We're excited to be heading back at Three Pools permaculture farm this year.
We’ve put a stellar line-up together again this time around, assembled from volunteers offering their gifts for you. This event is actively trying to break down the barriers between audience and performer. Everyone who attends plays their own part in making it what it is. We thank everyone for their contributions. This truly is a co-created gathering.
Here's an invitation for four days of reflection, connection, dreaming, transition and maybe even transformation. Our themes have this year been crafted by our core crew:
Day 1: Thursday - Shaking it All Off, Rooting and Joining The Fire
We meet each other in person and in gratitude, limber up and shake down, loosen up and let it all out. Through honouring the land we gather on, awakening our senses, and rooting ourselves in the spirit of community, we lead a collective return to presence, connection, and reverence.
Key Session: Earthing Ceremony, Fire Circle Ceremony
Day 2: Friday - Learning to Share Our Hearts
Learn about how self reflection can lead to liberation, how we can sharpen our sense of awareness and spaciousness through openness, how we can build bridges for peace from unlikely situations and how we seek the common ground, whilst respecting the differences.
Key Sessions: Julia Black - Lights On, Intimacy Shadows with Jamie Catto
Day 3: Saturday – Singing, Dancing, Learning New Ways to Be
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 4: Sunday – Trailblazing New Paths
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 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 and start to bring wholesale systemic change into our lives.
Key Sessions: Open Space (DIY), The Dream Society led by Melissa Dunlop, Family Constellations with Poppy Altmann
Our principles are a co-creation from our voluntary 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"