2024 Program

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    A Hybrid Format: Pre-Programming and Open Space

    Each year Mindcamp offers dozens of sessions dedicated to helping participants discover, develop, and pursue their personal and professional creativity. Our format combines the depth and wisdom of fully-developed sessions with the open, dynamic, creative energy of the Open Space process.

    A Typical Day at Mindcamp (linked to explanations)
    • Wake up and choose (or not) to join others for yoga, or freewriting — or just sleep in
    • After breakfast, attend your Mind U
    • After the morning break, go to the Open Space Marketplace and see what folks are offering today
    • Choose and attend sessions before and after lunch
    • Enjoy some free time in the mid-afternoon (go to the beach, meet with a friend, write home, nap… whatever you like)
    • Just before supper, meet with your Kaleidoscope group
    • After supper, more sessions!
    • Later in the evening, attend a Night Flight, or sing by the Campfire, have a drink at the bar, or just find a nook to relax in (could be your room)

    Mind U

    This year, we are bringing back Mind U, more than 5 hours of immersive training/experience in a series of 75-minute sessions that run the entire length of Mindcamp. These concurrent sessions are deep dives into a given area. There will be six Mind U programs to choose from: you select one of them, and return to it in the first period each day for the whole of Mindcamp (you go to other stuff for the rest of each day). Total Mind U program time is five hours over the course of four days.

    We have not yet selected the Mind U sessions, but we will post more information about them when we do.

    Open Space

    The sessions that follow will develop through the Open Space methodology: a rich and dynamic experience that is instantly responsive to what is happening in the minds and bodies of all Mindcampers in the moment. (If you haven’t already experienced Open Space, you may feel skeptical, but get ready for a beautiful surprise!)

    We’ll give a brief introduction to the Open Space Process after dinner on the first day (Monday). Then each day after the morning break, we’ll gather for an Open Space Marketplace, where people who have ideas for sessions will give a short description of what they’d like to do. That might be a presentation or a discussion or an experience.

    We then post session descriptions on a wall and ask people to sign up for what interests them most. Based on the level of interest, we’ll assign meeting times (usually 90 minute slots) and spaces.

    (If nothing strikes your fancy in a particular period, you can go for a swim, take a hike, explore the Labyrinth, or join a random conversation. It’s up to you.)

    Youth Program

    Kids are welcome at Mindcamp! Our Youth Program prepares young people to think, act and reflect creatively, inspiring them to become leaders within their schools and communities. During programming hours, Mindcamp provides programs for children ages 5 and up. Click here for more details about the Youth Program.

    “I do love the way Open Space beings forth a generosity, openness, experimentation, spontaneity. I've been to other Open Space conferences, which are great. But Mindcampers can really make this modality shine because it naturally aligns with what the community values..”Feedback from Mindcamp 2023
    “I loved the freedom to choose what I needed to and the freedom to rest when needed. It was a mind blowing experience.”Feedback from Mindcamp 2022