WooWoo! Here comes to Bark Lake!

Vision Youth Family and Bark Lake staff 

Counselors are playing kayak!

Bronze counselors are performing, it's so entertaining.

Learning how to solve a problem through group effort

Every summer, Vision Youth cooperates with Bark Lake Leadership Centre and organizes a 3-days-2-night leadership training camp for Silver and Bronze Visioneers. Bark Lake is located in the northeast side of Toronto and is surrounded by vividly green areas and beautifully blinking lake water. At night, you will see an unbelievable clear starry sky in which you can see the Milky Way and countless shooting stars. All Visioneers had their leadership training in such a serene and carefree natural environment.   

All Visioneers had a chance to play canoe, kayak, high rope and low rope in the campsite. For many Bronze Visioneers, it was the first time for them to play canoe and/or kayak and therefore it was very challenging to them. They had to step out from their own comfort zone and accept each adventurous challenge. Besides that, the Visioneers participated in team building activities and learnt more about cooperation, communication and leadership.

Having a team building game

Night walk is something not to be missed in the itinerary. For instance, the Bark Lake staff led a group of Visioneers to do the night walk without the help of external illumination (i.e. as it takes around 20 minutes for our eyes to get used to the darkness). Arriving at the destination, the staff asked the Visioneers to sit down and have a little reminiscence and self-reflection. Within that short five minutes, the Visioneers were told to think of the things that have accomplished in the camp, their achievements, the nature, etc. Such a time was very thought-provoking indeed.

In the 3-days-2-night camp, the Visioneers not only had a lot of fun, they learnt a bucket of skills which are essential to their personal development.