This page links to other related sites. It doesn't necessarily represent an endorsement of any site below but I celebrate diversity and the interelatedness of everything. If you know of any potential link to include here - let me know.

Camps

I also hold a list of camps including our own Mayflower Camps, that are happening on the Field in Norfolk this year.

Dance Camp Wales
DCW is a large music and dance camp, (500-600 people), and has been running since 1986 - (if I remember right). We used to go regularly for the first several years and I had the time of my life again and again. For me this was the mother camp, though there are other large camps that have been influential from

Dance Camp East
info@dancecampeast.org
DCE now runs at a new site in Suffolk. After a year off in 2004, it will be running again this year.

Passages Camps
Set in a beautiful secluded valley in view of Glastonbury Tor for people who want to experience the challenges and pleasures of living together and being creative with others

Dance Camp North
More a child of DCW, with a similar emphasis on Circle dance, but also a lot of Universal Peace dance.

Oxford Dance Camp
This was a small offshoot camp from some DCE campers and has been running for a few years now.

Campscene Directory
This site is linked to a mail shot publication that has a lot of details for other camps of many kinds.

The Small Festival The ethos of the event is that everyone contributes/participates in some way, dissolving the artificial divide of audience and performer. Not everyone has to go on stage or run a workshop; contribution may include building the bonfire, clearing up etc - but there is a magic that evolves during the weekend that's great to be around.

Camp Resources

www.ancientvoices.co.uk
Graham Joyce for hand made Yurts, tipis and tents. Site is just being creates but more is coming soon.

www.worldtents.co.uk
David Field's marquees, geo-domes, historical tents and tipis. All made of natural canvas and wood from sustainable sources.

Inspiration

Camps are place/relationships where I am opened into a greater participation and freedom of being. The obvious next step is to renew and maintain this aliveness in each day regardless of whether I am at a camp or not! The very nature of losing a loving sense of ourself or our life is to get stuck in old strategies of survival which are seemingly self-protecting but dont serve who we actually are!

There are myriad teachings and teachers and I could fill a page with sources for which I am personally grateful. But I felt to link to Raj because he offers such a practical and grounded expression of awakened love.

Raj: Sharing the Gift
A site I have made with transcripts of Qs & A's. After reading some as huge blocks of text I felt to make it more spacious and and accessible.

The Point of Perfection
Raj's site - free audio and text files of gatherings and contemplations. Ongoing workshops, forums and live feeds.

Other

Circle Dancing Live with Brian Steere
I am increasingly sharing the dance with live music and am open to invitation. I can join with other musicians and can of course use recorded or a mix of both if preferred.

LiveLifeLightly - Sarah Partridge. Classes, workshops, training and networking - mostly from 'Sanctuary' in rural Suffolk. Seasonally inspired personal development.

Worldance - Circle Dancing with Stefan & Bethan
Accessible, celebratory multi-cultural dance. Voice and drumming workshops.

Community Building in Britain
Community Building as the term is used here, is the process originally set-up by Dr M Scott Peck (Author of 'The road less travelled' and "The different drum'). Whilst there are significant differences with our camps experience, there is also much common ground. I recommend reading the part of the Different Drum that relates to the processes of community building.

Martin Wilkes (AKA Music Martin) wrote an article with a bit of background to camps in general. You can read it here.

Copyright Brian Steere 2004