Mentorship

I offer one-on-one mentorship for teenage boys who want or need extra support in their home, school, and personal lives. My main role is to be someone outside the family unit your son can trust and rely on for guidance, listening, and, when it’s appropriate, advice. I will encourage and guide your son towards self-responsibility in his actions, open and clear communication, emotional regulation and coping skills, and movement in the direction of his passions. I work closely with the parents to incorporate their desires and needs for their son while maintaining the privacy of what the teen shares with me. Please see below for more details.

Includes:

  • Weekly sessions for 1.5 hours

  • Nature walks/hikes, lunch/dinner, games, music

  • Curated to the teen’s specific interests and passions where possible

  • Going “outside the office” and into the world

Four Thresholds

I work with teens on a weekly basis for three months minimum. This allows us time to build mutual trust and connection, dive into specific areas of strength and struggle, prepare for the rite of passage experience, and complete it with ample integration time afterwards. It also allows me to plan an arc for our time together so it can be the most effective for everybody. Below are the four thresholds that we cross in our time together.

Connection - Building mutual trust and connection; getting buy-in, “yes” to working together; identifying and discussing goals

Diving In - Deepening into conversations about life, family, self, passions; accessing the world of feelings and emotions; identifying strengths/struggles

Rite of Passage - Rite of passage ceremony: including preparatory work/conversations, discussing fears and excitements openly, calling on parents, aunties, uncles for support in this challenge; creating a clear container and arc of events

Integration- Incorporating the rite of passage into everyday life; distilling insights from time on the mountain; Looking ahead at what’s next for teen and preparing for his next phase after our work together

Packages

Seed

  • Building trust and connection through physical activities and fun; basic conversations touching in on who this young man is, who I am, what our work together could look like. This is an intro one month container.

Starter

  • Seed +

  • Diving deeper into different areas of life: relationships, friends, family, drugs/alcohol, sexuality, passions/work, technology/social media; beginning to peel back some of the layers and feelings around these topics and provide support, guidance where needed. This is a three month container.

Sapling

  • Seed, Starter +

  • Preparing teen for rite of passage wilderness solo; involves conversation with mom, dad, teen to create best container and ceremony for the family; opportunity to face fears, find inner capability, and be welcomed into the beautiful and challenging world of adulthood by family and friends; opportunity for the whole family to adjust to their new young man and the dynamics at play with that shift in roles. This is a six month container.

Tree

  • Seed, Starter, Sapling +

  • Integrating the rite of passage, incorporating lessons and insights gained on the mountain in that solo time; helping teen use that experience to help in his everyday life and look ahead to what is next; support in accessing his creative abilities to think, plan, and live as this new version of himself

  • More time and space in general for each of the stages of our work together, especially preparation for the rite of passage and integration time afterwards. This is a year-long container.

Cost

One-off session (90 minutes): $125

 3 months 
$1,400
12 90-min. sessions
​1x/week
​$100 Total Savings

6 months
$2,650
24 90-min. sessions
1x/week
​$350 Total Savings

1 year
$5,000
48 90-min. sessions
1x/week
​$1,000 Total Savings

*sliding scale is available for financial hardship.