The Wild and Wise
A series of conversations dedicated to the process of creating wellness, within ourselves and in our communities, in this time of deep transformation. We explore processes, practices, and ideas that resource our personal healing and illuminate the interplay between personal and collective liberation. Ashley and Mallika dive deep into these topics, together and with powerful healers, thinkers and change-makers, giving you a variety of ways to deepen your own connection to yourself and those around you. Ashley is Somatic Movement Therapist and ceremonialist dedicated to tending children, body, land, and spirit. Mallika is a licensed marriage and family therapist committed to creating containers that weave together spiritual and relational healing. In this show, you will learn pathways to healing so that you can awaken the wild and wise parts of yourself and grow your capacity to live a connected, sovereign, and creative life, in right relationship with all beings. Hit subscribe and get ready to come alive in ways you’ve always wanted.
The Wild and Wise
The Lost Art of Adulthood Initiation with John Wolfstone
ep # 32
John Wolfstone is back for another conversation with Ashley! They dive deep into the exploration of adult initiation, its function and its presence as a missing link to a more integrated and meaningful life.
John is a storyteller, filmmaker, community organizer and a mentor for Rites of Passage work. John is a curious explorer and question asker.
You'll here us talk about:
- The loneliness of modern adulthood
- Almost all indigenous culture have rites of passage ceremonies into adulthood
- The functions of rites of passage : 1. Connecting people to their purpose in community 2. to mature the person so that they can become a generative adult
- Johns personal path of creating adult initiation for himself
- Johns purpose of "help make human beings capable of being in service to the great turning"
- Bill Plotkins concept of moving from egocentric to ecocentric
- The shift to adulthood as the death of the hero
- Cultural practices of childrearing that interfere with the development of a sense of interconnection and humility
- Life phases and rites of passage through out the lifespan
- Village as a side effect of people tending culture
- A complete adult initiation requires mentors, elders, and youngers
- "That's what adulthood is, someone who is giving forth to a culture, and that culture is feeding the wheel of life."
- Acknowledging that we are living in an ecocide, creating space for grief
- Meeting "the river of grief" in the transition into adulthood
- Creating healthy containers to build our capacity to feel fully
- Creating a "cultural basket" that is woven by strands of containership that are organic, and help you come back to your intelligence and the intelligence of life
- The importance of ancestry in adult initiation
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