Extreme tour: the mystery “The Hero’s Path” / 20–29.08.2012 / Cape Sarych, Crimea

There are two paths: the path of the slave and the path of the hero. There is no third!
Our camp is for those who have matured to the decision to follow the Hero’s path.

Often a person who is quite well adapted to the sociocultural environment feels a pull towards the unusual. At some point this inclination grows stronger and turns into the experience of a “call”. Put into words, the “call” says: “There can be something more in life than what you are living.” The Hero is the one who has heard the “call” to adventure and follows the “call”, which will lead the hero after the longing of the heart.

Having set foot on the Path, the hero inevitably comes to the “threshold of adventure”. Here he meets his shadow – the guardian of the threshold, who refuses to let him in. The hero faces his supreme trial, a mystical battle with his own deepest fear.

We shape a process that lets a group of people go through an act of transformation so that they can then apply this experience in their own lives. Whether the changes concern personality, relationships, work or worldview – it all follows the same pattern of the heroic mystery of the feat.

Many people, having lived through a meeting with the Hero’s feat, have acquired the skill of transformation – so that when this or that change happens in their lives, it no longer threatens them. They have a tool and the opportunity to come to balance, harmony, totality.

The mystery “The Hero’s Path” is:

• A quest, because we will solve puzzles, find our way out of labyrinths, guess riddles.
• A competition, because we will form teams that will earn points for training and contests.
• A game, because everyone will have their own role, the teams will have their own strategies, and the whole “Hero’s Path” will have a consistent script.
• A holiday, because the venue is a picturesque corner of a nature reserve, and the programme includes the sea, mountains, excursions.
• A journey, because we will walk along untrodden paths and see what is out of reach for holidaymakers and tourists.
• Company, because the road to victory will demand a “feeling of the shoulder beside you”, team friendship, unity and cohesion.

How the camp will go:

• The participants of the “Hero’s Path” will join into teams. Each will choose a Heroic Name, a Script of the Feat, the tasks and goals of Victory, a Magic Weapon, a Limit of Fear and a Path of Courage.

  

• Each day of the mystery includes gymnastics, the theory of the feat and team games in which we will train agility and endurance, imagination and logic, creativity and humour, mutual help and the winning qualities of Heroes.
• Through adventures, quests, games and training in all-round disciplines such as

1. swimming
2. diving
3. rock climbing
4. trekking
5. orienteering
6. a secret mission in enemy territory
7. a photo quest

the participants of the heroic mystery will come to the final meeting with their main Threshold – the resistance that does not let you win in the game and in life.

• Victories and rewards, surprises and discoveries await the Heroes. At the end each participant will receive a souvenir disc with video and photo materials.

The participants of the quest will learn the happiness of life on the trail, the romance of the starry sky and the joy of evenings by the fire among friends.

The tasks that “The Hero’s Path” solves:

• the participants will rest far more deeply than in a sanatorium;
• they will fill up with strength, inspiration, a positive view of themselves and of those around them;
• they will grow close, find real friends;
• they will raise their self-esteem, open up a resource of creativity;
• they will strengthen their will and motivation to reach their own summits;

Venue: a picturesque climbing wall in the Cape Sarych reserve (the southernmost point of Crimea)
Number of participants: up to 30 people. Both adults and children from the age of 6 can take part (with their parents or on their own).
Requirements for candidates: responsibility, endurance, activity, sociability, initiative. Skills in rock climbing, trekking, orienteering, swimming, photography, filming and acting are welcome but not required for taking part.

Trainers – Edmund Shchebalsky and Olga Schneider, the SNEP Centre

Enrolment and information by phone: (093) 930 07 67, (097) 415 14 97