Creative Skill Builders Summer Camp
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Creative Skill Builders Summer Camp
Join creative skill builders summer camp! The 4-day skill builders camp will combine art therapy techniques, Mindfulness Based strategies, yoga and nature-based experiences and games to foster self-awareness, increase self-expression, create opportunities to expand social skills, increase body awareness, explore positive and negative feelings including how they manifest physically and emotionally, as well as develop coping strategies to manage daily life experiences.
This is a therapeutic educational program designed to enhance emotional literacy skills, while building resilience to manage the waves of positive and negative feelings that arise in our day-to-day experiences.
Outcomes of participating in this group include an increased sense of confidence in expressing oneself, practice with perspective taking, and skill building through creativity and mindfulness. This fun and interactive camp will provide explicit opportunities to practice healthy social skill development through a variety of modalities: play, art, team-building activities, role-playing, and movement activities to name a few.
During the camp participants will work to create their own skill builder tool bag to bring home at the conclusion of camp. The skills tool bag will provide participants with a tangible reminder of their time at CSB camp. The camp will be structured to include a combination of creative arts experiences, a variety of mindfulness practices, yoga, nature-based experiences, and cooperative games. (Some games will be water based!). All art/yoga/mindfulness materials are included with the camp.
Who: Kids entering First - Fifth grades
When: August 21st- 24th. 9am-2pm
Where: Buck Meadow 30Rt 101A Amherst, NH 03031
Fee: $325R, $355NR
Max: 20
Meet your instructors!
Holly Majkut is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in NH and a registered art therapist (ATR). She has been working as a mental health counselor and art therapist with children and families over the past twenty years. Holly values the arts as a therapeutic tool to support young people’s emotional growth, development, and socialization.
Traci Cote is a trained school psychologist (MS/CAGS) who has worked in the NH public school system for over a decade and who recently started a private practice Mountain Heart Wellness & Educational Consulting. She is a yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, wellness coach, and certified MBST instructor. Traci is passionate about elevating young people’s emotional literacy through mindfulness-based exercises.
Both Holly and Traci have enjoyed partnering with Amherst Recreation in a variety of ways including the Girls Empowerment Summer Camp and the Afterschool Open Art Studio Class at Wilkins Elementary. They are so excited to collaborate again with Amherst Rec to provide these essential skills to the community, and help young people to succeed!
What to bring:
Campers will need to pack snack, lunch, water bottle, sunblock and a towel. Camp runs Monday-Thursday 9am-2pm.
**Some camp activities will also include a theme of “back to school” to assist many campers to prepare for this transition at the end of the summer.
Sample Day:
- Outdoor cooperative game
- Creative arts experiential
- Snack break/therapeutic story time
- Yoga
- Outside art journaling/lunch
- Mindfulness based activities
- Social skills art time/skill builder tool bag creating