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| Featured Speaker: Fred Burks | |
 | Fred Burks has spent much of his life traveling and exploring both the inner and the outer worlds. He has lived and taught overseas for several years, and co-facilitated a variety of heart-opening workshops around the country. Fred is a founder and active member of the Sacred Connections community in the SF Bay Area. His deep commitment to what's best for all and to personal and global transformation through love and empowerment has brought him to some unexpected places. As a language interpreter, he has personally served Clinton and Bush at the White House and worked with other very influential organizations. Having learned of major cover-ups going on behind the scenes, Fred developed the website www.WantToKnow.info which has become quite popular and helped to connect him with wonderful spiritual activists from around the world. Three other websites under his management focus on transformation through love, empowerment, and building community. One of his favorite sayings is "I give all that I am into the service of All That Is." |
| Work That Reconnects: Embracing The Global Edge | |
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We'll be embracing the "global edge times" through activities
designed to put us in touch with our hard feelings (fear, despair,
grief and anger) about the current state of the world. After
acknowledging these feelings, we'll do exercises to unlock
possibilities for the Great Turning--the transformation of our
culture from an industrial growth society to a life-sustaining
one--through our individual and collective actions.
Tree Bressen has a calling to group facilitation, as defined by Marge Piercy: "A calling is where your passion meets the world's crying need." Her work arises from intentional communities, where people live together and have to deal with each other every day, and she is a founding member of Walnut St. Co-op in Eugene. Tree's work is centered on helping groups put their ideals into action. Paxus Calta is a story teller, revolutionary and memeticist. He is a propagandist on the topics of polyamory, anarchism and consensus decision making. He is part of a poly family consisting of three parents and their feral son Willow. |
| Conflict Resoltion | |
| Jude Bannister, C.R.C. is a 25 year entrepreneurial veteran in business management. An international speaker in conflict resolution, he is also a counselor, certified negotiator, mediator, and MC extraordinaire. Jude's experience as a dancer, actor and guitarist assist him in his highly regarded and entertaining presentations. For the past five years Jude's focus has been facilitating 14 week anger management workshops with individuals arrested in Lane County for violence and abuse. His field of expertise is communication with a focus in non-verbal awareness. | |
| Undercover Agents of the “Love Revolution” | |
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What kind of Secret Agent are you? Through theater games and experiential
activities we will invite participants to explore the roles that we
play in the world, and take on new ones. Who are we at camp as
opposed to who we are in our work or “other” lives? How
are we different in our in interpersonal relationships than in our
relationship to the community? Are we consciously or unconsciously
choosing the roles that we play? Are there other roles that we want
to take on in the world, as healers, activists, or as change agents?
During the workshop we will each have the opportunity to develop our
own “Undercover Agent Persona” – complete with
secret agent name and a unique mission to assist us in bringing our
gifts to the world. Who have you always wanted to be? Or knew you
were but were afraid to show? This workshop is an opportunity to
embody our experiences, inspire ourselves as ambassadors of a new
culture, and have some good old-fashioned fun!
Abigail Leeder MA is an artist, drama therapist, activist and an Agent of the Love Revolution. She currently serves as the adviser of the Sexual Wellness Advocacy Team at the University of Oregon, using educational peer theater to inspire healthy sexual relationships. Melanie Kundert, one of the original members of the Rogue Valley Playback Troupe, has trained new members, and co-facilitated previous Playback workshops. In addition, she has trained at the Dell Arte School for Physical Theater,and in the Theater of the Oppressed and Rainbow of Desire. |
| Soulmaking | |
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"Soulmaking,"
is a term coined by mystic poet, John Keats. Taber describes his
work as an opportunity for big growth and big fun, a time for deep
work and deep play. His work jumps off from this poignantly described
point: "Real spiritual evolution is often challenging. It
requires getting a good, close look at our own defense mechanisms,
the unconscious conditioning which causes us to habitually react to
life out of fear, no matter how much we might intend otherwise. It
requires really facing ourselves. It asks us to learn to skillfully
engage our compulsive conditioning, to intentionally drop the
defenses which keep us trapped in fear, separated from others. True
transformation demands time in the trenches, but it offers so much in
return: a new freedom, a new ability to love, a new way of being."
Taber Shadburne helps people transform their lives. He’s been studying comparative mysticism, Buddhism, psychology, and conscious communication since the early ‘80’s, and teaching and counseling since 1990. He’s completed two years in residence at Dharma Rain Zen Center, dozens of silent meditation retreats, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, training as a Community-Building facilitator by M. Scott Peck’s F.C.E., certification as a Radical Honesty Master Trainer and extensive work with Brad Blanton. | |
| Love without Drama--Security without Commitment | |
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Why do intimate relationships so often seem to careen from one crisis
to another? Why do they seem to bring out both the best and the worst
in us? How can we use our shadow sides to move ourselves ahead, rather
than holding ourselves back? What if every surge of emotion was seen
as an invitation to connect with essence and rise to a new level of
awareness and love? We will explore a way of seeing ourselves and
others that shows us how to create the relationships we want *now*,
with the people we already have in our lives, while opening us up to
people that we couldn't have connected with before. We will explore
how to welcome those emotions, work through them, and delight in our
connections whatever form they might take.
Michael Rios has been creating and living intentional community, and practicing open relationships, for almost 40 years; currently he lives at Chrysalis Community in Arlington, VA (www.chrysalis-va.org). He is a realistic mystic who enjoys guerrilla capitalism, responsible anarchy, and anything he's never done before. Sarah Taub also lives at Chrysalis; she has been studying human dynamics for years, through aikido, co-counseling, group facilitation, and cognitive linguistics. She has just left her safe Ivory Tower job to dive into social and political activism. Her current koan: only when you let go of urgency can you be truly effective. | |
| Community Challenge Playshop | |
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A day of fun, dynamic community-building games designed to inspire
teamwork and connection while bringing to light current group
dynamics (power dynamics, gender roles, and more). We'll be using
our bodies as well as our minds and hearts while we play and have
fun. Emphasis is on creative problem solving, holistic play,
connection and FUN!
Teryani Riggs has been facilitating workshops and teaching for over 10 years. She brings a wide range of experiences to her work, including living in intentional communities, environmental activism, and living in indigenous cultures. Her passions include spending time in the wilderness, playing music, learning languages, and play. |
| Auction | |
 | Expect to be amused and surprised by the variety of unusual items and services donated by fellow campers for bidding. Previous auctions have included such offerings as "1000 kisses" and "a morning serenade". Auction proceeds help to provide scholarships and improve future camps. |
| Sensual Feast | |
 | Imagine a table loaded with succulent fruits, candies, and nuts; and in the center are large bowls of chocolate sauce and whippped cream for dipping. But there's a catch - the one rule is that you may not feed yourself! Serving, and being served, are the watchwords of this event. The result is a delicious combination of sensory input: music, movement, people, touch, and yummy treats. |
| Forum | |
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The Forum is a group process developed at ZEGG to provide a stage for
whatever is happening inside the person: one's true motivations, deep
feelings, ideas and emotions. The Forum helps facilitate transparency,
sharing and clarifying unsolved situations of daily life, and it can
be a catalyst for one's own personal growth.
For a detailed examination of the development and use of this process at ZEGG, see What is the ZEGG Forum? in our document library section. |
| 7-Minute Connections | |
 | In this popular camp event, campers get an opportunity for several spontaneous "dates" of only 7 minutes duration. The pace of the event can promote higher levels of transparency, and the spontaneous nature often facilitates unexpected connections. |
