A weekend experience for fathers and their teenage sons.
GROWING GOOD MEN is an experientially-based program which encourages and enables fathers and sons to strengthen their relationship and to explore important issues of growing into manhood. It is designed for fathers or significant male role model and teenage boys in high school between years 7-10 (12-17yrs old).
The weekend experience explores:
• The importance of the father and son bond for both generations
• The journey of adolescence
• Becoming a man
• Dealing with anger
• Friendship with girls and women
• The quest for identity
• Rite of Passage
How do we raise good men? How do we produce men that are alive, real and courageous; who know their purpose and meaning, who aren’t afraid of the adventure, who long for the quest, who will fight for truth?
Set over a weekend, the program involves: short keynote sessions, small group and father/son sharing, a wide range of challenging and engaging activities (which includes adventure activities such as high ropes course, flying fox etc), reflection and prayer. The centrepiece of the program is a Rite of Passage on Saturday night. The weekend concludes with a Father’s Blessing and commissioning.
