Phase I Journey

The Institute created many images related to the dynamics of a life journey.  There were images of having five life phases, one phase every twenty years.  Many programs were created and experimented with particularly related to Phase I, ages birth through the age of twenty.  Within Phase I were the preschool, elementary, junior high, high school and college-aged youth.

PRESCHOOL

• The preschool started with infants 18 months and had four schools within the first five years (infant, mini 2-year-olds, preschool 3-4-year olds and kinder school five-year-olds. Click on Preschool above for the story of the first preschool experiment in Fifth City, Chicago.

EMERGING GENERATION

Elementary children were referred to as the “Emerging Generation”, reminding everyone about the importance of their role bringing forth the future. For fifteen years annual themes (annual themes 1971-1985) and summer camps (Journey of Summer Camping, 1969-1984) were designed to assist these youth in their journey.  In 1973 the theme was the Wild Winds of Fortune.  The 1974 camp had the themes of India’s Gram Sabha. During Summer ’76 this was the Overall Design for both elementary and junior high students,  and this chart shows the Indiana camp for elementary students.

JUNIOR HIGH YOUTH

Students entering their teenage years had many rites of passage, beginning with a 6th grade trip designed to give them images of becoming an adult to the two-year Student House during the 7th and 8th grades and culminating in a year outside of their country of birth to give them a global perspective.  Click on Junior High Youth above to see these three rites of passage n more detail.

•  Student House Yearbook:  1981-1982
• Sixth Grade Trip – Plan (for printing) (April, 1975)

HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY YOUTH

• Youth as Facilitative Leaders – Instructors Manual (2 day course
• The Journey of the ICA into the Field of Youth Development, John Oyler (Summer 1997)
• San Diego Youth and Community Services: Developing Communities – Participant Manual (October 1994)
• Continental Youth Symposium:  One Corporate Thrust for the World and Vocational Dialogue Journal – Kansas City, February 12-15, 1982
• Second Continental Youth Presidium – Mark Jewel speaks on “Life of Service” and Sharon Rafos gives the closing address, “The World is Watching” , Declaration of Youth, and Workshop Procedures (February 1981)
• First Continental Youth Presidium – Announcement and Summary Statement (February 15-18, 1980)
• High School Cluster Context (Summer 1978)
• In August 1971 at the Order Youth Council: Joseph Mathews gave the “Youth Council Address” and “State of the Life Phases”, Dale Pierce gave a “Statement from the Second Generation”
• In 1966 there was a High School House and College House.

• “Growing Up in the Order”, March 15, 2018
• The Journey of the ICA into the Field of Youth Development, John Oyler (Summer 1997)
• San Diego Youth and Community Services: Developing Communities – Participant Manual (October 1994)
• Phase I Formation (February, 1984)
• Phase I by the Center for Imaginal Education, 1983-1984
• Student Leadership Program – Year I Report (St. Paul, MN, July 1982)
• The Journey of Phase I (ages 1-20)  1981
• 18 Year Phase I Journey, Spring 1973
• “Report on the Youth Culture”, John Lloyd, December 30, 1969