{"id":963,"date":"2024-04-12T20:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T03:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/?page_id=963"},"modified":"2024-04-12T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T03:18:48","slug":"camp-length","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/camp-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three Reasons Why Camp Is Two Weeks Long<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Enhanced Personal Development<\/strong> &#8211; A longer camp experience offers greater social, emotional, cognitive, and character benefits.\u00a0Trollfjell aims to be a nurturing environment where young people can flourish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deeper Friendships &#8211; <\/strong>During summer camp, the staff and kids alike comment on how much better people get to know one another after two weeks.\u00a0 Two-week sessions offer a slower pace, deeper connections, and richer memories. One former camper explained, \u201cThe first week is when you get to know everyone, the second week is when you make your lifelong friends.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Access To Other Opportunities \u2013 <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In a week, campers develop a mental connection to camp; in two weeks, a heart connection develops.\u00a0 Years later, it will be the heart connection that is meaningful.<\/li>\n<li>Connection with the staff in both directions \u2014 relationships go beyond the forming stage is far more likely.\u00a0 Campers build relationships with instructors, and counselors go beyond being present, to being friends.<\/li>\n<li>The full life of modern youth can start to become full in other ways . . . slowing down, rich and diverse relationships, and skills and experiences unavailable anywhere else.<\/li>\n<li>Connection with nature\u00a0\u2014 becomes normal, and more deeply appreciated.\u00a0 In a single week, nature can remain a thing instead of a feeling and experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Reasons Why Camp Is Two Weeks Long Enhanced Personal Development &#8211; A longer camp experience offers greater social, emotional, cognitive, and character benefits.\u00a0Trollfjell aims to be a nurturing environment where young people can flourish. Deeper Friendships &#8211; During summer camp, the staff and kids alike comment on how much better people get to know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/963\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofn6.org\/arv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}