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Resources for Teens & Parents of Teens

Love Your Nature is committed to maintaining a spirit of collaboration and co-creation as we re-weave community across the world. We welcome additions to this list!

Coming of Age Resources for Teens & Parents

​Coming of Age for Girls
  • Scarleteen: Sex Education for the Real World (online community)
  • Sex Positive Families: Raising Sexually Healthy Children One Talk At A Time (online forum)
  • Girls & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein
    • Visit Peggy's Website
    • Watch TEDTalk Video: What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure
    • Watch TedTalk Video: Girls & Sex Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
  • Anything and everything related to Charis Denison
  • Sex Positive Parenting : Downloadable Tools to Help the Journey (few examples below)
    • Six Minute Sex Ed Podcast (Listen to episode "Sexual Orientation Level 1")
    • Supporting Trans & Queer Youth
  • Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human, Erika Moen
  • On Blossoming, Frank and Practical Advice on Our Bodies, Sexual Heath, Sensuality, Pleasure, Orgasm and More, Gia Lynne
  • The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
  • Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Becoming peers: Mentoring girls into womanhood, DeAnna L’am
  • The Mother-Daughter Project: How mothers and daughters can band together, beat the odds, and thrive through adolescence, SuEllen Hamkins & Renee Schultz
  • The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising authentic girls with courage and confidence, Rachel Simmons
  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher
  • Talk To Me First, by Deborah Roffman
  • Come As You Are, by Emily Nagoski
  • American Girls, by Nancy Jo Sales
  • The Body Positive: Education about developing essential skills for loving the skin you're in
  • One Love: Teen education about "healthy" v "unhealthy" relationships, especially focused on violence of all kinds
  • Around the Dinner Table: a forum for parents of kids with eating disorders
  • The Body Is Not An Apology: Radical Self Love for Everybody and Every Body

Rites of Passage & Coming of Age
  • ​Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating wholeness and community in a fragmented world, Bill Plotkin
  • Hold On to Your Kids: Why parents need to matter more than peers, Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Mate
  • Betwixt and Between: Patterns of masculine and feminine initiation, Louise Carus Mahdi, Stephen Foster, & Meredith Little
  • Long Life Honey in the Heart: A story of initiation and eloquence from the shores of a Mayan lake, Martin Prechtel
  • Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passages, Michael Meade, Nancy Geyer Christopher & Louise Carus Mahdi
  • The Four Shields: The initiatory seasons of human nature: Stephen Foster and Meredith Little
  • Seven Arrows, Hyemeyohsts Storm
  • Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead
  • Daughters of Copper Woman, Anne Cameron
  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the 7 Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour

Relationship with Nature
  • Michael Meade, Mosaic Voices Podcast
    • Incredibly rich archive of material relating to everything from nature to rites of passage to climate change, Meade offers a much needed mythos to the contemporary narrative
  • Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature: For kids of all ages and their mentors, Jon Young Shelton
  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder, Richard Louv
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Parenting, Adolescence & The Adolescent Brain
  • Charis Denison on The Flip Side of Teen Behavior, TedX
  • The New Adolescence, Christine Carter Ph.D.
  • Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Daniel Siegel
  • Parenting from the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive, Daniel Siegel
  • The Teenage Brain, Frances Jensen
  • Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children, Thomas Gordon
  • Staying Connected to your Teenager, Michael Riera Ph.D.
  • Nonviolent Communication Resources
  • Developmental Science: Personal Essays & Science Writing by Diana Divecha, Ph.D.
    • Featured Article: "Letting Go"
    • Pandemic 2020: Will the Kids Be All Right? Lessons on Parenting from 100 Years of Crises
  • Polly Ely & the LAB Method
    • Parenting "LAB" Events
    • Free Parenting Resources
  • Podcast: Evoke Therapy w/ Dr. Brad Reedy
    • A slightly ramble-y but phenomenally useful podcast you can listen to in small chunks:)

Rites of Passage, Nature Connection & Mindfulness Programs for Teens

The Stepping Stones Project: Mentoring & contemporary rites of passage for middle school youth. Bay Area, CA.

Spirit Rock Teen Program: Meditation Series for Teens. Marin, CA.

Wilderness Reflections: Provides Vision Quests and Rites of Passages. CA.

Rites of Passage Vision Quest: Provides Vision Quests and Rites of Passages. CA.

​Animas Valley Institute: Guiding wilderness immersions into the wilds of psyche and mystery to discover soul purpose, personal transformation, transformational leadership. Boulder, CO.

​Deep Nature Guides: Wildlife tracking, habitat restoration, rites of passage and council, Marin, CA.

Wild Awakenings: Nourishing aliveness through quests. Bay Area.

W.I.L.D. Wilderness Immersion & Leadership Development: Skill-building mindfulness-based backpacking trips for teen boys

Teen Sangha at East Bay Meditation Center: Weekly teen meditation class in Oakland, CA.

Beautiful Project & Naomi Katz. International girls empowerment work.

WAKAN: A new vision of sacred living & intergenerational community, Marin, CA.

Generation Waking Up: Igniting a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world. Bay Area, CA.

Prajna Consulting: Human development, ethics & social justice. Bay Area, CA.

Summer Camps for Girls

Gaia Passages: Nature and soul based after-school groups and summer camps for girls in the Bay Area, CA.

Girls on the Go Camp: Girls explore, engage and connect with one another. Traveling to locations across the beautiful Bay Area, campers safely navigate the public transit system. Berkeley, CA.

Monkey Business Camp: Summer camp and kids programs in the East Bay, CA.

Holistic Education Resources

​Super Start Heath Education: Medically accurate, age-appropriate, shame-free, comprehensive sexuality education. Bay Area, CA​

Gender Spectrum helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens.​ Bay Area, CA​

Girls Leadership & the Power ColLABorative: An amazing organization with a new culturally responsive, SEL-based training for professionals who work with girls led by a friend and colleague of Love Your Nature!

​Girls Inc of Alameda County: A non-profit organization with the central goal of empowering and inspiring girls and young women. Oakland, CA.

Classroom Matters: Tutoring and Academic Support, K-12, Berkeley.

Lifeworks Learning Center: Tutoring and College Prep, Mill Valley.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health care in the United States and globally.

East Bay School for Boys: A middle school promoting self awareness and empowerment, Berkeley.

SEEDS Of Awareness: Mindfulness based social skills groups.

Mindful Schools: Oakland / Global.

Park Day School: Oakland, CA.

Prospect Sierra School: El Cerrito, CA.

The Esalen Institute: Big Sur, CA.

The Gazebo Park School: Big Sur, CA.

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence: Boston, MA.

Artists, Change-Makers & Plant Friends

The Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy: The Work that Reconnects helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.

The New School at Commonweal: The New School presents conversations, book signings, art, and lectures with thought and action leaders of our time. Bolinas, CA.

Regenerative Design Institute: We inspire and educate those seeking practical solutions, deep nature connection and personal transformation to build a more sustainable world for generations to come. Bolinas, CA.

Ecology of Leadership: Leadership sourced in heart, nature and community. Bolinas, CA.

Planting Justice: Grow food. Grow Jobs. Grow Community. Bay Area.

Soul Flower Farm: Committed to empowering the socially disenfranchised and injecting balance in our food and social systems. El Sobrante.

Julie Wolk Coaching: Nature based business coaching

Ayla Nereo: Musical Artist & Change-Maker.
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