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| Summer Camp Activity Descriptions | |
| Silence: being with yourself - Wednesday, Aug. 11 | |
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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. |
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Mens/Women's Solidarity 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. | |
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Consensus
- Friday, Aug. 13 Lysbeth Borie, of Alpha Institute, will be offering a presentation on consensus facilitation at this year's Summer Camp. Lysbeth has been facilitating the consensus process since 1980, professionally since 1988, and has worked with Caroline Estes for the last eleven years. She has been a member of Alpha Farm since 1986 (which uses the consensus process for decision making) and has been part of many of the crucial changes that Alpha has gone through. Consensus decision making is a powerful tool that builds unity and effectiveness. It enables a group to tap into the best thinking of its members while fostering a climate of respect. It lays a firm foundation for setting and achieving goals. Consensus allows each person's voice to be heard, and produces a result that is inclusive of all (rather than a reflection of the majority) while remaining specific to the task. Lysbeth will discuss philosophy, values, history, and the elements and techniques of successful meetings. | |
| HAI Workshop - Friday, Aug. 13 | |
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BARBARA MUSSER, MBA, is a facilitator for
the Human Awareness Institute's (HAI) Love,
Intimacy and Sexuality workshops which focus on developing
and strengthening positive self image, communication and relationship skills.
She has a wealth of experience in facilitating teamwork and cultural change
in a broad range of situations. She currently leads the Challenge Day Program
in schools to develop listening and conflict resolution and leadership skills
for students.
Barbara is a single parent and has published articles about parenting. She is currently writing a book about parenting to encourage the development of independence, curiosity, and positive self image for both the children and their parents. |
| Naka-Ima - Saturday, Aug. 14 to noon Monday, Aug. 16 | |
| 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
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 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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| Transformational Workshop - Tuesday, Aug. 17 | |
 | George Lockwood has been exploring the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of approaches to psychotherapy over the past 25 years. He will be presenting an integration of these methods called Schema focused Therapy. It is a comprehensive theory, addressing many of the most important negative life patterns and offers a broad range of tools and weapons with which to fight these patterns. more... |
| Radical Honesty - Thursday, Aug. 19 | |
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Ted Neff is a Radical Honest Facilitator and Director of the
Radical Honest Practice Groups of Southern California. He has been
running and training others in support group systems for over 12 years. He is
a long time student of A Course in Miracles and is the author of Paul
Ferinni ("Love Without Conditions"). He is also a board member of the Miracles
Community Network, a non-profit educational organization promoting conscious
living and personal transformation. He is the founder of the Paradox
Center, located in Los Angeles, where he lives, writes and teaches, with his
fiancée, Stephanie Nesbit (who will probably be joining us later in the week).
Ted utilizes different modalities to create an integrated approach to conscious communication and individual awareness. He will conduct conversational exercises and experiences about what Radical Honesty is and how it works. Living in a state of authenticity is a spiritual practice requiring discipline and awareness. Personal and intra-personal rewards are proportional to a willingness to risk being honest. You will have an oportunity to experience your experience through the practice of Radical Honesty.
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| Erotic Spiritual Play | |
 | Bob Czimbal & Maggie Zadikov With ample amounts of humor, compassion and loving openness, Bob and his partner Maggie will lead the group in an evening experience where there is an abundance of sexuality, spirituality and play. |