A Guided Path for Teens
New in 2025!
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2025 Guided Path Camp
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Session 4B: July 14-19
Monday-Saturday
Ages: 12-18
Capacity: 12 campers
Tuition: $900 (base rate), $1,200 (restoration rate)
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Session Details
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Support for adolescents as they transition towards adulthood.
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Supporting teens explore the gifts, the challenges and the rewards of stepping into adulthood. Through a series of group workshops and an overnight solo experience, adolescents will explore identity, purpose, and transition. Camp also includes a family circle on pick up day so teens can be witnessed in their experience and welcomed back into their community with their new gifts. This camp is 5 nights and includes 2 nights of preparation at Ekone, 1 night of solo time in nature and 2 nights of incorporating what was learned back at Ekone.
Benefits:
Marking life transitions can play a crucial role in helping adolescents move into adulthood by providing them with the tools, skills, and sense of identity they need to navigate this important stage of life.
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Identity Formation: Helps adolescents develop a sense of identity and belonging within their community. Symbolic acts that mark the transition from childhood to adulthood, helping young people understand their roles and responsibilities in society.
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Self-Esteem and Confidence: Boosts self-esteem and confidence by showing adolescents that they are capable of facing and overcoming challenges. This can be especially important during a time when they may be grappling with issues of self-worth and identity.
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Social Integration: Involve the participation of the broader community, including family, friends, and elders. This integration reinforces the adolescent's connection to their community and helps them understand their place within it. In the form of a family circle and having coaching on how to share their experience with their community.
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Connection with Nature: Spending time outdoors and away from technology can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Nature has a calming effect and can help adolescents feel more grounded and connected to the world around them.
Workshop format: power of circles
The workshops create space for teens to tap into their own knowing through sitting in circles with peers. Kika and Kay, the workshop facilitators, will not be lecturing, only offering tools, themes and a strong container. Gathering together in circles is a powerful tool to support connection and understanding, a simple, ancient social technology that is beautifully suited to an increasingly polarized world. By taking turns to talk within an intentional structure, we reduce reactivity and increase space for self-regulation and empathy. This age-old format can support the exploration of any theme; in this case transitioning to adulthood. Circle work is based on the understanding that you are the expert in your own experience and needs. Within that framework it is useful to have a guide not a specialist or professional. This is even more pronounced when working with teens who have often not had the platform they need to express themselves fully.
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