Are you ready to expand your practice to include Nature, Elemental Rituals 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.

Learning Objectives: 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 guide 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. Learning Objectives.

This Training Offers NBCC Approval for 40 CE’s

NBCC Approval No. SP-5162

“White Hart” ~ Ritual Process Method

"This healing process has been informed by the integration of 66 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 influencing my weaving together of this healing modality from various perspectives.” ~Kedar S. Brown

The Roots of this Work:

Remaining 2026 Program Option

September 28 to October 4, 2026 Near Asheville, NC Six night residential training intensive in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville NC This training will be held on the ceremony grounds at Three Waters Farm. Lynn and Kedar’s private property. Kedar@RitesofPassageCouncil.org

FREE: Once you register you will receive the Medicine Wheel Spiritual Technology Course for FREE. The course includes 7 video training modules (two hours each) handouts and ritual prescription homework assignments. It is highly recommend that you review the course videos prior to the training.

Training Facilitator: Kedar S. Brown,M.Ed. CHT Founder of Rites of Passage Council and creator of training method. Kedar will be assisted by other Rites of Passage Council guides.

Training Offers NBCC Approval for 40 CE’s for Professional Therapists. NBCC Approval No. SP-5162

Registration Information

Full Tuition Cost $3500 (Includes 2 meals a day, 67 page training manual, and Medicine Wheel Spiritual Technology Course for FREE)

Non-Refundable Deposit to Hold Your Spot: $1500

All tuition is due by: August 15th

All tuition in non refundable after: August 15th: If you withdrawal after August 15th Your tuition(minus your deposit) may be transferred to next training session.

Lodging: Tent Camping (recommended) Available On Site: What to bring list and directions will follow registration.

Offsite Airbnb lodging is an option you can choose at your own cost. Note: there is one Airbnb on the land that sleeps two people that can be rented “off book” but will need to be reserved far in advance.

Location ~ Near Asheville, North Carolina

Limited to10 Participants

Payment Plan Option: $1500 deposit in advance + 4 monthly payments of $500 with the first payment beginning before September 28 and remaining payments on October 15, November 15 and December 15. Will need to place a credit card on file. Contact Jess at Hello@RitesofPassageCouncil.org if interested in this option.

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