoted
to empowering and helping lead men and women, old and young, through the
major transitions of their lives for over eighteen years; as a certified
trainer for the Men's Council Project and Men's Leadership Alliance, the
School of Lost Borders, or through his own innovative one-on-one mentoring programs.
Jeffrey guides men’s healing and inspiration retreats around the country as an inquiry
into the beauty of manhood, life potential, expression of personal mythology and healing
of the heart. He is a wilderness rites of passage guide for youth and adults and assists
individuals and groups in creating community rituals and blessing ways. Jeffrey is also
a Four Gateways Coach© based in the healing studies of Dr. Thomas Daly world elder,
teacher and visionary.
Men's 3-Day Vision Fast-Passage
Our men’s fast has been inspired by The School of Lost Borders, which has for 30 years provided outstanding initiation, healing, and visioning programs for adults and youth. Led by Jeffrey and assisted by a group of experienced guides, and following the centuries old native people's tradition, a man can go out in the wilderness alone fasting from food in order to remove himself from the daily struggle of his life. Supported and watched over remotely by our staff he can have the time and space to find the answers to his own questions.
Men - A Gathering for Men of all Ages
March 2-3, 2012
There are no easy answers to the questions we face every day of our glorious lives, questions that have perplexed our ancestors for tens of thousands of years. How is your heart living? What soul food awaits in your dreaming your walk on this earth. What blessings are you bestowing in your world? These times of extreme change and chaos call for self knowing, healing, and vision.
Subtle pieces of awareness and intuition guide us down this river of life, in tune with our own evolution, searching inside our bodies to touch the root of meaning, the place of profound love, joy, and wisdom. If we can imagine a life that feeds our internal fire and brings our best to the world, we are more likely to live it.
With the pressures of modern life it is easy to give up the passion for our inherited spirited life and suffer without solace in this upside down world. No doubt there is much tension in our living and many overloading tasks. The paths through life’s mazes are not easy to follow.
This retreat is an invitation to listen deeply to the world soul, to hear what is calling us, to stand in the grace of our destiny from birth to death, to have a say in this emerging life, to be rooted in a knowing beyond shame and comparison, to bring forth our fullest and holiest of offerings.
Human nature is held in the four seasons of life, from spring to winter, first breath to last. We will reflect on which season we are exploring and how that essence is informing our growing wisdom.
We hold in trust the knowing that in each of us there lives a beauty that has been unfolding for many years. We will be invited to align with our deepest ancestral and elemental experiences, each in our own way, to look into the soul of this earth, inviting it to offer us guidance and renewal and blessing.
We warmly invite men of all ages and ways on the path. Come and share your glorious self. We will journey together with the beauty and soul of the land at Rowe, and we'll connect with the core of our true selves and the heart and soul passages that each man must travel in life. Our oldest human nature calls us to gather, celebrate, and vision together.