Mayflower
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What is a Mayflower Camp?

 
    Words cannot really say, but I can say something anyway, and maybe through it all you might get some sense of whether it speaks to you or not. Because ultimately that is really the basis of whether you come or not. And I would not want to persuade anyone to come to what actually isn't their thing right now.

    So much of who we really are is shut down or reduced to a trickle in our modern ways of living. We may not realise just how much until we step out of our daily business and relax into natural rhythms, and discover a sense of just being ourselves. Not just in nature but in community with each other and for many, in a greater sense of life in spirit.

    Many other camps provide timetables of events and activities with an implicit sense of holiday and fun. We are not knocking that. But Mayflower Camps specifically invite more of 'who we are' to be lived and more of 'who we are not,' to be let go. This is to me what living is about and is infinitely more than the mediocrity of consumerism; material or spiritual.

    But all this happens of itself and is freely lived, in simplicities of family and friend around camp fires together. So rather than import the exotic, we create the being-at-home-ness that celebrates from within ourselves and our 'music and dance' can often be a great depth of beauty in our ordinary moments.

 
    Our camps are co-creative and not laid on for entertainment. Maybe asking for what you want will bring it. Maybe just doing the thing you feel will find others meeting you in it. Maybe listening within will discover that what you thought you wanted was an expression of an insecurity that you just let go of and this is what you really wanted! You might find yourself singing now, but this is a different song.

    What doesn't work at our camps is to come looking for what we are not. We are not dance camp or 5 rhythms or Bender or any other camp. (All blessings to all our kindred camps!). We meet and journey as a Mayflower Camp and the degree you can join this is the same as your willingness to bring yourself present.

    Oh and we may well find we hold workshops, party, dance the wave, build a big bender or do any other thing that does us.

    I trust that the experience of participating in our camps and the skills grown and responsibilities awakened will be part of your ongoing freedom of spirit as long as you are willing to remember that you are alive!

Brian - 2003

Copyright Brian Steere 2004

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