The phrase "a kind of initiation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a process or event that serves as a beginning or introduction to something, often implying a rite of passage or a formal entry into a group or experience.
Example: "The ceremony was a kind of initiation into the brotherhood, marking the beginning of their journey together."
Alternatives: "a form of initiation" or "a type of initiation".
It was a kind of initiation.
New economies have always required a kind of initiation fee of those who would participate fully in them.
I remember spirit week our freshman year... a kind of initiation for us into the McMahon community.
For a child, she writes, "the first unprompted 'thank you' is momentous enough to count as a kind of initiation into a new level of human consciousness".
Those were the days when you might get a bit of a clump, almost as a kind of initiation, and there was no one to complain to.
The pre-eminent US modernist novel, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929), actually opens on a course - working out that golf is being played ("I could see them hitting... They took the flag out, and they were hitting") is a kind of initiation into the puzzle posed by its distortive stream of consciousness narration.
One third of the deep state are pedophiles, to get at that high level that they get at they have all kind of initiation rituals that a lot of people that wouldn't believe are possible but it's how they control you," Cernovich said.
I was not ready for any kind of initiation into this club.
Over time, the simple fact that you work so much becomes proof that the job is worthwhile, and being in the office day and night becomes a kind of permanent initiation ritual.
I think of that dream as a kind of initiation a sexual awakening".
Fernand Gobet, Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool and co-author of Moves In Mind — The Psychology Of Board Games, says that in some countries "playing a board game is part of the culture — such as mancala games in some African countries — and can be seen as a soft kind of initiation ritual.
