HTLYS-Camp 2026

How To Love Yourselfie Youth arts and Wellness Camp

This special day serves youth and teens, where each one can engage and embrace all their unique qualities through self-awareness, self-love, self-enrichment, creativity, empowerment, and fun! Our activities are designed to empower those qualities about themselves and tap into their unlimited potential. We hope that each one of them enjoys this day to the fullest, leaving each with an enriched sense of self, cherished memories of sharing time with others, and a toolbox of positive experiences that bring them joy and can strengthen their everyday communities!

Sunday, September 20th

9 am - 4 pm

Check In: 9 am - 9:30 am

Venue TBD

Burbank, CA (or near by city)

Secure your spot, and let the adventure begin!

Early Bird Special Tickets are $20.00 per child during June 15th - August 20th.

August 21st - September 19th, ticket prices are $35.00 per child.

Welcome to How To Love Yourselfie CAMP 2026!

How To Love YourSelfie Youth Arts and Wellness Camp is designed for young people and teens!

HTLYS CAMP has different stations of various art forms, creative genres, artistic outlets, culinary experiences, health, and wellness activities within sections dedicated to those art forms that support the overall well-being of YOURSELFIE!

Participants will be put in their “selfie” groups and travel around the fun-filled venue together. We have multiple activity sessions that rotate, facilitated by various BTCF board members, ambassadors, and celebrities.

Each group will journey together, forming new connections and friendships, while participating in all the FUN and ACTIVITIES! Embracing the opportunity to bond with diverse individuals and create lasting memories! Groups are as follows:

Love Yourselfie Group
Explore Yourselfie Group
Help Yourselfie Group
Be Yourselfie Group
Cherish Yourselfie Group

We teach, serve, and engage the youth through their natural curiosity and instincts. Within each art form and/or activity, there are choices and guidance to nurture the activity along. Throughout the process, the participants' expressive creations will unfold and shine! Leaving it open to their interpretation and discussion.

Additional perks include welcome with donuts and juice, lunch, snacks, water, lemonade, an art fair, swag, a raffle, a HTLYS tee shirt, and much more!

"How To Love Yourselfie" (HTLYS) is an empowering online social media literacy program, created by Jillian Rose Reed, Breaking The Chains Foundation (BTCF) Board Member and Celebrity Spokesperson.

Our esteemed clinical team has crafted this research-based initiative, which features engaging videos with Jillian and insightful workbooks, along with mindful movement videos led by Krysia St Cyr, BTCF Advisory Board member and CLI Wellness Director.

This program inspires young individuals to confidently navigate the challenges of social media, cultivate a positive body image, and embrace self-compassion and authenticity in the digital age.

Our BTCF team, staff, and volunteers are present throughout the day and at every station. Every team member, staff member, and volunteer undergoes an interview process and a thorough background check by BTCF, as well as any potential partners. BTCF ensures that safety protocols are in place throughout the venue.

Dear Me with BTCF VP and Emmy Award Winner, Courtney Hope (Young and The Restless)

Canvas of Culinary Arts with NOLA Celebrity Chef Gason (Masters Award-Winning Chef)

Music and Mind with BTCF Youth Ambassador and Celebrity, Jordyn Curet (The Drama)

7 Chairs Dance Experience with BTCF Board, Alex Little and Kat Leist (World-renown master teachers/choreographers)

Art Fair with BTCF Youth Ambassadors and Celebrity, Auden Wyle (Leverage Redemption)

Magic Within Me with BTCF Youth Ambassador and Celebrity, Kennedy Garcia (Days of Our Lives)

Canvas Painting with BTCF Board, Kathy Moufarrege, Art Therapist and (Owner of Mobile Mozart)

Nutritious Bites with Tina Avedissian (Owner of Tasty Tina's)

Lunch time "HIP HOP" session with Nicole Keledjian (Mihran K Studios)

Drum Circle (TDB)

Pot Your Own Plant

MORE TO COME - STAY TUNED!

Art Forms and Benefits by The American Association of Art Therapy:

❖ Art - uses painting as a means of expression. An example is that a teen might paint masks, showing how they feel on the inside, and how they feel on the outside and discuss the difference and what they both mean. Visual materials help make the unconscious, conscious.

❖ Music - music therapy is helpful for teens who find it difficult to express themselves through words. Playing music and singing in a therapeutic context, youth and teens abilities are strengthened and transferred to other areas of their lives.

❖ Drama - through drama youth and teens can express feelings they might be uncomfortable expressing, and in doing so find connection and catharsis.

❖ Dancing - uses the freedom of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the young person or teen.

❖ Poetry & writing therapy - focuses on the written word for growth and self-healing.

❖ Art frees youth and teens to express themselves.