Are you ready to expand your practice to include Nature, Ritual and Somatic Focused Depth Psychotherapy?

Through a combination of somatic mindfulness, depth psychology, deep nature connection, animism, medicine wheel spiritual technology, and a variety of indigenous ceremonial practices, you’ll learn a framework for helping those you work with profoundly release old ways of loving and or surviving that have been holding them back so they can step without reservation into the next phase of their lives.

This 7-day in-person training is offered to counselors, clinicians, life coaches, nature guides, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and to those who have completed the two year training with Kedar. It will provide you with an in-depth exploration of the White Hart Ritual Process Method—a structured, experiential group intervention model rooted in traditional psychotherapeutic modalities and nature-based clinical practices. The program incorporates evidence-informed techniques from somatic psychotherapy, psychodrama, Hakomi, IFS, and relational psychotherapy. Participants will learn to integrate mindfulness, body-based tracking, symbolic processing, and ecotherapy techniques to enhance client outcomes in trauma, grief, life transitions, and identity work. Clinical utility, ethical considerations, and cultural sensitivity are emphasized throughout.

“White Hart” ~ Ritual Process Method

"This healing process has been informed by the integration of 65 years of my lived experience and 40 years as a rites of passage ceremonial wilderness guide, body centered psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, elemental ritual process facilitator, intuitive cowry shell diviner, certified Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapist and vision quest guide, to name of few of the identities I have worn. Here are some of the teachers, teachings and methods that have become foundational to the understanding and practice of this healing modality.” ~Kedar S. Brown

The Roots of this Work:

Program Options:

January 16-22, 2026, Asheville, NC

Lodging and Meals: Six night residential training intensive in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC at a private mountain retreat home. Includes three meals a day and lodging near Asheville, NC. If interested contact Kedar@RitesofPassageCouncil.org

Prior to the training it is highly recommended that you complete the Medicine Wheel Spiritual Technology Course prior to the training

Training Facilitators: Kedar Brown, M.Ed. CHT Founder of Rites of Passage Council and Creator of Training Method and Kallie Brown, LCMHC, Rites of Passage Ceremonial ‘Guide

Registration Information

Tuition Cost $3500 (Includes meals and lodging) Non Refundable Deposit to hold your spot: $1500 All tuition is due by November 28 All tuition in non refundable after November 28 For Payment Plan Option email Kedar Location ~ Near Asheville, NC Limited to10 Participants

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February 6-12, 2026 Asheville, NC

Lodging and Meals: Six night residential training intensive in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC at a local mountain retreat home. Includes three meals a day and lodging near Asheville, NC. If interested contact Kedar@RitesofPassageCouncil.org

Prior to this training it is highly recommended that you complete the Medicine Wheel Spiritual Technology Course prior to the training.

Training Facilitators: Kedar Brown,Founder of Rites of Passage Council and Dr. Signi Goldman, MD

Registration Information

Tuition Cost $3500 (Includes meals and lodging) Non Refundable Deposit to hold your spot: $1500 All tuition is due by December 3 All tuition in non refundable after December 3 For Payment Plan Option email Kedar Location ~ Near Asheville, NC Limited to10 Participants

Walk with us...

“Like rivers flowing side by side in opposite directions, one moving in the this world of ordinary reality and the other moving with a magical current from an unseen source in a darker, richer, fertile ground somewhere in the west, we generally think of our lives as beginning with a birth and ending with a death. The initiatory passages of our lives are the periods when the soul’s descent into the dark night runs opposite the flow of life, in that they begin with a death and end with a birth.

 Every great vision and subsequent journey began with great loss. It is the life that we cultivate each day, by the stories we tell ourselves and the way we live or lives following these great disruptions, that will lead to the crafting of character and a true elder, rather than simply just an older version of our younger, uninitiated self, still in search of the holy grail- or even worse, one who simply refused the call. It is here, by the river of memory and belonging, that we begin to guide others across that great divide.” ~Kedar S. Brown