HELP University College @ Children Development Psychology: CDP Personal Development Camp!!

During the last semester break, our grand CDP Personal Development Camp was held on the 1st and 2nd of May 2010 at the Lutheran Center located in Port Dickson. It is arguably the biggest event from the CDP for the year as we plan to bring all our members into a meaningful and memorable journey!! Our theme for the camp is GROWTH which is in line with our name of the camp, "Personal Development Camp". In conjunction with the name, we had chosen Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" to represent the theme of the camp.

We departed from HELP in the early morning and we reached our destination within 2 hours. It all started with a very interesting ice-breaker called "sampan". It's basically having all the participants to listen and follow the gamemaster's instructions. The challenge was this game requires close contact between everyone where everyone need to sit on each other's lap (thigh). It definitely breaks the barrier well as the feedbacks from the participants were positive as most of them liked it^^

After that, we had a game of Bingo - OUR CDP style (where we use personality traits instead of numbers). We also had the 3 groups in total where the leaders were selected from the first 3 winners of the Bingo game. Each of them will lead their respective groups consisted of Group C, D and P and they created their own warcry and flag to represent the uniqueness of their group.

Next, the participants were required to create their own short workshop for children and they will conduct it the following day. After the briefing about the workshop, all the participants proceeded to the TREASURE HUNT event at the beach opposite the Lutheran Center. It was a very tiring and mind-boggling experience as our participants worked very hard from the start till the end striving to find the treasure. After the treasure hunt, they were rewarded with the banana boat experience.

At night, we had a very eye-opening experience on the workshop conducted by our beloved advisor, Ms. Yeo Pei Li. She taught everyone about the importance of identifying the types of children and teach them based on who they were. Besides, we also learn about the children's behaviours so we could gain a better understanding on the reasons behind the children's actions.

The next morning, Ms. Yeo Pei Li had another session of workshop to teach us about the play with the children and various activities to allow everyone to understand and think from the perspectives of the children.

And lastly, we had the groups conducting their respective workshops on the following morning and it had been a great session as there were lots of wonderful and creative ideas flowing out from the groups.

Overall, it was a great camp as both the participants and committees benefitted from it. There will be more events coming up and don't be disappointed if you had miss this camp ^^