Campout - Connection - Compassion - Co-Creation - Community – Celebration
This year’s principles are a co-creation from our organising team and represent the ethos we bring to this event and ultimately the wider world:
Campout
We come together in a beautiful outdoor setting to share and make a collective experience. Through compassion, shared values and vision, we connect as a community to come together in celebration. We invite everyone to make a positive impact on our surroundings, including our relationships with all beings. We are invited to quietly be present somewhere in the Three Pools landscape at some time during this Campfire gathering and to be with the Land.
Connection
We invite you to connect harmoniously with all beings - our own selves, our human family, flora and fauna, the animals, the wild things and the elements. With open minds, curiosity and a sense of wonder, we surrender and connect with our own true nature. Discover others afresh with this opportunity to learn and grow from each-others’ journeys. The rest will unfold in beautiful and magical ways.
Compassion
We invite you to engage in random acts of kindness, to recognise, witness and celebrate others, with the intention of making someone else's experience more positive. Each small act of kindness can create a ripple effect that can impact the entire event and help to encourage a culture of generosity, empathy, and mutual support. Through compassion we naturally foster a deep sense of connection.
Co-Creation
We invite conscious participation in sharing our imagination, listening and action - to enable a harmonious and vibrant way of being together.
Community
Through shared experience, we co-create an inclusive and non-hierarchical space where everyone has a voice. At Campout we value face-to-face, heart-to-heart connection and communication in real physical human presence. We believe that by working together, anything is possible with the support of the circle allowing for releasing, unfolding, unveiling, enabling the emergence of discovery and magic.
Celebration
Communal celebration has been practised for centuries - historically expressed in a variety of ecstatic and bonding rituals. We are all capable of generating pleasure amongst ourselves through collective co-creation, self-expression and human diversity.
An attitude of gratitude in these beautiful surroundings raises the vibration of our reality.
Have Fun!
Namaste - “The divine in me honours the divine in you"
KEEP IT LIT!
DARING TO DREAM BIG AGAIN
Themes for Campout 2025: Here's an invitation for four days of reflection, connection, dreaming, transition and maybe even transformation.
Day 1 - Shaking it All Off, Rooting and Joining The Fire
Arrive early and settle in. Before you join the fire, you are invited to go on a guided walk in our new surroundings, the beautifully tended land at Three Pools and see 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.
Then come into circle and we'll all get a chance to meet each other in person and in gratitude, do some limbering up and shaking down, loosen up and let it all out after our journeys. We lead a collective return to presence, connection, and reverence. Through barefoot communion with the Earth, gentle guidance, and shared intention, Lizi Sage leads us in a ceremony to honour the land we gather on, awaken our senses, and root ourselves in the spirit of community. Taiko drumming session will offer a chance let it all out, exciting performance art, energising in its physicality and impact.
The fire ceremony after dark will be led by Jessica Mallock. This is not a fire of the past, but one fueled by who we are becoming. In its light, we tend visions that are life-giving, rooted in harmony, beauty, and care for future generations.
Key Session: Earthing Ceremony, Fire Circle Ceremony
Day 2 - Learning to Share Our Hearts
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.
We gather together to recognise a sense that the world needs us to remain unseen or unheard, nor to hide in the shadows (whilst playing with and familiarising ourselves with those shadows), because it feels too unsafe to step into the spotlight.
It is all about who we are being as a learner. We share what is arising in our hearts as we learn to seek the harmony, a sense of beauty, and our care for future generations
Key Sessions: Julia Black - Lights On, Intimacy Shadows with Jamie Catto
Day 3 – Singing, Dancing, Learning New Ways to Be
Our voice, our movement, our health, our value in community. Connection between the heart and our earthy selves.
"Singing together is the key to world peace" Brian Eno. We often find our centre, our balance, our sense of wellness, our voice, individually and collectively through our relationship with words, whether spoken or sung. Mixing in embodied practices such as Somatic Dance and 5Rhythms can enrich and enliven our experience and our worldview. Be witness to the power of coming together with an open heart so we can sing our hearts out and dance ourselves free.
Looking beyond outmoded systems to new ways of living our lives, from the history of protest to approaches to health; new ways of democratic decision making to new directions in community. We're living, breathing and shaping our new world here and now...
Key Sessions: Peoples Assembly, The Future of Campout led by Cliff Jordan, Dancing With The Shadow with Zelda Hall
Day Four – Trailblazing
Reflecting on transitions, putting the process together, taking it out to the world. 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. 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. How to break free of the matrix, be sovereign, go off-grid and start to bring wholesale systemic change into our lives.
Key Session: The Dream Society led by Melissa Dunlop, Family Constellation with Poppy Altmann
You are warmly invited to join our Campfire network...