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Team Building Workshops for Camp Counselors Kids come to camp to have fun, yet summer camp can be a stressful social environment. Camp counselors, though enthusiastic and well intentioned, can be inexperienced at managing large numbers of active children and collaborating with other counselors. Have you seen kids wandering shyly around camp on the first day uncertain of what to do next? Are the kids so worked up at times that the only way to manage them seems to be with increased volume? Have you noticed that afternoons can feel entirely ineffective when campers and counselors are lethargic from lunch and sun?
		Our workshops are designed to enable your counselors to be more effective by providing them with a toolset of exercises and strategies to help them create a more a successful camp experience for their campers.
· Put campers at ease when they are lonely · Engender playfulness in mixed age, mixed gender groupings · Hurdle over first day icebreakers
		· Smooth out the bumps in transitions from one activity to another. · Find playful ways to begin and end each day · Develop a supportive camp environment.
Game playing is fun. Playing games that build teamwork is smart. Groups thrive with more structure, less discipline and focused fun.
Lola Broomberg, Executive Director of the Boldness Institute, is a kid expert with skills to share. For the last thirteen years she has been the director of the highly successful Imagine That! Summer Adventures - creative arts and performance Day Camp, and the energy behind Playing Mantis Creative Adventures - an innovative after school program in Eugene, Oregon. She has also been the director of the Courageous Kids Performance Troupe - a peer support performance troupe for bereaved teens. Lola's workshops are affordable, compelling and effective "Lola has the unique ability to stimulate imagination, creativity and wonder for students of all ages. I was especially impressed with the way she connected with the older students. She encouraged them to be free and to trust each other through a number of high energy cooperative, movement activities." -Tom Maloney, Principal - Crest Drive Elementary "I have researched the brain effects of combining movement and creative expression with traditional learning. My finding support that young children learn better when they physically express their learning and this expression needs to happen in a safe, nurturing environment. This is exactly the environment that Lola creates in her classroom. Everyone is made to feel welcomed, respected valued and most importantly, safe." -Melinda Holben, 5th/6th grade Teacher - Lorane Elementary Please call 686-8119 for more information or to book a workshop