The only criteria for participation has been a commitment to use the training to serve youth. The theories and practices that predicate The National Rites of Passage Training model are based on the notions of African psychology adapted from the theory and life of the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa. Veparation had deep spiritual meaningprevent distractions. Observe nature cycles of growth and development based on universal principals of life -maximum exposure to nature, so nature, can become the teacher. Group based on age.
African education is a social process conducted in groups.
All participants are expected to master all requirements as a group. Use of special names that are symbolic Of types of charateristics. The overall purpose of the rites of passage adult training is to enhance the active development of the honhom in the growth and the development of adults to the extent that they discover their inner source of power and recover their ancestral spirits to develop self and to serve the community according to the purposes for which each person was bom. Discovering self and purpose for being. The quality of the training is enhanced with the participation of males and females.