OUR VISION

We work for a world where more people live a soulful life, aligned to their True Self and in an equal, dynamic and meaningful relationship with Nature.


OUR MISSION

To reunite people with Soul and empower them to realise the visions of their True Self, through the provision of pan cultural Nature based rites, experiences and wisdom teachings.

OUR CORE VALUES

  • We all have a True Self, an innate potential that constantly seeks greater expression. To be our True Self in the world requires moving beyond our past limits and adaptations.

  • To express our True Self is both to receive our deepest inheritance and to give the greatest gift we can offer the world.

  • We are all interconnected and we are of, not separate from, Nature. Nature offers us a mirror to realise our True Self.

  • Soul is the experience of spirit in matter. Soul making enables us to know the depths and heights of being human.

  • Rites of passage are our birthright. They are pan cultural and an essential part of soul making.

  • We honour the tradition of vision quest as a rite practised in many different forms, across the world and over millennia.

  • With gratitude, we acknowledge our debt to the generations of teachers from all cultures whose combined wisdom we now pass on.

Diversity and inclusion

Wild Rites celebrates the diversity of human experience. In our circles we warmly welcome all ages (over 18yrs), faiths, spiritual paths, religions, ethnicities, gender identifications and sexual orientation. We will always endeavour to accommodate disabilities.

We currently experience great diversity of spiritual traditions, gender, and sexual orientation. However, we do not yet see as many participants from BAME as we would like. We would like to reassure potential BAME and other participants that not only are you welcome, so are the challenges and struggles that you have faced in a society that has not yet achieved equality.

At Wild Rites we recognise that part of building deep relationship with Nature requires us to not treat any being, human or other-than-human as an object, an “IT” but to recognise the Self in all beings, a “THOU”. If we struggle to do this with one another this too needs to be addressed.

The more diverse our groups the greater the mirror we provide for each other. If you have any concern as to whether you will be welcome at Wild Rites please don’t hesitate to email us directly at jon@wildrites.uk or alex@wildrites.uk.

 

Our affiliations

The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London

Association of Psychospiritual Practitioners

The Wilderness Guides Council

 

“Seek not the paths of the ancients;
Seek that which the ancients sought.”
— Matsuo Basho