Session Description:
Geared towards new members with an interest in learning about ceremonies. This session focuses on the skills needed to perform the pre-Ordeal and Ordeal ceremonies, the four principals, and ways to become a stronger ceremonialist.
Learning Outcomes:
Through this session, you will:
- Explain the basic symbolism of the pre-Ordeal and Ordeal ceremonies, as well as the principals and their tests. The methods and procedures critical in properly learning ceremonies.
- Demonstrate that ceremonies are easy to understand with a little work, and the more work a ceremonialist puts into learning about the ceremonies, the more the candidates will get out it.
- Guide discussions about symbols, metaphors, and allegories within the ceremonies. Methods of learning the ceremonies simply and effectively.
- Enable ceremonialists and advisers to be able to introduce fellow team members and new Arrowmen alike to the concepts presented and bring methods back to their chapters & lodges in memorization and understanding.
Delegates should take the following away from this session:
- The purpose of our ceremonies.
- Principals and their lessons.
- Symbolism in the pre-Ordeal and Ordeal ceremonies.
- Basic ceremonial mechanics.