Pre-camp staff training is on your mind (as it should be!). How about the training that happens once the campers arrive? The ongoing training that connects the dots to what was mostly theory before campers arrived. The role plays during orientation are now real scenarios (and don't always have simple solutions or happy endings). This is the next level of training we intend to get to but rarely do. This is precisely the training all staff need and crave. It is the stuff staff retention is made of! Let's map out what these future mid-summer training sessions look like with templates that give staff time to reflect (on previous successes and challenges), refine (important skills to do best work with campers), reset (habits for a positive impact on the camp community), refill bag-of-tricks (with new games/activities), recharge (to avoid burnout), and recommit (to professionalism and camp being a REAL job).
