LEAN IN A USER'S GUIDE TO RELATIONAL CAMPING

In her best-selling book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg challenged women in the workforce to fight a lack of self-confidence in order to forge fulfilling and rewarding personal and professional lives. Developmental Relationships For its part, the Search Institute, which partners with organizations to conduct and apply research that promotes positive youth development and advances equity, puts a primary emphasis on "developmental relationships," about which they offer the following (Search Institute, 2022a): Developmental relationships are the roots of young people's success. Through developmental relationships, young people . . . * Discover who they are * Cultivate the abilities needed for them to shape their own lives * Learn how to engage with and contribute to the world around them Summer camp is really good at promoting all three. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power - to bear witness to a passage, to help carry an emotional burden or to begin a healing cess.