Crossing the Threshold; Embracing the Call: Conceptualizing, Co-Creating, and Building Community Through Rites of Passage

Book excerpt: Crossing the Threshold; Embracing the Call: Conceptualizing, Co-Creating and Building Community Through Rites of Passage is an important and seminal work that guides a new generation of educators, counselors, cultural custodians, life coaches, and Rites of Passage facilitators through timeless pillars, concepts, and frameworks on coming of age rituals for boys of African and Indigenous ancestry. The book contextualizes transformational initiation experiences that have occurred in their personal lives and provides the tools for designing passages for future generations. It also provides the foundation for harvesting affirmative identity, sacred gifts, and the actualization of one's Divine purpose by restoring sacred and timeless African rituals for optimal levels of community building. Crossing the Threshold represents a lifelong journey of Kamau Ptah's passages, coupled with thirty years of professional experiences conceptualizing, designing, implementing, co-creating, and facilitating rites of passage in every community he has served worldwide.