Lessons for This Summer from Season 3 - First Class Counselors #39

05/20/21 • 53 min

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Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/lessons-from-season-3

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

And what a season it’s been! We’ve covered everything from camp counsellor financial decisions to essential skills, with some good ol’ fashion camp games in between. We’ve welcomed sensational guests and even had our first-ever collaboration with another Podcast.

As we wrap up this season, we’ll talk about some of our favourite episodes and talk about some of the major takeaways and how they’ll apply to this coming summer.

Here are our picks for our favourite of Season 3!

Matt

Oliver

Any ideas for Season 4? Let Matt know - [email protected]
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning

Oliver - 3rd Person Introductions - “His name is Oliver, he enjoys ice cream, he thinks speaking in the third person makes him cool.”

Matt - Group Juggling - by Jim Cain
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Host Links

Matt Honsberger, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
Oliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona

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.

This is free professional development for your counsellors! We would love your feedback. Please leave your comments below, or, send Matt an email! Thank you!

Have some feedback? A topic suggestion? Text us!

Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/lessons-from-season-3

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

As we wrap up this season, we’ll talk about some of our favourite episodes and talk about some of the major takeaways and how they’ll apply to this coming summer.

Here are our picks for our favourite of Season 3!

Matt

Oliver

Any ideas for Season 4? Let Matt know - [email protected]
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning

Oliver - 3rd Person Introductions - “His name is Oliver, he enjoys ice cream, he thinks speaking in the third person makes him cool.”

Matt - Group Juggling - by Jim Cain
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Host Links

Matt Honsberger, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
Oliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona

What is First Class Counselors?

This is free professional development for your counsellors! We would love your feedback. Please leave your comments below, or, send Matt an email! Thank you!

Previous Episode

Expectations for Being a Counselor In COVID Times - with Andy Pritikin - First Class Counselors #38

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Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/expectations-covid-times

Here’s the inside scoop on what being a counselor is like at camp is going to be like during the COVID-19 pandemic

Today we’re speaking to counsellors who will be working at camp during a global pandemic.

That’s right DURING! COVID isn’t over just because we’ve got a few million vaccines in arms and there are a lot of things that will be different about camp from any other year. So on this episode, we’re going to give you the inside scoop on what being a counsellor at a COVID-considerate camp is going to look like this summer.

We’ll cover what the on-the-ground perspective is going to look like, what directors expectations are going to be, what to do if you’re feeling overwhelmed, and some things to ask before you start.

Oliver is away today, in full-on summer camp mode so we’ve recruited a pro for this topic - someone who has not only been at camp but RAN camp during a pandemic - well, the same pandemic back last summer.

Andy Pritikin is the director of Liberty Lake day camp in the Philly Suburbs and is also the host of the Day Camp Pod - a podcast for day camp professionals and budding day camp professionals. What better person to tell you what a director is going to expect than a director himself, so friends please say hello to the man, my friend, Andy Pritikin!

What did you think of this episode? Any ideas for Season 4? Let matt know - [email protected]
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Bonus links from this episode:

Conversations Starters World - Awesome get to know you question site

The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni

First Class Counsellors Episode - Mental Health, Breaks and Self Care at Camp
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning

Andy - Keep a deck of cards on you at all times for rainy days - teach kids how to play basic games, even blackjack just for fun will keep them engaged for awhile

Matt - Get to know you activity - Name Dance Wave
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Host Links

Matt Honsberger, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
Andy Pritikin, Owner/Director - Liberty Lake Day Camp

What is First Class Counselors?

Next Episode

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

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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 later
Ideas for mental and physical decompressing
Problem-solving tactics for making 2022 your best summer yet
How to make sure you have gotten everything camp has to offer (that means a great reference from your director!)

What do you think of the Podcast? Any ideas? Let Matt know! - [email protected]
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