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INTENTIONAL CHANGE WITHIN A SPIRITUAL YOUTH CAMP

Author: Jim Schnell, Ph.D.

ABSTRACT  

This report focuses on dynamics associated with intentional change within a spiritual youth camp.   Singular variables that have direct impact and abstract issues that provide a cultural context will be addressed.   The reader will be able to understand these variables and issues in ways that support recognition of these phenomena in other types of settings.   Within this report a philosophy of transformative spiritual leadership rests on the notion of “retreat.”   Physical retreat from our daily environment that can serve as reminder of our daily routines, cognitive retreat from tasks that occupy our minds, emotional retreat from common habits of the heart and spiritual retreat that removes us from our usual spiritual sense of place.  This kind of detachment from physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual reminders helps with reflection on possibilities in each of these areas.

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