About Us

Circles of Stone was created by Kevin Rudham and Theresa Plewman in 2004 as a loose collaboration of skills and experience to facilitate soulful nature based personal development work. Since its inception, Circles of Stone have facilitated, hosted and co-facilitated vision quests, motherhood wilderness weekends, coming of age rites of passage for boys, relationship workshops for couples, coming of age circles for women and adolescent rites of passage for young women. 

We work in wilderness areas of Mpumalanga and the Magaliesberg in South Africa and in rural areas of England.

Theresa  Plewman:

Theresa is a Vision Quest guide, hospice volunteer, doula, Nia white belt, Reiki master, wife, mother and many other things! She calls herself a “work in progress”. She is currently engaged in a professional  psychotherapy training with the WPF in London. She holds an MSc in Development Planning and has always focused on rural development related issues, in particular land rights, environment and women’s issues. She believes that her diversity of skills and interests  weave the threads between nature and the human psyche. Her passion is creating and holding space for women and men to experience the way the magic of the outer wilderness can open possibilities for on-going personal mastery.

Theresa’s work has included creating and facilitating wilderness based Motherhood experiences, co-facilitation of various age rites of passage processes, and Vision Quests. She has a strong interest in young (and not-so-young) women’s rites of passage. Theresa has been involved in nature based personal transformation work since 2003.

Theresa was trained as a Vision Quest  facilitator by Judy Bekker and Valerie Morris. She has worked with Angeles Arrien and is linked into the international network of Wilderness Guides which gathers every two to three years to share collective experience and wisdom.

Kevin  Rudham:

Kevin is a freelance photographer, husband, father, Tai Chi practitioner Vision Quest facilitator and Elder in Waiting. He is on the Council and Leader Track of the Mankind Project of South  Africa - an international men's development organisation which takes men on a powerful mythical transformative journey.

Kevin is developing a number of workshops using photography as vehicle for exploring Aspects of Self and revealing our own untapped creativity. Watch this space for details.

Kevin was trained as Vision Quest facilitator by Judy Bekker and Valerie Morris.

Judy Bekker:

Guest Vision Quest Guide

Judy Bekker spent ten years working as a journalist in South Africa, before entering the consulting and faciltation arena in the early 1980’s. Her work ranges from corporate programmes to the more spiritual, personal development processes.

Leadership development, communication and conflict resolution work, diversity and visioning have been her four main areas of endeavour.

Judy is inspired by the willingness of so many South Africans, to understand the past, heal and mend, and to negotiate and navigate our present and our future with courage. She is completely committed to the African Renaissance.

In her teaching and facilitation career, she has worked with a large number of companies and institutiions from banks and hotels, to universities and colleges, oil companies, churches and publishers, mostly in Southern Africa, but also in Australia, England and Egypt.

She has a deep love of wild places and in 1993, after training in the USA at The School of Lost Borders, she introduced the 11-day Vision Quest process in South Africa and together with her partner, Valerie Morris, facilitates up to five of these every year.

She has travelled widely for both work and recreation, and her lifescope includes building (Valerie and Judy created and built by hand, a "cob" house in the Grootwinterhoek mountains) writing, singing, reading, learning, parenting, mentoring and laughing! She is mother to two daughters and lives alongside the Indian Ocean in Cape Town.