Rites of Passage for Global Citizens

This paper is based on a presentation given in late October for The Japan Association for Global Competency Education ₅ th annual conference.Prior to the offer to present at the event, the author had been contemplating the idea of how rites of passage done properly could be used to create positive change.Thus, it would appear synchronicity was giving the perfect opportunity to explore rites of passage for global citizens.This paper is an overview of the presentation with some additional depth into the research conducted for the presentation.It should be seen as the initial stage of research into rites of passage.Before unpacking the meaning of a rite of passage it is necessar y to unpack the underlying beliefs that led to this author＇s desire to explore rites of passage.Rites of