John Dupuy

John Dupuy - Program ManagerThe inspiration for Passages to Recovery began as part of John's vision quest: "What can I do to better serve my people?"In 1999 John was given the opportunity to implement his vision of an adult wilderness program built on the spiritual principles contained in the in the Twelve Steps and utilizing the wilderness and the ancient ceremonies of the sweat lodge and the vision quest."These ceremonies as well as the emersion in the pristine wilderness environment provide our students with the opportunity to connect with their Higher Power not as a dogma, but as living reality."John began working as a wilderness counselor in 1984 and worked in a variety of treatment programs both in and out of the wilderness.John is a graduate of South West Texas University.John did his graduate work at John F. Kennedy University in transpersonal psychology.John is fluent in both Spanish and German.John served in the US Army as a Military Police Investigator.John is also a gifted singer/songwriter and uses his music in the field to teach and inspire.

JOHN DUPUY, has been doing pioneering work on integral recovery, a new model for the treatment of chemical dependency and alcoholism, using integral theory and the AQAL map.

John began working in the field in of recovery 1984 and has worked with some of the premier wilderness therapy programs in the country. In 2000, John founded Passages to Recovery, an adult wilderness program integrating recovery treatment with wilderness rites of passage. In 2006, John helped to found Open Sky Wilderness Therapy, a holistic wilderness program for adolescents and adults.

John was born in Texas, has lived in Spain, Mexico and Argentina, and is fluent in German and Spanish. He served for three years as a military police investigator in Germany, then later did his graduate work in transpersonal psychology at JFK University in Orinda, CA. John lives in the village of Teasdale in rural southern Utah, with his wife, Pam.

SEAN ESBJÃ-RN-HARGENS, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Program Director of both the Integral Psychology and Integral Theory programs at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California. He is Co-Director of the Integral Ecology Center at Integral Institute and the Executive Editor of Journal of Integral Theory and Practice.