Category: future of camping
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Tiny Letter November 2019
Four things to share today: Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss“Great negotiators are able to question the assumptions that the rest of the involved players accept on faith or in arrogance, and thus remain more emotionally open to all possibilities, and more intellectually agile to a fluid…
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Creating a Culture of Success: Lessons in Reality
This is the text of the Tedx GuelphU talk I gave. You can view the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pM0dgiquo It is the spring of 1996, I am about to graduate from university – outdoor recreation – studying to be a camp director. An opportunity opens up to interview to be the camp director at a small non-profit…
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CYOA – Choose Your Own Adventure @ Camp
We have a program at camp called Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA). It happens everyday and we have no idea what it will be each week. It changes week to week – and we are so proud of that. Our camp staff have a variety of passions. Some of them love to write poetry,…
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Moving On From Camp – Attempting an Explaination
Each year as a Camp Director we have to make staffing decisions. Some of these decisions are easy, some are not. Here are my thoughts on moving along staff, written as to a staff member: This is the hardest part of our job. Moving someone along from camp when they do not yet think it…
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We are in the business of making memories.
We are in the business of making memories. When you get right down to it, summer camps are in the business of making memories, that is what we do. If you create good memories, campers come back; if you fail to create good memories, campers move on in search of a camp that can help…