Passages Community Mentoring Program An adventure into manhood for highschool aged guys
"All the things that parents have nightmares about (adolescent risk-taking, alcohol, drugs and criminal activity) happen because we do not find channels for young men's desire for glory and heroic roles. Boys look out at the larger society and see little to believe in or join in with. Even their rebellion is packaged up and sold back to them by advertisers and the music industry. They want to jump somewhere better and higher, but that place is nowhere in sight.”
(Steve Biddulph)
What is the "PASSAGES" program
The philosophy of the program is structured
around
small mentoring groups of 8 boys and 3 leaders.
The program includes a series of
weekend camps throughout the 5
years.
These camps provide the place and space for boys to
express their
concerns and their dreams and to
discover who they are and what
they
are capable of
becoming.
Creating a network of mentors is a key to the
program, where boys can
find role models to whom they can relate, adopting
the proven 'life on
life' training style. We aim to gather men from the
wider community to
become
mentors.