2010 FIND THE LEADER WITHIN

MD, VA, WV
Boys & Girls Ages 13-17
5:1 Ratio
2010 DATES
Weeks 3: 6/20-25
Weeks 5: 7/5-9
Weeks 7: 7/19-23 
Weeks 9: 8/2-6
Weeks 10: 8/9-13
Mon - Fri
$895/week

Calleva is proud to offer the Find the Leaders Within course, which is in its 8th year. This course is run by Tony Witter & Karen Seibert, Instructor and program designers and for boys and girls, ages 13 through 15. It is designed to empower youth!

The course is 5 days and 4 nights. Class size is 12 and there are two Senior Instructors and a Counselor present.

Purpose: The FLW is designed to provide youth with a fun, safe, exciting, challenging and supportive outdoor adventure experience in which to learn and practice the concepts and principles of leadership and performance psychology. It is a course in which participants learn how the mind works and the individual techniques to build an empowering belief system.

Participant outcomes:

  • Discipline their focus and imagination
  • Be great team players
  • Overcome obstacles and fear
  • Expand their identity through adoption of more empowering beliefs
  • Think for themselves and be able to see the consequences of their decisions
  • Understand their strengths and areas for improvement and be more understanding of others
  • Lead themselves and others better
  • Set goals

Course design: FLW is designed to be fun, exciting, challenging and productive. The fun, challenge and excitement are produced by outdoor activities such as:

  • Learning how to use a compass and read a topographical map
  • Negotiating an orienteering course in the woods using a map and compass
  • Night hikes
  • Playing Capture the flag
  • Ropes course
  • Swimming in a lake
  • Board breaking metaphor
  • Paintball
  • Solo Vision Quest

The productive and personal empowerment part is that performance mindset models are taught before each experiential activity and participants get to experience the models! The primary outcome is for the participants to come to the realization that they are in charge of their thoughts and beliefs. Most of our beliefs are adopted unconsciously. Yet, beliefs are the most important determinants of how we feel about ourselves, life, others and our potential and how successful we will be in taking the actions to attain the goals we want in life! Everything we do we in the FLW, we relate to the mindset models.

Performance mindset models taught: Who are you? We are the summation of our beliefs about ourselves, life, school, teachers, friends etc. = our identity. With over 100 billion brain cells, our potential identity is vast!

  • The communications model
  • The belief model and the Law of Focus
  • The role of fear and how to turn fear into power
  • Habits and how to change them
  • Overriding negative self talk and expanding your identity
  • The stages of change and growth -Inception, Deception, Transformation, Identity
  • Goal setting and making course adjustments

Teaching philosophy: We use the "Challenge by Choice" philosophy in everything we do. We lead by example and we understand that everyone grows at their pace. We encourage and support but never even get close to insisting that a participant do something they are not ready for. Saying "no" is respected and if a participant is not able to complete a task they are appauded for any effort they take. These are also excellent learning opportunities to tie into the performance models we teach and, therefore, the participant can see where they are and the path they want to take and practice the mindset tools to start getting there.

This is an excellent course for all those who want to become a CIT at Camp Calleva. The FLW  Program will only be offered three times this summer (you may have to change your entire summer plans to make sure your child has this opportunity !! ). 15 year old youth can sign up for just the FLW program; however, we urge that they be a Counselor in Training (CIT) for one or two weeks of day camp after the FLW, as they will have the opportunity to apply the leadership principles.

Picture this:

  • You and your team are out in the woods at nighttime, but never lost, as you confidently move in the dark from point A to B reading a map and using a compass!
  • Your mission is to find another team that is lost in the woods. You and your team are able to track and find them by reading signs left on the ground and the vegetation and do so quietly and unobserved!
  • You learn and use the mindset models used by business and military leaders which allow you to turn any doubt and fear you have into power,and you get to physically demonstrate this!
  • You break a one-inch board with the palm of your hand and stay out in the woods by yourself on a "solo vision quest."
  • You confidently stand up in front of your team and lead them during exciting team adventure competition.

Location: The primary location will be Prince William National Forest Park just north of the Quantico Marine Base on I-95 in Virginia. Other side locations will be announced before the course.