🧘 Wellbeing Hub
Your Health at Camp
It’s vital to advocate for yourself at Camp (and in life!) to ensure that your physical, emotional, and mental needs are met.
Culture Shock
Culture shock is common when adapting to a new culture, causing feelings like disorientation, homesickness, or frustration. Experiencing culture shock us normal and usually improves with time. Staying open-minded, learning about the culture, keeping connections back home, building new support networks, and prioritising self-care can ease the adjustment.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a natural response to stress and is normal to experience at camp. While it can be helpful in small doses, excessive anxiety can affect well-being. The good news? Camp can help lower anxiety by providing a break from responsibilities and encouraging mindfulness through nature, new experiences, and being in the moment.
Homesickness
Homesickness can of course bring emotional distress but there are lots of things you can do to help alleviate it. The main things are staying busy and obviously being in Camp you’ll naturally be busy! Also talking to your fellow campers, counselors, and camp staff about your feelings can help as they may have experienced homesickness themselves and can offer support and advice.
Making friends as an adult
Feeling connected is key to our mental and physical health. Social isolation can harm us, but friendships provide support, perspective, and grounding. At Camp, connection is within reach! Travel opens doors to meeting new people, and everyone is in the same boat, making it easier to bond. Robin Dunbar’s Seven Pillars of Friendship—shared language, origin, education, interests, worldview, music tastes, and humor—highlight how commonalities strengthen relationships.
How do we help
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Regular webinars leading up to the summer (January - May)
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A Direct line to a 1-on-1 chat with a designated Camp Canada Employee before, during, and after your time at camp
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Access to The Mind Map’s MindClass, an online portal full of helpful courses and articles on a range of wellbeing topics
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Resources you can take to camp with you
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Monthly newsletters
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Training and resources for your Directors to assist in your journey
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Training for our Camp Canada employees on our Wellbeing Team!
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Education and helpful tips on our social medias and in the participant Facebook Page
We are a call away
The Camp Canada team are available on demand to assist you with any wellbeing complication you experience whilst on your placement. A dedicated team of camp-experienced staff will be more than happy to connect with you to see how you're getting on and work on solutions for your summer with you. Information on how to reach them will be shared closer to the summer but in the meantime, if you have any wellbeing related issues, you can connect with Aidan on the wellbeing team by clicking here.
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