Camp Staff Training
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BUILDING BETTER CHILDREN:
How to Teach Campers Good Choices & Outstanding Life Skills

It’s one thing to “identify qualities and assets (the current ‘buzz’ word)” that young people need for success, but what’s usually missing are rock solid ways to actually teach these things during the camp experience. This breakthrough session has been enthusiastically endorsed and used by camp, recreation, education and youth development professionals throughout North America and is packed with specific and practical techniques staff will be able to use immediately to teach life skills, enhance self-esteem, and deal with behavior in more positive and confident ways, including:

• exactly what to say and do to teach cooperation, caring, responsibility, respect, persistence, patience, independence, and more
• conquering the biggest barrier to positive self-image: moving kids to “Group Four”
• the key secret to developing resilient young people: how to make positive self-concepts that really stick
• making praise credible and effective
• increasing positive communication to develop warmer, more supportive relationships