IX Summit

Camp pro’s are not just artists, we are basically magicians. On the fly you can prevent crises, triage meltdowns and create solutions like no other. Imagine what you could do with a full week. The goal of this summit is to dig deep into your creativity and imagination and proactively think about the three focus areas and how they show up at your camp. While we expect you to create something useful during the week, we do not expect you to start from scratch. By deeply focusing on one project to enhance, we believe you can make something both beautiful and just.

Projects should be small enough to make significant progress in a week, but substantial enough to make a big change in any of the three focus areas for your camp. The goal is to implement any new ideas/thoughts that emerge over the week into your projects. Some examples that work are revamping a handbook, songbook, internal policy or procedure.

There will be opportunities to collaborate, network and share with your colleagues but there is no pressure to participate in most of the larger group activities. If you work best independently, feel free to do so the majority of the time. We have carefully curated this experience so that you can choose what workstyle is best for you.

We want this summit to be rooted in choice, so participants will ultimately get to decide if they want to share their final product to the larger collective. If participants choose to present a final report back, there is no expectation for your project to be completely solved over the course of the summit. Sharing your progress is just as important and adding to the learnings of the group. You can curate what this report back ultimately looks like!

This summit was designed to best serve your project needs and what would work best to bring change to your camp. Inspiration will be all around you, so we understand if this prompts a shift in direction for your project. If you are inspired to make large or small changes to your original design, please feel free to do so. We only ask that you inform the organizing committee so we can support you in this shift with the necessary resources and guidance. Also, you were admitted based on your original design so we want to maintain a level of transparency throughout this process to ensure a fair and equitable selection process.

This will be a very collaborative and participant led space, so if this is a desire of yours, please do so. We also know that we want each individual to leave with major progress on their own project goals. So if this can be done without taking away from your own personal work, we encourage you to do so.

The community of participants will be your most vital resource throughout the summit. They are camp pros with years of experience and a passion for transformational change. We look forward to the conversations that will spark the progression of your project. In addition, the organizing committee will be there as industry experts in the room to help support you with specific inquiries and concerns around your project.