A Campus For Camp Moody
At YMCA Camp Moody, a new overnight and day camp located near Austin, Texas, inclusive accessibility is at the heart of the design. All activities and amenities are linked by a fully accessible trail system and will include a lodge for gatherings, a dining hall, treehouse cabins, a ropes course/repelling/zip line/water tower, and art pavilions.
Build Momentum
If your camp is like most camps, there isn’t enough money to go around for all of the facility and maintenance projects. On top of that, donor support is needed to accomplish both repairs and upgrades, which means you need buy-in for projects.
What’s Next?
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” -Sir Winston Churchill
Predicting the future isn’t in my job description, but then neither was converting everything I knew about real-world facilitation and transferring it to virtual space.
Brain Breaks
Last spring, when schools closed due to COVID-19, teachers and school boards, with resilience and speed, adjusted to provide online programs. Although these enabled the continuation of school and learning (and possibly an end to snow days in the future), the health effects of staring at a screen for hours on end is not beneficial.
Mac Vs. PC
Despite this article’s title, I’m not here to extol the virtues of any particular computer. In fact, I’m here to discuss two vastly different leadership styles.
Teaching Mental Imagery
Mental imagery is a tool that is best known when athletes close their eyes to rehearse a complex movement, often just before they perform a high dive, a soccer penalty kick, or a foul shot. But mental imagery can also be used to help campers and staff members build resilience, manage their stress, and have much more fun at camp—especially when they master a challenging skill.
Selling For Social And Emotional Success
Admiring a photograph of an expert climber flashing a frosty smile and waving a tiny flag on the summit of Mount Everest is radically different from actual Himalayan mountaineering.