A reunion meeting is held after the return to help participants integrate and develop the powerful lessons and teachings that the Quest has brought them. We schedule the Vision Quest for every season of the year, with most of the trips going to the California desert. We choose this country because it is truly wild, rugged and unspoiled. However, no backpacking experience is required to participate. Most Vision Quest programs are for one week long, with three days spent on solo.
Enrollment is limited to eight participants for most programs.
Participation in Rites of Passage programs is open to people of any ethnicity, sex or sexual preference, and to people under age 18 with parental permission. These experiences are largely missing in our modern industrial culture. Our work is influenced by, and draws inspiration from, many cultures, drawing on the universal themes in all wilderness rites of passage to construct a program designed for our time and place. The staff serve as guides, mirroring and supporting participants by helping them to prepare for, understand and integrate their experience. The vision quester returns to our technological society guided by the lessons learned from having lived close to the healing power of nature.