Hello, all! Elizabeth told you all last week that we were headed to the ACA-Midstates Camping Conference. Well, we are back from 3 long days of fun, learning, and excitement! We spent the first day learning about staff training with our mentor, Michael Brandwein, Camp Staff Trainer EXTRODINAIRE! He presented a session on how to develop camp staff into mission-minded camp professionals! Afterwards, Elizabeth and I were revved up to begin planning staff training week. On Thursday night, we presented our educational session, titled “The Importance of Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Goal Setting Tools”. Overall it was a smashing success! We were given the opportunity to help camp staff from across the Mid-West develop goal setting tools and evaluations. Friday, we went to a variety of different sessions and learned about everything from large group leadership to how to keep staff engaged all summer. Saturday was our final day at Midstates and Elizabeth and I spent our time learning about how to matching values with mission, and risk management. We came home Saturday with visions of staff training dancing in our heads…
In unrelated news, it’s almost SPRING! And there are signs of it all over Isanogel...we have a few flowers trying to bloom around camp! Here is a picture of our tulips, trying ever so hard to poke their heads out!
And, just to whet your appetite for next week…
This is going to be the location of our new garden! Can you hardly wait?! We can’t…
-Mollie
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