AWSL’s Be the Change Weekend
Cispus Learning Center | March 9th - 11th, 2024
Engaging and empowering students to impact their schools and communities!
Be the Change Weekend is a dynamic retreat experience created by students for students. Students explore how they can make a positive difference in their own lives and the lives of others, while putting into practice valuable skills including facilitating, listening, speaking, and collaborating.
Centered upon the idea Be/Know /Do: BE yourself, so you KNOW your skills and can DO what you are passionate about to make a difference, students will explore issues facing their generation and address what can be done to lead themselves and others to take them on.
Students participate in large and small group activities meant to challenge them physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally including discussions, a low ropes course, presentations, short seminars, and many other activities that allowing them to connect with others.
Students and their advisers have a chance to network, share ideas and form partnerships with other leaders across the state. Staff members from summer leadership camps facilitate the retreat and serve as Senior Counselors(SCs). High School student leaders will be selected by their advisers to serve as Junior Counselors (JCs) for the retreat. The JCs serve as positive role models, support Senior Counselors, and help facilitate retreat activities, arriving Friday afternoon to prepare for delegate arrival Saturday.
Retreat Details:
Open to high school students grades 9-12.
Begins Saturday, March 9, 2:00 p.m.
Ends Monday, March 11, 11:30 a.m.
Retreat Costs:
AWSL member school: $170 per person (adult or student)
Non-AWSL member schools pay $200 per person (adult or student)
Registration:
·Register your school by February 1st using the AWSL portal.
Students must register by March 1 using the link forwarded to their adviser.
Team Retreat Information:
Registration includes all materials, meals, and supplies.
The first meal is DINNER on Saturday evening. Please be sure students eat lunch before arrival at Cispus.
Each school delegation must have an attending adviser. Advisers will be housed in a separate dorm and will not be responsible for dorm supervision.
Plan to arrive between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday for registration. The retreat begins at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday and concludes at 11:30 a.m. on Monday.
Please contact AWSL Associate Director, Travis Ruhter with questions concerning the Be the Change Weekend Retreat.
Cancellations received after March 1 will result in full charges. We encourage schools to find substitutions for students who cancel after the deadline.