Leadership Camp (LEAD)
Aspen Creek Outdoor School
Leadership and group development in an outdoor setting
Leadership Engagement and Development (LEAD)
Our LEAD program encourages 6th to 12th grade students to work together to solve problems and build relationships as they progress through this 3 day, 2 night program. Students recognize leadership strengths and challenges, develop communication, hone team building skills and challenge themselves as participants of our leadership camp. This program can be in conjunction with our science camp if bringing students from multiple grades and can be designed to fit individual schools’ needs.
High Ropes & Low Elements
Challenge your team and yourself with a personalized challenge course program. Whether flying down the zipline or helping the team balance through obstacles, our goal is to help you discover and develop your strengths and highlight your accomplishments.
Activity Descriptions
Leadership Style Survey
Students fill out Leadership Style Survey soon after arriving at camp which helps them understand how their individual strengths and skills are an important part of leadership. Students discuss the strengths and challenges to their leadership style and how to best integrate their style to promote group and individual success.
Orienteering
Similar to geocaching but without the GPS unit, students learn progress through an orienteering course around our campground facing challenges along the way. They learn to use compasses and maps and calculate their pace as they problem solve as a team.
Team Challenge
Working in small groups, students will problem solve some of the more difficult activities offered on our challenge course. We discuss skills used in completion of these activities and how they can best use what they’ve learned to benefit their lives outside of the camp experience.
Choose Your Own Adventure
As a team, students choose a series of short activities – some challenging, some introspective, some just plain fun - from a preset list to build their own adventure. Some examples of activities are designing and building a fire, developing a campfire skit, additional team challenges, supervised “hot seat” questions, large shelter building and team picture.
Affirmations
As a way to close our LEAD camp, students write affirmations for the other students in their group which are presented at the closing ceremony on the evening of the second night (usually campfire and skits).
Trek
An extended hike along Aspen Creek Trail offers students time to interact with one another as well as the natural environment. This gives them time to reflect and contemplate the purpose of developing leadership skills and building relationships in their communities. We also use this time to provide community service and help clean up Aspen Creek.
Skits
Students work together to create a 2 minute skit to present to the other groups and school during the evening of and before the campfire. Each student helps create the moral of their story and develops their role whether that be a character, narrator or prop manager.
