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What is Yunasa?

CAMPERS 鈥 WHAT TO EXPECT

In addition to the array of traditional camp activities, Yunasa offers workshops and expert-led sessions for campers to:
  • Learn coping techniques to understand and manage emotions
  • Practice meditation and visualization techniques designed to support the needs of children with highly active minds
  • Develop an understanding of their intellectual and creative gifts
  • Learn to manage personal and societal pressures through teambuilding, conflict-resolution, tolerance, and acceptance
  • Discover that they are more than just intellect

JOINING A COMMUNITY, BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS

Yunasa offers highly able children the opportunity to join a community of campers who are also gifted, creating a sense of affirmation and belonging that campers often feel for the first time at Yunasa. Many children return year after year to continue in their pursuit of personal growth and to rejoin the campers and staff with whom they have developed strong connections. Campers come from across the country 鈥 and sometimes from outside the United States 鈥 and have interests in a variety of different fields, establishing a diverse community of learners.

FINDING BALANCE

鈥淏alance鈥 is the core value of Yunasa. Campers learn that the self is composed of five domains 鈥 intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical. Finding balance between these five domains is a concept that is integral to camp activities and workshops.
Pie chart showing the Five Aspects of Self: Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Social
Camp activities and workshops:
  • Encourage campers to take risks and step outside their comfort zones
  • Foster leadership in thought and action
  • Engage campers鈥 intellectual curiosity and sense of wonder
  • Connect campers with nature and the environment
  • Expand campers鈥 horizons and provide them with opportunities for support and growth
  • Challenge campers to strive for their personal best
  • Build self-acceptance and confidence
  • Help campers overcome fears through physical challenges
  • Provide the support and environment necessary for campers to challenge themselves, build friendships, develop confidence, and find balance in their lives

PARENTS, YOU BENEFIT TOO

Participation in Yunasa also includes an opportunity for parents to gather with Yunasa faculty members, usually at the beginning or end of the camp week, to discuss the unique challenges of raising a gifted child and to develop the skills necessary to meet his or her needs. At the end of camp, parents also receive feedback on the growth of their child from the expert who led their psychosynthesis group over the course of the week.

For other questions about what to expect, see our FAQs page
Institute for Educational Advancement - Connecting bright minds; nurturing intellectual and personal growth

The Yunasa summer camp program received the inaugural Annemarie Roeper Global Awareness Award, recognizing a program that 鈥渞esponds to the concerns of gifted and talented children about the future and the world they live in.鈥

Institute for Educational Advancement - Connecting bright minds; nurturing intellectual and personal growth

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