Monarch Center
Georgetown, CO

The Monarch Center is offering three separate leadership expeditions this summer for teens between the ages of 12-18. All trips will be 13 night-14 day, work/study projects, that prove to be challenging, fun and productive.

Trip 1: Hopi/Navajo Indian Reservations
June 8-21, 2009

Focus:

• Learning leadership, communication and relationship skills as part of a group of youth working together.


• Rebuilding a centuries old rock house for a local Hopi Family


• Learning about the role of community in cultures that have survived for thousands of years


• Learning the ancient wisdoms and customs of the Hopi Elders


• Visiting Walpi, one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages in the United States


• Rebuilding a barnhouse for a local Navajo family


• Participate and learn the Navajo culture including learning how to weave a Navajo rug, cook frybread and work on a sheep and horse ranch


• Backpack in Monument Valley

Cost is $150.00 per day, per student.
Transportation from Georgetown, CO and all meals and lodging are included.
For more info on this trip or to get an enrollment packet, please call 303-569-0767 or send us an email: info@monarchcentercolorado.com

Trip 2: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
July 6-19, 2009

Focus:

• Participate in a community service project to benefit the local people


• Learning about the role of community in cultures that have survived for thousands of years


• Participating in an authentic sweat lodge ceremony with members of the Lakota Sioux Nation


• Learning the ancient wisdoms and customs of the Lakota Sioux Nation Elders


• Meeting with a Lakota medicine man

Cost is $150.00 per day, per student
Transportation from Georgetown, CO and all meals and lodging are included.
For more info on this trip or to get an enrollment packet, please call 303-569-0767 or send us an email: info@monarchcentercolorado.com

Trip 3: Location to be announced
August 3-16, 2009

Please check out the calendar of upcoming programs on our website. We will update this trip as soon as details are finalized.