Handouts (PDFs)
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Physical & Emotional Safety
13 Things You Should Know About 13 Reasons Why
Concerns about self-harm and suicide contagion peaked when this show debuted. And although 13 Reasons Why has waned in popularity, adults’ concerns about the media young people consume will persist….
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Pandemic Support
5 Things to Tell Camp Families This Week
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Leadership & Parenting
A Positive Psychology Primer
Capitalize on each team member’s signature strengths to promote authentic happiness and curb problematic behavior. This handout provides a conceptual map of positive psychology and a list of terrific camp-…
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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Activities to Boost your Multicultural IQ: Promoting Student Adjustment with Non-Confrontational Challenges
Embracing diversity in all its forms requires a special kind of understanding called “cross-cultural agility.” Unfortunately, many so-called “diversity workshops” fall flat because they lack fun ways to explore our…
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Youth Development & Play
Activity Audit: Running Superior Activity Periods
Key questions on this worksheet promote reflection about memorable activities, the ingredients for success, failed activities, and the factors that contributed to failure. Use to support any staff training workshop…
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Leadership & Parenting
Appreciative Inquiry
Organizations such as are full of problems to be solved, right? Wrong. If you think this way, you’ll stagnate. This handout introduces the technique of Appreciative Inquiry and will reset…
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Leadership & Parenting
Appreciative Inquiry: Assessment Exercise
The two versions of this assessment of mood and creativity is the ideal pre-post measure of how attitudes influence motivation to change. Give alternate versions to each half of your…
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Leadership & Parenting
Assess Your Emotional Leadership Style (ELS)
This intriguing questionnaire, based on emotional intelligence and parenting research, will help your staff get a rapid glance at their emotional leadership style. Questions are customized to a youth population…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Assessing Suicidality
Suicidal thoughts, emotions and behaviors are difficult to predict and uncomfortable to discuss. However, because completed suicides are permanent and devastating, youth leaders share a responsibility to assess risk and…
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Assistant Division Head (ADH) Mid-Summer or End-of-Summer Evaluation
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Leadership & Parenting
Breakthrough Advising Techniques: New Pathways from Awful to Optimal
Advising–by boarding staff or dorm faculty–is the relational foundation of student well-being. This handout provides conceptual and practical guidance for adults at all levels who share an investment in the…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Bullies & Targets, Part II: Intervention
Zero-Tolerance Policies don’t work and nearly all young people mistreat their peers at some point. Therefore, all schools and camps must train their staff to recognize and respond to unkind…
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Physical & Emotional Safety
Case Studies of Boundary Crossings
This handout of boundary case studies complements the Professional Boundaries handout with more than thirty realistic examples. Also included are sophisticated questions that stimulate discussion in small groups and push…
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Leadership & Parenting
Case Studies of Language and Culture
Are your staff ready to respond when campers casually drop words like “gay” or “fag” or “wife beater”? The four provocative case studies on this handout push staff to create…
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Physical & Emotional Safety
Comprehensive Abuse Prevention: Ten Ways to Safeguard Children and Staff
Every year, we train our staff to recognize and respond to signs of physical and sexual abuse. But when is the last time you reviewed your policies and practices for…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Cooperative & Proactive Solutions – Camper: Overcoming Skills Deficits to Durably Prevent Problem Behavior
Extend your leadership skills beyond the standard problem-solving rubric of identification and brainstorming. Learn how to assesses others’ needs and their skills deficits to help solve problems durably by getting…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Cooperative & Proactive Solutions – Student: Overcoming Skills Deficits to Durably Prevent Problem Behavior
Extend your leadership skills beyond the standard problem-solving rubric of identification and brainstorming. Learn how to assesses others’ needs and their skills deficits to help solve problems durably by getting…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Coping with Loss: A Guide for Staff who are Supporting Young People in Youth Programs
When a young participant in a program dies, staff are put in the painful and complex position of grieving the loss themselves and simultaneously helping the surviving youngsters cope. This…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Coping with the Death of a Young Participant: A Guide for Owners and Directors of Youth Programs
It’s hard to imagine a more tragic or difficult event than the death of a child. This detailed resource assists top management in planning for the unthinkable and will help…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Cutting at Camp: Understanding the “Bright Red Scream”
The best resource available on the What, Who, and Why of self-harm at camps. Ten principles of care will serve as the foundation for your policy on responding compassionately and…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Cutting at School: Understanding Self-Injurious Behavior
The best resource available on the What, Who, and Why of self-harm at schools. Ten principles of care will serve as the foundation for your policy on responding compassionately and…
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Leadership & Parenting
Design a Successful CIT/LIT Program
Preliminary questions and an outline of ten perennial problems associated with internal leadership development serve as the basis for solution-focused design on this compact handout. Best used as the basis…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Designing Assessment Tools for Camp
Rapidly guides you though an exploration of different assessment techniques, including observation, inquiry, and experimentation. What follows are key questions and examples to guide your design of a parent satisfaction…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Designing Assessment Tools for School
Rapidly guides you though an exploration of different assessment techniques, including observation, inquiry, and experimentation. What follows are key questions and examples to guide your design of a parent satisfaction…
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Supervision
Designing Your Camp’s Substance Use Policy
Improve your team’s safety by designing a substance use policy that aligns with your camp’s values, then weigh the pros and cons along the policy spectrum before exploring effective ways…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Eating Disorders at Youth Programs: How to Help Youth and Staff with Disordered Eating
The best resource available on the What, Myths, and Why of eating disorders and disordered eating in young people. Seven principles of prevention and four thoughtful case studies provide just…
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Leadership & Parenting
Effective Communication and Empathy: Building Connections with Parents, Staff, Campers, and Students
De-fusing emotional “bombs” is an essential prerequisite to problem-solving, but one that’s often overlooked. Learn how to promote connection and understanding with students, parents, campers, and peers. Includes a blank…
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Pandemic Support
Five Unlikely Keys to Crisis Leadership
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Leadership & Parenting
Four solid reasons you should Lead By Example on the Internet
The Internet is public space. How you behave in that space—like all other behavior—should set a sterling example for young people to follow. This focused handout gives adult leaders practical…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
Providing feedback to one’s colleagues is an essential skill for leadership growth and development. This advanced handout describes how to preserve good relationships while providing clear feedback in ways that…
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Youth Development & Play
Goal-Setting Worksheet
People can achieve almost anything they set their minds to. So why do 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail? Because most people haven’t perfected Goal-Setting. Achieve more with realistic goals,…
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Pandemic Support
Grieving the Loss of Summer: Concepts Adults Must Understand before Talking with Campers
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Pandemic Support
Happy at Home…at least for now: Best Practices for Happiness and Efficiency during COVID-19
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Mental Health & Behavior
Hazing at Camp or School: How to Stop Hazing and Promote Tradition without Terror
Hazing often masquerades as “tradition,” which is dangerous. Learn seven principles of prevention and create a healthy bonding culture at your camp or school. Create inclusive bonding rituals that promote…
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Youth Development & Play
Healthy Competition: How Sportsmanship and a Growth Mindset Shape Positive Outcomes
Critics assert that “healthy competition” is an oxymoron. However, research on happiness suggests that focusing on your effort, your journey toward achievement, and your contributions to other’s success brings more…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Helping Students with Homesickness
Distills cutting-edge, research-based information on the causes and symptoms of homesickness, as well as sample dialogues, training guidelines, and the most effective treatments school can use. Bundle with a membership…
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Mental Health & Behavior
Helping the Hypersensitive Child
The last thing anxious campers need to hear is “Suck it up!” but many of your staff are unequipped to deal with sensitive, anxious, or histrionic children. This handout includes…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
How Caregivers Can Support Grieving Kids: Tips for Parents and other Trusted Adults in the Extended Camp Community
This handout includes guidance for healthy grieving and resources for parents and other trusted adults who must support young people after a peer’s death. Feel free to copy and paste…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
How Long Can Leaders Stay Positive? A Master Class in Mental Health for Directors, Principals, and Heads
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Independent School Health & Wellness Center Self-Audit of Essential Best Practices
Take an objective look at the strengths and weaknesses of your school’s health and wellness center by distributing this list of best practices to your leadership team. Then, aggregate the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Informed Consent to Participate in Online Activities & Waiver of Liability
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Internal Leadership Development
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Interpret Your Emotional Leadership Style (ELS) – Key
This scoring key accompanies the “Emotional Leadership Style: Assessment” questionnaire and provides insight for your staff into how their style of dealing with campers’ emotions may be positively or negatively…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Junior Counselor + Unit Leader Scenarios: Balancing allegiance with responsibility
Internal leadership development is one of the keys to cultivating a skilled staff, but unique conflicts and quandaries arise with junior staff interact with senior staff (especially when their ages…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Kickin’ Kitchens: Re-engineering Your Dining Services Systems
The kitchen is the heart of you school, camp, or youth program. But a poorly run kitchen poses serious health and safety risks that cause illness and injury. This handout…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Leadership Pinnacles and Pitfalls
Here are the top ten ways for a cabin leader or bunk counselor to succeed. Based on Chris’s most popular staff training workshop, this roadmap to achievement also outlines the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Letter Home from Camp
One simple way to inspire your staff is to read a letter that a young person might write near the end of camp. What have they achieved? How have they…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Maintaining Employee Loyalty & Enthusiasm: Essential Principles of Teamwork in Unpredictable Times
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Managing Stress for Youth Leaders
Beginning with notes on the human stress response and barriers to seeking support, this nuts-and-bolts guide to stress management includes ten time-tested techniques for transforming stress into positive energy. Help…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Mental Health in Summer Youth Programs
Camp staff deserve practical information about youth mental health. To complement resources on specific problems, this handout provides guidelines for boosting campers’ resiliency, gathering information from parents, managing crises, and…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Mind-Bending Conversations
Too often, we push and pull others without regard for their readiness to change. Supporting healthy behavior change requires understanding eight essential truths about human beings, plus an awareness of…
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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Mindfulness in Musical Practice: Applying Attention, Creativity and Positivity to Repetition
Musical virtuosos all have something in common: They have practiced mindfully for thousands of hours. This handout—written for all levels of musicians and their teachers—provides a brief overview of the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Mistakes Young Leaders Make: Coaching the Transition from Student to Proctor/Prefect
Who among your student supervisors is ready for all the immature and impulsive things other students do? This vital handout prepares newly minted proctors/prefects to identify and respond skillfully to…
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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Motivation: Why We Do What We Do
For any leader, educator, or supervisor who has wondered how to get more horsepower out of their students, campers, or colleagues, this is the handout to ground and inspire radical…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Performance Evaluation Samples for Camps
All of your staff deserve honest feedback about their performance. Plus, directors need to document the results of evaluations to fulfill legal requirements and inform next season’s hiring. This handout…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Personal Achievement Letter
This clever “Letter to Self” forces staff to articulate personal and professional goals for the summer and closes with an opportunity for staff to write words of encouragement to themselves….
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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Personal Attributes and Gender Stereotypes: Self-Reflection about Plans for Growth
A simple outline to get your staff talking about traditional gender development, behavior, psychopathology, social expectations, stereotypes, and leadership. Use as a starting point for a fruitful discussion on gender…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Positive Leadership in the Workplace
Help your staff stop responding to negative behavior with more of the same. Learn to use a calm tone, effective praise, and a positive spin. Teach your staff to be…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Presentation Matters: Engaging Participants by Delivering Essential Content in Memorable Ways
In-service training is the backbone of continuous professional development, but not all wise adults are skilled presenters. This uplifting handout explains techniques to keep audiences engaged, learning, and inspired. Set…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Productivity at Home: How to do Your Best Work in Not-the-Best Circumstances
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Professional Teacher-Student Boundaries
Professional educators may enter a grey area in which personal information is over-shared, touch grows inappropriate, and emotional connections creep beyond what’s comfortable. This essential handout outlines key responsibilities and…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Psychotropic Medication Rapid Reference: A Guide for Youth Development Professionals
Designed for the non-medical professional, this detailed handout describes the most common psychotropic medications for youth, tips for helping staff and campers manage medication, and key information on side effects,…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Role Play Roulette & Open House
Stop giving your staff boring lectures about what they’ll encounter on the job. Instead, put them in realistic scenarios that grow their skills and confidence at the same time. These…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Self-Analysis of Your Behavior in Groups
An especially useful handout for young staff or new hires, this exercise stirs thinking about behavior changes in different group settings. Promotes insight into competitiveness, concentration, creativity, and integrity. Includes…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Camps
What exactly separates an effective camp from an ineffective camp? How do mission-driven and market-driven camps differ? Based on years of experience working with hundreds of camps, this handout contains…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Situational Leadership: Contextual Analysis and Adaptation
Contextual analysis and adaptation are essential for flexible leadership. Prevent your staff from pigeonholing themselves into one or another kind of leadership. Use this basic outline with film clips or…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Social Media Dos and Don’ts for Camps: Building Community with Respect and Sensitivity during a Pandemic
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Staff Training Week Overhaul: The MAP-IT Technique
Use the MAP-IT technique to breathe new life into your tired old staff training week schedule. Combine Masterful meetings, a temporal Arc that is logical, Practical skills, Individual time and…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Student Success During Quarantine – Best Practices for Happiness and Efficiency during COVID-19 (CN)
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Student Success During Quarantine – Best Practices for Happiness and Efficiency during COVID-19 (EN)
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Supervising Junior Leaders: Coaching the Transition from Camper to Counselor
Who among your seasoned staff is ready for all the immature and impulsive things young staff do? This vital handout prepares newly minted proctors/prefects to identify and respond skillfully to…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Supervision of Student Leaders – Prepare, Encourage, Evaluate, Participate, and Learn: PEEPL Power
When experienced students become school leaders, they face the double challenge of having little formal management training and becoming an authority figure for their peers. Prepare them to thrive with…
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Handouts (PDFs)
The Entire Dr. Thurber Handout Portfolio
Save $800 and get all of Chris’s handouts in one PDF. Open this incredible, 294-page resource in Adobe Acrobat and use the Bookmark and Find functions to easily locate the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
The Phone Call: Smart Strategies for Diffusing Emotional Bombs
Within seconds, you know it’s going to be one of “those calls,” so why not be prepared? This is a handout you’ll keep by your phone or laptop so you…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Things a “Problem Child” Needs to Hear
A pithy summary of how to make young people feel powerful, competent, and emotionally safe, without hurting themselves or others in the process. This handout includes six areas to challenge…
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Handouts (PDFs)
Thurber Workshop Evaluation
I value your feedback, both authentic praise and constructive criticism, so please download this evaluation form and send me your thoughts on the work I’ve done with your school, camp,…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Time Management Concepts that Work: Envisioning Efficiency and Happiness as Choices
You might try to shoehorn a few more things into your schedule, but each day still lasts 24 hours. So although we cannot alter time, we can make deliberate choices…
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Handouts (PDFs)
Top 21 Handouts for 2022
Save more than $110 by purchasing 21 of Chris’s most popular handouts as a bundle. (Scroll down to see what’s included.) More than 100 pages of practical training for adults…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Understanding Behavior
Allow staff to take a step back from the blizzard of “tips” and “techniques” they get during training. This flow chart illuminates objective, environmental, cognitive, and biological causes of emotions…
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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Values Transmission Exercise
Based on the premise that leadership-by-example is the only viable technique for values transfer, this workshop outline guides participants though an examination of their own values, their historical origins, and…
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Virtual Boundaries, Safety, and Behavior: Professional Parameters for Running Safe and Fun Online Activities
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Way Worse than a Rainy Day—Video Guide: Conversations about Camp Cancellations
Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Wise Use of Time Off
Staff need to spend their time of wisely so when they’re on duty they’re ready for anything. If they return to camp exhausted or hung-over, they’re likely to burn out…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Working with Anxious and Overprotective Parents
We can’t arrest our anxious and over-involved parents, but we can do lots to soothe their anxiety and curb their micromanagement impulses. This practical handout helps staff help parents prevent…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Working with Difficult Parents: Partnering with Overwhelmed, Anxious, Bossy, Defiant, and Unhappy Caregivers
This essential handout summarizes the typology of difficult parents along with realistic and clever ways to respond…all without compromising your students’ or campers’ best interests. Partnering with primary caregivers is…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Active Lifeguarding: Preparation, Scanning, and Practice
Lifeguards are often poorly equipped, fail to scan properly, and neglect regular practice of emergency action plans. This crucial handout reviews preparation for work, scanning for distressed or drowning campers,…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Advanced Staff Supervision – Prepare, Encourage, Evaluate, Participate, and Learn: PEEPL Power
When experienced staff are promoted to supervisory positions at camp, they face the double challenge of having little formal management training and becoming an authority figure for their peers. Prepare…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Promoting Focus and Compliance
Hyperactive, impulsive, and distractible campers pose unique challenges for staff and young people alike. This detailed handout provides a clear set of effective strategies to use with anyone who has…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Becoming a Youth Development Professional: Your Example is Your Most Powerful Teaching Too
Day and overnight camps are powerful, positive developmental experiences for children. This honest handout explains how staff transition from focusing on themselves to focusing on the needs of the young…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Bullies & Targets, Part I: Prevention
Dispel myths about bullying, including that bullies have low self-esteem. Learn key facts on the causes and consequences of bullying, as well as the best practices for preventing bullying. The…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Classic Problem Solving
Classic problem solving is a powerful way to use the group’s wisdom to find a solution that works for everyone. This handout provides the three-step fundamental conflict resolution skills adult…
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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Cracking Kids’ Secret Code
Around difficult, confusing, evocative topics, children almost always speak “in code.” The most powerful way to make your staff’s job easier is by imbuing them with the decoding skills essential…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Equity & Diversity, Part 1
Celebrating the differences among people introduces a new level of enjoyment to the experience of the day and overnight camp. It may be human to fear differences at first, but…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Guidelines for Considering a Shortened Stay
When intractable homesickness strikes (as it does every summer in a few campers), you need a set of sensitive procedures in place. Developed with a camp nurse with decades of…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Helping with Homesickness
Distills cutting-edge, research-based information on the causes and symptoms of homesickness, as well as sample dialogues, training guidelines, and the most effective treatments camp staff can use. Bundle with “Guidelines…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Mental Health Problem Flowchart
It is difficult to know whom to consult and which decisions to make about a young person suffering from anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, or psychosis. This clear chart provides a…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Professional Staff-Camper Boundaries
Youth leaders may enter a grey area in which personal information is over-shared, physical touch becomes inappropriate, and emotional connections creep beyond what’s comfortable. This essential handout outlines key responsibilities…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Safe Touch Guidelines for Youth Leaders
Culled from the most up-to-date collection of guidelines provided by the ACA and a variety of youth development professionals, this sensible set of strategies has detailed sections on Safe Touch,…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Skillful Discipline: Fundamentals
The biggest concern that every new camp staff has is that the children won’t listen and follow directions. This innovative handout illustrates the six prevention strategies to promote good behavior,…
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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Skillful Discipline, Part 2: Even More Prevention Techniques
Seven more prevention strategies and seven more intervention strategies make this pithy handout the perfect companion to “Skillful Discipline: Fundamentals.” Give your staff the tools they need to succeed with…
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Handouts (PDFs), Supervision
Stop Yelling, Get the HINT: “High-Impact, No-Trouble” (HINT) Leadership
Kids’ minor, annoying misbehaviors can get under your skin and quickly burn you out. This inventive handout explains easy alternatives to yelling and other energy-draining reactions by introducing HINT–High Impact,…
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Waterfront Safety Design: Top Ten Tips in Action
Certifications on your waterfront mean nothing without common sense and experience. This handout outlines techniques that will help save lives and prevent injuries. From preventing slips and pinches to building…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Writing Leadership Jobs on Your Resume
This is the single most-requested handout because most of your staff need to move on to other jobs. Help them feel good about the work they’re doing at your youth-serving…