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Zach McMurray
2025 Interest Sessions

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  • Evening Programs: Intentional Design for Lasting Impact
  • Training Staff As Easy as P.I.E.
  • Office Politics: How to Survive a Multi-Generational Office Environment Without Losing Your Cool
  • Who Should I Promote
  • SEL Games for Campers
  • Exploring American Camp Association Resources
  • Behavioral Interview Tools: Evaluating our Model One Year Later and How Your Camp Can Benefit
  • Using Your Fall Seasons Strategically
  • The Dichotomies of Camp
  • From Rags to Riches: Camp Success on a Shoestring Budget
  • Burnout: How to Recognize and Recover
  • It Really Can Happen to You - Lessons from the ACA Crisis Hotline Team
  • CampWell Training
  • Sing A Long: Staff Training Session
  • When Staff Say 'I Just Don’t Wanna' – A New Wave of Camp Counselors
  • Branding within a Brand
  • Year-Round Parent Communications
  • Cultivating Camp Culture: Strategies (that have worked for me) for a Safe and Supportive Staff Environment
  • Motherhood in Camping - Is It Possible? Challenges, Joys, Boundaries, Tips, and Connection
  • Trauma Informed Camping
  • Global Camp Connections: Learning About, Building, and Sustaining International Camp Partnerships
  • Behavioral Health Support: A Case Study
  • The Day Camp Director: Perspectives & Possibilities
  • Camp Management through an Academic Lens
  • Design for the Outdoors: The Positive Impact of Nature-Based Landscape Solutions
  • Parents are our Partners - Our Communication Strategy
  • AmeriCorps, the Y and You: Building a Partnership that 'Works'
  • How to Market When Attention Spans are 3 Seconds
  • Navigating Strategy vs Tactics
  • Character at Camp
  • Tools to Fight Burnout
  • 16 Things I Learned This Year
  • From 496 to 1052: Camp Marketing Strategies and Lessons Learned
  • Building Your Network (Association Relationships 2.0)
  • Supervising This Generation
  • Responding to Reports of Physicality Between Bunkmates
  • Better than You Found It - Influencing Staff and Career Sustainability
  • Neurodivergent Programming
  • Decision Making Matrix - Title Under Construction
  • National PIT Crew Summer Projects

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