Full List of Current Trainings

For Line Staff | For Emerging Supervisors | For Directors & Senior Management

For Line Staff & Frontline Counselors

Say What You Mean: The Art of Clear Instructions at Camp

Foundational | Preventive | Skill-Building Imprecise directions create the behavioral challenges we then spend time managing. This session teaches the four essential elements of effective instruction-giving (attention, specificity, chunking, and confirmation) with hands-on practice using real camp scenarios.

Classroom Management at Camp

Foundational | Teacher-Inspired | Comprehensive Teachers regularly wrangle students who struggle to focus and have individualized needs—and we can learn from them. This session covers behavior management basics adapted for camp: teacher moves, consequence types, strong voice, clear directions, and cabin routines.

Beyond "Go Sit Down": Building Better Consequences That Actually Work

Hands-On | Dignity-Preserving | Strategic Design consequences ahead of time that maintain connection while addressing behavior, rather than reaching for reactive responses in the moment. Participants leave with a personalized consequence bank of 10-15 pre-planned, relationship-preserving responses adapted for their specific setting.

Routine Magic: The Foundation of Strong Camp Culture

Preventive | Culture-Building | Practical Routines are Tier 1 interventions, not afterthoughts. This hands-on session teaches a 6-part framework for designing routines that eliminate chaotic moments, reduce behavior incidents, and create shared ownership where "this is just how we do it here." Participants leave with draft routines to use with their campers.

When Cultures Collide: Using the Upside Down Activity to Develop Empathy at Camp

Experiential | Simulation-Based | Debriefing-Rich Experience firsthand how quickly cultural misunderstandings develop through a simulation game where participants navigate two cultures with conflicting values. Leave with a ready-to-use activity that develops empathy and social-emotional competencies, plus practical skills for debriefing experiential learning.

Line Staff Versus Leadership: It Doesn't Have To Be A Fight

Eye-Opening | Organizational | Immediately Applicable The "us versus them" mentality between supervisors and frontline staff often feels personal but usually isn't. This session explores system blindness and organizational dynamics, leaving participants with ideas to immediately improve working relationships regardless of their role.

Program Planning for the Young (Camp) Educator

Training-Ready | Scalable | Intuitive The Natural Cycles model gives inexperienced educators a simple, flexible planning tool that scales from single activities to entire summers. Participants learn to teach this unified language and use it to assess and improve activities when things go wrong.

Success Counseling: Six Questions That Change Behavior from the Inside Out

Questioning-Based | Dignity-Preserving | Research-Backed When kids misbehave, our instinct is to lecture and assign consequences. Success Counseling offers a better way: six simple questions that guide campers to solve their own problems while building self-awareness and internal motivation.

For Young Leadership & Emerging Supervisors

Coaching as a System

Supervisory | Habit-Forming | Individualized Provide leadership staff with concrete coaching tools rather than hoping camp magic is enough. Participants receive 7 powerful coaching questions, a tracking protocol for leadership meetings, and a template based on special education Behavior Improvement Plans.

The Ultimate Training Toolkit: 60 Teacher Moves for Better Staff Development

High-Energy | Technique-Dense | Immediately Usable Borrow proven classroom techniques to create staff training that people actually want to attend. This rapid-fire session delivers 50+ specific strategies for pacing, engagement, and retention, from choosing the perfect icebreaker to designing exit tickets that matter.

Caught in the Middle: How to Thrive When Everyone Wants Something Different

Middle-Management | Empathy-Building | Survival-Oriented Program coordinators face impossible competing demands from directors, counselors, parents, and campers. This session reveals why these positions feel impossible and provides concrete strategies for managing pressure from all sides.

Beyond Behavior Plans: Writing Effective Camper Contracts That Work

Advanced | Systematic | Relationship-Centered Learn to conduct functional behavior assessments and write camper contracts that actually work when standard interventions aren't enough. Participants practice using specific, non-loaded language that builds relationships rather than creating adversarial dynamics, leaving with templates and implementation strategies.

Beyond Sticker Charts: Behavioral Health Habits and Systems That Work

Systematic | Tiered | Implementation-Ready Responding to challenging behavior requires organizational systems, not just individual skills. Participants learn three interconnected tools: a behavior continuum for determining severity and response, a behavior board meeting structure, and camp-adapted Behavior Improvement Plans.

Stop the Drama: How to Keep Your Energy on What Actually Matters

Systems-Thinking | Leadership | Conflict-Reducing When crises hit, it's easy to get sucked into blame games. This session teaches leaders to recognize when they're trapped in unproductive reactions and redirect energy toward solutions, with role-play scenarios using real camp situations.

How to Get Fired or Get What You Want: Radical Transparency in Staff Management

Candid | Professional Development | Culture-Shifting Most camp staff don't understand how work actually works. This session provides a framework for transparently teaching young professionals about workplace realities—both what leads to termination and how to effectively advocate for themselves and navigate organizational complexity. (Can be delivered to young staff directly or taught to managers who want to train their teams.)

For Senior Management & Directors

The Lost Camper Exercise: A Weekly Data Tool That Reveals Who's Really Connecting at Camp

Data-Driven | Equity-Focused | Systems-Based Move beyond good intentions with a simple weekly data collection system that reveals which campers are forming meaningful connections and which are being overlooked. This tool creates accountability structures that identify disconnected campers before problems escalate and exposes unconscious bias patterns in staff attention.

Beyond "We All Jump In": Creating Role Clarity That Actually Empowers Your Team

Leadership-Focused | Framework-Based | Myth-Busting Role ambiguity creates burnout and dropped balls—not flexibility. Using the VARCI framework, participants map specific responsibilities for their leadership teams, moving beyond vague job descriptions to clear expectations that enable rather than constrain performance.

From Good Intentions to Great Systems: A Blueprint for Sustainable Staff Diversity

Systems-Thinking | Infrastructure-Focused | Action-Oriented Bias training alone doesn't create lasting change—organizational infrastructure does. Participants learn universal design principles for hiring, meetings, and onboarding that support all staff while particularly benefiting those from underrepresented backgrounds, leaving with diagnostic tools and implementation templates.

The Copycat Pandemic: How Market Pressures Made Every Camp Generic

Academic | Strategic | Thought-Provoking Why do all camp websites sound the same? This presentation introduces organizational isomorphism theory to explain the unconscious forces driving camps toward homogenization, challenging leaders to examine whether their messaging represents authentic differentiation or conformity.

From Activities to Experiences: A Framework for Complete Program Design

Scalable | Design-Focused | Staff-Empowering One flexible framework guides everything from 15-minute activities to 2-week sessions. Participants learn to evaluate existing programming, identify where it breaks down, and train staff to think beyond individual activities toward creating intentional, cohesive experiences.

The Missing Piece: How Competency Models Bridge the Gap Between Job Descriptions and Daily Success

Advanced | HR-Adjacent | Clarity-Creating Job descriptions check HR boxes; competency models give staff roadmaps for daily success. Learn to identify core competencies by working backwards from successful performance, creating documents that inform hiring, development, and performance management for complex camp leadership roles.

Breaking the Loop: Why Your Camp's Problems Have History

Diagnostic | Pattern-Breaking | Root-Cause Every camp has recurring problems that show up summer after summer despite good intentions. This session teaches you to investigate problems at their source, trace patterns through camp history, and create sustainable changes that finally stick

Slides That Don't Stink

Practical | Interactive | Immediately Applicable Transform your presentations from "design crimes" to professional polish using tools you already have. This hands-on session teaches visual hierarchy, color theory, and typography through a live makeover demonstration, giving participants templates and techniques to elevate their camp's professional image.

From Noise to Connection: Teaching Kids to Celebrate Silence Together

Contemplative | Community-Building | Countercultural Discover how daily Silent Meeting transforms camp culture by teaching the essential life skill of being comfortable in shared silence. This session includes a live experience of the practice and provides specific strategies for implementation, staff training, and managing resistance. (Requires director-level commitment to implement camp-wide.