Teen Journey
A Powerful & Fun-Filled Experiential Camp led by Renowned International Leaders, designed specifically for Teenagers aged 13-18.

August 30-September 5, 2010
Camp Jubilee, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Teen Journey Introduction
 

Experiential & Powerful…

Show up at school knowing Who You Are and how to live your life with excellence & authenticity
Identify your Inner Purpose and gain confidence, clarity and strength
Learn about building friendships, bonding and trust through self-exploration
Express and discover Who You Are in relationships with friends and community
Discover the power of NOW by deep transformative sharing
Initiate into your own Inner Power and Authenticity
Rites of Passage and ceremony by Native Elders

Filled With Fun Activities…

Rappelling & Climbing, Canoeing, High & Low Ropes Course, Archery, Kayaking, Hiking, Singing, Music and Dancing, Sculpting, Native Sweat Lodge Ceremony, Evening Camp Fires with Drumming - and much more!
 

Teen Journey Details
 

Teen Journey goes far beyond an ordinary teen camp experience. While incorporating many fun activities that we have long come to associate with summer camp, including the opportunity to create deep, long-lasting friendships, there is also an invitation into the awareness of the depth and sacredness of the task of being a person of integrity and honour. A person who is true to themselves and a valuable member of a community.
We will introduce young people to tools and multi-disciplined perspectives that will support them with their most important task in life…discovering and expressing who they really are in order to contribute to the whole.

Accepting one’s own unique essence, experiencing interconnectedness with all living beings, inevitably leads us to an understanding of our own soul’s purpose. While many of the experiences during this week will be transformational in nature it is first important to understand the process of being an adolescent, psychologically.
There are two major forces that drive us as human beings in our development, the force for togetherness and belonging and the force for individuating, deciding for ourselves who we are and what course our life will take, the force for autonomy and freedom.
As children we naturally choose the force for togetherness signified by our family and tend to shift or unconsciously accommodate ourselves to fit into the family rules and beliefs of what is good or bad in order to belong. Every family has a different set of rules both spoken and unspoken of what it means to be a member of this family. Because our very survival does depend on the contact and care from our family we will cut off or repress parts of ourselves that may not be accepted in this particular system in order to feel secure. Children will always choose the force for togetherness and belonging and adapt themselves to fit.

Yet the force for autonomy, for the freedom to decide who we are and what we will stand for, can only be submerged for so long. The stages in our lives when the clash of these two forces is most apparent is at 2 years old and again in adolescence. The 2 year old is starting to say NO, and wanting to do it themselves as a demonstration of their independence from the caregivers. The same task appears again in adolescence. The teen wants to define themselves as a separate unique being.

Whether this natural task goes smoothly or not will often depend on the parent’s response to it. It is the teenager’s job developmentally to now begin to test the family boundaries and themselves in their personal discovery of who they are. This is often a time of collision between parents and teens and much of that chaos can be brought to harmony if we understand what is actually helpful and supportive, what aligns with this task and what does not. Fight the flow of this drive and you are in effect upping the ante in terms of the teens needs to act out or act in.

Teen Journey will include the parents in a closing day workshop to learn both how better to communicate with their teens and increase their understanding of themselves and how this time can actually be an expansion in awareness for the whole family.

Teen Journey will invite teens into first an understanding and expressing who they are through intimate sharing in small group circles with teen mentors. A trained Assistant’s Team will oversee these groups and ensure that each teen is cared for, not pushed but invited into a sacred expansion of their humanity, spirituality and unique purpose.

Holding space for the entire group for the 8 days of this remarkable and creative journey will be workshop facilitators Tasha Simms M.A. R.P.C. and Ian Barhydt. Through the creativity of ritual, meditation, visualization, dance and intention, a safe and familiar container is formed that allows for stepping into the unknown to learn to trust one’s inner guidance and accept oneself.

Various internationally acclaimed leaders including Malidoma Patrice Some, Satyen & Suzanne Raja from WarriorSage, Mahara Brenna and Native elders will come to the camp to work with the teens both in helping them experience themselves in new and deeper ways and then calling on them to creatively determine their place in the whole community from the perspective of what they are called to give.

Each person is unique and has much to contribute to this community, just as the community will become a safe and solid container to hold the teen in their personal exploration and questioning. Once this level of confidence and purpose is reached then the teen can decide what their particular gifts are that they can offer back both globally and to their community.

The beauty of this program will not end after 8 days. Both the possibility of ongoing gatherings as a community and smaller more intimate group work will be available for the following year. Groups will focus on various themes as well as checking in to offer a supportive environment of learning and sharing. Group work can be available to parents as well in order to facilitate healthy parenting and personal exploration.

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About your Tour Leaders

Malidoma Somé, PhD
Malidoma is one of today’s most eloquent champions of indigenous wisdom. His life and teaching form a bridge between the traditional ways of his people, the Dagara of West Africa – among whom he is an initiated elder – and the modern world. He is a gifted medicine man and diviner, as well as a compelling teacher and author.

Before his birth, in 1956, the elders of Malidoma’s village knew that his purpose in coming into this world was to carry the message of indigenous technology and spirituality to the western world, a place where modernity was growing increasingly hungry for a reconnection to ancient wisdom. Little did he know, as a young child, stolen from his family and village, that the years he would spend under the harsh tutelage of the religious order would prepare the way for the eventual challenge of integrating old and new, the sacred and the mundane.
 
For more than twenty years, Malidoma has shared the ancient knowledge of his tribe with people in the West who are increasingly disconnected from their ancestors, spirit, and the richness of life in community. His voice awakens in our hearts the recognition that we are all born with a life purpose to fulfill and that we can do so in a deep and abiding relationship with all beings. Dr. Somé is the author of several books, including Ritual: Power, Healing and Community, The Healing Wisdom of Africa, and his acclaimed autobiography, Of Water and the Spirit.

Tasha Simms
Tasha is a registered counsellor with a private practice in Vancouver, B.C. She works with individuals, families and couples integrating a variety of disciplines including Family Systems Theory, Gestalt, as well as Cognitive and Psycho/Spiritual orientations.

She is also an actor, writer, teacher and workshop facilitator who holds a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology. Her passion is supporting the expression of the authentic self through teaching self acceptance in all our human aspects, both shadow and light.

Tasha has been a student of A Course in Miracles for over a decade and has taught and contributed to all levels of the Personal growth /Practioners Training Program at Clearmind International in Vancouver. She is a co-creator of the Women's Workshop, Drawing Down the Moon, Clearmind's Assistants Training and the International Leadership Workshop, The Summit.
As a certified Master Neuro Linguistic Programming facilitator trained in body work, energy healing and hypnotherapy, her latest contribution is an audio series called Body Awareness Training designed to support living fully in the body with feeling and consciousness.

Tasha's integrity, compassion and celebration of life are some of the gifts she brings to her commitment to be of service to those wishing a full expansion into their spiritual and human purpose. She believes that everyone's birthright is a life of juicy, passionate, free expression, joyfully human yet in perfect alignment with spirit.

Ian Barhydt
Ian is a Canadian living in Stockholm, Sweden, Ian is currently the Head Therapist at Wäxthuset’s Holistic Rehab Centre in Sweden. Wäxthuset is a residential rehab centre for drug addicts, alcoholics and others with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc. He has worked there for the past twelve years and brings over twenty years of experience working as a teacher, group leader and psychotherapist in personal development and spiritual practice.

Originally trained by a Master of Self-Healing in the Toronto area he has worked intensively with A Course in Miracles for many years and uses a direct, practical and meaningful way to apply it to the varied and rather serious suffering that people recovering from substance abuse, trauma and dysfunctional lifestyles experience. He is also a Hatha yoga teacher and has many years of meditation practice, along with many years of experience in Rebirthing breathing work.

Ian’s warm, direct and often humorous approach to this work helps him to be an effective and dynamic group and course leader. He also has his own practice in Stockholm and works at a local community college as an outdoor high ropes course leader. He is the father of two young miracle boys aged 6 and 8.

Satyen Raja
Satyen’s deepest purpose for living is to make it possible for others to Awaken in a way that is real, practical and sustainable. Each step on the Path of the WarriorSage reflects a step in Satyen’s own life and an offering of his purpose. Sex, Passion & Enlightenment, Living Ecstasy, The Illumination Intensive, Money Mastery, Spiritual Adventure Journeys, The Awakening of the WarriorSage…each step is a transformation, a portal to the permanent Awakening of your soul. Satyen’s single greatest accomplishment and his true legacy is his continuing conscious choice, his unwavering practice, to open his heart. To really understand anything else about this man, you must first recognize this.

Satyen is the President and founder of WarriorSage, one of the leading spiritual growth organizations in the world. His company’s success is a testament to the trainings he offers. Every detail of the company, from office relationships to financial management, is run on the same principles that are taught in his workshops. That WarriorSage is highly successful in an industry where financial success is rare is evidence of Satyen’s business ingenuity and spiritual integrity.

Satyen’s goal today is to offer you what really works in Real Time. The Path of the WarriorSage is your Path. It is your choice to wake up into what is possible. Your birthright is Prosperity and Ecstasy, but because the world has become so convoluted, you have to claim it through intention, choice, action and practice. The Path of the WarriorSage is a direct route to sustained Peace and Freedom.

Suzanne Raja
Suzanne is the embodiment of true Feminine radiance and of deep Feminine power. Simply being in Suzanne’s presence brings men into their depth and women into their natural glow. Suzanne does not just practice what she teaches, she is what she teaches. Suzanne is Love.

Following a childhood in her native Jamaica, Suzanne formally studied and experienced traditions and teachings from around the world. She has taught on nearly every continent and in over 15 countries reaching thousands and thousands of students with the wisdom of open-hearted practice.

Suzanne and Satyen have been together for more than 22 years. They were high school friends who turned into sweethearts. They have faced almost everything there is to face in relationship. When they are in a room together you can feel their humour, their experience and their union. Suzanne and Satyen are so real and exposed that it is fun to be with them. As a couple they emanate passion and possibility.

Suzanne is a living invitation. She invites men to live as their deepest presence in order to fulfill their genuine purpose and to offer their direction in the world. Suzanne invites women to replenish, to laugh easily, to dance freely and to rest openly, all in the midst of life. Students do whatever they can in order to personally experience Suzanne as a teacher and as a mentor because of how deeply she connects and how gently she passes wisdom. Suzanne demonstrates that true power is subtle, and that it is possible for all of our lessons to come encased in Love. As our world heads into a new era, it is teachers like Suzanne who will lead the way.

Mahara Brenna
Mahara is a Master Rebirther with over 30 years teaching Holistic Rebirthing throughout Canada, U.S.A., Europe and Australia. At the age of 23, Mahara healed a lifetime of epilepsy through this powerful healing modality. She is also a Holistic Health Educator, Mediator, Community Builder, Performer and Speaker. She has been dynamically leading community building on campuses and for conferences for the past 25 years and designs and facilitates special events for the upliftment and unification of our Family of Humankind.

Mahara is known as a "Mid-Wife for Souls", a "Planetary Change-Agent" and has been teaching many workshops including ones on the Divine Feminine since the 80's. As a Priestess, Mahara is often invited to open events with sacred ceremony, and as a Minister, Mahara performs specially designed marriages and memorial services.

The foundation of her teachings are based on the ancient knowledge of the Ascended Masters, A Course In Miracles and the integration of psychology, spirituality and shamanism. She is proudly one of the founding members of the Akasha Mystery School and the Radiant Rose Academy.

Ela Rezmer
By placing faith in current circumstances, whether good or bad, Ela believes that solutions confidently arise and deliver the best possible outcome. She is very energetic, fun-loving, and loves to work with teens. Ela wants to improve people's lives and guide them toward joy, meaning and purpose.

As an Interior Architect, Ela’s most passionate desire is to create a unique, personalized environment that delights the eye, invigorates the senses, inspires minds, entices imagination, heals and refreshes the soul. Further illustrating her dedication to artistic expression, she enjoys creating playful and engaging projects. Recently she designed a bench for a public sitting design competition for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. When Ela enlisted help of her teenage children David and Daniel, they designed a bench named “Friends” that mimics two people with open arms.

Ela has a wide variety of education in the design field & she graduated with a Masters Degree in Interior Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture & Industrial Design of Academy of Fine Arts in Europe. Influenced by European design, her natural style is simple and elegant, incorporating contemporary architectural features.

During Teen Journey she will be leading the sculpturing workshop.

Chris Fletcher
Chris resides on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, B.C. with his wife Jennifer and their two children Braydon and Reese. Chris received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Simon Fraser University, obtaining a major in Criminology and a minor in Psychology. He has over 22 years experience working with youth identified as having the highest risk and greatest needs in the province.

Chris initially started working as a Residential Youth Care Worker in group home settings. He then moved into the Senior Youth Care Counselling position at a high profile alternate school, serving the the Lower Fraser Valley. He provided individual, group and family counselling for youth, foster parents, and family members. Chris was also the Director for the work experience/life skills/recreation program at the Alternate School, providing and supervising job training and job placement.

He also created an outdoors program focused on self-esteem building. This assisted youth in working through their barriers at a life changing level. Additionally, Chris has specialized training in Conflict Resolution. He teaches bullying and Anger Prevention courses in High School and Employment Center settings, for both youth and their parents. He is also trained in addictions counselling, suicide intervention, and has experience running support groups for children of divorce, physical and sexual abuse, autism, and special needs.

Leonard Howell
Leonard is renowned throughout the world, especially in North America. He is today’s wisdom keeper, shamanic healer, qualified cultural facilitator, teacher, storyteller, actor and singer/flutist song keeper.

Leonard draws his knowledge and voice from his Mother’s ancestors, the Native Americans (Lakota Sioux) and his father’s Welsh Celtic heritage, while keeping in the forefront with today’s discoveries through his extensive travels. His wisdom is shared through consultations, workshops, and concerts.

The many events he hosts are practical workshops on shamanism, sacred geometry walks, nature journeys and mountain expeditions, healing circles, medicine wheels, drumming, singing and individual counseling. People that Leonard has worked with are James Twyman, Doreen Virtue and Dr. Norma Milanovich to name a few.

Seattle’s Contact Radio, Hollywood’s Angel Television and Canada’s CBC are just some of the places where he has been featured. The enduring compassion and understanding of this calming voice brings grace and beauty to every workshop he facilitates.

Navaro Franco
Navaro's work is inspired by ancient traditions of earth based music, rhythm, and dance. She is deeply interested in the current movement of traditional knowledge into present day context, and how it supports consciousness, community, and healing in our modern world.

Navaro has spent 27 years dancing and playing Drums & Percussion within community and professional music groups, and taught thousands of adults and children in private, corporate, school and retreat center settings. She has studied widely, spending 3 years in the Zimbabwean Music community in Canada, with studies in Southern Africa, and also spent 3 years studying and performing Babatunde Olatunji's music as a key member of Gordy Ryan's Cortes Island Group, 25 piece drum ensemble, Island Rhythm. She is a regular presenter and feature performer at the Seattle World Rhythm Festival. Navaro co-created for 4 years with Vancouver percussionist, world music specialist Pepe Danza, in duet performance and teaching work as well as co-directing Pepe's band Drum Prayers. She currently co-creates DivaDrum, an all female Rhythm & Movement Trio. Her drumming training includes a smattering of Brazilian Batucada and Japanese Taiko Drumming. Navaro is also a dancer who has worked with tribal, trance, ecstatic and healing movement forms since 1981. She has led 'Earth Prayers Ecstatic Dance' healing movement journeys for the past 7 years.

Joseph 'Pepe' Danza
Pepe is an electrifying   percussionist and multi- instrumentalist. A native of Montevideo, Uruguay, he began classical guitar studies at age eight, and started his professional career at thirteen. He continued his studies in guitar as well as in piano, composition, music history and the physics of sound at the National Conservatory. All along he was naturally immersed in his native Candombe rhythms, the national groove of Uruguay and a fundamental element in the identity of all Uruguayans.

Pepe developed an early keen interest in world music and different expressions of spirituality which eventually led him to spend three years in Japan studying Shakuhachi and Buddhism , another two years in India and Sri Lanka for Indian music, Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, Brazil for studies in Afro-Brazilian practices, Samba and Bossa Nova music, and shorter periods in Indonesia (studying gamelan), Korea and the Philippines. He also has lived several years in Europe and the USA, performing and recording Latin , Jazz and Contemporary music with a number of local ensembles, and studying systems such as Sufism and the Gurdjieff Work.  

Moving to Canada in 1989 he specialized in the study of world percussion while quickly establishing himself as one of the foremost drummers and band leaders on the West Coast. His credits include performances with South Indian master drummer Trichy Shankaran, singers Ann Mortifee and Christine Ducan, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir, and concert tours throughout Europe, Asia and New Zealand. In his extensive touring he has shared the stage with the likes of Ani DiFranco, Oscar Lopez, the Dalai Lama and David Lindley. Pepe is the leader of his own groups: Drum Prayers, a multi-cultural drumming ensemble, and the recently formed Roots/Blues group The Blues Poets. He also tours as a solo artist.

As a teacher Pepe has been working with Vancouver's School Board, teaching Samba music to children of all ages and workshops for music teachers. He is presently working with the youth Marimba group Kunaka. He also conducts group and private percussion lessons for adults at home, and travels across British Columbia giving two or three day intensive workshops.
He has received countless award nominations including Musician of the Year in 1999 (West Coast Music Awards), Juno for his work with Asza, Leo awards for his work in film music, and Jessie awards for his theater scores.

Location
 

Camp Jubilee Retreat and Conference Centre lies halfway up Indian Arm at Orlomah Beach, between Deep Cove and the Indian River, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Camp Jubilee is situated on a 128 acre ocean front site of unspoiled evergreen forest at the base of Mt. Seymour. Shone and Underhill creeks cross the property providing complete privacy. Guests find Camp Jubilee Retreat and Conference Centre a beautiful, relaxing location to get away and have some fun. We offer modern comfortable accommodations and spectacular scenery, for your perfect get-away.

This unique facility, accessible only by boat, is just a short 30 minute ride from Deep Cove in North Vancouver, B.C. Water transportation is provided in the cost.

Where you'll stay:

Cedar Pan Abode Cabins - There are 13 cedar pan abode cabins housing 10 people per cabin. The cabins offer bunk style beds complete with bathrooms and great views of Indian Arm or the surrounding forest.

Our main facility is centred around Jubilee Lodge, featuring warm cedar decor, indoor fireplaces and picture-perfect views of Indian Arm.

Camp Jubilee offers:
- Recreation room with fireplace
- Fordham Hall
- Lighthouse Lounge
- Waterfront BBQ Pavilion
- Forest Amphitheatre

Things to do:

Rappelling/Climbing - The rappelling/climbing wall is a natural rock face. Participants will have the opportunity to rappel/climb up to 60 feet.

Voyageur Canoeing - The Voyageur Canoe is a large canoe which holds 16 guests while steered by a Camp Jubilee program instructor. Guests will be instructed how to safely participate in canoe activities, learn basic paddling skills and explore Indian Arm.

High Ropes Course - The High Ropes course is located 30+ feet above the ground. The elements are constructed of cables, logs and ropes and are designed to present a physical and emotional challenge to the participants.

Low Ropes Course - The low ropes course is a series of seperate elements. Each element presents the group with a specific challenge. Each obstacle is unique, but all require the group to plan and execute as a team in order to reach their goals.

Archery - Participants will learn how to safely and correctly hold a bow and how to make an arrow go straight and maybe even hit the target! Archery develops coordination and concentration.

Kayaking - Indian Arm offers a perfect kayaking location. A Camp Jubilee program instructor will lead you through a safety session, basic paddling, performing a wet exit and exploring Indian Arm.

Hiking - Camp Jubilee offers well-marked hiking trails.

For more information about Camp Jubilee, please visit www.campjubilee.ca

Tour Inclusions and Price

Teen Journey Includes:
6 nights accommodation at Camp Jubilee, North Vancouver, B.C. Canada
All meals from lunch on Day 1 to lunch on Day 7
Boat transportation from Deep Cove, North Vancouver to Camp Jubilee
All exercises, lectures, discussions and ceremonies let by amazing international leaders and teachers
All activities such as canoeing, kayaking, swimming, archery, hiking, high and low ropes courses, climbing, arts & crafts, sculpturing, singing, music and dancing!
Evening campfires with drumming
Half day workshop for parents “How to Improve Communication with Your Teen” (on the last day)
Monthly Follow up Meetings (fun, inspirational, experiential & educational lectures, workshops, concerts, dances & gatherings for teens & parents), the 12 months following Teen Journey

Does not include:
Airfare to Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Transportation to Deep Cove, North Vancouver, B.C.
Cancellation & Medical Insurance (ask us for a quote)
Cost to obtain valid passport (if required)
Any item that is not specifically detailed on our website or in the final program details
 

Price Per Person
 

(*for participants outside of Canada, you may be able to claim the GST back on departure from Canada)

 

Sacred Earth Journeys, Ste 220 - 133 E. 8th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. V5T 1R8 Canada
Tel: (604) 874-7922, Toll Free 1-877-874-7922 www.sacredearthjourneys.ca