"Art & Skill of Creating a Totem"

[Loki]

This is referenced in the new Staff Guide but nowhere to be found. Anyone seen such a document or have a custom one they can share? Prior courses in our Council seem to have only presented samples.

 

Thanks.

 

L

[Eamonn]

I ran into the very same problem!!

http://www.leaderlore.com/totems.html

Isn't a big help!!

I found having the staff explain their totems worked well for us.

But I did print the sheet from leaderlore and added it to all the participants notebooks.

Eamonn

Course Director

NE-IV-153

[Loki]

Thanks Eamonn

 

Had the leaderlore link as my standby but was hoping there was something else out there. Definitely will have staff explain the origins of their respective totems. Also, putting together a sheet with the staff totems and will make it a "Who Am I?" game.

 

L

[clydesdale115]

I think seeing the staff describe their own totems was most helpful thing for us as well. Interesting to see how many ways you can draw a beaver :-)

 

And I love your idea of a "Who Am I" game - that would be a neat thing to include in the Gazette one morning.

 

We were given a few must-haves to include on our totem (course #, something for each patrol member, be easy to recreate, etc.) but even with only limited directions, the totems were all creative, unique, representative, and memorable!

 

clyde

Proud Bobwhite!

 

[kb6jra]

On the two courses I've staffed so far, we show our totems for every presentation we have, we have a totem next to our pictures in our materials and we have a tradition that the patrols afix thier totems to the appropriate patrol boxes on the second weekend.

 

Of course I didn't have any of this on the course i took in 2003, so I had to "fix" my totem when I needed to actually use it.