Links
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Listen to a 20-minute Podcast about LEAPYEAR and hear LEAPNOW Founder, Sam Bull, interviewed about the program.
LEAPNOW has a superlative preferred travel agent,
Karen Chieppa at Global Vision Travel. Karen has been
booking
travel for LEAPNOW students and groups for the past decade.
Call her toll-free at 800-386-4449!
Links to organizations that provide services and education that complement and augment LEAPNOW programs:
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Carpe Diem International Education - Three-month travel semesters in Africa, South America, Central America, Australia/New Zealand/Fiji, and India designed for college students, GAP year students, and high school seniors. Programs that were formerly run by LEAPNOW. Great programs to do if you want travel programs without retreats.
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Goddard College - A small but rigorous college with a strong emphasis on developing the mind in the context of the whole person. They focuse on social justice through many disciplines, and offer low-residency degrees. Many LEAPYEAR students have found a place at Goddard.
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Oxbow School - For high school juniors and seniors who are passionate about making art, Oxbow offers the nation’s only semester program that combines high-level instruction in the visual arts with academic subjects, all taught in an interdisciplinary, college-style environment. Located in Napa, California - an hour from the LEAPNOW campus.
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The School of Lost Borders - Based in central California this school offers short-term vision quests and rites of passage training. One of the oldest and best in the business!.
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ReMix Retreats: This new organization targets 14 – 21 year-olds currently living in the foster care system and gives them the opportunity to participate in 3 weeks of self-exploration activities, wilderness expeditions, and personal growth opportunities in the Sierras.
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Susan Mayginnes - A former member of our staff, and our favorite trainer and leadership development consultant in the Bay Area.
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PassageWorks Institute - Based on the work of Rachael Kessler, PassageWorks is dedicated to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools and districts so that the inner life of students and teachers is safe, nurtured and welcomed. They create curriculum and teach teachers.
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BDanced.com and GoldenBridge.org - Two organizations created by Melissa Michaels. She creates program that teach people how to create their lives through their bodies and creative expression, and that facilitate conscious rites of passage.
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The Hendricks Institute - Transformative seminars for conscious, loving relationships. An excellent place to learn skills needed for living in a conscious and intentional way.
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Nine Gates Mystery School - Two direct and experiential 9-day trainings that introduce you to the mystery of being human. These trainings incorporate Druidic teachings, African dance, rites of passage, study of the chakras, Christian mysticism, Hawaiian Kahuna teachings, and much more.
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The Work of Byron Katie - Transformative weekends and week-long intensives that foster true mental clarity and peace through a simple but rigorous process of inquiry into our belief systems.
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Productive Learning & Leisure, LLC - Experiential learning vacations, courses and workshops focusing on personal growth and enjoyable living.
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The Center for Purposeful Living - A year's immersion in a community in North Carolina dedicated to teaching and learning about service and transformation.
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Places of Peace and Power - Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage places of the world - Features hundreds of lovely photographs, intriguing essays, maps and bibliographies by National Geographic photographer Martin Gray. Martin traveled in more than 100 countries to produce the book Sacred Earth. His amazing photo of the Golden Temple in north India can be seen at our India Group Page.
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South America Explorers Club - A non-profit, membership based organization offering help and advice to travelers in South America, as well as clubhouses around the continent. Visit for books, maps, weekly events and much more.
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TEAM Program - Tamiscal High School - Marin County, CA - A great junior year that features community service, wilderness adventure and ropes course leadership - alongside a demanding college prep academic curriculum.
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Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) - A non-profit organization founded in 1989 to advance learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world.
Programs and Resources for Men:
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The Man-Making Blog
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Boys to Men
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The ManKind Project
The home of the New Warriors.
College Searches on the Web:
Other Links:
- Bella: Our favorite boutique for "all things beautiful" at 302 Center St., Healdsburg, California. 707-431-2910
- Leader's Challenge - great programs to engage youth in the Denver, CO area
- Walk for Kindness - A movement to raise awareness of the effect of kindness in ordinary — and extraordinary — human interaction. By walking for kindness we raise our own consciousness as well as that of others by embracing and exemplifying kind action.
- Healing Quest - Wilderness journeys for healing and recovery - based in Colorado.