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| Summer Camp Activity Descriptions |
| Silence: being with yourself - Wednesday, Aug. 9 | |
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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.
She will facilitate our focus on mindfulness in solitude and intimacy with self. Using experiential sharing, participants will explore their relationship with self and their core vision. Sharon will also conduct Thursday's discussion on "Solidarity and Choice", which will include a brief introduction to Solidarity day and will focus on the experience and freedom of individual "yes" and "no" choices during camp. |
| Overcoming Walls You Never Built - Thursday, Aug. 10 | |
 | Gershon Winkler is a teacher and practitioner of ancient Jewish shamanism, and has been described as an "all-around coyote and renegade rabbi". His presentation focuses on discovering the "real us", who and what are we beyond and in spite of the givens and definitions that family, culture, religion, and community have established for us. In this session, we will engage and explore three major factors that sabotage our deep personal unfolding. more... |
| Naka-Ima - Sunday, Aug. 13 to noon Tuesday, Aug. 15 | |
| Naka-Ima profoundly
improves our ability and willingness to communicate directly and
honestly, and fosters a deeper level of alignment, cooperation, trust,
and enjoyment within our community.
Naka-Ima facilitates this movement by giving us the tools to recognize the attachments that keep us from acting out of our love, clarity, and vision. We learned how important it is for us to be deeply honest with ourselves and one another and to have the courage to express and act from what we see. During the course, we experience that being free, clear, and connected is simply a choice that we can make at any time, regardless of circumstances. As a community and as individuals, we are in an ongoing and deepening process of transformation. If you live or work with a group, Naka-Ima can be a powerful vehicle for clearing obstacles and taking the next steps in your relationships with one another. For individuals, Naka-Ima offers tools for getting past the places where you have been stuck or have stopped in realizing your vision for yourself. article... | |
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Larry Kaplowitz is a community member at Lost Valley
Educational Center, where he serves as program coordinator and
associate editor for their nationally distributed magazine,
Talking Leaves: A Journal of Our Evolving Ecological Culture.
From 1985-1990 he was a teacher for Direct Centering (later called
Nexus), from which Naka-Ima evolved. Larry began working with
Deborah Riverbend and Jaime Campbell in 1996, and has been teaching
Naka-Ima regularly at Lost Valley, with a focus on working with
community groups. Larry is an artist, writer, and graphic designer,
and enjoys puttering in the garden. |
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Karin Iona Sundberg is on the Well Being Team at
Lost Valley intentional community, where she acts as counselor,
mediator, and listener. Her life is focused on spirituality and
healing through ritual, massage, herbs, and Nature. In 1981 she
began studying the principles taught in Naka-Ima, and began teaching
with her husband, Larry, in spring of ;98. She has manifested
herself as a compassionate teacher willing to publicly explore
her own vulnerability and be a role model of self honesty. Karin
and Larry have been married nearly ten years, and have two children,
ages 8 and 4, who have been training them in compassion and letting
go. |
 Jaime & Deborah |
Since 1969 Jaime Campbell has pursued scholarly and
experiential research into evolutionary studies focusing on the
transformation of consciousness and its impact on relational dynamics.
Her major at the University of Hawaii was The Integration of
Asian Philosophy and Psychology with Western Society. Later she
studied Raja Yoga at an Ashram in India, participated in numerous
Buddhist meditation retreats, and became a Doctor of Oriental
Medicine. She applied what she was learning to a variety of enterprises:
as a member of the collective which owned and operated the Woman's
Building of the Bay Area, living in a land based community in
New Mexico, and managing numerous businesses over the past 20
years. After 5 years of working with Nexus, a business which
produced transformational courses, she teamed up with Deborah Riverbend
to create Naka-Ima, which at this time has been in operation for
six years. Her vision of the evolutionary potential within groups
has been affirmed repeatedly and she is currently writing a book
addressing her own profound experiences of personal and group
awakening.
The most prominent theme of Deborah Riverbend's life
has been following her spirit and excitement. This has led her
to teach and create alternative programs in NYC schools, live
on a kibbutz, raise her son on a lesbian commune, travel in Asia
and India, hand build her adobe home, study in a doctoral program
for experimental education at Harvard University, teach transformational
courses while living with a staff of twenty, practice meditation,
organize for the anti nuclear and farm workers movements, create
and teach Naka-Ima with her visionary partner Jaime Campbell.
Through these experiences and others, she's increased her capacity
to create joy, aliveness and community. She's discovered that
by honestly interacting with herself and others all barriers disappear.
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| Mens/Women's Solidarity - Tuesday, Aug. 15 | |
| Often alternative family, relationship and cultural models are hindered by same-gender fear and competition. We've built in 24 hours to honor same-gender friendship, bonding and trust. This is a necessary component in finding collaborative solutions to issues and building a cooperative culture. | |
| HAI Workshop - Wednesday, Aug. 16 | |
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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! |
| Nonviolent Communication™ - Thursday, Aug. 17 | |
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Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) is a process
that strengthens our ability to inspire compassion
from others and respond compassionately to
others and ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe
how we express ourselves and how we hear
others by focusing our consciousness on what we
are observing, feeling, needing, and requesting.
It is a language of empathy and honesty, and is sometimes described as "the language of the heart." more... | |
| Scarlet Adventures - Saturday, Aug. 19 | |
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Scarlet Adventures facilitates a variety of fun and interactive
programs for personal growth, intimacy, healthy sexual exploration,
and spirituality.
These programs may include explorations into Real Life Fantasies,
Healing Shame, Exploring your Shadow, Power Dynamics, Trust & Intimacy,
Power Play, Sacred Play, Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth, and Fun!
Scarlet is also committed to co-creating accessible versions of established sacred journeys and rituals, as well as completely new ones. Sacred Journeys and rituals are essential in cultures around the world. Historically, they have marked important times for individuals, couples, and entire communities. more... | |
| 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. | |
