Stepping into Manhood Camp – Celebrate your son becoming a young man and help him create a healthy vision for the future.
The 2025 October Stepping into Manhood Camp (boys age 14-17)
08 – 11 October 2025
Why a Rites of Passage….
Why do you need to go back to the past to move forward with your son?
To put it simply life right now is tough for our children AND for you as a parent!
Children are being “forced” to grow up quicker, as the challenges and pitfalls of living in a digital age are impacting their natural development and their personal growth.
We don’t need to look to far back in history to a time where there was a process where the village took their children from young boys and girls through to being young men and women.
This process is called a Rites of Passage.
At Rites Together, we provide a safe space whereby fathers, mothers ( or mentors) and sons can come together and be guided on this process.
Going from being a boy to a man is a journey, and who walks beside our sons is as important as the journey.
The fact is many fathers have not done their own rites of passage.
During the rites of passage process, boys experiences and are guided through a number of different challanges , some conscious and some subconsciously, to create reflective decision making and positive steps towards becoming an adult.
A Rites Together experience endeavours to create a protective and reflective environment where the boy feels a sense of togetherness within himself and in his relationships.
Social connection, combined with open conversation, from men who have ‘been in their shoes’ provides a potent story for the years to come.
Whilst we cannot walk each other’s path, we capable of building a relationship where, pulling together becomes more meaningful.
A fathers comments :
“What a humbling experience to have my son cross the line and start his journey into manhood not only in the presence of great men but supported by great men. I could not have given this experience to my son in a lifetime by myself … I know I have given him the greatest start to his life as a young man.”- Father
Stepping Into Manhood Camps
Since 1994 it is estimated that over 30,000 people in Australia have been touched by this life changing work through various organisations conducting Rights of Passage programs for our sons and daughters.
The Stepping Into Manhood Camp is a contemporary Rites of Passage program based on years of research and experience. Every boy should have this opportunity. It will help bring out his individual gifts and talents, build strong family relationships and motivate him to be a good man who makes a difference.
Why a camp
What does the Stepping Into Manhood Camp create?
- Celebrate your son becoming a young man and help him create a healthy vision for the future
- Create networks and resilience that will support him in tough times
- Provide an opportunity to be acknowledged by other adult men
- Gain insights from men’s stories of their pathway to becoming an adult
- Experience and understand challenge is part of everyday life
- Explore a vision for themselves in the future
- To bring out the best in your boy and celebrate him becoming a young man
- Bring awareness to the physical, emotional and psychological changes happening in your boy
- To stimulate the development of strong, healthy relationships that will continue to support him during his teenage and adult years
- Provide opportunity to think about what childhood behaviours he is ready to let go of as he moves into manhood
Rites Together has the philosophy that no one should miss out on this experience because of cost and aims to facilitate various ways of payment to ensure costs are covered for the camps and the organisation to be sustainable. The current cost of the Stepping Into Manhood camp is set at $1400 – 1650 sliding scale dependent on income. An early bird discount of $ 100 is now available, ff you enroll and pay a 200 dollar deposit to hold your place. This includes all costs for both Father and Son to attend the camp and also covers the Mothers Program. Alternative arangements for payment can be made after camp registration. There areonly 16 places available for this yearly program
If the information you seek cannot be answered in our FAQ section, please contact us.
Reijer – 0408 605 842