Momentum Leadership Camp (Senior) – Coolum
DATE
20 – 24 January 2024
TIME
1:00pm Monday- 12:00pm Friday
AGE
Grade 12
LOCATION
Luther Heights Youth Camp
1592 David Low Way, Coolum Beach 4573
$797.50 per Student Leader
Registrations open 1 June – 1 January 2024. Student Leader places may fill earlier.
School Specific: We work with our partner schools all around Queensland to explore, discover and thrive in Leadership & Learning. As such there are no private individual bookings available. All bookings need to occur through your school’s relevant faculty member in liaison with the School Leadership & Learning Lead at LYQ.
If you do not know whether your School is currently supporting the Momentum Leadership Camp initiative, contact us or your relevant school contact today.
Join us as a “Blue Crew” Facilitator! If you were impacted by this experience, love to build bright futures and just all around want to help young leaders explore, discover and Thrive we’d love to have you on team. Please do so by fielding your expression of interest on the Facilitator EOI button:
For confirmed Facilitators, please use your username and password to login for training. For registration, please refer to the camp registration link:
Momentum Leadership Camp is a five-day learning experience designed for Senior School Student Leadership teams in Grade 11 (The Grade 12 cohort of 2025) to help them explore leadership, discover key insights, their potential and thrive as current and future Australian leaders
Overview
Want to know what to expect on an amazing week at Momentum?
Momentum is designed to be a cohesive and fun developmental exploration of Student Leaders current and emerging leadership abilities. All that to say, some things you can plan for. Others, we like to keep a surprise! The following timeline is a basic overview of what you can expect.
Monday
- Arrival
- Forming Activities
- Lunch
- Free Time/ Networking
- Dinner
Tuesday/Wednesday
- Early morning health & wellness activities
- Breakfast
- Intentional reflection time
- Leadership Content
- Lunch
- Leadership Content/ Leadership situations
- Dinner
- Leadership Content
Thursday
- Early morning health & wellness activities
- Breakfast
- Intentional reflection time
- Leadership situation Pt1
- Lunch
- Leadership situation Pt2
- Dinner
- Leadership situation Pt3
Friday
- Early morning health & wellness activities
- Breakfast
- Intentional reflection time
- Leadership content/ Leadership situation
- Lunch
- Departure
We are also happy to answer any question you may have, so give us a call today on 3511 4080, email us at leadershipandlearning@lyq.org.au or jump on our Facebook page
Facilitators
Every camp has a directorship team, and a balanced team of male and female Facilitators. All Facilitators must complete a thorough application process. They are passionate about creating a high-quality camp experience and are talented lead learners in their own right. When it comes to leadership and to ensuring safe and fun experiences, they are some of the best around. Many of our Facilitators have experienced what a life-changing difference these camps make as a Student Leader and regularly return to serve the next generation!
Other Details
Our Paradigms
LYQ believes 100% in the leadership of youth and young people. One of the essential tools to leadership are the mindsets we bring to situations. These patterns or paradigms of mindsets and behaviour help us create a healthy culture of leadership on camp that strives to help us all learn together.
Actions are the overflow of the Heart
As leadership is predicated on how we treat our fellow human beings we encourage those engaging in leadership to be deeply self-reflective and honest. We believe that it isn’t the things on the outside, appearance or technology that make for great or terrible leadership. But that it is the posture of our inner world which drives behaviour, perception and response to situations. Therefore, we encourage all on our camp to think about whether what they do is aligned with integrity to their heart. As our greatest leader and inspiration said, “A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” Luke 6:45.
Leadership is a relationship based on love
We believe that leadership is a relationship not a position. Leadership, we feel is a relationship between one or more human beings where one is exerting influence and others are receiving that influence and responding by following. As such we feel all leaders have a duty and responsibility to treat those in their charge well. Precisely because the temptation to use influence inappropriately is always present. The greatest leader of all time summed up an entirety of moral and ethical philosophy in two key areas. “The most important is this; to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and strength and the other is like it, love your neighbour as yourself” Matthew 22: 36 – 40.
At Momentum we base our leadership with ourselves, our fellow leaders, our facilitators, our camp staff, our local community, our teachers and our parents, all on love.
You have the freedom to choose
How do leaders exercise ownership? By practising it. There’s no cheat code here. When it comes to ownership it has to be practiced like most good things in life. At Momentum we take a stance of Invitation not inspection. We believe in all of our leaders. We set the bar visibly. It’s not a secret. So rather than inspecting, and enforcing accountability in every situation. We co-create a set of rules and responsibilities in the weeks leading up and on the first day of camp. All within the bounds of legality and safety. But, where some camps might enforce showing at a lunch time meal, we expect that great leaders look after their bodies and those around them. The invitation to ownership is here. Leaders have the freedom to make their choices. Importantly, none have the freedom over the consequences. On Momentum, every leader owns their decisions and choices. The ones that help them and the ones that hinder growth. In this we practice ownership.
You are Invited
A mainstay of Momentum is the paradigm of invitation. It is extremely difficult to learn leadership authentically and effectively if in one hand we say “take ownership!” and the other “I command you to…”. It is hypocritical. Instead, we will invite. It is important for us as it is for others that this represents a genuine invitation. Again, all these things reinforce a culture of ownership, honesty and love for our fellow leaders. None of our facilitators assume they are above any leader, we treat leaders as fellow explorers. Think of it this way, everyone on the camp is an equal expedition member with different roles. So, we invite you to continue looking through our paradigms! And see if this resonates with you as a leader too.
We are with you
A message to all the leaders who read through these paradigms. We are with you! Our facilitators, our schools, our Camp staff and our fellow leaders on camp are here to support you. LYQ makes a commitment to explore, discover and thrive. We make a commitment to support in all the ways we possibly can. We look forward to your presence on camp.
Commitment to Child Safety
Lutheran Youth of Queensland is committed to child safety and our practices are guided by the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and Queensland’s Eight Mandatory Requirements. We have zero tolerance for child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns are taken seriously and responded to according to our policies and procedures. This includes a child centred approach to responding to incidents and allegations, and the reporting of concerns, not matter how small, to the relevant authorities. We ask that you support us in this by highlighting ways that we can improve our practice and by reporting any concerns you might have to the relevant authorities.