Fifth year camp staff member and 2025 Head Counselor, Boulder, talks about his experience as a camper at GAC and his love of backpacking and being outdoors that has developed as a result of his time at camp. Since one of our GAC core values is "Connecting with Nature," it's great to hear about the impact GAC has had on Boulder's love of the outdoors.
Today at Morning Assembly, we talked about the important skill of learning to "unflip our lids" by figuring out our go-to calm down strategies for when we're feeling irritated, frustrated, annoyed, or angry with our friends. We talked about how it's important to learn how to "unflip our lids" when we're upset.
Flipping Your Lid
We talked with campers about how sometimes we "Flip our Lids" and how being a good friend to others means learning good strategies for calming ourselves down so that we can interact with our friends in ways that build up - not tear down - our friendships. We talked about how when our lids are flipped, our thinking brain isn't in charge and we're being led by our big feelings. When our lids are flipped, we often say or do things that make our friends feel bad and that we later regret.
We shared our brief summary of Dr. Dan Siegel's Hand Brain Model with campers:
And we've shared this poster with campers so they can see a visual about a flipped verses unflipped brain.
Calm Down Strategies
We then had campers share their favorite calm-down strategies, and they had so many! We also shared this poster with more ideas:
There's always something going on at camp, whether that's a cabin theme day, a backpacking trip or a visit to Shaver Island! Check out the outpost schedule below to see where each cabin is going this session.
We're so excited to welcome our Session 2 campers to camp! This session we have campers here from all over the United States, and even France, Spain, and Mexico! Of these campers...
95 are 1st time campers at GAC
210 are returning campers
38 are 3-year campers
27 are 5-year campers
and 1 are 10-year campers!
We are so excited for the next two weeks that will be spent hiking, singing songs, waterskiing, campfires and so much more! Make sure to keep up with everything going on at camp through our News section and the Campanion App!
What are we eating this week? Check out the week's menu!
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