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ICE: A Candidate's Friend - The Role of the Elangomat


Session Description:

Explore how to recruit, build, and sustain an effective elangomat program in your lodge. Learn how elangomats can be used for future impact on candidates and new members throughout the induction process.

Learning Outcomes:

Outcome 1: The central purpose of the Ordeal is to create members who embody the virtues of brotherhood, cheerfulness, and service by challenging the candidate through the tests of the Ordeal and encouraging them to apply those lessons to their everyday lives.
Outcome 2: The central purpose of the Elangomat is to serve as a “mirror” for the candidates, and through virtue-based friendship, assist them in fulfilling the purpose of the Ordeal.
Outcome 3: Understand the importance of providing trained elangomats for candidates and discuss ways to implement that training.
Outcome 4: Ways to develop extended elangomats programs and how that can help build stronger lodges and chapters.