LEvel One

These sessions are designed for frontline staff members at outdoor programs.

• Games & Community-Building

  • Low & No Prop Games

  • Facilitating Teambuilding Activities

  • Safely Conducting Low Challenge Course activities

• Goal-Setting for Seasonal Staff

• Ages & Stages of Youth Development

• Teaching Staff to Teach

• Rapport and Choice-Based Behavior Management Techniques

• Leave No Trace Ethics & Other Outdoor Skills (firebuilding, how to pack a backpack)

• Nature Programming

• Make a Hike More Than a Hike

• Start with the Mission

• Building Trust with Parents on Opening Day

• Waterfront Skill Verification & Best Practices

• When Campers Want to Talk About Controversial Topics, How Do We Respond?

• Putting Camp on Your Resume

• Navigating Appropriate Social Media Use

• Consent Education and Assault Prevention at Camp

• Facilitated Discussion

  • Diversity & Equitable Work Environments

  • #MeToo / #TimesUP

  • Inclusion (LGBTQ, Special needs, race, gender, income)

  • Social Justice in a social media age

• A variety of certification courses

Level two

These sessions are designed for leadership team and/or year-round staff.

• Management 101 for those Supervising Others for the First Time

• Having Difficult Conversations (participants, parents, staff, leadership)

• "Radical Candor" Management

• Delegation Can Be Learned

• Teaching Staff to Upsell Camp for Next Year

• Performance Evaluations and Providing Feedback

• Facilitated Discussion (with a focus on setting policies and work culture)

  • Diversity & Equitable Work Environments

  • #MeToo / #TimesUP

  • Inclusion (LGBTQ, Special needs, race, gender, income)

  • Social Justice in a social media age

• Teambuilding for Summer Leadership Teams (and/or small teams)

• Song-leading and public speaking

• Running Large-Scale Emergency Drills

• Productivity and Prioritizing Your Time at Camp

• ACA Standards and Preparing for your Visit

LEvel Three

These topics are offered as keynote addresses.

• Go With the Flow - What the River Teaches Us About Life

• Marketable Skills Learned at Camp

• Inspiring Awe, Wonder, and Curiosity

• Changing the World with a Few Small Language Changes

• Camp as the Living Laboratory for the Way the World Can Be

• Nature + Mindfulness = Healing

• Mentorship is the Mothership of Camping

LEvel Four

Other topics and trainings offered as consulting or training services throughout the summer or year.

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