What do girls do?
From high ropes courses to rock climbing to team building girls learn about themselves and how to work with others effectively. Wings Camp activities also include hiking, art projects, swimming, yoga, horseback riding, stars gazing, singing, dancing, skits, learning about money, learning about your body and self exploration just to name a few. It is fun with purpose. Girls even learn how to build a business.

How do girls build confidence at camp?
We work with girls on the four building blocks of life – emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual - they learn to journal, they learn how to cooperate with others, cooking classes and nutrition and real communication skills so they can own their voice.

What is our focus?
In a fun, interactive way we educate and inspire girls to be who they are and dream who they will become.

What ages do you focus on?
12 to 17 (16 and 17 year old girls get the unique opportunity to be campers as well as teen mentors. This gives them the opportunity to learn about leadership.)

Rites of Passage is an old phrase. Our ancestors, the Native Americans, the Africans and many of the worlds cultures know its value.

Over time, many of us have lost the wisdom of the Rites of Passage. Now is the time to bring it back. Our ancestors knew how to live with the Earth. In todays world, we are forced into technology, materialism, subdivisions, cell phones, computers and on and on. It gets harder and harder to connect with Nature and our own natural cycles.

The Rite of Passage is a time to honor the individual that is in "change". There are 6 phases involved: Acknowledgment, Separation, Discovery, Silence, Initiation and Celebration.

We travel into the wilderness and we find ourselves, our true selves.

We will learn the Medicine Wheel and how it affects our lives. We will connect with the 4 Elements of Air-Water-Fire-Earth. We will learn how to make fire from our bare hands. We will think about our lives. We will spend time alone. We will discover who we are. We will learn to honor ourselves. We will begin to live.

During the silence phase, we will adventure into a time of quiet. The native people call it the Vision Quest. It is the most powerful experience that we know of. It is the climax of the Rite of Passage Journey. Once complete with the Vision Quest, the person will have transformed themselves into something new. This new person is one who they, themselves has designed.

Very powerful.

The Sweat Lodge is an ancient initiation, where hot rocks are brought into a small confined area. Within the lodge, we sing, silence and focus on our lives. It is a purification ceremony. It is cleansing.

Upon return, the person is greeted by some of his family members and life-long mentors. They meet "for the first time" ... again.

This journey is not for the light at heart. It is ceremony and ritual and it will change our lives... should we give it a chance.

Are you ready?

We invite you to join us.

Outdoor Adventure Programs Grades 6-12
5 Day 4 Night Overnight Outdoor Adventure Camp - Escape the heat, make long lasting friendships, develop your outdoor skills, and grow as a team member and leader! Travel to Sedona and the Grand Canyon! $495
June 1-5 Tuesday-Saturday (entering 6-8th grades) June 14-18 Monday-Friday (entering 9-12th grades)
July 5-9 Monday-Friday (entering 6-8th grades) August 2-6 Monday-Friday (entering 9-12th grades)
8 Day Arizona Teen Tour (Hotels and Camping)
Saturday June 19 - Sunday June 26, 2010 $2,700
Our "Best of Arizona" tour visits exciting destinations throughout Arizona. Highlights include: a professionally guided Jeep tour, Slide Rock State Park, hiking in Sedona, camping and horseback riding in The Grand Canyon, and water skiing on Lake Powell.