Top Tips for Recovering from and Reflecting on the Past Summer - First Class Counselors #40

Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/reflect-on-last-summer

Lots of learning from Season 3 of First Class Counselors! Here’s what will help you MOST for this coming summer!

Welcome back to another season of First Class Counselors!

We’re starting this season off where the summer of 2021 ended. For some camps, it started to feel a bit more normal, but for many, it was a hard one.

Camp counselors were truly on the front line of the pandemic this summer. After a year full of screens and small social bubbles, both the campers and their counselors faced the social and behavioural realities of life outside of the Zoom room.

With no mute button, no way to turn the camera off and having to wear non-sweatpants and PJs all day, it was, to say the least, tough.

So after a tough summer, how do you move forward? When you love camp, but it’s kicked the crap out of you, how do you even think about next summer?

Here’s the secret - you don’t. Recover, reflect then think about next year.

It would be easy to just wash the summer off of you like your perma-dirt Teva tan, but First Class Counselors never settle for the easy path.

This episode is all about reflection and recovery. Matt and Oliver will give you their top tips for how to intentionally move forward after a tough year.

On this episode you’ll hear:

Creating a reflection document of the summer to look back on laterIdeas for mental and physical decompressingProblem-solving tactics for making 2022 your best summer yetHow to make sure you have gotten everything camp has to offer (that means a great reference from your director!)

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What do you think of the Podcast? Any ideas? Let Matt know! - [email protected]
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning

Matt: Senses Walk & Nature ID Apps (Seek, Google Lens, Merlin, Picture Mushroom, Picture This, PlantNet)

Oliver - Some of Oliver’s favourite campfire slow jams (tune in and you’ll get to hear Oliver sing!)
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Host LinksMatt Honsberger, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp ProOliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona

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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 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.