Category: staff training
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Hampering Children’s Ability to Cope with Life’s Challenges.
It is always intersting to come across ideas and thoughts of others. The online world should be seen as adding to our abillity to learn more. Today I discovered this article about children, fear and how we are hampering children’s ability to cope with life’s challenges. At camp we need to really move toward helping…
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Canadian Camping (February 1957) – Among Ourselves
Canadian Camping, February 1957 Among Ourselves by John Latimer Director, Camp Kilcoo We are all aware of the tremendous strides that camping in Canada has made during the last half century, and most of us are even more amazed at the growth which has taken place in the last decade. Many names will be cherished…
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Do you blog? Do your campers & staff blog?
Does your camp website have a blog? Does it have a news area? Can people subscribe to it? If not, you need to get it going. I was going to use the words, “catch up”, but unfortunately the camping world – especially in Canada – is behind in the website game. If you do blog…
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Canadian Camping (June 1953) – Counsel for Counselors
This is an excerpt from Canadian Camping Magazine – June 1953 Counsel for Counselors Mary S. Edgar Director: Glen Bernard Camp Let us consider some of the ways in which we, as leaders, can play a part in character building. First we can establish a bond of friendship. If we are truly interested in our…
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Camp Counsellor Manifesto
Just a mention – I was recently published in the Vancouver Sun. That is awesome. Camp Counsellor Manifesto