Camp Principles

We seek to create an environment where harm is reduced and individuals work with their community to create empowering experiences.

Anyone may be a part of this camp. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

We seek to create non-transactional relationships and are devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

We encourage individuals to discover, exercise and rely on their inner resources.

Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient

Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

We value civil society. We assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. We also assume responsibility for conducting our events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

Authentic consent, crucial for healthy interactions, embodies these key attributes:

• Freely given: Voluntary consent without coercion or influence.

• Reversible: The right to withdraw consent at any time.

• Informed: Clear understanding of the agreement.

• Enthusiastic: Active willingness to engage.

• Specific: Clear boundaries established beforehand.