Session Description:
Seek the Vision at the 2024 National Order of the Arrow Conference is designed to assist ceremonialists and those who aspire to be ceremonialists, with provide you with some techniques and ideas which will help each of you develop your own interpretation of the principal. While this session will cover some of the specific traits personified by Kichkinet, much of the general information is applicable to any principal a ceremonialist personifies. It is not designed to teach you the one quintessential way of portraying a principal, since that does not exist. Once a ceremonialist reaches that level of truly embodying the principal, they will be delivering a powerful portrayal that inspires candidates and furthers the aims and purpose of the OA.
Learning Outcomes:
Outcome 1: Through this session, you will:
- Explain specific techniques that participants can use when preparing to become a principal, including finding the objectives and actions and placing the focus on the candidates they are speaking to
- Demonstrate by exposing the participants a process of rehearsal that can be used when preparing to conduct the ceremonies in order to create a powerful experience that they have connected to themselves
- Guide by encouraging them to dig deeper into the text to understand the meaning of the message they must effectively communicate to the candidates, and conduct an in-depth analysis of each the principal, and their motivation
- Enable participants to tap into their own creativity. Provide participants with hands-on feedback on their portrayal by working with them directly
Outcome 2:
Ceremonialists have a unique and distinct honor of providing the first exposure of the Order of the Arrow’s customs and traditions to the candidates during the pre-Ordeal ceremony and help to influence their destiny as Arrowmen. Encourage participants to listen with an open mind as they may learn perspectives that they have not encountered before.
Outcome 3:
The course is divided into two portions. During the narrative portion the session will cover some important concepts and hopefully get participants thinking about ceremonies in a different way. Encourage participants to take notes and ask questions. take notes and ask questions. However, as this is designed as a workshop, try and move quickly through this first portion so you can get to the more “hands-on” part of the course. The workshop portion is where participants will learn how to put the theories and ideas from the narrative portion into practice. Participants will have the opportunity to come up and work on a portion of the pre-Ordeal Ceremony. Invite some feedback, but it won’t be an instruction, but rather suggestions on how they can improve their ceremonies. Encourage participation in the workshop even if they have never stepped foot in the ring in front of candidates.