The School of Lost Borders

For over 40 years, the School of Lost Borders has provided vision fasts, guide trainings, and other programs that offer initiatory, transformational experiences to those seeking growth, insight, and restoration. Our participants are of various ages, lifestyles, and cultures. 

Our nature-based ceremonies and rites of passage trainings  cultivate self-trust, responsibility, and understanding of our unique place within society and the natural world. Our programs provide teachings, perspectives, and self-reflection in a non-judgmental, yet challenging environment.

These ceremonies are critical in our current times of climate crisis, systemic racism, and inequity. Many are disconnected from the natural world and their inherent place in it. We must provide a space for people to disconnect from digital life and reconnect with their true purpose and sense of place. These ceremonies are an opportunity to remember that humans are not separate from nature and that we all have a place of belonging on this earth.

Our offerings are accessible to all those who are called, especially those from systematically marginalized communities, and we do not turn anyone away due to lack of resources. Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to provide significant scholarships, loan equipment to participants, and provide access funds to help remove financial barriers. We also offer specific programs to support the LGBTQ2IA+ community, veterans, youth, women, and men.

We offer trainings to students from around the globe, who return home to offer meaningful rites of passage in their diverse communities. Our work reflects a desire to see more rites of passage interwoven into communities around the world. 

We carry an ethic of deep responsibility, relationship, and reciprocity with the places where we offer programs. We strive to leave the land better than we found it and give back to and honor the First Peoples of the lands where we work.