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Program Overview
Objectives
Purpose
Aims
Motto
Pledge
Program Activities
Structure
Leadership
Program Rituals
Objective
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Foster
companionship and understanding and set a foundation for positive, lifelong
relationships between father and child.
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Build a
sense of self-esteem and personal worth.
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Expand
awareness of spirit, mind, and body.
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Provide a
framework to meet a mutual need of spending enjoyable, constructive, and
quality time together.
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Enhance the
quality of family time.
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Emphasize
the vital role that fathers play in the growth and development of their
children.
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Offer an
important and unique opportunity to develop and enjoy volunteer leadership
skills.
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Purpose
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Aims
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To be clean
in body and pure in heart
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To be
friends forever with my dad/mom/son/daughter
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To love the
sacred circle of my family
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To listen
while others speak
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To love my
neighbor as myself
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To respect
the traditions and beliefs of all people
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To seek and
preserve the beauty of Our Creator’s work in forest, field, and stream
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Motto
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Program Pledge
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We, YMCA
Adventure Guides, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to
this Circle, and to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of Our
Creator.
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Program Activities
Circle
meetings and Expedition adventures constitute the core of the program.
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Family-oriented activities (ceremonies, games, crafts, songs, stories, skits,
and outdoor pursuits such as camping, hiking, and swimming)
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Program Structure
Participants are grouped as follows:
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Guide and
Explorer—father and child pair
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Circle—group of Guides and Explorers
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Expedition—group of Circles within East Hampton
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Program Leadership
The program
is run by YMCA staff and program volunteers. Volunteers are recruited or
elected by Circle members to assume these roles. There are Circle Officers,
Expedition Officers, and Federation Officers, each of which includes the
following positions:
Navigator, Naturalist, Compass Bearer, Scout, Log Keeper, Elder, treasure
Keeper, Outfitter
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Program Rituals
The YMCA
Adventure Guides program is heavily based on rituals and traditions that bring
a sense of continuity, community, intrigue, and magic to the program. These
rituals and traditions include those listed here as well as others, depending
on the particular YMCA’s choices. The rituals include: program
names, Circle & Expedition property, program attire, Rite of Passage, Awards,
and Ceremonies.
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