
Taking Camp Home With You - First Class Counselors #56
10/14/22 • 40 min
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Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/taking-camp-home
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Welcome to Season 5 of First Class Counselors!
Summer is over and you have scrolled through your gallery a bunch remembering how much fun you had.
Camp offered a lot - fun, food, friends. But it also taught you a lot and equip you for life after camp. As you unpack, we unpack all the ways you never truly leave summer camp behind.
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Links from this episode:
- First Class Counsellor Episode - Camp Sick
- Go Camp Pro Newsletter
- Farnham Street - Brain Food Email Newsletter
- ACA Magazine
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning
- Oliver - Dragon eggs, Fill balloons with water and freeze them. You can also add small prizes.
- Matt - Camp wide-game: Command and Conquer - Video rules
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Host Links
- Matt Wilfrid, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
- Oliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona
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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 Wilfrd 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/taking-camp-home
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Welcome to Season 5 of First Class Counselors!
Summer is over and you have scrolled through your gallery a bunch remembering how much fun you had.
Camp offered a lot - fun, food, friends. But it also taught you a lot and equip you for life after camp. As you unpack, we unpack all the ways you never truly leave summer camp behind.
-
Links from this episode:
- First Class Counsellor Episode - Camp Sick
- Go Camp Pro Newsletter
- Farnham Street - Brain Food Email Newsletter
- ACA Magazine
-
E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning
- Oliver - Dragon eggs, Fill balloons with water and freeze them. You can also add small prizes.
- Matt - Camp wide-game: Command and Conquer - Video rules
-
Host Links
- Matt Wilfrid, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
- Oliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona
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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 Wilfrd 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!
Previous Episode

6 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW To Prepare for the Summer - First Class Counselors #55
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Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/6-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-prepare-for-the-summer
Summer is coming...here’s what every First Class Counselor should be doing to prepare!
If you’re listening to this podcast in real-time, then we are in the home stretch. Camp is coming and you can’t stop it now!
This episode is for any camp counselor, but specifically for the ones who are brand new, or any who want to shake off the rust of a few summers away, or for anyone whose year away from camp has felt like a lifetime. So...really everyone!
On this episode, we have 6 quickfire tips for what you can do RIGHT NOW to best prepare yourself for summer.
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning
- Oliver - The Cucumber Potato Chip Technique
- Matt - Game - Toro Toro
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Host Links
- Matt Wilfrid, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
- Oliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona
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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 Wilfrd 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.
Next Episode

Our Biggest Baddest Blunders - First Class Counselors #57
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Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/first-class-counsellors/our-biggest-baddest-blunders
It’s not if you’ll make a mistake...it’s when you’ll make one.
We all make mistakes, but the best part about making them at camp is that you are in one of the most supportive work environments ever. Making mistakes is how you know that you’ve pushed your comfort zone, so if you’re lucky enough to make a bunch, you’re going to learn a bunch, too!
Matt and Oliver share some stories of bad decisions, lapses of judgement, or just plain absent-mindedness they made back in the day as summer staff. Then, they’ll share some perspectives on why they made the mistake and how that mistake made them better camp professionals.
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Links from this episode:
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E.G.E.L - Ever Growing Ever Learning
- Oliver - Go to goodwill after Halloween and Christmas, There is always the best stuff.
- Matt - Glow in the dark bowling
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Host Links
- Matt Wilfrid, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
- Oliver Gregan, Executive Director at YMCA Camp Winona
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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 Wilfrd 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!
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