As a follow-up to our recent Call to Adventure Retreat, a group of Sacred Path Wisdom Council and staff members met with some of the attending boys and their mentors to honor the boys with certificates of completion, signifying their having accomplished the requisite rites of passage of this extraordinary program.
These young men should be rightfully proud of what they accomplished and while we were thrilled to have them join our community on the Mountain in Malibu, we are pleased to have joined them in one of their community centers in the heart of their environment.
With each passing Call To Adventure Retreat, we are witnessing the short and long term benefits of mentoring both inner city at-risk youth as well as boys from our own communities. It is an alchemy of trusting, mentoring, caring and sharing between men and boys that we believe serve as a model for the kind of programs that can link communities that might otherwise never touch, hearts that might never meet, and souls that might never mend.
We thank all of you in attendance at our most recent and all our Calls To Adventure as well as Sacred Path Retreats. We encourage those of you who may be reading this and haven’t taken the opportunity, to join us for future events such as these that will make a difference in your lives as well as in the lives of others. Experience is teaching those of us involved that the nurturance of young men and boys who might not otherwise experience the kind of growth experience and support offered in our programs is enhancing lives at the very least and saving lives when all is said and done.
We are proud of what is being accomplished and want nothing more then to expand our community of men and boys in programs such as The Call To Adventure that are exciting, growth promoting, fun and that further the cause of being a part of society that is contributing to the solutions rather than the problems.
Once again, congratulations to our outstanding participants and graduates. Ho!
Dan Franklin, MFT
Associate Director/Counseling Services of The Men’s Center of Los Angeles
Staff Member/Sacred Path and Call To Adventure Retreats
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