Hi there,

It’s great to see you here.

At KFA Camp, we believe in sharing our experiential learning knowledge far and wide. While our camp experiences benefit Victorian and Southern NSW schools, we want everyone to gain from our insights. That's why we've developed The Good Experiential Learning newsletter. This resource highlights personal development, wellbeing, and resilience initiatives through research, professional development, conferences, school strategies, and real-experience storytelling.

As the holidays and winter break approach, we hope you enjoy some light reading with our latest edition.

Our GoodEL insights will drop into your inbox once per term and will also beavailable on our website.

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Happy reading.

Col French

Director

Shape Future Learning

Very soon, you'll have the chance to join an exciting research project about how your fellow educators are implementing wellbeing and personal development strategies through experiential learning. You’ll be able to see exactly where your school fits within the segments, making sure the findings are super relevant to you. Just a heads up, spots for full participation are limited.

Find out more about the research and register your interest (get first dibs) here.

Community Stories

Each term, we’ll shine a light on stories from our school communities around Victoria and Southern NSW. To kick off our first edition, we’re excited to share two inspiring stories.

Camberwell Girls Grammar School - In May, the year 7 girls from CGGS visited us for the first time, along with wellbeing influencer Dr. Judith Locke, for a 5-day Young Rhythms program. Dr. Locke’s work is helping to shape CGGS’s approach to wellbeing, so our Director read The Bonsai Student, and briefed the facilitation team to better reach CGGS’s outcomes.

At programs end, the connections between the facilitation crew and the girls were heartwarming and filled with gratitude.

The methodology driving our programs

Trinity College, Albury - The TC students are long-time friends of KFA Camp. Their year 8 students returned in May for a 4-day Introduction to Outdoors program in a hybrid hike and hardtop format. This year, we switched things up with intentional resilience building, making it an intense and rewarding experience.

Delve more into their adventure here

Start a conversation with the KFA Camp team.

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The Next Big Thing

Our intuition often tells us things well before science catches up and “discovers” them. Take the benefits of meditation, for example.

Our R&D team (Col and Jye) have had a ‘thing’ in mind for some time that is perfect for the EL setting and it promises awesome returns for long term youth wellbeing.

Here's the video Col and Jye reference above

Here are some thought-provoking questions for you to reflect on about the video...

Was there emotion present?
What was it?
Does your intuition tell you it’s a good emotion and experience?
Can I take this experience forward with me to my tomorrows? How? Why would I want to?

Jye is planning to answer these questions for students during experiential programs and give them the opportunity to change many of their tomorrows!

Upcoming Events and Resources

Live updates available on our events & resources page

Events

🤓Education Summit
2 - 3 August, Brisbane
A nationwide conference with five streams, one of which is Wellbeing. We're sure this event will prove to be just as amazing as the Melbourne one in June!

🤩 Happiness and Its Causes
2 Nov, Sydney
In its 19th year, this event gathers top international and local wellbeing experts. The KFA Camp crew will be there 💡

👍🏻 Positive Schools
21-22 Nov, Melbourne
A two-day professional development and strategy workshop, resulting in a Contextual Wellbeing action plan for your school.

🌳 National Outdoor Education Conference
4-6 Dec, Gippsland
Focused on outdoor recreation with multiple streams.

👩🏾‍💻 EduTech
13-14 Aug, Melbourne
A conference focused on dialogue and collaboration, forging connections to drive meaningful change in education.

👩🏼‍🏫 VASSP
15-16 Aug, Melbourne
Exploring "Leadership Longevity: Sustaining High-Performing Leaders" for long-term excellence in school leadership.

Development Resources

⭐️ Positive Education Schools Association
Perfect for GoodEL, featuring a bi-annual conference.

🍁 Outdoors Victoria
Teacher-targeted resources and ongoing topical webinars.

A recent OV recorded Zoom session focused on Time In Lieu strategies for schools.You can watch it here 🎥.

What’s catching your eye? Promote your GoodEL conferences, webinars, and resources here.

Beyond the Camp

Journey Development Programs, our sister business, delivered this extraordinary journey to Gariwerd (Grampians National Park). The Positive Start program participants from Ashwood High School enjoyed an exciting, challenging and rewarding hike program which included wellbeing processes - what better place. Learn more below 👇🏻

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What to look out for . . . (in our next edition)

1. Geelong College on JDP’s Whitsundays program

2. A snapshot of our AWEsome research project

3. A snapshot of our school's Experiential Learning strategies research

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