5: Connecting at Summer Camp for People with Disabilities with Emma Kobelsky

Emma Kobelsky works as a camp counsellor at Between Friends, which is an organization that provides social, recreational, and development opportunities for people with disabilities. We explore how this provides an important space for connections, and how summer camp has motivated her to pursue a career in Occupational Therapy. Emma and I also happen to share the same personality type, and we chat about how being introverted shapes the type of connections we seek out.

Highlights & Takeaways

• How Between Friends offers a space where everyone feels like they belong and aren’t excluded because of their disability
• The usage of person-first language (“a person with a disability” or “a person with autism”) contrasted with people who want to self-identify as a disabled creator or autistic person
• What an Occupational Therapist does
• The Myers-Briggs Personality Test and how we’re both INFPs
• What a high-quality connection looks and feels like
  

Resources Mentioned

• Contact Emma: Instagram
• Between Friends

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