Senior Journey - Mission: Sisterhood Journey in a Day

This has been a labor of love. I am hosting a Journey in a Day program for my brand new Seniors this July. They have expressed the need for Journey in a Day events and not a semester of meetings for a journey. They want to do other things, too.

I spent a number of hours developing a plan. I used a few other references (namely the Turnkey from GSCNC) and the Leader book to pick and choose ideas. Then, I brought in my own twist to make it a little more "fun". At least, I think it's  more fun.

What to expect:
The Journey in a Day program I put together is a 9 hour program, but you aren't just doing the journey during that time. There is also time for lunch, afternoon snack/ceremony, and dinner. Plus some game time, craft time, and chill time.

There are 20 activities in all and I have tried to use time wisely, yet not rush through the more important items.

I am planning this for a group of 6. If you are hosting this for a larger group, I suggest you break the activities down and set up stations or turn it into an overnight activity to make sure you have enough time to get through everything. You could also cut things out, if you want.

The Take Action project is not completed with this journey in a day program. The girls will discuss what to do and a plan will need to made to make that happen.  I typically try to encourage them to keep perspective and not lasso the moon for a Take Action on a journey. Lasso the moon for your Gold Award, instead. The plan is to encourage them to set up a Movie day and invite other troops and people and do some SWAPs and dinner and watch a movie or something. Expand your network and keep it realistic. Our troop does a service project every month, so believe me... we're expanding the network and reaching out all the time.

This is the good part... it's probably easier for you to just download the information and read through it and think it out. Lots of information in there and all the activity cards you need are included. You just need to add some basic supplies and girls. I even included a Supplies List for you by activity so you know what you need.

In the resources library there are two files: 

• Mission-sisterhood-journey-in-a-day-program.pdf - This is your one stop shop. It's 27 pages including the Overview, explanation, time chart, activity list, activity cards, and more. I've included blank cards, too. It's a PDF and you can't edit it. I spent a lot of time putting these together and I don't want to provide any of the cards in editable format. 
• Mission-Sisterhood-Journey-In-A-Day-Planning-Blog.docx - Speaking of editable format... The program activity chart would be very helpful to you if you could fill in names and change the times, rearrange activities, etc, right? So, that's the one piece I'll provide in Word. I don't have plans to provide it in any other format. It's included in the big ol' PDF, so if Word doesn't work for you, you can use the PDF and make it work. 

I'll try to remember to add some pictures after the event is held. If I don't, don't stone me... remind me, though. Our event is going to be help July 22, 2017.

I have a post on planning a journey in a day program, if you want more tips and tricks.