Meet Our 2006 Keynote Speakers and Activity Leaders

2006 Keynote Presenters and Group Activities

2006 Keynote Presentation Details

Divine Intuition: Your Guide to Creating a Life You Love

Lynn Robinson

Would you like to have an unwavering and reliable source of wisdom to guide your life? An inner resource that gives you unfailing direction towards your hopes and dreams? There's good news. You already have it. It is part of your birthright, your instructions from a Higher Power and it's called Intuition. Join Divine Intuition author Lynn Robinson for an workshop devoted to helping you create the success you want by accessing your intuitive wisdom.
Lynn will return in 2007

At the keynote you will:

• Identify the primary ways that intuition communicates with you
• Be guided by what brings you joy to find their life purpose
• Improve your trust in using intuition for guidance and life direction
• Envision, attract and create a life you love

Perfecting Connecting

Sarah Michel

Have you been investing in improving your social capital?  Have you thought about your net worth? In the 21st century, your success will be based on the people you know.  Your clients, potential partners, and employer want to know how you have invested in your network relationships that will pay back in dividends for them in word of mouth advertising, partnerships and resources.   In other words, is your net working?   

Sarah, a master connector will share what real networking is…Connecting!  The way you connect, interact and build bridges is instrumental in your ability to leverage yourself and your organization for success!  Learn seven key strategies for improving your connections and why you should connect for life, not just for the moment.

Sarah will return as our emcee in 2007

I’m Not Lost, I’m Exploring:  How To Keep Joy In The Journey

Jana Stanfield, Our Transformation Troubadour

Do you ever feel like you’re working with no map on an ever-changing terrain?  Multi-platinum songwriter Jana Stanfield’s combination of music and message will convince you you’re exactly were you need to be on your journey.  Known as the Queen of Heavy MENTAL, Jana Stanfield’s music has been described as “psychotherapy you can dance to.” 

Don't miss this community-building session full of fun and laughter.  You will leave this empowering keynote feeling refreshed, renewed, and recommitted to your role as an explorer on your journey of a lifetime.  Jana will be our Transformation Troubadour for the whole Camp, weaving her songs and messages through each day.

Jana will return in 2007 with a Keynote Concert

The Camp Experience

Laurie S Kahn

Like my book, SLEEPAWAY: The Girls of Summer and The Camps They Love, my keynote is a celebration of girls' camps and the unique and enduring role they play in helping to create competent, confident girls and women.

The sense of community that girls are afforded at camp provides the opportunity for them to get in touch with their authentic selves and to find their inner voice and compass, something that often eludes them at home and in school. No concern for 'How do I look?' or 'Are the boys watching?' is an environmental sea change for most girls. The surprising part of the 1100 interviews I conducted was hearing that those who attended girls' camps in the 1920s and '30's and '40's and '50's experienced the same female bonding adventure as girls who were at camp ten years ago or even last summer.

The Power of BIG IDEAS:  The Making of CampExperience

Betsy Wiersma

How did all these amazing women and breakthrough topics come together in the first-ever CampExperience?  What was the path to this summit of education, inspiration and the motivation to change our lives?  What is the secret of birthing my own BIG IDEA?
Hear the real behind the scenes story from Camp creator Betsy Wiersma and understand the power of your own ideas, and key techniques to make them WOW!

Betsy will return in 2007 as Camp Director and founder

Light  A Single Candle

LeAnn Thieman, CSP

100 little babies lay three and four to a cardboard box, strapped in the belly of a gutted cargo jet. Saigon was falling to the communists - - and LeAnn Thieman was caught up in the Vietnam Orphan Airlift.

Recounting her dramatic experiences from the Vietnam Orphan Airlift, LeAnn shares life-changing lessons for coping in our "war zones" today. This poignant, yet humorous, presentation motivates audiences to balance their lives, truly live their priorities, and make a difference in the world. A sign above a pediatric burn unit in Vietnam read,  It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. LeAnn inspires audiences and honors them for lighting their candles of caring.

LeAnn will return in 2007 for a breakout workshop

Inviting the Muse!  An Interactive Experience to Ignite our Creative Spirit

Ayn Fox, MCC, M.Ed

Grown out of Greek Mythology, the idea of a Muse has become a symbol of inspiration for our creativity.   Ayn has identified nine internal Muses that you will be interacting with at this session and throughout the conference.  The Muses will become metaphorical “girl friends,” encouraging you to apply powerful attitudes and tools to personal and work challenges.  This powerful hands-on exercise is an opportunity to gain personal insight as well as to learn about each other in deeper and more funs ways than at a typical networking event. Come prepared to be energized, inspired and amazed at the creativity available within your self and within each other.  Participants will:

• Learn specific tools/methods to enhance individual and team creativity
• Deepen the conversation with themselves and each other at Camp Experience.
• Have a memorable, energizing experience

Kriss Wittmann

Visual Recording: Interactive Camp Map Activity

Watch, learn and participate as artist Kriss Wittmann creates art from our Camp experience.  Kriss is an expert in “visual; recording” and will involve us all in the journey of education, inspiration and motivation.

Kriss will return in 2007 with another map

National Keynote Speaker Profiles 

Sarah Michel
www.sarahmichel.com
Sarah Michel stands at the intersection of life connecting people, opportunities and ideas. As a international speaker, trainer and facilitator, Sarah helps people identify personality patterns including career satisfiers, problem solving styles, innovative thinking and communication preferences to produce the "electric charge" experience that happens when we make a new connection.

Lynn Robinson, M.Ed.
www.LynnRobinson.com
Lynn Robinson is one of the nation's leading experts on the topic of intuition. She works with businesses and individuals as an intuition consultant, offering insights into goals, decisions and strategies.  Her most recent book is Real Prosperity: Using the Power of Intuition to Create Financial and Spiritual Abundance. She's also the bestselling author of Divine Intuition and Compass of the Soul. She’s at work on her next book, Trust Your Gut and Grow Your Business (Kaplan) which will be in the bookstores in October 2006.

Ayn Fox, MCC, M.Ed
www.idears.com
Ayn ignites the creative spirit of her clients to bring innovation and high morale to the workplace and to their lives.  A leader in the application of whole brain technologies to real life and business challenges, she applies playful creativity in facilitating energizing retreats, coaching programs and the development of new products and services. Ayn has been designated a Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation and is recognized as a Master of Metaphor; the custom metaphorical stories she writes, creates memorable insights for her audiences.

Jana Stanfield, CSP
www.JanaStanfield.com
Known as "The Queen of Heavy Mental," Jana describes her music as "psychotherapy you can dance to." Her goal is to use her music to give people a "faith-lift."   You’ve heard her music on 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Oprah, the movie 8 Seconds, and radio stations nationwide. Her compositions are sung by Reba McEntire, Andy Williams and others, and Jana has shared stages with fellow performers ranging from Kenny Loggins to The Dixie Chicks. Her label, Relatively Famous Records has become one of the most successful companies of its kind. Jana started the company on her dining room table as Jana StanTunes Records, a one-woman operation.

Laurie Kahn
www.sleepaway.net
Laurie Susan Kahn has 27 years experience in advertising, 22 years at Young & Rubicam NY, the last ten as Executive Vice President, Director of Radio & Television Production. In 1995 she was inducted into the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers, which recognizes top-level executive women for their outstanding contributions to their organizations and their professions. Following her tenure at Y&RNY, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary, “The Reservoir of Affection: Finding the Lost Girls of Camp Kear-Sarge” and then, in June 2003, her seminal camp book, SLEEPAWAY: The Girls of Summer and the Camps They Love was published by Workman, NYC. Ms. Kahn graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin.

Betsy Wiersma, CSEP
www.betsywiersma.com
Betsy Wiersma is known for BIG IDEA thinking and ROI: Return on Ideas. Her strategic special events and promotions harness the power of “WOW.” Author of many books including the textbook, Exceptional Events: Concept to Completion, and as an international speaker and trainer, Betsy has shared her brand of BIG IDEA thinking in energetic and practical seminars in Italy, Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Scotland, Jamaica, Spain, and Australia, as well as cities throughout the United States. Betsy is the creator of CampExperience.

LeAnn Thieman, CSP
www.LeAnnThieman.com
In 1975, Saigon was falling to the communists and LeAnn found herself with "100 babies in open cardboard boxes, strapped in the belly of a gutted cargo jet!" in the Vietnam Orphan Airlift.  Today, she applies life-changing lessons from her Airlift experience to the "war zones" of our every day lives -- too much to do, too few resources, too much stress! How do we cope? LeAnn motivates audiences to balance their lives, live their priorities, make a difference in the world - and find peace in their war zones.

Kriss Wittmann
www.wittmannstudios.com
Kriss Wittmann is a human highlighter.  With her keen listening skills and illustration talent she is able to “highlight” key concepts by drawing pictures onto maps, a process called graphic recording.  She has been illustrating for over four years in training rooms, strategic planning retreats, awards banquets, think tanks and focus groups.  Kriss has 17 years experience in higher education and corporate training. Kriss has provided professional skills development to universities in the U.S. and in Great Britain and to organizations such as Right Management, the U.S. Postal Service, ADT Security Systems and Sprint PCS.