Rethinking our Rites of Passage, Dr Arne Rubinstein

<p>Bringing Community Back Together |Season 2 Episode 1 | </p><p>Dr Arne Rubinstein | Rites of Passage Institute</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;The question is not whether they&#39;ll go through a rite of passage, because they will. The question is, can we create something healthy for them, rather than having them create their own, which can be disastrous.....The transformation of a rite of passage is a change in our beliefs and values about ourselves and the world.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>Welcome to Season 2 . To kick off our next conversations about community, connection and our collective wellbeing, Samantha Heron sits down with Dr Arne Rubinstein OAM — GP turned emergency medicine doctor turned rites of passage pioneer. </p><p>In this episode, Arne shares:</p><ul><li><strong>Journey from an ER doctor to a ROP Leader in the hills of Mullumbimby</strong> What he saw in his emergency medicine years that convinced him teenagers were creating their own — often dangerous — rites of passage in the absence of community guided and supported ones</li><li><strong>A wellbeing graph that changed his career direction</strong>: life satisfaction peaking at 12, plunging between 14 and 18, and not recovering until around 70, he needed to know why...</li><li><strong>A framework for the shift from child psychology to healthy adult psychology</strong> — &quot;I&#39;m not the centre of the universe, I&#39;m part of the universe&quot;</li><li><strong>Why he believes Western culture has lost its respect for elders</strong>: &quot;We worship youth, and many are stuck in an adolescent way of thinking&quot;</li><li><strong>The concept of liminal space</strong>, and a disarmingly honest story about a single sentence from a childhood choir teacher that still shapes him today</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Arne&#39;s book <em>The Making of Men</em> first reframed how Samantha understood adolescence and community. </p><p>This conversation feels like a natural way to open Season 2. </p><p>Where Season 1 asked of us to rethink how we live ( Savannah Fishel) , how we measure progress ( Catia Davim), and how we rebuild community from the ground up (Mel Knuckey), how we become Humans for the long Haul ( Jon Owen) and more, Arne&#39;s work grounds those same questions in one of life&#39;s most universal, and most neglected, transitions. </p><p>🎧 Listen now, and if you enjoy it, please subscribe/follow along — it&#39;s free, and it helps more of these conversations reach more people.</p><p>To learn more