Handouts (PDFs)
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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety13 Things You Should Know About 13 Reasons Why
$10.00Concerns 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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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
5 Things to Tell Camp Families This Week
$10.00Handouts 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
A Positive Psychology Primer
$10.00Capitalize 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
$10.00Embracing 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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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Activity Audit: Running Superior Activity Periods
$10.00Key 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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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Appreciative Inquiry
$10.00Organizations 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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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Appreciative Inquiry: Assessment Exercise
$10.00The 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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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Assess Your Emotional Leadership Style (ELS)
$10.00This 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Assessing Suicidality
$10.00Suicidal 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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Handouts (PDFs)
Assistant Division Head (ADH) Mid-Summer or End-of-Summer Evaluation
$10.00Handouts 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
Breakthrough Advising Techniques: New Pathways from Awful to Optimal
$10.00Advising–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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Bullies & Targets, Part II: Intervention
$10.00Zero-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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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Case Studies of Boundary Crossings
$10.00This 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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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Case Studies of Language and Culture
$10.00Are 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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Handouts (PDFs), Physical & Emotional Safety
Comprehensive Abuse Prevention: Ten Ways to Safeguard Children and Staff
$10.00Every 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Cooperative & Proactive Solutions – Camper: Overcoming Skills Deficits to Durably Prevent Problem Behavior
$10.00Extend 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & BehaviorCooperative & Proactive Solutions – Student: Overcoming Skills Deficits to Durably Prevent Problem Behavior
$10.00Extend 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Coping with Loss: A Guide for Staff who are Supporting Young People in Youth Programs
$0.00When 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
$0.00It’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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Cutting at Camp: Understanding the “Bright Red Scream”
$10.00The 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Cutting at School: Understanding Self-Injurious Behavior
$10.00The 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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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Design a Successful CIT/LIT Program
$10.00Preliminary 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
$10.00Rapidly 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
$10.00Rapidly 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 Your Camp’s Substance Use Policy
$10.00Improve 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Eating Disorders at Youth Programs: How to Help Youth and Staff with Disordered Eating
$10.00The 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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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Effective Communication and Empathy: Building Connections with Parents, Staff, Campers, and Students
$10.00De-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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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Five Unlikely Keys to Crisis Leadership
$10.00Handouts 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
Four solid reasons you should Lead By Example on the Internet
$10.00The 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
$10.00Providing 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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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Goal-Setting Worksheet
$10.00People 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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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Grieving the Loss of Summer: Concepts Adults Must Understand before Talking with Campers
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Handouts (PDFs), Pandemic Support
Happy at Home…at least for now: Best Practices for Happiness and Efficiency during COVID-19
$10.00Handouts 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
Hazing at Camp or School: How to Stop Hazing and Promote Tradition without Terror
$10.00Hazing 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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Handouts (PDFs), Youth Development & Play
Healthy Competition: How Sportsmanship and a Growth Mindset Shape Positive Outcomes
$10.00Critics 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Helping Students with Homesickness
$10.00Distills 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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Handouts (PDFs), Mental Health & Behavior
Helping the Hypersensitive Child
$10.00The 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
$0.00This 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
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00Take 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
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00This 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
$10.00Internal 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
$10.00The 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
$10.00Here 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
$10.00One 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
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00Beginning 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
$10.00Camp 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
$10.00Too 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
$10.00Musical 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
$10.00Who 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
$10.00For 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
$10.00All 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
$10.00This 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
$10.00A 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
$10.00Help 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
$10.00In-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
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00Professional 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
$10.00Designed 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
$10.00Stop 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
$10.00An 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
$10.00What 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
$10.00Contextual 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
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00Use 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)
$10.00Handouts 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)
$10.00Handouts 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
$10.00Who 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
$10.00When 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
$199.00Save $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
$10.00Within 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
$10.00A 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
$0.00I 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
$10.00You 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
$99.00Save 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
$10.00Allow 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
$10.00Based 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
$10.00Handouts 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
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Wise Use of Time Off
$10.00Staff 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
$10.00We 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
$10.00This 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
$10.00Lifeguards 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
$10.00When 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
$10.00Hyperactive, 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
$10.00Day 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
$10.00Dispel 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
$10.00Classic 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
$10.00Around 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
$10.00Celebrating 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
$10.00When 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
$10.00Distills 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
$10.00It 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
$10.00Youth 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
$0.00Culled 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
$10.00The 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
$10.00Seven 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
$10.00Kids’ 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
$10.00Certifications 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
$10.00This 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…
