What are Weekend Camps?
We’re hosting two Weekend Camps this program year!
One was held October 12-13, 2024 and the other will be April 12-13, 2025.
Each camp will last throughout the day on Saturday and the afternoon on Sunday, after services.
The camps will be hosted at the Fellowship, and will have three options running concurrently:
- Two options for learning and connection will be available to adults
- One option will be for children
The goals of the camp are:
- Provide a longer, more concentrated amount of time for people to connect with each other, make new friends, have fun, and feel connected to the Fellowship.
- Provide an opportunity for learning, deepening our understanding of ourselves and our values, and exploring what it means to be UU.
- Spend some time all together — all three “track” options will spend mealtimes and some “centering” time each day together, and also spend time focusing on the person’s preferred area of learning.
IMPORTANT INFO:
Camp Times:
- Saturday, April 12 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Sunday, April 13 – (After services) 12:00 to 3:00 pm
Food:
- Saturday, we will provide a light breakfast
- There will be a time both days to enjoy our BYO lunch together
- There will be snack breaks both days
Fee:
$40 per person (adult or child) .
Free for those adults who are ONLY volunteering as leaders or helpers in the adult or kids camp.
Fee includes light breakfast, snacks, camp materials, and a t-shirt.
Financial assistance is always available. Please email Rev. Christina if you would like to be considered for a lower-cost or no-cost camp registration. Requests will remain confidential.
Deadline for Registration: No Exceptions
March 28, 2025
Details About the April Weekend Camp
April 12 – 13 – Embodying Our Values
We’re focusing on putting love at the center and living out our values in various ways– in our lives, our relationships, and in our world. Our hope is to connect ourselves, mind + body + spirit, to our values and our community.
Saturday we’ll have a light breakfast together and both days will have a chance to eat our BYO lunch together. There will be centering time together as a whole community, and then we’ll break into our “tracks” for focused learning and connection time.
TRACK 1 – Adult – Embodying Our Values in Relationship — A Heart 2 Heart Retreat for Committed Partners
Join our experienced leaders of Heart 2 Heart, a long-running beloved retreat for partners in committed relationships (couples and polyamorous configurations are welcome). This track will be a chance to deepen your connection, communication, and relationship skills with your beloved(s).
Topics will include:
- Learning new patterns of communication in your relationship
- Practicing skills for deepening your relationship
- Recommitting to your relationship
Participants:
- Should be prepared for somewhat intense, but thoughtful work
- Can expect to spend time reflecting on their relationship and the unique traits each bring to it
- Will not be expected to share their thoughts and private conversations with the group
TRACK 2 – Adult – Leading From Our Values: Leadership tools and connection with our Fellowship
Join members of our Leadership Development Committee for an in-depth (but fast, and fun!) chance to learn skills for leading others, or doing meaningful work in your life (your job, volunteer roles, or other places you connect with the community). We will also explore how to connect more deeply to the UU Fellowship and gain skills for involvement and potential spiritual leadership.
Topics will include:
- What makes a leader? (Trust us, it’s not what you think!)
- Self-differentiation, boundaries, and conflict
- Anti-bias/ Cultural humility
- Organizing meetings and facilitation skills
- How to get connected at the Fellowship
- …and more!
TRACK 3 – Kids – emBODYing Our Values
Join Ms. Kim and a crew of wonderful adult volunteers to explore our amazing human bodies, how to keep ourselves healthy, make safe choices, and enjoy the gift of living in a body. We will do experiments, have dance-parties, learn how to really wash our hands, practice basic first-aid, and explore some themes from our younger-grades’ Our Whole Lives (OWL) lifespan sexuality program, which is a values-based, diversity-inclusive program created by our UUA.
There will be groups for kids ages 4-6, and separate groups for ages 7-10. We will interact with other groups, but we will also spend focused time in our groups as a team, creating a mascot and a cheer, and creating relationships with the others in our team.
Kids over the age of 10 can either help out in the camp or attend the adult tracks.
** IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HELP OUT, PART OF THE TIME OR ALL OF THE WEEKEND, AS AN ADULT VOLUNTEER AT THE KIDS CAMP, PLEASE LET MS. KIM KNOW AND COMPLETE THE ADULT CAMP REGISTRATION FORM **
