Sacred Emergence: Initiation into Adulthood for Young Women
Sacred Emergence: Initiation into Adulthood for Young Women Application Deadline: February 15,...
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Event Type: Sacred Emergence: Initiation into Adulthood for Young Women
It’s time to apply for Young Women’s Initiation 2021
The application deadline for the 2020 Sacred Emergence is February 15.
Although the Sacred Emergence Women’s Initiation Council accepts applications year round, to be considered for the 2020 initiation, we must receive your application by February 15th. If we receive your application after this date, we will put you on the list for consideration in 2021.
IMPORTANT: If you are a young woman close to the cutoff age of 25 and want to apply for initiation, you must meet this deadline. If we have not received your application by February 15, you will have missed your opportunity.
To learn more about your eligibility, cutoff and ritual dates, and to apply please visit the event page or contact the Initiation Council.
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Taking Time to Grow Ourselves
There is such richness when we are witnessed and supported by community, as we learn and grow into what it is to be human, through the various stages of life. Sometimes community comes in the form of a pop-up “village,” during a profound time spent together over several days.
Gift yourself with one of the following opportunities to take some time “out of time” to remember and rediscover something essential about yourself. See the Sparks (events) section below for a list of upcoming Men’s and Women’s annual gatherings.
Sacred Emergence, which supports initiation into adulthood for young women, will take place July 26-August 2. Applications are due by February 15, 2020.
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Are you a young woman seeking initiation?
The Sacred Emergence Council is now accepting applications for the next group of young women seeking formal, ritual initiation into adulthood. Applications are accepted year-round from girls and young women between ages of 16-25.
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The Gift: Supporting Young Women’s Initiation
There we were, a staff of ten women, ages 31–76, snuggled in to a gorgeous wilderness. Four generous and capable men assisted and protected us. Three experienced wise women had worked for months to take the young ones through this Sacred Emergence, perhaps the most meaningful event of their transitioning lives. The set up was perfect…and, for me, there was a feeling that the spirits came for the most important part, enlivening the place, the ceremonies, the people, the animals and the rivers, along with the trees and flowers that sang each day to us of their love and assistance.
Hard emotional and physical work were the order of the day, and each of us appeared in the morning, willing, generously giving of all our gifts. No matter if it was doing dishes, hauling wood and water, or opening our hearts in trusting ways, each of us was present. We intended to make the entire time one of fierce graciousness so the blessings would flow to the girls who had made themselves available to become women, in the most magnificent sense. And they did! All manner of surprise surfaced each day, in casual exchange as well as in deep ceremony, to bring these young women to places from which they cannot return…nor would they want to.
We cannot fully know what has been wrought, yet we have faith that the transformation will continue for these women, as they grow in grace and truth.
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