Campout 24 Themes: Daring to Dream Big Again

In this rapidly changing world, how can we be centred and balanced, whilst being open and proactive for change, both on a personal and community level? 

Campout 2024 focuses on how we can take control of our future in a world of obsolete, dysfunctional or corrupt systems and a technological revolution. It's the widespread dissatisfaction with many of the things happening now that inspires us to shape a different kind of world which embraces a growing desire to dream big again, which fosters community initiatives based on heart-centred connection and common values.

Themes for Campout 2024:  Here's an invitation for four days of reflection, connection, dreaming, transition and maybe even transformation.


Day 1 - Landing

Landing in nature and our true nature. Assimilating, unwinding, reconnecting.

Learn about the land around us at Three Pools and how the farm utilises permaculture methods, what we can all learn from nature and its rhythms and cycles - a reminder of how we are all part of a whole and how that leads to connections with others when in flow. 

Key Session: Ruth Fox - The Connection That Changes Worlds

Day 2 - Common Ground

Opening ourselves, listening, observing, looking for commonality, honouring diversity, breaking free.

Learn about how self reflection can lead to liberation, how we can sharpen our sense of awareness and spaciousness through openness and deep listening techniques, how we can build bridges for peace from unlikely situations and how we seek the common ground, whilst respecting the differences through those connections. How to break free of the matrix, go off-grid and start to bring wholesale systemic change into our lives. 

Key Talks: Jo Berry - 40 years of Peace Building. Zelda Hall - Gold in the Shadows, Bob Hillary - Breaking Free of  the Matrix

 

Day 3 – Finding Our Essence

Our voice, our health, our value in community. Connection between the heart and our earthy selves.

Finding our centre, our balance, our sense of wellness, our voice, individually and collectively. Looking beyond outmoded systems to new ways of living our lives, from approaches to health to new ways of democratic decision making. Learn about People's Assemblies by taking part in one. Be witness to the power of coming together with an open heart so we can sing our hearts out. 

Key Sessions: People's Assembly, led by Emma Wall, Sing Out! Led by Gitika Partington, Indigenous Sustainability led by Andy Hickson.

 

Day Four – Trailblazing

Putting the process together, taking it to the streets. Having the confidence to be in our truth, to tread new paths through wild country.

We explore our sense of belonging and opening up the flow in our lives. We tap into the power of the gathering and how coming together can focus us, energise us and dare us to dream big again. The energy we can take from forming or joining local communities and groups based around our values and our principles, turning dreams into actions and building the courage to move in new directions and into new spaces. Taking the love bubble with us. 

Key Session: Family Constellation with Poppy Altmann


Quotes “And if those 300 odd attendees have gone out into the world this week with even half of the connectedness and empowerment that I've been living with, as I'm absolutely sure is the case, then it goes without saying, that Campout 2023 was a mind blowing, life-changing event. Thank you from the bottom of my heart♥️”

“It taught me how to dream big again and that made me feel more powerful than I ever did before”

TICKETS FOR CAMPOUT


Campout announces People's Assembly

Saturday Session:  People's Assembly led by Emma Wall

Emma Wall stood at the recent general election as an Independent, the first manifestation of Campfire's movement towards Trailblazer politics, or what comes next after the current outmoded party politics. She polled a creditable 1833 votes in her Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven constituency and during a vigorous campaign, she highlighted many of the failings of the current 'first past the post' system as well as re-engaging many who had become disillusioned with the system and the individuals who claimed to represent them. A major part of her campaign centred around championing policies and processes which improve the quality of life of those most disadvantaged in society.

Following Campfire's pioneering People's Assembly at our 2019 Campout, we are not just looking at the potency of this method of community-based decision-making, we're actually putting the process into action for ourselves. After hearing from Emma about her experiences standing in the election, we invite everyone to join us in modelling new directions for direct democracy, new politics grounded in a common-sense, humanitarian ethos and values.  We ask what matters most to you in determining a blueprint for our future. Each team will shape a new politics as we collectively put together what we'd like to see as future Trailblazers policy.

Emma says: “Anyone who is planning to attend this session, please bring up to five SMALL (easily transported) items that you no longer use or that no longer bring you joy. ‘Items’ can be anything from clothing to crystals, kitchen equipment to ornaments. Please ensure they are in good enough condition that they are useable and have the potential to “spark joy” for another person”

Full programme


Line-Up Announcement

We have announced the first names for Campout 2024 this week, which features a wide range of activities and subjects.

Included in our offerings, we have speakers, panels, workshops, wellbeing sessions, gong baths, constellations, breathwork, meditation & chanting, yoga, live music, DJs, stand-up poetry, 5Rhythms dance, singing, vocal improvisation, conscious speed dating, shamanic journeying, a writers circle, an opening fire ceremony and the Pleasurefest sensual play space. 

Amongst the many topics and emergent themes included in our sessions are Breaking Free of the Matrix / Creating a New Earth, Trailblazing New Politics, Men and the Patriarchy, Nature Connection, Herbalism, Building Financial Solutions, Focusing and inner listening, Pain-Free Method, Look Lovingly Tantra and Meeting your Demons and Finding your Gifts.

More line-up details and bios here

Tickets available here


Campout: Here's the Deal

CAMPOUT 2025 @ Three Pools Permaculture Farm, Abergavenny, South Wales. 

August 7-10 2025

Together we are co-creating Campout. This is our invitation, initiated by co-creation by our crew.

This gathering has been evolving for several years as a new type of participatory event that aims to move away from the old audience / performer definitions. 

Campout’s ethos revolves around the unique gifts each person brings to the four day journey and what they take away from it. 

What each person takes will be different. We hope it will be a mix of inspiration, nourishment, focus and connections, new best friends, potential collaborations and maybe much more.

Everyone who comes to our four-day event contributes in some way. Together we co-create the event and we are very happy that those who come are also willing and able to underwrite the event (which has considerable infrastructure and venue rent costs) by buying a ticket. 

Without your generous contributions, there just wouldn't be a Campout, so it's received with gratitude. That's also why we make a point on the contributors application form of asking whether you are willing to make that essential contribution. 

As said above, it's a different type of participatory event. A larger gathering might adopt a more conventional / commercial model but for intimate 200 capacity events, it takes everyone's contributions to balance the books. If a small surplus is made, this goes towards Campfire's ongoing costs throughout the year. No one in the Campfire team draws a wage. All crew work is done voluntarily, and this often involves weeks or months of work.

GIVE AND RECEIVE

Here are just a few examples of what members of the community have valued at previous events:

Quotes

 “It is vast, in it's wonderment and inspiration”  Jessica Mallock, Shamanic Fire Ceremony starter 

“A beautifully held space. Best festival ever, thank you” Gitika Partington, singer 

“If those 300 odd attendees have gone out into the world this week with even half of the connectedness and empowerment that I've been living with, as I'm absolutely sure is the case, then it goes without saying, that Campout 2023 was a mind blowing, life-changing event. Thank you from the bottom of my heart♥️” Gaynor Stanley, Campfirer

“A truly beautiful experience.” Leora Lightwoman, Tantric Goddess 

“We are onto something” Bob Hillary, Singer / Songwriter 

“A terrific inspirational and fun and connected four days” Sarah Dick, Campfirer 

“One of the most enjoyable, educational, warm and enriching experiences of my life” 

“Bring empathy, thoughts, knowledge and your experience, and you will always go away with more”

"A truly transformative event, such camaraderie and collective presence" 

“It taught me how to dream big again and that made me feel more powerful than I ever did before”

“Be part of the solution and warm your heart around the fire.”  

“Song, dance, babies, love and grace, conscious conversation, delicious food, men and women in ceremony, laughter, hay bales, openness to change – this is what the future looks like! 

“I had the time of my life – the best weekend ever” 

“If you can feel the imminence of necessary change but haven’t found your voice yet - look for it here”.

“Nourishment for mind, body and spirit in a beautifully held way”

"Living Deeply with Each Other"

“There were moments when it felt like a remembering of what it is to be in a tribe, to be in a held space not just for an hour but as a way of life”

Explore the history of Campout here


Want to get involved..here's how!!

Crew

Those who wish to apply to be a crew volunteer (4 hour shifts across as many of the six days as you attend as a suggestion) need to apply via the CREW APPLICATION FORM. 

Core Crew be invited to attend advance Zoom sessions and will also be invited to take part in a Campout Team Initiation Weekend in Wales at Trealy Farm, Monmouth which will include a visit to Three Pools Farm which is located within half an hour’s drive.

The dates will be May 10-12 for the core crew weekend. Camping will be available, if you do not wish to take up the option for indoor spaces / rooms at the farm.


Others wanting to be part of Campout..

We are encouraging everyone who buys a ticket to offer their gifts, this might be in the form of a music set, a talk, a wellbeing session, a ceremony or something else we haven’t yet thought of. 

Wellbeing practitioners, speakers and other performing contributors will need to fill in an application form. Those offering pre-programmed sessions or contributions will be invited to share a donation link if they have one.  

We are now full for applications but still have crew space left. Apply here

Nobody gets paid other than the venue and associated costs, essential contractors who provide infrastructure without which we couldn’t do the event.  We welcome your suggestions for contractors who may be willing to come and be part of it.

Otherwise, no free tickets or guest lists are available. As it’s an intimate event, it’s essential that everyone contributes to covering our costs and builds the event together.  If a surplus is made, it will be invested into the Campfire community’s considerable ongoing costs and future events.

Come and join us and let’s all be part of creating something unique and special together…

GENERAL TICKET LINK


“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.”

Rumi