BRAIN INJURY CAMPING EXPERIENCE JULY 18 TO 24 NORTH SKOOKUM LAKE www.braininjurycamp.org EDUCATIONAL AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT & TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOPS.. Living Simple: Many of us live our lives at high speeds. We move from one moment to the next, often with little rest in between. We make obligations beyond our ability to cope and increase stress to unhealthy levels. Excuses soon emerge to justify these tendencies and we subsequently seek out the cure-all to cope with the very thing we cause. In our seminar Living Simple, we ll have a discussion about stress-related symptoms, the complexity of our health, the importance of diet, and how simple prevention methods can possibly lead to beneficial outcomes when attempting to optimize a healthy lifestyle. Humans Vs Zombies Zombie Posse: We have a zombie master this year Crystal who defiantly has a warped mind that will put the fear of flesh eating zombies in to your heart. She has been working on scenarios all year to blow your mind away. Be prepared to have the time of your life, this event has been the most anticipated action event of camp for years. Bring your nurf guns and bullets to fight of the zombies, you can find some rules and a past event at a local college the only thing stopping you for the time of your life is your own mind Expressive Art Therapy: You don t need to be an artist or have any artist ability to create your own master piece. Starts off with a soul searching topic and question followed by self-reflection and then we put it on canvas. We will have nice boxed Canvases this year so it will be something you will want to put up on your wall. You may bring your own canvas for a specific size piece you want to make. No talent needed, all you need to be able to feel what is going on inside of you Have deep feelings or emotions about something and get it out of you. Twisted Tales: After brain injury we can say the meanest things, things that cuts through someone s hearts. Our words are more powerful than you realize. One word said at the right time can change another person s life forever. And it can be good or bad. We will practice these speech skills as well as laugh very hard it is an amazing lesson to our own well-being when we begin to realize that we are responsible for our own words and the effect of them Mystery Night with Gloria: Prepare to take your mind and imagination into a new land, a new time and place. Losing the bonds of this world and our own mind forgetting who and where we are. Live actions theatre type role-play mystery. An afternoon of intrigue, fun, laughter and imagination, like we once did when we were little kids. Can you remember being a soldier or having a cup of tea with your favorite talking stuffed animals, how I miss being care free. Transitioning to the new you: Weather we like it or not we have become someone else, the old us is there but we think ourselves differently. Many of us get stuck and can stay stuck with little to no meaningful purpose in our lives. Face it us human beings are made for purpose and social endeavors. We need to develop the tools to get un-stuck to find purpose that is meaningful or we will be doomed to spend our life twitting our thumbs or whittling random pieces of wood into useless nothings to find imaginary purpose in something.
Expressive Collage Therapy: Remember when you were a child and you were asked to dream and put together a future that excited you. There will be plenty of items to put on your collage, make sure you bring some pictures of yourself so you can make the collage personal and yours. You will be asked now, as a person with a different ability to dream again, to put yourself into an imaginary world where you get excited again, you will get to take this work home with you. Team Building Craze: Those of you who don t know our mike the builder guy the collector of everything. He has been working on a truck load of wood at random sizes and lengths and will be hosting a building event that you can build the frame of a house if you wished. It will be an interactive team event. The group that is at camp will figure out who s on who s team, last year it was the boys against the girls but however it is prepare to use your imagination Finding Peace with horticulture & Microgreens: Working with your hands planting and growing has huge therapeutic value and is healthy for you by eating right. Learn all about hot to grow and eat Microgreens & more can be grown hydroponically with virtually no mess. It is perfect for counter-top or outside gardening. Our step-by-step kits take the guesswork out of growing. Experiment with growing all types of Microgreens for an exciting and challenging new hobby. Scavenger Hunt: A camp favorite as we keep trying to come up with unique ways to pull off a hunt for something. We hope you will enjoy this year s idea, of course we can t tell you about it till you make it to camp. But you will need some walking shoes, flash light and the willingness to be silly and have a great time. We are known for different zany types of events and this is no different. EDUCATIONTIONAL TRAINING MODUELS Rooted In Rights: Every human being has the right to fight for justice and dignity in a world where it does not always seem to be a priority. There have been many before us who have fought many battles both socially and legally to achieve many rights for people with all disabilities. Disability Rights is an organization that was established to protect the rights of people with disabilities. So bring any questions you might have about you or someone s rights, top leaders from disability rights will be doing a great presentation and taking your questions Going to be expanding our peer to peer efforts, as well extending what services are offered and connecting more survivors and persons with disabilities into the peer philosophy Peer mentoring is a form of mentorship that usually takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee) It is the most powerful support there is if done correct. Start your journey of supporting others now. Advance Facilitator Education: In today s support group world as groups are doing more and more in terms of empowerment, engagement and opportunity for all. It is becoming increasingly important to know what to do in many more settings, How to use the new self-help modules developed by TBINetwork and 4 major medical centers, how to keep participants safe in a wide variety of situations how to keep your organization or self-safe from causing harm while trying to serve people it is a complex thing, learn some of what has been learned
How to find all the resources and information to get the best care possible. Organization have an agenda a rule of thumb if they don t list them on line they are agenda driven, don t be controlled or perhaps not knowing about the better resources available, an example our state has a contracted referral service in 5 years I have gotten 1 referral but hundreds of people who found us anyway were stunned they were never told about us, even though we are the largest support of people with disabilities in the united states, in our case its organizational politics. Learn how to find all the information and resource not just the ones that organizational or personal agendas want you to have. LAW Dog & Burgers With Layman Law: For the last several years they have been kind enough to come out and barbeque for us at camp. We have always been able to ask them questions and they have been great at helping us. They are one of the better Law firms in the state of Washington and pretty good people. The have tolerated us survivors for years with a smile. We are asking them to share specific what should I s and What If s so we can share that knowledge as mentors with others. More and more we become the first person people find. So as part of our educational module this year this is something huge we need to know. Leadership Training for Small Group Supports: Big groups are a great place to share your experiences and learn a lot of things, but there does come a time when you out grow them. This is where the small group comes in finding other common interests besides your disabilities, such as craft groups, yoga groups, speech groups, caregiver coffee groups, bible study, advocacy, fitness groups, book groups, theatre groups and the list goes on and on. We will be offering the tools that you will need to start a small group. You will have all the perks of a big group but focus centered. Leaders will need to take the peer mentor train, pass a background check, and have the commitment to do a group a month. Our nightly support circles around the campfire Is what it is all about?
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