Episodes

What’s happening this week at GAC? Find out on WHADDA WEEK – Your weekly look into life at camp! We’re halfway through Session 1. Here’s an update from campers on what’s happening this week and what we’re learning about being BETTER TOGETHER and friendship at GAC. Listen to more episodes about camp at https://goldarrowcamp.com/podcast-2/. Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Whadda Week! July 4, 2021 appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway...

Today’s Whadda Day! features Cabin 0 before they departed for Shaver. Read more about today’s friendship skill! Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Whadda Day! June 28, 2021 appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Camps for Children.

It’s the first day of Session 1, 2021! This is WHADDA DAY! Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Whadda Day! June 27, 2021 appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Camps for Children.

It’s the HAPPY FATHER’S DAY edition of Whadda Day, featuring some of the Shaver Watersports Specialty Campers! Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Whadda Day! June 20, 2021 appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Camps for Children.

It’s the first day of GAC 2021. Cabin 28 kicks off Whadda Day! Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Whadda Day! June 13, 2021 appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Camps for Children.

Episode 64 Soy is joined by a woman who talked her mom into sending her to camp at age 6 and has been coming ever since! Echo came to camp on the shirttails of her older sister Nox and has learned everything from independence to how much she loves being unplugged in nature. Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Echo appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Camps for Children.

Episode 63. Soy is joined on the POG-Cast by longtime camper and brand new staff member Penguin. She and Soy talk about the Junior Counselor program, what it’s like to have a sibling at camp, and how GAC has changed her life. Soy also delivers a really great home improvement-based Joke of the Day. Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Penguin appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Camps for Children.

Episode 61. For this very special episode of the POG-Cast we were joined by long time parenting and camp guru Michael Thompson, Ph.D. to talk about independence, life success, raising children in the modern world, and how camp can help with all of that. Dr. Thompson is the author of Homesick and Happy, which we offer to send to all of our first-year camp families. This interview was originally recorded for Sunshine’s podcast, the Sunshine Parenting Podcast. You can find all of Dr. Thompson’s b...

BE YOU Week 10: Be your Best Self “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” -Oprah Winfrey For many years we have heard both campers and staff say that camp is where they can be their most true, authentic selves. Being your true self is an important value and we want you to celebrate your differences and what makes you exactly who you are. We want to encourage you to continue focusing on being your best self all year long. Depending on...

BE YOU Week 9: Change the World “This world needs somebody like you.” – Anthem Lights At GAC, we believe in bringing positive changes to the world. In fact, it’s one of our core values that our campers and staff leave GAC ready to be leaders by bringing positive changes to the world. There is a lot going on in the world today. We can choose to complain about what we don’t like about the world (what many adults do) OR we can take a small action ourselves to help bring a positive change. What ...

BE YOU Week 8: Get Stronger “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins There are many ways to get stronger. We get stronger physically by exercising or playing sports, but we can also get stronger mentally or emotionally by pushing ourselves outside of our comfort zones. Sometimes we need to test the waters and see how our bodies and minds react to trying something new. We might start to climb the ladder at high ropes and realize that our heart is racing and our ...

BE YOU Week 7: Celebrate What Makes you Different “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss One of the most important things you can do in your life is to be yourself by being different. Your differences and quirks are the coolest things about you. Let’s embrace our differences to truly be our best selves! Camp is one of the best places to completely be yourself. You are encouraged to dance silly, play crazy games, and embrace others’ quirks. When we all come together at camp...

BE YOU Week 6: Positive Self Talk “The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” – Jamie Lee Curtis The self-talk you do in your own head can help or hurt you. If you are talking negatively to yourself, it will hurt your confidence and your self-love. If you are talking yourself up and speaking positive things, you will in turn help yourself be more confident, and will hopefully love yourself all the more! The way we think changes how we feel and our behaviors. To be more...

BE YOU Week 5: Build Others Up “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.” – Kid President One way we can be our best selves is by bringing out the best traits in others. When we’re at our best, we feel confident in ourselves and don’t feel the need to put others down. Building others up is a great way to boost the feelings of others while doing something nice for yourself. There are many ways to build others up. Think about things that make you feel more confident or happy, and ...

BE YOU Week 4: Appreciate, Don’t Compare Comparison is the thief of joy. – Theodore Roosevelt We are so excited to have Chelster join Sunshine this week for our #GACbeyou podcast. This week, we are talking about focusing on the qualities we really like in ourselves and trying to refrain from comparing ourselves to others. It’s our human tendency to see others and immediately compare ourselves to them. We tend to want to be like them and often lose sight of all the wonderful things we bring to...

BE YOU Week 3: What Stresses you Out? What Calms you Down? “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt What are things that really stress you out or make you feel not so great? It is good to identify these things so that we can try to avoid them or work on strategies to manage them. This week, we want to focus on identifying those stresses and identifying ways to calm our bodies and cope in those moments. Emotional regulation is an impor...

BE YOU Week 2: Find Your “Flow” “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl This week for our BE YOU theme, we’re focusing on finding activities that get you into a state of “flow.” Flow is a term coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi (pronounced “cheeks sent me high”) that refers to a state of optimal experience and involvement in an activity during which we are performing at our best. Watch Dr. Csikszentm...

BE YOU Week 1: You’re One of a Kind! “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you ever thought about how amazing it is that there is no one else who is exactly like you? You are unique, original, and one of a kind! This week for our BE YOU theme, we’re focusing on what you like best about yourself. It may sound strange to think and talk about what you like about yourself. It may sound like braggi...

Episode 61 On this episode of the POG-Cast, Soy gave up the host’s seat to be interviewed by Sunshine (of the Sunshine Parenting podcast) about our offering for Middle School campers this summer, GALAMS. GALAMS is a program designed around Gold Arrow Camp’s Core Values and how campers can use those values to build their own leadership skills. The program consists of 3 1-hour meetings each week where campers will be led by amazing GAC counselors as they work through the program. The group of ca...

Episode 60 On this very special episode of the GAC POG-Cast, Soy sat down with Sunshine who sat down with Delta to talk about our awesome new online leadership program for high school students, GALA. The program, designed for 9-12th graders features 3 1-hour meetings a week, facilitated by awesome GAC counselors who have been working with our teen programs for years. Participants who complete the course also receive a T-shirt, certificate of completion, a personalized letter of recommendation,...

Episode 59 On this episode of the POG-Cast, Soy sits down with our Director of Parent and Camper Services, Chelster. Chelster has been with Gold Arrow Camp literally as long as she’s been alive. It was a real treat to talk with her about what she loves about camp and the impact camp has on kids. As usual, there’s a Joke of the Cast and a GACspiration. Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Chelster appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - California Summer Camp and Traditional Sleepaway Cam...

Episode 58 On this episode, it’s a Morning Assembly reunion, as Evergreen joins Soy to talk about camp. Evergreen has a long history with camp and has experienced it as both a staff member and a parent. She has great insights about what makes camp special, which was really cool to hear. Soy shares some of his Dad’s work history in the Joke of the Cast and Victor Frankl supplies the GACspiration Share Post Pinterest Share Email The post Evergreen appeared first on Gold Arrow Camp - Califor...

Episode 57. On this episode, Soy and Birks sat down to chat about camp. They covered many topics, but a key part of the discussion was about the job of being a camp counselor, and what you can learn in that job that is applicable outside of camp. Birks even shared why she thought that being a counselor was better training than being an intern. There’s a family story in the Joke of the Cast and Sunshine delivers a great GACspiration. In the episode, Soy mentions that he’ll share some resources ...

Episode 56 Today was a special day for Soy because he got to have one of his best camp friends on the POG. Tank, who worked alongside Soy on the operations team at camp and who is a vital part of Morning Assembly, joined the POG-Cast from Vail, Colorado to talk about coming to camp, living in the mountains, and the most requested song at dances and Morning Assembly. There’s a superhero-themed Joke of the Cast and Ralph Waldo Emerson provided the GACspiration. Share Post Pinterest Share Ema...