Send Yourself to Camp
A week away from your regularly scheduled life.
Camp does something for kids that we stop giving ourselves the minute we grow up.
They get a week with a limited agenda: get good at one thing, make a mess, come home a little different.
As a parent, I watch play and recess get stripped away, grade by grade. By middle school, everything starts to tilt toward performance, achievement, and optimization. So I keep telling my kids they’ll have to be intentional about building play back into their lives because it’s remarkably easy to become a proving adult and optimize your life flat.
I tell my coaching clients the same thing: Play is not the reward for the work. Recreation is re-creation.
Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped learning things simply because they interested us. We stopped spending a week being beginners, letting curiosity lead.
So if we all built a little more camp into our year, here are a few versions of Adult Summer Camp that have made my list.
