Expo Roles
The client in charge of preparing and cooking meals.
Who is "Chef"?
The method we used to start a fire.
What is bow-drilling?
The name of my primary therapist.
Who is Amber?
What the chef would say before everyone expressed gratitude before eating dinner.
What is "Who's Grateful?"
Therapy that involves the client and at least one other family member.
What is Family Therapy?
The client in charge of carrying the map and compass, and leading the way on hikes. They are also in charge of digging the "lat" (latrine) at camp.
Who is "Nav"? (Navigator)
The sound used to gather group members, signal a return to camp center, or call for help.
What is a "hoot"? (or, what is "zooooo-wee!!"?)
The name of the online portal where letters are exchanged and photos are uploaded.
What is the Family Bridge?
How we referred to the hole we dug to "do our business" at camp.
What is the "Lat"?
Therapy that utilizes creative modalities to explore and express feelings.
What is Art Therapy?
The client who is the leader of the camping expedition, who makes decisions about the flow of the day, keeps time, and communicates the game plan to the group.
Who is "Expo"?
The phrase used refer to someone successfully creating the thing that will start a fire?
What is "bust a coal"?
A group we attended on Wednesday nights at the town hall.
What is AA?
The group we held every night in which each person would take a personal inventory of their day.
What is 10th Step?
Therapy that involves horses.
What is Equine Therapy?
The client in charge of filling blueys (water jugs), and loading the truck with all of the group gear (cooking appliances, shovel, etc).
Who is "EQ"? (Equipment Manager)
Stacks of rocks that are placed along a trail to help people find their way.
The names of all four horses.
Who are Captain, Travis, Brownie, and Gunsmoke?
(100 points for each horse named.)
The abbreviation we used for "Morning Routine".
What is MORO?
A type of therapy that helps clients face their fears directly, with the goal of gradually becoming more comfortable with what they have a tendency to avoid.
What is Exposure Therapy?
The client in charge of carrying the first aid kit, the "sunshine kit" (backpack with essentials) and giving hand washes.
What the guides would do each night to see if we were hydrated enough and if we had any blisters.
What is a "foot check"?
Something that the "senior" client in the group got to do each week (food-related).
What is grocery shopping?
What "P's on B's" stands for (when backpacking).
What is "Packs on Backs"?
A therapeutic modality that organizes skills into 4 main categories: (mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance).
What is DBT? (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)