National Conference

Camp Includes Me Track - National Conference

Mon, 02/13/2017 - 08:48

Camp Includes Me: Inclusion, Fusion and Cross-Cultural Agility

Our world is becoming increasingly divisive and communicating with each other across cultures and even lifestyles, has become progressively challenging. This year at our National Conference, we are excited to initiate a track to specifically assist in our cultural flexibility, ultimately supporting us and our campers in becoming more nimble in our thinking – particularly when navigating cultural differences. The ability to build trust and mutual rapport with people from various cultural backgrounds is a critical component in our camp community.

Our Camp Includes Me track of workshops, panel discussions and experiential activities will allow us to replace the traditional race-based, “us versus them” paradigms, with a more holistic transformational model and approach, that explores modern millennial issues like globalization, inclusion, cultural intelligence, unconscious bias and systemic patterns that exist and impact the way we interact, react and respond to others from different cultures, lifestyles, backgrounds, genders, belief systems and ages in our camp settings and beyond. 

The goal of Camp Includes Me is to create a space where we can increase our competence around issues of Inclusion, Fusion and Cross-Cultural Agility. Moving beyond “representational diversity” and integrating true “Inclusion” and excellence by bringing together various world views, research, experiences and subject matter experts.   “Fusion” takes place, as we exchange our ideas, adding and contributing to one another.  We then ideally can become “Cross-Culturally Agile” as we share and become more competent in our understanding of what we individually and collectively hold sacred and meaningful.  All while having fun!

Join us as we begin the process of letting go of all the endless loops that separate us.

Instructions for the ACA National Conference Session Proposal Submission Site

Wed, 05/25/2016 - 10:07
  1. Step one is logging into your ACA account with your login (typically your email address or member/customer number) and password. ACA members and previous customers will have an existing account in the association’s database. If you do not know your login info, use the 'need help signing in' option located on the sign-in page.  If you are not an ACA member and/or do not have an existing account, please create an account on the sign-in page.  Please Note: If you create a new account instead of logging into your existing account, your speaker/session submission history will not be available.
  2. The submission site allows you to cut and paste in plain text from Word, in areas requiring more detail.
  3. Please do not re-use or type over a previous submission, as you will lose your submission history. Also, a previous year's submission will not appear in the final 'Upcoming ACA National Conference Sessions for Review' report that is submitted to the program review team.
  4. The site provides a confirmation e-mail confirming our receipt of your submission. Submitters may go back into their session proposals up until the time the site closes on September 16, 2024. This is especially helpful to those who wish to update submissions to include new insights from Summer 2024. You may submit multiple sessions for consideration; however, we suggest no more than four submissions.
  5. If you do not receive an email confirmation within 1 hour of submission, we may not have received it.  Check your list of submissions under your speaker account to make sure it is listed.  If it is not listed under your account, we DID NOT receive it.  When in doubt, email [email protected]  to ensure the submission was completed successfully.

All submitters will receive email notification of the program team's decision regarding their proposal in late October 2024. 

The 2025 CFP Site is Closed.  

Questions

Process and logistical questions may be addressed to the national conference manager, Melany Irvin, at [email protected].

Questions specifically related to the program content may be directed to the national conference program team chair, Shanelle Rauh, at [email protected]

Interested in submitting an abstract for the research forum?

ACA reserves the right to make any and all adjustments to the program.

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