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Chris launches Leadership Essentials, a revolutionary set of training tools that allows you to train staff as soon as you hire them.  Read More
 
Chris's homesickness prevention research, just published in the journal Pediatrics, received tremendous international coverage, including the Today Show, BBC News, Good Morning America, Ireland News Radio, NPR, and CNN Headline News.  Read Press Release
 
Chris's new DVD-CD set for new camper families was featured on The Martha Stewart Show.  View Clip.
 
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arrow2CampSpirit is the online home of Dr. Christopher Thurber, a board-certified clinical psychologist, author, consultant, and father. A graduate of Harvard University, Chris created Leadership Essentials, a revolutionary set of online staff training tools.  He also hosts ACA's homesickness prevention DVD-CD set and co-authored the best-selling "Summer Camp Handbook." Chris is widely published in the academic and popular press and has more than 30 years of camp experience... Read More
 

arrow2Leadership e ssentials helps train your staff as soon as you hire them. When you subscribe to this premium library of online video training modules, your staff will learn key leadership techniques and camping best practices...months before opening day. Also, the online quiz system will make sure they know their stuff. You and your staff can view two free sample videos right now...  Go to Leadership Essentials

 
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Here's how to
have the most
fun at camp
...with the least
homesickness!

DVD-CD set for families includes campers' testimonials about why they love camp and all the best tips for coping with normal feelings of missing home. Terrific! Read More.

 

 
SummerCampHandbook The Summer Camp Handbook is the premier preparatory resource for all families looking to maximize the quality of the camping experience. Now in its third printing, The Summer Camp Handbook won a Gold Award from the National Parenting Press in 2003.   Read More.