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Heart of the South Fall Gathering - All Sessions in Central Time

10/19/2022 8:00 AM
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10/19/2022 8:15 AM
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Registration & Social Time

10/19/2022 8:30 AM

Location: Josephine's Lodge

Welcome

General Session -10/19/2022

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Welcome

10/19/2022 9:00 AM
Opening Keynote - Building your Rickabamboo and other Leadership Lessons from The Princess Pat

General Session -10/19/2022

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Opening Keynote - Building your Rickabamboo and other Leadership Lessons from The Princess Pat

10/19/2022 9:15 AM
There’s a beloved camp song that holds several lessons about leadership and the essentials that a leader must take in order to succeed. This keynote elevates what we can learn from “The Princess Pat”, deciphers exactly what she took, and encourages us to look inward and at our past in order to prepare for the journey ahead.

Location: Josephine's Lodge

Dr. Jamye Hardy is a Leadership Strategy and Mental Health Coach, Consultant, and Speaker who is passionate about helping people and organizations grow to be their best. She is a native of Nashville, TN, a Licensed Master Social Worker, and a Doctor of Education in Leading Learning Organizations and Strategic Change. Jamye brings with her unique work, life, leadership, and volunteer experiences from social work, higher education, non-profit settings, as well as improv and comedy. Her first job ever was that of a camp counselor, which she continued at several sites for seven summers, and continues to reflect fondly on the memories and lessons from these experiences.

Dr. Hardy is passionate about highlighting the connections between mental health and success, and primarily teaches, coaches, and consults around elevating purpose, identifying accountability and tools, the value of well-rounded wellbeing, and mindset development for leaders. Her approach is grounded in the strengths perspective, positive psychology, and growth mindset.

Equally as important to her life as her work as a helping professional is her love of sports, travel, and spending time at home, which includes her fiancé and pit-ridgeback rescue, Nala.

Breakout Session 1

-10/19/2022

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Breakout Session 1

10/19/2022 10:45 AM
Connect the Dots: Effective Communication, Time Management, and Wellbeing

Concurrent Session -10/19/2022

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Connect the Dots: Effective Communication, Time Management, and Wellbeing

10/19/2022 10:45 AM
Our inner being is directly connected to our outward doing. Mindset and wellbeing impact how effectively we manage our time and communicate with others. Since reflection is the process through which we assess the connection between our inner and outer experiences, this session will reveal three valuable questions that encourage us to consider how we can be our best for ourselves and for those around us.

Location: Josephine's Lodge

Dr. Jamye Hardy is a Leadership Strategy and Mental Health Coach, Consultant, and Speaker who is passionate about helping people and organizations grow to be their best. She is a native of Nashville, TN, a Licensed Master Social Worker, and a Doctor of Education in Leading Learning Organizations and Strategic Change.

Partnership in Accreditation – Helping you get organized for your 2023 on-site accreditation visit

Concurrent Session -10/19/2022

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Partnership in Accreditation – Helping you get organized for your 2023 on-site accreditation visit

10/19/2022 10:45 AM
Being visited in 2023? New to accreditation? Do you really know what mode of operation you are? Overwhelmed? You have questions, we have answers. Standard visitors are here to help you organize for your next on-site visit. We’ll show you various methods of how people organize their materials, where to find helpful resources on the ACA web site, why highlighters and highlighting are your friends, and be a resource for you. Be ready to learn and share as we demystify organizing for accreditation. Camps being visited need to have at least one staff member take the Accreditation Process Workshop.

Location: Honor Cabin

Anne Weinberg is the current Heart of the South Standards Chair, answering standards questions year-round. She has been a standards visitor for 25 years and is a standards instructor. Her camp background is mostly in resident camps and camps serving rental groups including medical camps.

Lunch & Networking

Meal / Break -10/19/2022

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Lunch & Networking

10/19/2022 11:45 AM
Breakout Session 2

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Breakout Session 2

10/19/2022 12:59 PM
4 All-Camp Activities You Can Run This Summer And A Framework To Make Your Own

Concurrent Session -10/19/2022

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4 All-Camp Activities You Can Run This Summer And A Framework To Make Your Own

10/19/2022 1:00 PM
If you're ready to rock your camp with new all-camp activities this summer, this workshop is for you! We'll give you FOUR all-camp activities you can take and run now AND we'll give you the framework to create your own amazing all-camp activities. We'll take the time and stress out of planning all-camps and give you frameworks you can always have in your pocket. You don't want to miss it!

Location: Josephine's Lodge

Allison Krabill Starting as a YMCA overnight camp director just three days after college graduation, Allison Krabill has made a career growing camps. Allison has grown budgets, camper numbers, boards, and more, while creating a more positive camper and staff culture. Allison recently stepped back from full-time camping to focus on her one-year-old son and now serves as the executive director of The Summer Camp Society.  

Jack Schott struggles with bureaucracy, loves fun, and secretly stays up late obsessing over businessy stuff. His unique perspectives come from his varied background. An engineer, Jack took the first few years post-college to travel the country visiting over 200 camps in 47 states. Building on what he saw, he co-founded Stomping Ground, a non-profit sleepaway camp inspiring radical empathy and co-founded The Summer Camp Society. In 2022, Jack trained more than 3000 camp staff at 20+ camps. 

Summer Lessons Learned with a Mental Health Specialist

Concurrent Session -10/19/2022

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Canceled - Summer Lessons Learned with a Mental Health Specialist

10/19/2022 1:00 PM
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We Came to Play: A Foundation for Improv at Camp

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We Came to Play: A Foundation for Improv at Camp

10/19/2022 1:00 PM
As camp people, we understand that there is value in play. This session will explore the principles of improvised comedy and what beneficial outcomes exist for campers, counselors, and directors alike. Attendees will participate in a number of improv games and leave with a list that can be immediately implemented into staff development and camper engagement activities.

Location: Josephine's Lodge Porch or Honor Cabin 

Dr. Jamye Hardy is a Leadership Strategy and Mental Health Coach, Consultant, and Speaker who is passionate about helping people and organizations grow to be their best. She is a native of Nashville, TN, a Licensed Master Social Worker, and a Doctor of Education in Leading Learning Organizations and Strategic Change.

Breakout Session 3

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Breakout Session 3

10/19/2022 2:14 PM
Revenue in the “OFF” Season: What I Learned

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Revenue in the “OFF” Season: What I Learned

10/19/2022 2:15 PM
Let’s discuss the ways you can grow your weekend and off season rentals and special even programs. We made money with our first ever drive-thru winter light display, and you can make money in December too. In 7 years we’ve also taken our camp pool rentals from 10 a summer to over 100 in 2 years! We all need to make money when camp isn’t running, now more than ever, join me in discussing some successes I’ve had in the last few years.

Location: Josephine's Lodge 

Kevin Pettigrew moved to 4-H residential camping after a 12 year career with YMCA day camps in 3 states. He currently oversees a small team of year-round staff who help facilitate year-round rentals including pool rental growth of 90 new rentals in 1 year. He also created an all new December program “Winter WonderCamp” lighted drive-thru to generate revenue this past December with great community engagement.

The 5 Costly Mistakes Your Leadership Team is Making and What To Do About Them

Concurrent Session -10/19/2022

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The 5 Costly Mistakes Your Leadership Team is Making and What To Do About Them

10/19/2022 2:15 PM
In this session I’ll discuss the 5 costly mistakes most leadership teams struggle with, provide opportunities for participants to diagnose these issues within their own team, and provide methods to address these problems.

Location: Honor Cabin

Jonathan Hodge is a camp professional with 19 years of camp experience. He is a Tennessee Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in Private Practice as well as an adjunct instructor in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Johnson University.

Closing

General Session -10/19/2022

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Closing

10/19/2022 3:30 PM
Tour of Camp Holloway

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Tour of Camp Holloway

10/19/2022 3:45 PM
Join a member of the Camp Holloway staff for a tour of their beautiful camp.