Awesome Activities: Teaching Staff (and Campers!) to Handle Challenges and Make Decisions with Flexibility, Confidence, and Creativity

Join us to play, learn, and take it all back home to your staff team! Staff leaders are frequently reporting that many (not all) of our team members have increased difficulty with “solving problems on the spot”. To their credit, many staff don’t move forward for fear of doing things “wrong” or when they haven’t been given explicit directions about what to do in a specific situation. In response, Michael has designed some great ways to use “playing with a purpose” to boost their skills in approaching challenges with greater initiative, skill, creativity, calmness, and confidence. Learn how to get them to ask for support even when reluctant to do so. Most importantly, he’ll demonstrate with the concept of “point of concentration” how to explain to staff the one key secret to improvising solutions when we haven’t been told exactly how to handle something. These are quick bursts of experiential learning that can be used and practiced in staff training before and after campers arrive.