rfk inc. 2012 building self awareness who are you?
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Building Self Awareness
Who are You?
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How Can RFK Volunteers Possibility Work Together?
• White/ Blue Collar, Professional, Entrepreneurs • Introvert/ Extraverts• Mostly Rookies your first year• Denominations• Age 16-70?• Male/Female• Parents & Children• Poor & Wealthy• Multi-Racial• Multi-ethnic• More than all Else --Uniquely Sinful
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• Are you willing to be at camp, not only physically, but mentally and spiritually as well?
• Are you willing to go to the edge of your comfort zone to be the compassion of Jesus to those he calls ‘the most innocent’?
• Are you willing to acknowledge that these abused kids need Jesus more than they need you?
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• Are you willing to trust God looking to him to be real, to change Lives through you and others, and desire no personal credit?
• Are you willing to pray for Jesus’ compassion to be lived out in you because both you and the campers desperately need Him?
• At week’s end are you willing to trust that God loves the campers more than you do, and that you will not see most of the impacts of your efforts until you get to heaven?
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Qualities to bring to camp
1. How important is my role?
“there are many, many people that will never, ever hurt you, people good and kind
who want to be your friend. And I know it wont be easy after everything you’ve been through but dear child, you can learn to trust again.”
Steve Siler
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Qualities to bring to camp
2. What are the most important qualities I bring?
a. God’s loveb. Empathyc. Listening
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Qualities to bring to camp
3. Ways to improve my effectiveness?
4. What about my desire to grow
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If you can’t remember everything we teach you at least remember this:
“Technique will never replace Love” &
“Children need the experience of being loved, not a lecture about it.”
» Doris Sanford
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ONE’S OWN ISSUES“BEEN THERE DONE THAT” ASSET IF
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A) you have “worked through” your childhood pain
B) increases your capacity for empathy
Stormy Childhood
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ONE’S OWN ISSUES
“BEEN THERE DONE THAT”ASSET IF
C) you do not project your own experience onto the child
d) you do not impose a healing agenda on a child who just wants to have fun
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ONE’S OWN ISSUES
“CHARMED LIFE”ASSET IF
A) Living and giving god’s love
B) highly sensitizing – realize emotions surface
One’s past may be usable stuff- but not a requirement
Peaceful Childhood
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ONE’S OWN ISSUES
A) own emotions may draw you away from the campers
b) if you focus on own experiences, can’t focus on campers No Childhood memories
Just a Blank Slate, an asset if…
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BOUNDARY ISSUES
What’s your definition of the word BOUNDARY?
A boundary is:“an invisible line that separates one from
others”
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BOUNDARY ISSUES• IDENTIFY OUR LIMITS
A. God-givenb. RFKC boundaries
Limits between who we are/who the child is
Boundaries define what we can and cannot do
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BOUNDARY ISSUES
• 1. RFKC, INC. BOUNDARIES2. STAFF/COUNSELOR3. COUNSELOR/CAMPER
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BOUNDARY ISSUES
At camp, what could be the result of unclear Boundaries? What could happen?
Unclear boundaries can result in:
Sharing inappropriately with campers
“Taking on” the pain and feelings of another person
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What we need from everybody
• Serving Heart• P.M.A.• Dependable• Compassion/Love• Enthusiasm
• Obedience•‘A Clean Eye’• Flexibility• Fun
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It’s about the kids!!!
GetOVER yourself
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SOTO
• A Counselor from Geneva Ill. commented that his two campers wanted to swim in the lake so he got in with them even though it was freezing cold. He said” if it was my own two boys I wouldn't have been in the water, but for these boys, I did it”.
Camp is for the camper, get in the water!
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In Ecclesiastes 4:1 Solomon says: Then I returned and considered all the oppression
that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter.
YOU will be able to be a comforter to the oppressed for one life changing week.
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