A camp counselor’s words can change a child’s life. Here’s how to handle that incredible responsibility with care, grace, and skill.
You are a hero to your campers.
Whether you like it or not, those kids are going to think you’re the coolest thing since sliced bread and want to be just like you. This means that we always need to make sure that through our words and actions, we’re teaching them, by example, that what we say and do matter.
This episode, Matt and Oliver cover the words part. They put their heads together and break down how the language we use with campers can lead them, comfort them, correct them and inspire them.
So untwist those tongues and put on your thinking caps, because this episode is a good one!
Links from this episode:
Book About Resiliency - Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Book About Negotiation - Never Split the Difference
E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning
Games, songs, and other super-practical tips that you can use at camp next summer.
Oliver: The Plant Project - Take a plant, smash it, and bring it back to life with a new pot. Great nurturing practice for camp!
Host Links
Oliver Gregan, Summer Camp Professional
Matt Honsberger, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
What is First Class Counselors?
Camp Directors, this Podcast isn’t for you. It’s time to delegate! First Class Counsellors is for your counselling staff, the ones who are on the ground, playing with kids and changing lives.
Each week, we’ll cover practical and accessible tips that will level up your camp counsellor skills. These are things every counsellor should know, but that you may not have time to teach in staff training.
Our two hosts, Oliver Gregan, Summer and Families Camp Director at YMCA Camp Jewell and Matt Honsberger from Go Camp Pro are excited to be able to provide this resource to camp counsellors and up and coming staff, who they believe, have the most important job at camp.