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SUMMARY:Nurturing Healthy Competition in a High-Pressure World
DESCRIPTION:Campers love competition\, but justifying ferocious competition by saying\, “Hey\, it’s a competitive world out there!” ignores the critical differences between healthy and harmful competition. Even worse\, most young people will arrive at camp feeling excessive pressure to succeed. Participants in this inspiring workshop will learn the keys to upending harmful competition and external pressures by using healthy approaches that not only boost campers’ mental health\, they also improve performance!
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/nurturing-healthy-competition-in-a-high-pressure-world-2/
LOCATION:Room 303
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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:Preventing Homesickness and Promoting Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Time away from home is always challenging\, for campers as well as staff\, whether they are new or returning. Why let intense feelings of missing home—which 20% of young people feel—get in the way of enjoying the awesome programs you offer? With the right tools\, your camp can prevent debilitating homesickness and promote positive adjustment to time away from home. Learn how to prevent “pick-up deals\,” create positive expectations\, and help everyone feel like camp is their home away from home!
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/preventing-homesickness-and-promoting-adjustment/
LOCATION:Room 303
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SUMMARY:Best Practices and Bold Opinions: A Director Throwdown
DESCRIPTION:Join Justin Pritikin (Liberty Lake Day Camp\, NJ) and Andy Shlensky (North Star Camp for Boys\, WI)\, for an engaging conversation on what’s working\, and what’s changing\, in modern camp leadership. Through stories\, strategies\, and honest reflections\, Justin and Andy will explore how today’s directors can balance innovation with tradition\, maintain excellence through chaos\, and lead with both empathy and edge. This session isn’t about right answers\, it’s about shared wisdom\, practical takeaways\, and the power of evolving together.
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/best-practices-and-bold-opinions-a-director-throwdown-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:Universal Values: How Camps Can Evaluate and Elevate Their Entire Staffing Cycle
DESCRIPTION:As the staff experience continues to be put under a microscope\, are camps doing enough to ensure that the expectations they set align with the realities their staff face? This session shares a new model camps can adopt to reshape their entire staffing process and provides tangible tips and tools camps can use to evaluate and level-up their interviews\, onboarding/orientation\, feedback systems\, and how they can integrate each of these pieces of the puzzle into their overall staff culture. This session will focus on restructuring a camp’s entire staffing cycle\, and will focus on what camps can do AFTER summer 2026\, and how they can utilize their 2026 staff to help set the stage for the future\, helping create buy-in and accountability for the summer ahead.
URL:https://tristatecampconference.com/event/universal-values-how-camps-can-evaluate-and-elevate-their-entire-staffing-cycle-2/
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