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”