

Adventure Game Theater
Teen Rite of Passage
Transform through improvisational theater and a live action adventure. Become a hero, meet magical creatures, face dark powers, and fight for your life with foam swords and magic.
July 5 - 12, 2025
Overnight Retreat
Ages 12 - 19​
Northernshire, Underhill VT
Cost: $995
Scholarships available




You will get the chance to share deeply with a small group of peers, learn mindfulness meditation and yoga, and play games including capture the flag with foam swords and lots of other wild fun!
Our retreats include a variety of activities to choose from including improvisational theater, creative writing, dancing, dream interpretation, wilderness skills, handcraft arts, cooking, and more.
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Daily Meditation
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Small Group Sharing
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The Adventure Game
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Sword Fighting
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Spellcasting Classes
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Improv Workshops
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Trance Dance
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Gender Workshops
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Exploring the Land
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Ceremonies
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Shamanic Journeying
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Bardic Circle
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Field Games
Featured ​Activities​​
Rites of Passage
94% of cultures worldwide and throughout history have provided their adolescents with a Rite of Passage experience to help, not only celebrate their move from childhood to adulthood, but to create the psychological state change that is necessary for this maturation. Using wisdom from other cultures, we've created an updated, modern version of this process, complete with the necessary 'threshold' experiences that allow this psychological healing and growth.
The Adventure Game
During an Adventure Game, retreat participants learn improvisational theater and play. Teens are taught to duel with foam swords, and practice "dying well." They are introduced to an imaginary world and are taught to transform themselves into a character within that world. Each teen puts their everyday clothing on a shelf, exchanging it for a costume which encourages them to put their old personality (their habitual ways of acting, thinking and feeling) aside, and try on a new one of their own creation. A shy, withdrawn girl may play a domineering, evil witch, while a tough kid may become a kind, heroic prince.
At the end of the day, when it's time to put their old clothes back on, they may not wear their old personality in quite the same way. They will have had a glimpse behind their mask, and have seen that their personality isn’t who they truly are; that who they really are is something far more universal, more enduring, than their outward personality. It is at this point that they will have a deep realization that they have the ability to choose who they really want to be in life.