Contact Improvisation Jam

An introduction to Contact Improvisation as a movement practice of immediate and life-long belonging and freedom. It is a practice of loving what is and what else is possible. Included will be an overview of options for self-responsibility and mutual care. Blindfolds will be available to experiment with.

https://contactgames.wordpress.com/writing/7-options/

Daily Contact Improvisation research sessions

Opportunities to deepen in the power of Contact Improvisation will be available daily at locations to be announced. Bring your questions and curiosity to connect and explore in small groups.

Carolyn Stuart

Carolyn Stuart has been in Contact Improvisation since 1984 with research spanning 17 countries, hundreds of projects, and diverse populations. Her primary teachers have been curiosity, the blindfold, and the thread of investigation with Patrick Gracewood called the Touchmonkey version of Contact Improvisation. She's found Contact Improvisation holds a key to mutual well-being. Imagining it offers us a paradigm to live by, her focus is to distill the vastness of possibility to the simplest of terms, so that anyone can dance their way to inter-being that cares for us all! Currently, she bases in Portland, OR at Gracewood Studio.

How would you like to know what's really going on with the people in our community? What could you share that would help you feel more connected and more authentic? "Going Deeper" is about skillful transparency that brings us closer as a community by co-creating a container for self-revelation and compassionate listening, building trust one relationship at a time. Very often it's the things we don't say that keep us from creating deep intimacy; that inhibits new connections from blossoming into friendships. We think we're being kind by not saying what's really going on for us — it's so much easier to say nothing than to take a risk. But those "unsaids" can fester and create distance, and powerful cultural norms help keep that pattern in place. Let's strengthen our power as cultural creators of summer camp! Join us in our daily practice and let's make it a habit to share difficult truths, intimate appreciations, and vulnerable parts of ourselves as we go about our day. Consider the possibility that we have no idea who our closest friends could be once we start sharing at this level.

Facilitated by Roberto Rodriguez, Marta Gradilone Rodriguez, Debby Sugarman

Julia will be creating Altars around our site and be one of the main guides for the Oil Dance

Oil Dance

Julia Neuenhausen studied painting, film and performance at the Academy of fine Arts, HBK-Braunschweig. She left Braunschweig in 1991 and moved for a year's scholarship to San Francisco. Since 1992 she has been living and working in Berlin. From 1995 to 2000 she was a docent at HBK-Braunschweig. For the last 15 years she has traveled and worked in different countries, with the aim to study what the natures of other places are, the patterns, the signs, the systems of what she sees and what she experienced. In those countries she gave experimental workshops of field research. Her aim was to refine the perception, to collect invisible information, signs, and icons to explore a meta-level of the individual perception. Her work is based on the exploration of the semiotics of everyday life.

Singing

Karly Loveling uses community singing to honor the power we get to experience when we each share our voices and listen deeply to each other. She's a graduate of the Community Choir Leadership Training who brings songs year round to community in Eugene, Oregon through Singing Heart, an all ages singing group, and the Hummingbirds Girls Choir. She leads songs at Singing Alive, Song Village, and other community gatherings where people are ready to reclaim community singing as a birth rite. Laurence Cole describes her as "devotedly devotional in joy and celebration... the embodiment of enthusiasm and authenticity." She'll be bringing her whole heart and body to lead the Summer Camp Insta-Choir, something you are already a treasured part of even if you think you can't sing.

http://www.singingheartchoir.com/

Celebrating Failure: A guide to daring politics

What are the stories that we must tell to catalyze personal and collective transformation? How can we navigate a new and radical relationship paradigm that enriches and nourishes us instead of causing undue suffering? In the political sphere, we are unsatisfied with business as usual and crave a system which is less oppressive and more fair. In the personal sphere, we are trying to break years of conditioning around jealousy, possession, negative self messaging and more. If we are honest then we must admit that some of the stuff we are trying is quite daring. One good way to be daring, is to try to do things that have never been done before, recognizing that because many of these are long shots there is quite some chance we will fail. We need to get good at failing. We need to learn how to be graceful in heartbreak, to pivot nimbly in the face of loss and disappointment. Part of success in failure is understanding how we can be supported by others and ourselves. Instead of shying from our mistakes and missteps, looking at them directly and inviting them in as our teachers and when possible we will look for keys and safety nets which make this type of behavior less difficult and scary. Utilizing a variety of interactive educational models including but not limited to Playback Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, Appreciative Inquiry and Transparency Tools we will explore both personal and political transformation. Together we will claim our individual gifts, navigate our interpersonal edges and clarify our relationship with both our intimates and the larger worlda

Stepping Deeper

Campers are invited to stay for an opportunity to go even deeper into the unknown- rooted in the field of love we just created and dreaming into what wants to emerge.

In this experimental journey, we will gather each morning to sense the collective field. Guided by select space-holders, we will co-create art, collaborative projects, transformational processes, and whatever else seems profound and possible. We will consciously call in deepening into the realms of self, community, and the wider world.

This session of camp will be available only to campers who have attended the previous week.

Children at Summer Camp

We welcome children at camp and ask that all our campers work with us to create a "Kids" Camp environment where young children and teens thrive. If you are so inclined, there will be ample opportunities to connect meaningfully and creatively with our young people this year. Let us know when you register if you are interested in helping!

Compassion Cadre

Summer Camp is a powerfully transformative experience for many people. Often we find our buttons get pushed, our self-limiting habits are upended, and our stories about who are and who we can be in the world are challenged. Our ideal is to create a community which offers compassion and support for all campers, especially those who are feeling disconnected, unheard, or simply overwhelmed by their camp experience.

If you would like to be a part of the Compassion Cadre Team this summer, please mention this and your experience/training on your registration application. An organizer will follow up with you.

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