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Northland Fall Workshop and Get-Together

-10/27/2021

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Northland Fall Workshop and Get-Together

10/27/2021 8:25 AM
Welcome to the Northland Fall Workshop and Get-Together!
Sponsor Gallery

-10/27/2021

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Sponsor Gallery

10/27/2021 8:26 AM
The Sponsor Gallery provides a convenient way to connect with our sponsors and learn more about their great products and services. Please support the businesses that support camps and ACA professional development.
Welcome Bag

-10/27/2021

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Welcome Bag

10/27/2021 8:27 AM
Coffee Chat

-10/27/2021

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Coffee Chat

10/27/2021 8:30 AM
Join us for pre-workshop networking!
Welcome

-10/27/2021

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Northland Fall Workshop and Get-Together Welcome

10/27/2021 8:45 AM

Kelly Schuna, Hidden Pines Ranch

Between the World and Camp

-10/27/2021

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Between the World and Camp

10/27/2021 8:55 AM
In this workshop, participants will explore the myth of camp as a utopia and how it can cultivate unsafe spaces at camp for marginalized identities. Participants will define the tenets of a safe space and how to employ those descriptions into daily programming, policies, language, and culture at camp. Lastly, participants will explore the blind spots in camp programming that maintain a lack of safety for marginalized identities. For the second half of the workshop, participants will be able to process the current state of the world in regard to racial justice issues. Participants will be able to unpack how it has impacted both their personal and professional life. Participants will then engage in discussion that allows them to also unpack the experiences staff and campers will continue to bring to camp every summer and how this may influence their experiences and relationship to the camp experience.

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Simone Gamble, Community Organizer and Consultant

Simone Gamble (she/her/they/them) is a NYC-based community organizer with roots in the South Bronx. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Hunter College with a focus on Secondary Education and History and later Social Work and Community Organizing.

She has worked at various youth organizations throughout NYC focusing on various social justice issues including immigration justice, police accountability, and education justice.  

Simone is also an independent consultant who has led workshops with a myriad of nonprofits, schools, camps, and after-school programs centered in youth work around the issue of safer spaces for people of color with an intersectional, anti-oppressive lens. She has spoken at conferences and privately consulted with organizations around radical curriculum and workshop facilitation.

Since 2017, Simone has stepped into the role as the founder of Organizer.Activist.Artist.Advocate.Referral.System (OAARS).  OAARS is a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) consultancy that provides social justice-centered training to create safer and inclusive work environments and provides folks with the tools to become agents of change in the workplace and beyond. 

 

Break

-10/27/2021

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Break

10/27/2021 9:55 AM
Lessons Learned and Observations from Summer 2021

-10/27/2021

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Lessons Learned and Observations from Summer 2021

10/27/2021 10:05 AM
You’ve heard the saying “necessity is the mother of invention” this is especially true when thinking about the unique challenges camps faced during the pandemic this past year. In this session we will hear about trends, outcomes, and innovations that came out of summer 2021. Not only will we learn how camps persevered through summer 2021 but we will also take a look at what support camps need to prepare for 2022.

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Travis Allison hates mushy fruit but loves jam.  It’s not just fruit that Travis thinks about in great detail. His creative and conscientious persona has made him a keynote speaker at conferences across the US and Canada. Travis knows his mission: to help organizations create spaces where children and young adults can be truly noticed and appreciated.

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Henry DeHart has served as ACA’s Chief Operating Officer since 2018.  Henry has had a lifetime of involvement in overnight camping starting off as a camper at YMCA Camp Sea Gull, then working on staff, eventually becoming the program director, and then executive director. In all he has worked, in some capacity, in overnight camping for more than 25 years. Prior to joining ACA, he served as the executive vice president, camping services, for the YMCA of the Triangle. In this role he was responsible for the three overnight camps of the Association — YMCA Camp Sea Gull, YMCA Camp Seafarer, and YMCA Camp Kanata. 

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Caitlin Malin is the program director at Camp Knutson in Crosslake, MN and is an active member of ACA, Northland's Local Council of Leaders.  Caitlin is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and a Certified Child Life Specialist.  She loves being outdoors, hiking, being on the water, playing sports, spending time with her goldendoodle Cooper, and taking naps!  

 

 

Break

-10/27/2021

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Break

10/27/2021 11:05 AM
Mental Fitness Class Works!

-10/27/2021

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Mental Fitness Class Works!

10/27/2021 11:20 AM
Join Katherine for a guided experience to help you destress (a single session can lower stress by 28%) and strengthen mental muscles. This session covers mindful movement, journaling, conversation, and meditation. No prior experience is required. Liberate is the first mental fitness studio, founded on the belief that health is multidimensional. Through an empowering blend of physical movement, mindfulness practice, and community, participants build key skills like courage, gratitude, and resilience to help strengthen well-being.

 

Katherine DiMaggio, Liberate Studio

Katherine is a certified yoga and mindfulness instructor and life coach with a strong belief in the power of movement, mindfulness, and meditation, to support mental health. Katherine’s kind and warm approach to mindfulness creates a safe space from the minute you join class.

Questions, Wrap up, and Closing Comments

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Questions, Wrap up, and Closing Comments

10/27/2021 12:20 PM