Do you dream of powerful relationships, intimate community, and of being a healing presence in the world, but don't know how to make it happen? Does it seem like it might take an overwhelming effort just to begin the process? With the right tools and contexts, living intensely, powerfully, and joyfully can happen where you are right now.
We have been asked about how the New Culture Summer Camp Intensive, from July 7-16 in Pennsylvania, and August 6-18 in Oregon, is different >from other workshops and events. Here is some of what makes it unique:
Network for a New Culture (NFNC) is an all-volunteer network of people building a sustainable, violence-free culture based on intimacy, personal growth, social activism, honesty, equality, and freedom of choice in intimate relationships.
The Summer Camp Intensive is the heart of NFNC; over the last 12 years, it has grown to include more time, more places, and more people. Smaller gatherings now happen every few weeks or months in many places around the country. Residential communities have formed in the context of the larger network of shared values and intimate friends.
Have you gone to a weekend workshop, and found yourself wanting more?
Many of us have had the experience during such weekends of not wanting the time to end. We wonder "what if" we extended that time? Could the energy continue to grow? If it did, what could we do with all that loving, healing energy for another week, or longer? Summer Camp helps create the intense intimacy and connection often found at weekend workshops, but with greater depth and breadth of shared experiences. There is time: to develop new skills, deepen new relationships, and build new networks in an energized and supportive context.
Have you found it difficult to bring the deeper, more intense insights and connections back into your daily life?
Summer Camp offers tools that nourish and heal mind, body, and spirit, and creates a community and a context, called New Culture, that you can bring back to your everyday world. Unlike organizations that have a standard set of workshops and presenters who are all part of that organization, we bring together the best presenters we can find from many paths and contexts, and explore what each has to offer. As we search and learn together, an atmosphere of trust and transparency builds that is both supportive and challenging; a safe container in which to go beyond our present limits. It will not always be easy, but as part of a community of heart-centered explorers, it is powerful. And when you meet a challenge head on, wrestle with it, and emerge on the other side, the experience of the energy and freedom that follows can be nothing short of ecstatic.
Do you long for a safe space in which to explore and expand your personal boundaries?
At Summer Camp, you are invited to try on a new hats (figuratively or literally-check out our costume tent!). Summer Camp attracts creative, free-thinking, loving people who "push the envelope" in many directions. But pushing our own boundaries is difficult before we have an idea of where those boundaries lie; before we can say "yes," we have to be confident of our ability to say, and hear, "no." We grow more and more at ease in our freedom as we recognize the contours of our boundaries. In the safety of an environment in which you are "at choice" moment by moment, safety becomes power.
EAST COAST SUMMER CAMPINTENSIVE
For the East Coast Summer Camp Intensive, we will camp in a lovely wooded setting with creek swimming located just north of Hancock, MD, which is about a two-hour drive from the Washington, DC, metro area. The event will begin on Friday evening, July 7, and end on Sunday July 16, and will feature a wide array of experiential workshops, including the following:
* Keynote by Diana Christian, Editor of Communities Magazine and author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (http://snipurl.com/dlchristian);
* Cooperative challenge playshop with Teryani Riggs (www.lebendig.org);
* Intimacy exercises with Ben Farris of the Human Awareness Institute (www.hai.org);
* Nonviolent Communication with Jason Kelley (www.cnvc.org);
* Positive Disintegration: Falling Apart into Wholeness, with Josh Shaine;
* Ongoing ZEGG-style Forum (www.nfnc.org/docs/forum.html) for campers to explore their challenges and express themselves to the community
* Exploring our communication, erotic, and other edges (always "at choice");
* Learning to create relationships without drama;
* Dances and celebrations;
* Men's and women's groups;
* Plenty of time for fun and games, puppy piles, and river swims!
TUITION AND VOLUNTEER PHILOSOPHY
The cost is on a sliding scale. This includes all meals, events, and camping fees.
Before June 10: $495 - $895
After June 10: $545 - $895
This camp is an all-volunteer event. The low end of the sliding scale represents our basic cost (without labor or overhead); the high end is still much less than you might expect to pay for an event of this nature. Please pay what you can afford within that range. If you cannot pay within this range, please contact us; we are committed to making the Summer Camp Intensive financially accessible to all. If you want to come, we want you to be there!
EXTEND YOUR SUMMER CAMPEXPERIENCE WITH PRECAMP AND POSTCAMP
This year we are offering two opportunities for extending your New Culture experience:
Pre-Camp, Wednesday 7/5 to Friday 7/7; and
Post-Camp, Sunday 7/16 to Wednesday 7/19.
Join us as we build our community energy and create the community's infrastructure; stay with us to release the energy that we created and restore the site. We plan to have two three-hour work periods each day, plus play time in the afternoons and intimacy/community-building activities in the evenings, building New Culture through shared work and celebration.
WEST COAST SUMMER CAMPINTENSIVE - Please visit the website for the program description: http://www.nfnc.org/sc/program.html
We invite you to join us in the co-creation of a safe, nurturing and clothing-optional environment where we will have the opportunity to deepen our self-knowledge while creatively exploring the experience of love and community.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
East Coast Event Website: www.cfnc.us
Phone: 800-763-8136 Email: sc06e@cfnc.us
West Coast Event Website: www.nfnc.org/sc
Phone: 800-624-8445 Email: sc06w@nfnc.org
New Culture Website: www.nfnc.org
