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Involving the Family
for Continued Success

Family Workshops

Many Wellspring families report they lose weight alongside their child. In fact, family surveys immediately following camp indicate that 40% of families lose more than 20 lbs. When you combine family weight loss success with camper success, you have entire families losing weight and getting significantly healthier together.

While this result isn’t surprising, it demonstrates how important family involvement actually is for long-term weight control, and why so many Wellspring families spend 2 days with Wellspring professionals at the end-of-camp Family Workshops.

Wellspring Adventure Camp Family Workshop involves the following:

• Parents receive self-monitoring journals, calorie counters, and pedometers.
• Parents set goals and commit to self-monitor and journal over the duration of the workshop. This helps them understand important elements of Wellspring's behavioral change program.
• Workshop on science of weight gain and weight loss.
• Family sessions with Adventure Camp clinicians.
• Culinary and nutrition workshop.
• Workshop on why and how not to nag your child about activity and food – the importance of cueing vs. nagging.
• The Workshop concludes with the development of a written plan that promotes a smooth transition from the Adventure Camp to home.

Because the Family Workshop is so helpful to families in providing the tools they need to make the home environment as facilitative as possible for continued weight loss, Wellspring Adventure Camp refunds the full cost of the Family Workshop ($300) to each family that actually attends the workshop. This includes the pedometers, self-monitoring journals, and books that families receive.