LEADERSHIP-IN-TRAINING (LIT) PROGRAM
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TREFOIL ACADEMY OF MAGERY AND SORCERY:
THE SUMMER SESSION 2025 (LOST ONES)

Please note this is not your typical TASS experience. You are still a camper! You are not staff/associate professor/CIT.

While LITs will still be encountering some adventurers and quests, this entire journey is going to be centered on learning various leadership skills in a fun and small group setting before going out into the camp and practicing those skills.

Program goal: Participants will leave motivated and ready to use these skills in order to build stronger relationships as well as help them to set and achieve their goals. They will also gain a better understanding of the different roles that make up a summer camp.

Who Is This Intended For: This program is for those who feel they are ready to close the chapter on their student adventuring days but are not yet able/not quite sure if they want to be staff. Individuals should have a strong desire to become a stronger leader.

What Are You Getting Into:
Please be advised that the program uses a “learn it/now do it/debrief on it” model as participants learn about the 12 core leadership skills. What you put into this program is what you will get out of it. You will be expected to actively engage with the material.

If you:

• Do not like receiving feedback

• Are not interested in growing as a leader

• Hate trying new things

Then this program is not recommended for you. Please be advised that we not have the ability to switch you back over to an adventurer mode at the same program. Please be sure you want to do this. You can return to being an adventurer in future years.

Please note: Our camper’s safety and well-being is our top priority. Campers who engage in the following behaviors at camp will not be allowed to remain: consistently withholding food, purging, self-harming, being deceptive with staff (such as lying or deliberately hiding information), struggling to stay with their group, refusing to follow instructions and/or camp policies, expressing suicidal thoughts, sleep walking, or exhibiting any other behaviors that the director feels jeopardize their safety and well-being. No refunds will be issued.

Dates: July 13 - July 19, 2025 (7 days and 6 Nights) & 1 zoom meeting (TBD) before you arrive

Price: $829 + $52.23 sales tax (Community Price Explanation & Comparison)

• LITs will receive +$50 dollar on-boarding care package that contains a
  t-shirt, a LIT specific bandana, pre-season reading material, and work.
  The fee also covers room and board, a wand, program supplies,
  a souvenir Sanity (rubber duck), a souvenir patch, a souvenir magnet to
  take home.

• Tuition fee is designed to cover all expenses at camp
  except camp store and other incidentals. Camp store is
  not included in the camp fee.

• You may pay online or via personal check. Checks should
  be made payable to “Trefoil Academy, LLC” for the price + sales tax.

• A minimum of half the fee is due at the time of registration.
  Camp fee must be paid in full by April 15th.

Max # of Individuals Who Can Be Accepted: 10

Ages: 15 - 17 at the time of camp
*Important: LITs are campers. This not an Associate Professor or CIT.
Those who are 16 years or older may apply to be staff here.
You do not need to go through our LIT program before applying to be staff.

We Welcome: Everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, gender,
sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, or nationality.

Location: Camp Happyland aka Camp 5 (Dumfries/Triangle, VA)
17425 Mawavi Rd. Triangle, VA 22172.

Application Status: Accepting applications

Important Notes:

• Due to the length of stay, individuals need to have overnight prior experience in a new area. If this will be your camper's first time away from home/a relative's home/a friend's home, please talk to our director, Ash before enrolling. We want to set your camper up for success.

• No day tripping is allowed. Campers will be living on site for the duration of the experience.

• Guardians are responsible for transportation to and from camp

Refund and Cancellation Policy:

Refund requests must be made in writing by the parent/guardian and must be received by the director, and the director will confirm the receipt. If you do not receive confirmation within 48 hours, please contact the director again.

• More than three months before the event: 100% of what has been paid.

  • This does not include any processing fees, sales tax, or unrecoverable program expenses. Refunds will not be issued for less than $10; after applicable processing fees.

• Three to two months and a day before the event: 50% of what has been paid.

  • This does not include any processing fees, sales tax, or unrecoverable program expenses.

  • Refunds will not be issued for less than $10; after applicable processing fees.

• Two months or less before the event: 0% of what has been paid.

  • Failure to show or arriving after check-in has closed without alerting the director ahead of time may potentially result in the camper being classified as a no-show and having their slot offered to another camper on the wait-list. In the event that this happens, you will not receive a refund.

  • If your camper is sent home early for any reason, you will not be refunded. Please make sure your camper truly wishes to be there and is willing to comply with our behavior contract.

• No refund will be offered in the event of inclement weather or loss of the site.

  • All reasonable attempts will be made to reschedule the camp. There are possible limiting factors is availability of the site.

  • The decision regarding the cancellation of the camp will be made by director. It will be made with the safety of the the community in mind and based on the conditions at the location.

• No substitution or transfers of slots or Tier invitations is allowed.