The passage into young womanhood is a potent, beautiful and sometimes challenging time in girls’ lives. By intentionally honoring, guiding, and celebrating this shift, we can support our girls to emerge into this next phase of life with confidence, resilience, compassion, and a strong sense of their own unique gifts. Throughout this weekend journey, girls will have the opportunity to reflect on this passage, express their creativity, share their unique perspectives, discover more about their strengths and challenges, and intentionally cross over a threshold into this early phase of young womanhood. The weekend will offer a variety of experiences—including group time, solo time on the land, creative expression, movement, and heart-centered conversation.

This passage experience includes:

• Group of 10-12 girls maximum
• A special 2 hour parent meeting before the 3-day passage 
• Exploration of themes: transition, friendship, empowerment, body changes (puberty, menstruation), identity, gifts and challenges
• Community building & social and emotional skill building
• Solitude and time on the land, including a short solo journey
• Council, heart-centered dialogue, simple ceremony & creative expression through a variety of modalities.

Registration
To apply for this program please contact Brie Anderson-Feldman, 720-289-2835, brie@passagescounseling.org.

Guides: Brie Anderson-Feldman, MA, LPC and Laura Weaver, MA. 

Brie Anderson-Feldman, MA, LPC, BC-DMT is child and family therapist, with over 10 years experience supporting young people find empowerment, hope and healing. She is passionate about partnering with communities, both locally and internationally to create programming which addresses the critical themes related to the social and emotional health of young women. 

Laura Weaver, MA is a mother, writer, rites of passage guide, and co-director of the PassageWorks Institute (www.passageworks.org). She is the co-author of the bookThe 5 Dimensions of Engaged Teaching and her poetry, book chapters, and essays have been published widely.  She has taught courses and workshops for parents and educators for the last ten years and has a particular passion for supporting young people through the transition years.