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SUMMARY:Awesome Activities: Teaching Staff (and Campers!) to Handle Challenges and Make Decisions with Flexibility\, Confidence\, and Creativity
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/awesome-activities-teaching-staff-and-campers-to-handle-challenges-and-make-decisions-with-flexibility-confidence-and-creativity-2/
LOCATION:Room 303
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SUMMARY:Dump the Dissing: How to Pulverize Put-Downs and Help People Communicate with Respect and Civility in Conflict
DESCRIPTION:It’s one of the challenges that current camp leaders are talking about most: in situations of conflict or disagreement\, or when anxious or upset\, both campers and staff are having increasing difficulties talking to each other with respect and kindness. It’s not their “fault.” We are all living in a world where the models around us use name-calling\, taunting\, and even refusing to communicate. And this is important: unless camp is a safe and respectful environment\, people are less willing to try new or challenging things. This blocks our mission of learning and growth. Our friend Michael from Chicago is on the case! This session demonstrates specific\, original\, and practical staff training tools and techniques to teach how to confidently handle name-calling and similar negative behaviors and how to support campers in learning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Staff will be able to use these techniques in their own communication and teamwork.
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/dump-the-dissing-how-to-pulverize-put-downs-and-help-people-communicate-with-respect-and-civility-in-conflict-2/
LOCATION:Room 303
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SUMMARY:Fast Solutions\, Fun Process: Solve Your Challenges Now with a Great Group Problem-Solving Method
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual blast of learning and fun connection! Tri-State is delighted to continue this unique way to learn at Conference and meet other people. Top camp expert and staff trainer Michael Brandwein leads this special hands-on session in which he will teach you the Consultative Problem-Solving Process. This is an enjoyable\, highly effective\, incredibly efficient group learning technique that you can learn immediately and helps you get great ideas today\, right in this session\, working with colleagues to solve the greatest camp challenges you’re facing at your specific camp. You’ll walk out with lots of notes on how to handle a challenge of your choice. And Michael will show you how you can use this same process back at your camp\, not only with staff but with campers\, too. And wait-there’s more! You’ll meet lots of new camp friends at Conference\, so this is a great way to build your own community of supportive folks you can hang with and learn from throughout Tri-State.
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/fast-solutions-fun-process-solve-your-challenges-now-with-a-great-group-problem-solving-method-2/
LOCATION:Room 303
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SUMMARY:Unique Camp Superpowers: Maximizing How Camp Grows Great People
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn Michael’s new\, creative “theory of everything” to describe in a fresh\, exciting way\, exactly how we can use the highly practical\, fundamental elements of camp that make it a uniquely powerful tool for change. And of course\, this comes with Michael’s trademark “tons of immediately usable examples” approach. These are the specific\, terrific tools for your most world-changing summer ever. Boost the way we keep the most powerful promise of the camp experience: making sure that we are using camp for its greatest and most marketable purpose. Michael\, the author of the bestselling “Intentional Camp: Putting More Muscle in the Mission of Character & Youth Development\,” will show a laser-like focus on mission\, demonstrating both new and essential ways to train\, motivate\, supervise\, support\, and coach every member of our team to use our fun and engaging camp activities to build confidence\, caring\, cooperation\, respect\, responsibility\, and much more.
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/unique-camp-superpowers-maximizing-how-camp-grows-great-people-2/
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