Nature Camp 2010

A fun summer adventure exploring nature’s interdependent web of life.  Offered for children entering grades K-6.

Held June 14 –  18; Monday – Friday ~ 8 AM – 4 PM

What is Nature Camp?

Nature Camp is the 2010 vision and focus for UUFG’s summer camp. Children and adults gather each morning in a Circle of Friends to build and nurture bonds of trust.  Also, each day campers experience nature hands-on, as well as sports, music, and crafts.

Nature Camp is a time of coming full circle in a week, from being aware of nature to a thorough appreciation of our place in the interdependent web of life.  At the end of the week campers will demonstrate on stage their new or renewed appreciation for nature and fun!

This is an exciting opportunity for all children from all backgrounds and faiths, to experience a new way of communicating and enjoying life.

Compassionate Communication Will Be Used at Camp

Nature Camp’s director, activity leaders, and counselors and other involved adults will have received training in Compassionate Communication.

Compassionate Communication is part of an international movement to teach peaceful ways to live, relate and talk. It can be fun, too! Nature Camp will help us discover and practice ways to use Compassionate Communication skills at home, work and school and in the world.

Three key concepts of Compassionate Communication will be integrated into the daily camp experience:

• The intention of Compassionate Communication is to create trust and recognize the value of each person so that together we can find ways to meet all our needs.
• Conflict occurs only on the level of strategies, never on the level of needs; once these distinctions are recognized Compassionate Communication becomes part of daily life.
• We can resolve conflicts and create peace when we tune in to feelings and needs. Then we can create strategies together that meet all our needs. This is having “power with” other people, not “power over” others.