Most high schoolers take friendship for granted. This workshop aims to reclaim its value and practice. Through three-days of hiking, camping and campfires in the rugged gorges of Ohio’s Hocking Hills, students will move beyond socializing toward the intentional pursuit of virtuous community.

**Why a Friendship Workshop?**

In an age of culturally-assisted individualism and self-centeredness, even the supreme ideal of friendship can corrode. We can start to even see our friends with too much of a self-serving outlook. As young men make their fundamental shift from adolescence to adulthood, it is critical to take a deeper look at the inestimable value and practice of friendship.

Components of High School & Beyond

Objectives: By the end of this workshop, students will have:
1. Learned to recognize good friendships vs bad friendships.
2. Explored the positive and negative influences on friendship in our culture.
3. Understood the distinction between male friends and female relationships.
4. Appreciated what it means to be intentional with existing friends and in making new friends.
5. Grasped the intrinsic connections between true freedom and authentic reciprocal friendship.

Content: Students will read and discuss excerpts from:
1. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
2. Justin Earley’s Made for People
3. Karol Wojtyla’s Love & Responsibility

The workshop is held in Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio over 3 days of intense hiking, camping, and fireside discussions. Photos of Hocking Hills Below.

For more information, please contact Daniel Jakubisin, the program director.

“Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one finds a treasure. Faithful friends are beyond price, no amount can balance their worth.”

Application and Payment Information

Eligibility: The Friendship Workshop is for rising high school juniors only.
Application Deadline is April 15th.
Cost: $325. Pay after acceptance.
There is an Early Bird Discount Rate of $250 for those students who apply by April 1st!
Financial considerations should not prevent anyone from attending. Please inquire about payment plans and scholarship possibilities.

FRIENDSHIP WORKSHOP