Nivonim Leadership Training Program
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2014 ohbucb NIVONIM LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM In so many respects, the Nivonim experience is the culmination of one’s journey as a camper through the edot (divisions) here at Machaneh Ramah. But it is also the beginning of a new journey: that of one day coming back to camp as a member of our summer tzevet (staff). To that end, a key element of the Nivonim experience is the summer-long Nivonim Leadership Training Program. All of our Nivonimers will participate in the Leadership Training Program and will be considered Madrichim B’Nivonim (counselors that are Nivonimers) -- or MiNis for short. MiNis will be placed in one of the many Netivei Manhigut (Leadership Tracks) which will be led by our amazing tzevet (staff). We will dedicate several hours, each week, for training with our nativ (track) leaders, as well as time that each nativ will spend training “in the field.” We are very pleased to offer our Nivonimers seven different Netivei Manhigut (Leadership Tracks). Nivonimers will be able to sign up for one of the following tracks: Rikud (dance), Sports, Tech, Shira (song-leading/ music), Camp Programming, Bunk Counseling, and Amitzim Bunk Counseling. Each track will be spear- headed by one member of our Nivonim staff (or another senior staff member from around camp), and each track offers exciting opportunities for the development of high-level skills and leadership experience in that particular area of specialization. Each track will offer opportunities for participants to spend time working with campers in younger edot over the course of the summer. Each track will help start our Nivonimers on the journey of transition from being a receiver of the Ramah experience to being a transmitter of that experience. We will be launching this Leadership Training Program with an intensive two-day workshop on June 26-27. We have invited a number of extraordinarily talented specialists to join us at camp for those two days to work with the participants in each of our leadership tracks. This workshop represents an exciting opportunity for our Nivonimers to get to know and learn from a variety of professionals working in their fields. In the pages that follow, you will find a description of each of our leadership tracks, including information on the structure of the program, what opportunities await the Nivonimers who select each track, bios of the visiting specialists, and more. We have also included bios and photos of our 2014 tzevet Nivonim (our staff of Nivonim counselors)! On the last page of the brochure, you will find a sign-up form. We ask that every Nivonimer click on the link in the e-mail (sent with this brochure) to submit your choices before June 2nd, 2014. We’ll see you soon, at camp!! Winter Office: 2 Commerce Way Norwood, MA 02062 ph: (781) 702-5290 fax: (781) 702-5239 Summer Office: 39 Bennett St. Palmer, MA 01069 ph: (413) 283-9771 fax: (413) 283-6661 www.campramahne.org www.ramahblog.org I. NATIV RIKUD (DANCE) II. NATIV SPORT Nativ Rikud is all about helping the ruach (spirit) In Nativ Sport, you will get to take your passion and in camp thrive! Rikud is an important part of what love for sports to the next level. Participants will learn makes Ramah so special, and participants in nativ the skills they’ll need to coach and to teach a sport to rikud will have the incredible opportunity to continue players of all ages. You’ll learn how to build a that tradition! Participants in this track will learn how positive and competitive team environment. From to teach and lead dances at camp, as well as experi- teaching a beginner the fundamentals of play to giving ment with choreography. They will work alongside that galvanizing halftime speech on game day, we’ll our tzevet rikud (dance staff), working with hanichim cover it all. Participants in Nativ Sport will be (campers) in other edot, assist in coaching JV Berk- assigned to a JV Berkshires team as an assistant shires, and create other opportunities throughout the coach in order to learn on the job and put what kayitz (summer) to fill camp withrikud and ruach, they’ve learned to use. such as in the chadar ochel, during “mandatory fun time,” and during bechirot! Through these Visiting Specialist: Dorie Ain Ravick! experiences, you’ll learn how to assist a group of Tzad Aleph (A-Side) campers trying to create their Dorie Ain Ravick own performance piece, and also how to choreograph is a proud Camp and teach an entire Tzad Bet (B-Side) edah their Ramah in New Shabbat dance -- two very different projects! Potential England alum, other projects include helping with the zimkudiyah having spent most and working on the dance-related aspects of our of her summers machazemer (play). Participants will have the from 1997-2005 opportunity to leave their mark on camp by in Palmer. After developing and teaching a brand-new Nivonim 2014 many years as a dance that will become a part of the camp tradition. camper, Dorie returned as a staff member for her Junior Counselor summer but quickly found her Visiting Specialist: Rachel passion as a member of the Sports Staff. In the Arcus-Goldberg! summer of 2005, Dorie was thrilled to serve as Rosh Sport (and still proudly brags that this was the Rachel Arcus-Goldberg is the summer that Palmer swept Berkshires!). While on Associate Dean of Students at sports staff, Dorie coached Girls JV and Varsity Gann Academy. Rachel is a Softball and enjoyed teaching campers of all ages the long-time Ramahnik. She was fundamentals of sports and sportsmanship. Dorie a member of Nivonim 1996, and currently lives in Gaithersburg, MD and is the she was on tzevet (staff) in 1998, Assistant Director of College Guidance at The Charles 1999, and 2002-2004. Rachel E. Smith Jewish Day School. She has worked for graduated from Brandeis Hillel at The University of North Carolina at Chapel University with a degree in psychology, and she Hill and at The University of Maryland. Dorie also earned a dual masters from Columbia/JTS in social has a background in higher education and worked at work and Jewish studies. She recently obtained her The George Washington University Office of LCSW (Licensed Certified Social Worker) in the state Undergraduate admissions for 4 ½ years. In her free of Massachusetts. Rachel has been teaching Israeli time, Dorie spends time with her husband, Jacob, their dancing for 20 years, working with pre-school kids son Judah and their daughter Zoey, as well as their dog through adults. She was on tzevet rikud (dance staff) Gibbs. at Camp Ramah for two summers, she teaches dance at Gann, and she has danced with semi-professional dance troupes in Boston, New York, and Jerusalem. She is thrilled to be back at Ramah for this program with edat ha-Nivonim! III. NATIV TECH Participants in Nativ Tech will learn the fundamentals of how to set up a computer network and how to use basic security features for any home wireless network. In addition, participants will get a chance to learn how to set up sound and lighting systems. Since we all know that the best part is being able to see one’s work actually pay off, participants in this track will get to utilize these skills while working with our tzevet tech (tech staff) running and operating this equipment during camp-wide events such as our plays, zimkudi- yah, etc. Everyone in this track will have a chance to learn skills in other areas as well, such as audio editing (learning how to cut and edit existing songs, etc.). All the skills learned in this track will be very useful for any intro tech position, whether in a future summer at Camp Ramah or in any other job position. Visiting Specialist: Av Harris! Av Harris is a veteran of Camp Ramah in New England, having started out as a bunk counselor in Bogrim, Magshimim, Nivonim, and as S’gan Rosh Magshimim from 1994-1997. Av went on to have a 10-year career in broadcast journalism as a radio reporter, producer, news anchor, and talk show host at several National Public Radio member stations in New England. Av also provided live on-air political analy- sis for radio and television stations such as FOX news, MSNBC, SKY news in Britain, and Reuters News. Av worked on assignment in Jerusalem and the West Bank to produce a nationally distributed radio documentary about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in 2001. Av also regularly filed radio reports and provided political analysis in Hebrew for the international desk of Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem from 1999-2005. Av now works as Director of Communications and chief spokesman for Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. His technical skills include recording, editing and mixing sound, writing for broadcast/announcing, tech setup for live events, photography and videography. After a 14 year hiatus, Av Harris returned to Ramah Palmer during the summer of 2011 to work on Tech staff. IV. NATIV SHIRA V. NATIV MADRICH (SONG-LEADING/MUSIC) (BUNK COUNSELING) Do you love singing at camp? Do you get pumped Participants in Nativ Madrich will have the up thinking about Friday night shira? Learning new opportunity to discover what it’s like to be a songs? Working with younger edot? Then Nativ madrich(a) (counselor) at camp! In nativ madrich, Shira is the place for you! Participants in this track participants will have an opportunity to learn and will work on leading and teaching shira to the younger spend time in select Tzad Aleph tzrifim (bunks).