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The day of your Trials & Tribulations challenge is when all your planning transforms into lived experience.

This section guides you through facilitating each stage of the journey, from the Friday evening gathering through to the final reflections, helping participants connect authentically with refugee experiences while supporting them through physical and emotional challenges.

In this section

  • On the day overview

    This section guides you through facilitating each stage of the journey, helping participants connect authentically with refugee experiences while supporting them through physical and emotional challenges.

  • Leadership on the day

    As an organiser, you're not just managing logistics, but guiding participants through a transformative journey that requires both practical coordination and spiritual facilitation.

  • Facilitating the gathering

    The Friday evening gathering sets the foundation for everything that follows, building community, creating spiritual preparation, and beginning the journey into understanding refugee experiences.

  • Managing the trek

    The trek is where your challenge moves from preparation into active experience, representing the forced journeys that refugees undertake, often across difficult terrain while carrying everything they own.

  • Guiding participants through obstacles

    The assault course is where your challenge becomes most intense and meaningful, each obstacle representing a different aspect of refugee experience.

  • Managing the return journey

    The return journey is where exhaustion meets reflection, and practical needs collide with spiritual processing.

  • Facilitating evening meal and reflection

    After a day of physical challenge and fasting, how you handle the breaking of the fast and subsequent reflection will determine whether participants leave with temporary satisfaction or lasting change.

  • Final prayers and departure

    How participants conclude and depart will shape their lasting memories and determine whether the transformation you've facilitated continues beyond this single day.

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