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Retreats.

Middle schools, high schools, colleges, and churches all use them. I've been on respect retreats, leadership retreats, peer mediator retreats, freshmen retreats, senior retreats, spring break missions trip retreats, youth group retreats, RA retreats..I'd say I have some retreat experience.

There's nothing I'd like more than to be a retreat facilitator. I'd stand in front of high schoolers, crack a few jokes to build rapport and then go into an icebreaker like arranging them in a circle and do that thing where everyone sits on each other's laps while kind of still standing. Or maybe some trust falls, ropes courses, and that untangle the pretzel without letting go of anyone's hand game.

We'd then regroup for a little singing. We'd all put our arms around each other while singing Awesome God or, if it's not a churchish setting, maybe Brown Eyed Girl or something.

The day would include a keynote speaker (me) talking about the importance of ____ and then I'd break everyone up into small groups to confess their struggles.

Then the retreat would end with all of us gathering for a campfire outside or if it's at a school, a fake one in the East Gym, where one by one, students go up to the microphone to apologize for something they did in the 3rd grade, or for a Christian one, we'd write our biggest, most regretful sin on a piece of paper and burn it in the campfire. or nail it to the cross. Or rip it up and throw it in the garbage on the way out.

There'd be tears, hugs, and apologies happening all over and I will get all the glory for bringing everyone closer together. Me and God/the principal or youth pastor who booked me.

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