We had a 2 day camp in Pirongia Forest Park Lodge.
Key learnings:
- Try for a long weekend next camp - JY were just starting to get into it by the last morning.
- Make sure animators are buddied up, so constant mutual support. A couple of times, animators by themselves came up against defiant behaviour which would have been much more easily defused if the animators weren't by themselves.
- Make sure the rules and expectations around behaviour are clearly stipulated at the beginning of camp
- Using the JY groups current books of study (glimmerings, breezes etc) are perfect study material.
- As camp organiser, having all of the food logistics completely delegated to the local Baha'i Community was a life saver.
- Having animator reflections every evening was spot on, very valuable.
- Having a written survey at the end of the camp by the JY was also very valuable.
- At the end of the camp, the different JY groups have tentative service project plans that they can execute in their neighborhood. So will be exciting to see how that develops!!
- Need to develop a service project planning template - will start the hunt to see what I can find!!