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.
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.
Kamau Ptah is a luminary whose journey has intertwined conventional education with the ancient wisdom of African and Indigenous spiritual traditions. With over three decades of committed service, he continues to navigate his diverse roles as a husband, Baba (father), son, brother, uncle, educator, and cultural custodian, leaving an indelible mark on the communities he serves. Receiving a Bachelor's Degree from Hampton University and a Master's from Cambridge College, he is a trailblazer in shaping transformative systems and fostering healthy cultures in educational institutions and social service agencies. As the Founder/ Executive Director of Akoben Enterprise, Ptah provides culturally responsive education, professional learning, and youth development services, infusing Indigenous Spiritual ways of knowing and being to foster healing and growth primarily in communities of African, Latinx, and Indigenous heritage.
