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A Teening Path offering is being offered early in 2020, starting March 7th.  For more information contact callan@the-ilc.org.  To register simply click the button below!
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Your "Teening Path" Team

Mara Evenstar
Program Content Lead, Principle Facilitator

I have been learning, practicing and teaching within the realm of transformative arts for over twenty years. I feel it is part of my life’s purpose to help us all actualize our full potential and experience our true selves. As a Transpersonal Consultant, I wish to serve those going through transformative life experiences. Most recently this call has come in the form of collaborating and co-creating Conscious Rites, and in focusing on the very real need for coming-of-age support for our youth in these times.  
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My academic background is in Anthropology (BA) and Transpersonal Psychology (MTP) specializing in spiritual psychology and organizational development. Beyond the development of workshops and classes, I have brought this learning into Siena Heights University and Washtenaw Community College classrooms. 

​I am currently studying with Jean Houston, working on my doctorate (Ed.D) with Meridian University. The focus of my program is on organizational leadership and social transformation, where I am building and deepening my gifts as a Social Artist.
My practice is grounded in professional, real-world experience with research and development in education, business, and technology. Learn more about this part of my background by visiting my LinkedIn profile. In addition to working with clients and building the organizations you can read about on my Arammai Services website, my internet talk radio show, The Art of Transformation, aired in 2015 and links to the recordings are available.
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And of course I should mention, I come to this program with rich parenting experience. I have three amazing daughters and two wonderful bonus-sons – all whom have traversed through adolescence and have launched into adulthood. I did the math, and because of the spread, I had at least one adolescent living in my home for 16 consecutive years! I now have three beautiful granddaughters, the oldest is currently emerging into her tween years! What a beautiful ride. 

Callan Loo
Program Business Development Lead, Principle Facilitator

I am one of the core team members that originally envisioned and planted the seeds that have sprouted into this vibrant Conscious Rites community and organization. I'm a co-founder and Chief Intention Officer of Intentional Legacies, and am an experienced, authentic, and creative participant in the journey of life.  I am certified as a celebrant through the In-Sight institute, a certified officiant, a priest in the Order of Melchizedek, a certified personal legacy coach, and a business legacy coach.  Based on my own rich and challenging life experiences I'm passionate about helping others find peace, balance, and personal growth while navigating life's major transitions.  I see rites of passage as a life art form which can and should help all of us move gracefully between phases of our lives. 
My own parenting experience has been fulfilling and richly diverse.  I have two young-adult children of my own and am enriched by the gift of bonus-children in my life.  My early Rite of Passage experiences were in the Catholic tradition as a young child but my life journey into adulthood has led me to embrace a more open spiritual path.  In 2014 I designed and delivered a custom coming of age ceremony for my own teenage son, in 2015 I embraced a modern coming of age ceremony myself through the Mankind Project, and in 2019 I completed a next-level Deepening ceremony through Conscious Rites.

Our Approach

We approach this work with great heart and care. We care about our children, our society and the future of this planet. We are parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles, and big brothers and sisters who care. However this program also has a strong grounding in research and brings forward creative applications from human development, depth psychology, integral theory, transpersonal psychology, transformative learning, and conscious parenting to name a few.  And let's not forget Spirit! Conscious Rites is a trans-religious organization, which means that we tend to the needs of the human spirit without ascribing to any particular religious path. Your path and worldview will be honored and we strive to create connection through diversity.