Good Turn Methods

What

Create a environment where everyone seeks opportunities and goes out of his way to do a good turn. Make the camp participants conscious of doing a good turn. Develop missionary zeal toward doing good turns. Make "Do a good turn daily" a theme of the camp. Emphasize doing a good turn means more if no one else knows about it. Reinforce idea of selflessness, of service to others.

Why

Reevaluate meaning of good turn. It ought to mean not only action that can be observed, but an objective to bring out the best in people, building up others, encouraging, helping others to be their best (spiritual good turn). Baden Powell said, "Make good turn a habit of conduct." Seek not what you can get, but what you can give.

How

There are many interesting possibilities for good turns in camp. Remind patrols and individuals several times a day to do their good turns, individual as well as patrol good turns. Staff should go out of their way to do good turns for camp and for learners. Do good turns without the expectation or recognition. Learners may be encouraged record their good turns in the journal portion of their notebook.