Vision Quest
What Do You See When You Look With Your Soul?
Do you have the sense that there is something else waiting to come into your life? Something of great depth and significance. Or something more profoundly aligned with your values, the things you believe in your deepest self. Maybe it’s to do with how you can make a real difference in our troubled world? Without a doubt, it’s about living life more authentically, in closer alignment with your True Self.
You may have been aware of it for a while, this dream of a different way to make your values and beliefs manifest in the world. Or you could have uncovered it recently, perhaps through other depth work you have undertaken, or through a profound life experience. Either way, you know its time now to turn inwards and explore what it is that is calling to you through the lens of your soul.
““If you keep telling the same story. You will keep living the same life.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.” ”
Key Facts
An 11-day rite of passage with a 4-day solo wilderness fast.
Lake District National Park.
Dates: September 5th - 15th 2024 (11 days)
Guides: Jon Keen and Simon Fardell - click here to read more.
Places: 10 participants.
Costs: The total cost for this rite of passage is £1195. A £395 non-refundable or transferable deposit secures your place followed by 2 x £400 instalments. 1st due 120 days before start date, 2nd due 60 days before start date . Please click here to read our booking and payment policies before you book.
Fees include all guiding, facilitation, accommodation (in bunk barn or camping with your own equipment), welcome meal on Friday. All other meals are self-catering.
Why Vision Quest?
The challenge now is to look very closely, to open your inner eye and see yourself as you really are, in a deep and intimate relationship with the world around you. There are many distractions though. The everyday world keeps getting in the way. Your doubts and fears cast their dark shadows. Your ego throws up a mirage of distractions and fantasies.
To undertake a Vision Quest is to work very deeply, right at the edge of who we really are and all that we can be in the world. It is a profound rite which will challenge you deeply and which offers the possibility to enter the journey of rebirth into a True Self, which is both the your deepest inheritance and also the greatest gift you can offer to the world.
What is Vision Quest?
Vision Quest is a rite of passage, used for millennia in traditional cultures, which allows us to clear that fog, to see ourselves more deeply and more acutely with clear eyes and a fresh perception, free of our past conditioning, old habits and received beliefs.
At Wild Rites we bring a together a combination of psychosynthesis psychology, the mirror of Nature and the ancient principles of the Medicine Wheel, Council and a fasting retreat in the wilderness, to offer a profound rite which responds to the demands and constrictions of the modern world.
Over 11 days we guide you in the wisdom of the medicine wheel and into a deep relationship with the natural world, so that you come to see and encounter yourself in new and profound ways in those mirrors. We will work with you individually and in a group to set a personal intention for your emerging True Self, which you will test and explore through your fast. And we will hold you in spirit as you head out into the wild for four days. On your return, we work deeply together in ceremony to uncover the vision that arises from the core of your quest.
At Wild Rites we honour the tradition of vision quest as a rite practised in many different forms, across the world and over millennia. We acknowledge our debt to the generations of teachers whose combined wisdom we now pass on. And we seek to guide and support you in a genuine rite of passage that will begin the life-long journey to birth your Truest Self into the here and now.
Your Commitment
We realise that to partake in a Wild Rites Quest may be a once in a lifetime event. It takes courage and commitment to hear and answer the call of your True Self. We want our participants to be comfortable that they have found the right guides for them and their process. This is why we offer a free, no obligation 45 minute call-back service so you can speak to Jon or Alex about the Wild Rites Quest. If you would like to arrange your call-back click on the button below and complete the form, we will email you in the first instance to arrange your call-back date and time.
The impact of Vision Quest - what people say
Alex and Jon recognised the very personal process being undertaken by each of us and, with the wisdom of ones who know the depth and breadth of this transformative experience, held us each with love, kindness and generosity. Helen, London, UK
Alexandra and Jon have a gift! They are genuine masters of their craft and create a space where all participants are both included and encouraged. Their vision questing technique is guaranteed to bring results - I’ve paid ten times more, for much less. So, why not get yourself to one of their programs? You will be surprised at how much you get from it.
Jan M, London, UK
I completed my Vision Quest with Jon and Alex at WildRites in May 2018, it was the most incredible and life changing experience. Not a first step in your journey, but it will come at the right time for you whenever you feel it is right.
Steve, Surrey, UK
The Quest is an experience that will resonate with me for a long while. Jon and Alex guided us through our quest giving us the strength and space to make our own decisions with grace, love, wisdom and total professionalism. I discovered a subtle but firm way of allowing myself to reach deep within and draw out what I needed. I cannot recommend them highly enough. I would most certainly love the to work with them again.
Di, Divisional Operations Manager, Manchester, UK