Why an All Girls Camp?

By design, single gender camps for girls, focus their efforts on empowering girls by teaching them those talents and role modeling how those skills can be utilized in real world situations. Mastering the skills associated with empowerment is the greatest gift a camp can offer its campers.

Summer camps that plan with purpose can and should intentionally thread 21st Century skill training into all they do. In this purposeful environment there is an emphasis on building relationships while practicing the art of collaboration and community building.

Here are just a few of the outcomes that a girl’s summer camp offers its children:

• Threaded through all planning at camp should include training that encourages campers to learn what it means to be empowered, resilient, gritty and kind.
• Campers can unplug. Kids appreciate that there is more to life than being wired up.
• Camp offers “live” interaction in the “real world” with “real people”.
• Kids gain resiliency. Campers learn to overcome obstacles. They practice advocating for themselves. Children are presented with many psychological and physical challenges they learn to master and learn how to accept failure…gracefully.
• In a full season camp the instructional program affords children the time required to teach, practice and master various skills. The programs offered to campers will likely become life-long pursuits.
• Campers develop life-long and meaningful relationships. Being able to share experiences, thoughts and feelings with others can be liberating. Living in a supportive summer community teaches children the importance of compromise, sharing, and respect.
• Mastering group dynamics and working for the betterment of all is the essence of community living….Camp teaches that.
• Children learn empathy. The essence of community is being “other-centered”. Camp helps kids to truly feel for the needs of others.
• Life is full of transitions. Camp allows kids to practice being independent. Campers must make self-directed decisions. They practice taking on the world and solving problems using their own resources and skills.
• Cabin life teaches collaboration, compromise, communication and community. Living by the rules established by the group is a great civic lesson learned by bunk mates.
• Communicating your needs, feelings and rights in a safe, supportive environment teaches kids the importance of self-efficacy. Campers learn through experience the fine art of communication and compromise. You don’t always get what you want but you get something that the whole group can be proud of. Practicing teamwork is a value that will take these kids far in life.

Single gender camping for girls teaches campers how to successfully navigate “girl’s world” and beyond. These intentional efforts will hone life skills that will inform each camper’s life going forward. So much of one’s learning takes place outside of the classroom. Camp is a crucible for assisting a child on their individual journey toward becoming the best version of themselves.

These are dynamic times that require talents and resiliency skills that will determine one’s success and happiness. An “All Girls” camp experience sets the table for young women to be able to realize those outcomes. Every interaction is unique for each child. Mapping out a plan that meets the needs of every child can be done with planning, reinforcement and lots of love.