This is a 5 ½ day residential clinic designed to prepare participants for non-formal teaching and education at a camp, environmental education center,, outdoor center, park, or recreation center. Our goal is to facilitate better programming and instruction in a wide variety of camp and outdoor situations and settings. Each year, the Clinic is designed to meet the specific needs of the participants.

Instruction is hands-on, outdoors, and experiential. Participants will come away with a knowledge of our northeastern geology, ecology, and habitats, the ability to teach about them in the outdoors to a wide variety of students/campers/visitors, and the ability to create a program and lessons that are suited to their location and organization. This is the 28th year for the Clinic.

The three instructors have over 100 years of experience working at camps, environmental education centers, and in secondary and higher education. Prior to the Clinic, participants are asked to fill out a questionnaire about themselves and their organization. This allows the instructors to make sure that the needs of each participant and their organizations are met.

• The Clinic is limited to a maximum of 14 participants
• Registration deadline: June 2, 2024 or when spots are filled
• Start date : June 9, 2024 at Noon
• End date: June 14, 2024 at about 3:00 PM
• Cost: $385-includes room and meals, transportation during the clinic, all course materials, a 200 page clinic book along with a thumb drive containing additional information, on-going support from the instructors during the summer, and use of Pemi’s facilities during the Clinic. Transportation to and from Camp Pemigewassett is the responsibility of the participant, but we will help.

NOTE: WE HAVE ONE FULL SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE to a participant from a nonprofit organization with a focus on underserved communities. A second scholarship might also be available.

• Venue name and address: Camp Pemigewassett, Wentworth, NH
• Phone number for questions: 603-223-2542
  Email address for questions: rldavis@newhaven.edu
• Registration Form

Articles about the clinic from Camping  Magazine:

 https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/turning-camp-counselors-nature-specialists-pemi-nature-instruction-clinic 

 https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-learning-teach-about-nature.

Brochure and Registration Form