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Learning & Life Skills Academic Summer Camps |
Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone
Building Self Confidence
At SuperCamp, students are encouraged and empowered to take the risk of moving out of their comfort zones. We all have a comfort zone that includes the things we feel comfortable with: activities, people, foods, places and ways of being. Most students tend to want to stay in their comfort zone because it's easy, familiar, and yes, comfortable. Everything outside may seem too risky, shaky, or dangerous.
As with anything too comfortable, our comfort zone can become boring and stagnant and if we stay in there long enough we run the risk of getting stuck in a rut. With the right encouragement, students will slowly peek out and finally venture out of their comfort zone, in spite of their internal voice screaming, Don't go out there - stay here where it's comfy! Initially that first step makes us all feel weird and shaky, but soon the discomfort subsides and eventually we find that our comfort zone has expanded! By moving out of our comfort zone we have experienced something new, we have learned, we have grown. And interestingly, as comfort zones expand so does self confidence, so encourage your children to try something new!
As with anything too comfortable, our comfort zone can become boring and stagnant and if we stay in there long enough we run the risk of getting stuck in a rut. With the right encouragement, students will slowly peek out and finally venture out of their comfort zone, in spite of their internal voice screaming, Don't go out there - stay here where it's comfy! Initially that first step makes us all feel weird and shaky, but soon the discomfort subsides and eventually we find that our comfort zone has expanded! By moving out of our comfort zone we have experienced something new, we have learned, we have grown. And interestingly, as comfort zones expand so does self confidence, so encourage your children to try something new!
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