You know your son needs a rite of passage. You just don't know how to give him one.
In seven short videos, Jon Tyson walks you through the ancient process, one step a day, with one thing to do with your son each week. The whole course is free.
"We gathered around him, lifted him up and threw him in the air three times to welcome him. Everyone embraced Cy and we prayed together. One of the best moments of my whole life."
"Simon turns 13 in 10 days. We biked 50 miles down the Atlantic coast and back. Under a half-moon I read Psalm 139 over him, his name in every line."
"A baptism in the sea. Childhood set down, manhood rising. Then his first challenge: lead at the restaurant, order, pay with his own card. The waitress said, 'Whatever you're doing with him, keep doing it.'"
For thousands of years, fathers did this. The men gathered on a chosen night and called a boy out of his childhood. There was a fire, a test he had to pass, and a father's blessing waiting on the other side.
Our culture dropped all of it. So most of us wing it: a camping trip, the sex talk, how to change a tire. The desire is there. What's missing is the map.
When Jon walked his own son through it, he was making it up as he went. This course is the map he wishes he'd had.
Seven days. Every step of the process. Every question answered.
Every rite of passage starts with a clean break from childhood. Day 2 shows you how to make it.
This is the path men walked for thousands of years, and the path Jon walked with his own son. One video a day, each under six minutes.
Jon shows youwhy "hope for the best" isn't a plan, and what every culture knew that ours forgot.
On a chosen night, the men gathered outside a boy's home and called him out. He had to decide to walk through the door.
Jon shows youhow to call your son out of childhood, on purpose.
Men who loved him in the room. Gifts that meant something. A prayer, and a map for the years ahead.
Jon shows youwhat he did with his son, from the Bible and journal to a knife forged from mammoth tooth. No hazing, no hokiness.
Every young man was formed on three pillars: his family story, his sacred story, and the skills of a man.
Jon shows youthe 3 pillars, and why a camping trip won't cut it.
A vision quest. Months in the outback. A real test where a young man found out that everything poured into him was his.
Jon shows youwhy so many kids lose their faith at college, and how to test it while he's still home.
At the end of the journey, a father names what he sees in his son. Fewer than 5% of dads ever do it.
Jon shows youhow he closed his son's journey after 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago.
Jon shows youwhat he wishes he'd had when he started, and why no father should do this alone.
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