Camp has been building belonging on purpose for 150 years, long before anyone had a word for what was happening.
I have come to believe that leading people and building belonging are mostly the same job, and camp hands you that job years before anyone hands you a title.
AI is taking over more of the mechanical work every year, which makes building belonging the skill that keeps getting scarcer, and I write about the tools that let camp professionals spend more of the day on it.
Camps have been building belonging on purpose for 150 years, and this book is how to do the same thing in a company, a classroom, or a family.
About The Campfire EffectFifty short lessons from running a camp, written for the directors who live this every summer and for anyone who suspects their best job was their first one.
Read the 50 lessons freeReviews, notes, and talks about the tools I actually use to run a camp, so that the paperwork takes less of your day and the people take more of it.
Read the AI writing