Summer Camp Activity Descriptions
Thom Hartmann - Thursday, Aug. 16

Personal & Global Transformation Topic:
5-hour Presentation/Workshop:
Thom touches on how western thinking, legends, and myths have caused global problems, and what we can do about it. Individual actions and changes in consciousness -- lessons we can learn from ancient cultures -- can save the world from impending ecological and cultural crises. Touching that place where the survival of humanity may be found is the focus of this workshop.
Learn about:

  • Understanding responsibility for yourself and your actions: how to regain your personal power
  • Rediscovering love in yourself, others, and the divine
  • How to recreate community wherever you are
  • Discover Self-Actualization is possible both individually and culturally

HAI Workshop - Monday, Aug. 20
Laina Dicker, MAT, CHT, is a joyful, loving mish-mash who defies pigeon-holing. She has taught children with special needs and she has sold business insurance, asserting that the former prepared her well for dealing with the people in the latter. The first-born offspring of Holocaust survivors, she learned early about fortitude, resolve, compassion, and codependency. She's been recovering for about 15 years and is grateful for the experience and coming out the other side.

Today, Laina is a leader for the Human Awareness Institute, leading four support groups per month in the Bay Area, Introductory Evenings, and Follow-ups for the workshops. In 1998, she joined the Self-Awareness Institute as a co-leader for their monthly workshops. She is also a hypnotherapist. Just to keep things balanced, she's a successful telemarketer to businesses for businesses. And oh yes, she rides a Harley.

Balance is one of Laina's passions. Balance between mind, heart, body, and spirit. Balance between individuality and community. Exploring the alpha and omega of being human so one knows where one's balance point is.

Come explore the balance in your own humanity through interactive exercises, guided visualizations, and sharing with others. It promises to be fun, heartfelt, and informative!

Over the Line - Monday, Aug. 20
Sharon Byrd facilitates conflict resolution and a monthly Human Awareness Institute (HAI) support group. She is also a presenter at HAI community nights. Sharon brings her joyful heart, mind and humor to all that she does.

In "Over the Line", using experiential sharing, participants have the opportunity to see where they stand in a light-hearted way.

Forum - (various times)
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.
Fishbowl - (various times)
The Fishbowl is a type of discussion group where only some members participate (often either just men or just women), while the others observe silently from the perimeter of the room. This provides a unique sharing opportunity for the participants and an equally unique learning opportunity for the observers.
Lady Luck - (various times)
Lady Luck is a game of chance where campers pull a name from a hat to spend some time getting to know someone new or coming to know someone already familiar even better.