Ventures that Echo
BIBLICAL SPIRITUAL LIFE COACHING IN
VENTUROUS AND ADVENTUROUS FORMATS
A "paracleted triad" spiritual life coaching venture service
that is driven to take young and old alike
on various ventures and adventures that facilitate spiritual life coaching
and uncover a vision for their life that echoes for eternity.
Echoventure and its parent/paraclete organization, Paraclete Association, believe in a process of spiritual life coaching that we do not only coach, consult, advocate, mediate, empower, upbuild, entreat, and console ones' spirit being but we aim to place a dynamic "paracleted triad" that places 2 or more "paracletes" in ones' life and in doing so we focus on developing the traits necessary within that triad for their ability to transcend their issues, spiritually form or transform, and remain overcomers of their issues. Whether we paraclete or echoventure or combinations of both we seek to create an environment and atmosphere conducive of authentic change in the sentimentality and culture of the heart and reframe the deeper presuppositions and perspectives of the mind.
The service facilitates echoventures that meet a need in youth's lives that is not being met by traditional counseling. We seek to inspire their spirit being to capture a vision for their life and build the mechanisms, character traits, attitudes, and motivations to embrace their vision and how they echo with passion and devotion.
Echoventure is inspired in very small part by the Native American visionquest, but is rooted in a Judeo-Christian spirituality that utilizes the lamad style of encounterment learning. We seek to empower the "inner echo" through "visionseer"ing, persona molding, character trait building, attitude consoling, and motivation entreating.
Pray as this direct and deeply impacting mission takes birth and brings transformation to hundreds if not thousands or more.
Echoventure is a life coaching venture service.
Echoventure as a club is up to any group or individual that wants to carry
through such a vision to their community as described below.
Echoventure is a vision that we share freely and hope to see communities at large embrace and build into their own schools, churches, and community centers. Echoventure was birthed in October 2013 from a vision to engage students to powerfully encounter the world in a way that would inspire and exercise their faith, hope, and love. It has started as a very fun after school club that ventures into things that are outdoors. When I say outdoors, I am not necessarily talking about thee outdoors as in the wilderness, but rather those things that facilitate getting kids away from their normal life and engage them in a special way with memorable things of the larger world around them.
These ventures may include wilderness adventures, but also things such as touring historical sites, local mission projects, touring a parents business, visiting local camps or colleges, kayaking at the local state park, swimming at the local water hole, going to a farm that produces their milk, and so on and so forth. The sky is the limit and the creativity boundless for the things you can do that will
inspire, educate, mentor, life coach, and "paraclete" kids.
We are sharing this vision to inspire others to form similar clubs. The strategy of our Echoventure is not to replace a church youth group or be a scouting group but rather be a parent involved, volunteer led group that organizes ventures that give mentoring "paracletes," as I call them, an opportunity to inspire, lead by example, and life coach students in a way that upbuilds, inspires, and entreats them to further the maturity of their faith, fellowship, and lifestyle.
So check out our site for more of this vision and contact us with
any input or questions you may have.
God bless you as you join in with our Echoventure or start your own.
BIBLICAL SPIRITUAL LIFE COACHING IN
VENTUROUS AND ADVENTUROUS FORMATS
A "paracleted triad" spiritual life coaching venture service
that is driven to take young and old alike
on various ventures and adventures that facilitate spiritual life coaching
and uncover a vision for their life that echoes for eternity.
Echoventure and its parent/paraclete organization, Paraclete Association, believe in a process of spiritual life coaching that we do not only coach, consult, advocate, mediate, empower, upbuild, entreat, and console ones' spirit being but we aim to place a dynamic "paracleted triad" that places 2 or more "paracletes" in ones' life and in doing so we focus on developing the traits necessary within that triad for their ability to transcend their issues, spiritually form or transform, and remain overcomers of their issues. Whether we paraclete or echoventure or combinations of both we seek to create an environment and atmosphere conducive of authentic change in the sentimentality and culture of the heart and reframe the deeper presuppositions and perspectives of the mind.
The service facilitates echoventures that meet a need in youth's lives that is not being met by traditional counseling. We seek to inspire their spirit being to capture a vision for their life and build the mechanisms, character traits, attitudes, and motivations to embrace their vision and how they echo with passion and devotion.
Echoventure is inspired in very small part by the Native American visionquest, but is rooted in a Judeo-Christian spirituality that utilizes the lamad style of encounterment learning. We seek to empower the "inner echo" through "visionseer"ing, persona molding, character trait building, attitude consoling, and motivation entreating.
Pray as this direct and deeply impacting mission takes birth and brings transformation to hundreds if not thousands or more.
Echoventure is a life coaching venture service.
Echoventure as a club is up to any group or individual that wants to carry
through such a vision to their community as described below.
Echoventure is a vision that we share freely and hope to see communities at large embrace and build into their own schools, churches, and community centers. Echoventure was birthed in October 2013 from a vision to engage students to powerfully encounter the world in a way that would inspire and exercise their faith, hope, and love. It has started as a very fun after school club that ventures into things that are outdoors. When I say outdoors, I am not necessarily talking about thee outdoors as in the wilderness, but rather those things that facilitate getting kids away from their normal life and engage them in a special way with memorable things of the larger world around them.
These ventures may include wilderness adventures, but also things such as touring historical sites, local mission projects, touring a parents business, visiting local camps or colleges, kayaking at the local state park, swimming at the local water hole, going to a farm that produces their milk, and so on and so forth. The sky is the limit and the creativity boundless for the things you can do that will
inspire, educate, mentor, life coach, and "paraclete" kids.
We are sharing this vision to inspire others to form similar clubs. The strategy of our Echoventure is not to replace a church youth group or be a scouting group but rather be a parent involved, volunteer led group that organizes ventures that give mentoring "paracletes," as I call them, an opportunity to inspire, lead by example, and life coach students in a way that upbuilds, inspires, and entreats them to further the maturity of their faith, fellowship, and lifestyle.
So check out our site for more of this vision and contact us with
any input or questions you may have.
God bless you as you join in with our Echoventure or start your own.
EchoVenture can function in schools, in after school programs, as a family assistance program, as a mentor-apprentice program, as a scouting program assistant, as a youth group program accessory, as a camp or retreat specialty program facilitator, and so much more. The goal is to get families to discover together and upbuild each other in outdoor environments; to get mentors, even retired and professional ones, to apprentice and excite apprentices in new areas and to excel in others; to help pastors and youth leaders with an outdoor program platform that can assist them make missional inroads and facilitate camps-retreats with ease in outdoor and multi-facility settings; and to provide a platform in which life coaching and spiritual formation can occur outside the realm of traditional counseling practice.
ECHOVENTURE serves a great need for youth and young adults to be mentored or "paracleted" by those that are more mature or "vetted" in various disciplines. It serves to function as a complementary platform for any type of group serving youth to network together professionals, matured elders, vetted mentors, and skilled guides to train up a new generation to lead the way in right living and relationship with God.
For regular recreational and missional activities
here are some common likes
and we are not limited to the following:
Paintball, riding atv's-gocarts-side by sides, mud bogging in an old truck or jeep, horseback riding, rifle & pistol shooting, archery, spear throwing, sporting clays, deer spotting after dark, zip lining & canopy tours, rapelling-climbing-bouldering-caving, wilderness survival instructing, river-boat-snow tubing, snow skiing, jet skiing, scenic travel, wooden staff-rod-long bow making, wood carving, wood burning, machette-hatchet instruction, hiking trail clearing for state parks and trail associations, heritage and ancestry tours and discovery, metal detecting, scavenger hunts, specialized hunting skill training, wild food foraging, proper bonfire-campfire building, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, whitewater rafting, paddle boarding, sail boating, recreational boating, boating fishing, trout stream fishing, tours of fish hatcheries, tours of animal parks & zoos, geocacheing, orienteering, trail building and maintenance, river dock jumping, swimming in scenic locations, rope swinging into deep waters, damn building in creeks, sandcastle and snow sculpture building, people packing in a vehicle, snowmobiling, pulling tubes-mattresses behind snowmobiles-atvs, flying squirrel, hiking with a purpose or mission, camp outs, clean rave club parties, sleepovers, specialized outreaches, specialized missional endeavors, visiting the elderly with a special event, hosting a fundraiser for a special cause, serving in a civic function, walking or running in support of a special cause, being a volunteer in community parades & events, going to a demo derby, being in a cardboard car demo derby or downhill slide, renting a fat man suit, velcro wall, lazer tag, visiting a gymnastic style jumping area-foam pit, roller skating, inline skating, skateboarding, going to an indoor or outdoor water park, amusement & theme parks, human bowling with water ballons with an ensuing water battle, building a water or ice slide, ice hockey, snow shoeing, cross country skiiing, trail clearing in a state park or national trail system, aiding farmers, community car wash and wax fundraisers,
and so much more.
ECHOVENTURE
Description
Its goal is to prepare students for the outdoor challenges faced by missionaries on the field today in remote parts of the world and provide a unique Bible club format for anyone to utilize, as well as a strong outdoor education program for private, public, charter, and Christian schools. EchoVenture is also meant for the purpose of creating opportunities for family bonding and cross-generational legacy building. EchoVenture can also be a powerful accessory for youth and scouting groups for sleepovers, retreats, camps, and much more. Christian camps can also utilize EchoVentures programs to host or facilitate groups for unique outdoor adventures and education.
EchoVenture is a platform by which we endeavor to hear the echoes of God’s voice outside in the Creation He has made.
We will go ECTO- “outside of”
Into the ECO- “Earth our house”
To ECHO- “to hear”
EchoVenture will seek to instruct across a number of skills and disciplines, best taught by vetted professionals in their respective fields. The platform is by design to remove students from the confines of their structured learning and let them experience the glory, fluidity, spontaneity, complexity, plain sensibility, and all else that exists in the expression of God in what He has made natural to us.
EchoVenture can function in schools, in after school programs, as a family assistance program, as a mentor-apprentice program, as a scouting program assistant, as a youth group program accessory, as a camp or retreat program facilitator, and so much more. The goal is to get families to discover and upbuild each other in outdoor environments, to get mentors even retired and professional ones to apprentice and excite apprentices in new areas and to excel in others, to help pastors and youth leaders with outdoor program platform that can assist them make missional inroads and facilitate camps-retreats with ease in outdoor and multi-facility settings.
EchoVenture will seek to instruct in--
homestead and wilderness survivalism (knowing your home and wild environment well enough to be able to survive in it- including locating clean water sources, foraging for foods, shelter building, fire building, etc. --Bear Gyrlls style)
tree and plant identification (mainly for the purpose of edible wild foods and other life skill purposes- could be done by scout leaders , foresters, and state park trainers, this also should include proper pruning and cutting techniques, best woods for fire building, medicinal uses, and much more)
lifestyles of our ancestors and those in foreign countries in regards to food and living outdoors (taught by missionaries and historians)
hunters education -taught by PA game commission officials and also by vetted hunters with lifetime insight in the skills of bagging trophy game. It can also assist to facilitate hunter safety programs and other hunter education offering of the PA Game Commission.
teaching skills in archery-rifle-shotgun-and other weapons used to protect and provide food- This may be a skill required by a family member to teach for credit with a certified instructor available such as a rifle range leader, a PA game commission trainer, a sporting clays guide, an IBO archery professional, etc.- Many scout, private, and Christian camps, as well as local resorts and ranges, provide excellent opportunities to fulfill this function.
visiting scenic locations- such as the zoos, state and federal parks, natural waterfalls, unique ecosystems, such as rock faces, bogs, creek beds, swamps, protected lakes, and so forth to name a few.
adventure and other outdoor skills- included but not limited to hiking, backpacking, kayaking, rafting, canoeing, geocaching, orienteering, wildlife scouting, deer spotting, metal detecting, caving, bouldering, rappelling, rock climbing, tree climbing, zip-lining, canopy touring, mountain biking, atving, rails to trails biking, team building courses, and so forth
animal care skills- horsemanship, pet care, farm animal care, wild animal tracking and droppings, recognizing animal paths and habits, having animal-horse sense, feeding and care for wild animals and fish, including deer, turkeys, pheasants, trout (trout farm on R31 west), etc.
instruction in the regions outdoor options- the Great Allegheny Passage, the Appalachian Trail, the North Country Trail, the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trails, Rails to Trails program, and much more
folklore and regional history of outdoor life for the native Indians, pioneers, and settlers- visits to Fort Ligonier, Jumonville, Somerset Historical Center, Seneca Indian Museum (Salamanca, NY), etc. to name a few would be helpful- this could become an essential part of a future program that gets parents to take their children to these places and experience it together to fulfill a program requirement.
instruction in more traditional outdoor lifestyles-- Amish, Mennonite, and other traditions and similar lifestyles to familiarize them with their survival, cooking, farming, and other unique living skills – be sure to buy some bread and pies or a maybe a visit to Moo Echo on R31 west or just go to Smicksburg, PA and other areas common to these alternate lifestyles.
Outdoor food preparation- mountain pie making, cooking on an open fire, gardening, foraging for food, canning, food preservation, wild game preparation, wild berry jelly making, natural spices and herbs, and so forth.
The 8 Basic Human Needs that EchoVenture strives to meet and are at the core of our philosophy for transformational spiritual formation and empowerment-
Relatedness- Transcendence- Rootedness- Sense of Identity-
Frame of Orientation- Excitation & Stimulation- Unity- Effectiveness
1) Relatedness- our relationships with others, care, respect, knowledge, productive love
Relatedness- a particular manner of connectedness
2) Transcendence- our ability to rise above, remain creative, and care about our creations
Transcendence- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits; the state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
3) Rootedness- our need to be affiliated, established, and feel at home again in the world
Rootedness- the quality or state of having roots, especially of being firmly established, settled, or entrenched
4) Sense of Identity- our drive to conform to a group and be individually productive and unique
5) Frame of Orientation- our understanding of the world and our place in it and is it stable and consistent
6) Excitation and Stimulation- our actively striving for a goal rather than simply responding
7) Unity- our sense of oneness between ourselves and the human world outside us
8) Effectiveness- our need to feel accomplished