AUGUST - Mount Adams Leadership Camp

I returned to my camp counselor roots (I LOVE SUMMER CAMP) and spent a week working as a senior counselor for the Mount Adams session of student leadership camp supported by the Association of Washington School Principles Leadership at Cispus Center near Mount St. Helens. We had 17 of our Shorecrest student leaders attend and they got to learn from the innovators of the servant leadership concepts and curriculum while I got to work alongside people I have the highest esteem for in the student activities realm. We had three days of 105 degree heat (aka hottest camp session ever) but despite that, we did some amazing work together and we are very excited to “serve the work” of continuing to build an inclusive school climate that serves student needs. The students I got to work with were such beautiful and earnest humans who are sincere in their desire to be their best selves and to serve the students of their schools. I was joined by two awesome Shorecrest grads who are near and dear to me: Mikayla Sincavage and Evan Deiparine who served on staff as a member of the Core support team and a Junior Counselor respectively. I had a great mentor in Sue Dunfield and had the pleasure of partnering up with Ethan Kusters as my JC. Leigh Barry was my go to, first year SC buddy. I was surrounded by amazing people and I hope to continue my work there and the relationships that were started there into the future. Plus I earned 30 clock hours and lost five pounds. Triple win! (Thanks to Navath Nhan for taking all the high quality photos in here!)

The Narwhal Council goes creekside....

 

and dresses up for the final night.

With my amazing Junior Counselor, Ethan Kusters. He rocked it and I felt totally at home and supported because of him.

 

The Cispus campus was truly beautiful - especially at night.

With SC grads also on staff - Mikayla Sincavage and Evan Deiparine.  

 The Shorecrest contingent... it is going to be a great year!

The senior and core staff teams. So many wonderful people in this picture!

 In honor of Dexter...

 With Kati Simpson - such a bright spirit in her!

 

 With fellow Shoreline teacher, Paul Villanueva from Shorewood. He introduced me to this camp and the servant leadership curriculum when I began Activities Coordinator in 2010. He has changed my life in this respect!

 With awesome kindness advocate and speaker, Houston Kraft.

 And with the camp director, John Norlin, who is a force for servant leadership in this state and beyond!

 With my ASB Core team for 2017-18. I think we're going to rock it!

 Closing up School Group time with an interconnectedness web.

 And after the kids left... we went to Joe Fenbert's to play stickball on his incredible custom-built field in the woods.

 

 Finally we capped it all off with dinner and sleeping under the stars (after a lengthy eval and debrief) at Marty and Susan Fortin's house. It was so awesome and just what we needed!

 

Tenting it at the Fortin's Friday night.