Next, Nate and I drove out to the ocean with some other dads and their sons. We communicated the importance of an adolescent moving into manhood. I told them there is an ancient path that boys in every generation have walked through to become men. I told them it’s been lost, but they are now entering the same journey.

Boys need to be separated from the comforts of childhood and consciously handed over to the community of men to begin the formation process. They exit boyhood and enter a “gray space” until they’re welcomed back into the community as a man.

First, he had dinner with his mom where she communicated that she would be handing him over to me to play the primary role in forming him into a man.