Deeper Dive Camp
2024 Facilitators
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Dr. Diva is a player; creator; performer; and international presenter of workshops and retreats (Dirty Talk, Changing Reality, Bliss, and many more) at Schwelle Vienna, Schwelle 7 Berlin, Xplore, Sexolution Festival, Art of Love-Festival at the Farm/Berlin, Art of Sex-Festival Vienna, Intimate Revolution Berlin, Liebesschule Berlin, Into the Wild/Sydney, Worldwide Festival of Erotic Living, and many more. He is also an actor, director, and writer for stage and film.
He has been the host of the infamous Opium-Berlin events since 2012 and of the Skin-Events since 2020. His is a team member, moderator, and co-developer of Sexolution Conferences Festivals.
“I am fascinated by the huge, hidden potential in us and ways to set it free. My approach is ‘playfool,’ with lightness, humour, empathy, and love — love for myself and others with all their facets.”
Workshops:
Self Love
I am my own lover. I touch myself and give myself tenderness, intimacy, lust, love. A journey across your skin with your own hands, fingertips like eyes, exploring an amazing landscape, beautiful, intense, exciting, curious. Gently guided experience into new spaces of lustful self love.Shedding Your Skin
The skin as metafor for our past life, tattooed, painted and covered with all our experiences, good and bad ones. In this first gentle then intense ritual we peel off our skin and become pure, soft, innocent like a new born baby, beautiful and sensitive like a mountain on a winter morning covered with fresh white snow. Discovering ourselves lightly we meet the other beautiful beings.
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Bio:
Hema is a Holistic Empowerment Mentor and helps clients release what's blocking them from achieving their full potential so that they can freely live a juicy life of purpose, passion and abundance. Hema works with clients on a variety of topics including abundance mindset, intimacy and relationship coaching as well as generational trauma : http://hemaholisticmystic.com
Workshops
Heart Connection Ritual
Join us on opening night for a beautiful, intimate Heart Connection Ritual (formerly known as puja) that will create deeper, meaningful connections between you and other campers. Be prepared to be seen and accepted just as you are and find deeper love for yourself and others. This is a sensual activity with no nudity.Laughter of Life
Come and play in this workshop where you are invited to put away all inhibitions and engage in fun improv exercises. This is for all levels including people who have never done improv before. Lots of laughing and smiles are guaranteed!
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Sheya's primary offering is transformational heartistry. Bringing together all her years of initiation, decivilizing, and more trainings and tribes than can be named here. She is a dancing freedom and breath-wave practitioner as well as a next culture trainer. She’s also a wild grandma and a visionary artist. She loves being a weaver of village. Currently her favorite activity is synergising and making up fresh language and practices for the new world. Her superhero love powers include grace, creating, clarity, and possibility.
Workshops
Dancing Freedom
Dancing freedom is a freeform, authentic movement practice. Integrating elemental waves of music and magic, we give body to our prayers. The process is lightly facilitated, mainly self directed, a recipe for community coherence and human rewilding, welcoming to all.
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Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch activist who works towards identifying and interrupting barriers between people. As co-founder of both Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of black people around homophobia, transphobia, internalized racism, and those that are Chronically UnderTouched. Because oppression is a part of historical and present American culture, the long term impact of those trauma stories should be acknowledged and held as a map for our collective healing. Aaron Johnson practices and invites various methods of moving through these stories, such as the communal listening ear, sound healing, meditation, and closeness to the earth.
Workshops:
Building a Nest That Helps Us Get Ahead of the Trauma Story
What change do you believe is possible? What change do you seek?This workshop is about birthing the diverse change that we seek in New Culture and our broader communities. We use singing, somatic practices and mutual listening to envision what we dream possible. We will notice the Chronically Undertouched material and explore the idea that listening is the first hug. We will start building actionable goals for sustainable diversity. All voices are welcomed. We prioritize and center People of the Global Majority (BIPOC). We will do our best to be trauma and carnage informed. We want and need your hands, voice and spirit to build this nest.
Song Circle with Holistic Resistance
Everyone is welcome!! This workshop is an anti-racist, black-led space to reclaim our community and our voices as singers. The song circle is partly comprised of improv singing, learning traditional African heritage songs, beatboxing, and sounding with our voices. We will be noticing where we can bring music back into our homes and community. All singers have a choice when it feels good to sing, and can also just observe.
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Gary is a LCSW, Ph.D., in Integrative Studies with a specialization in Process Oriented Psychology and Conflict Resolution with a private counseling practice for individuals, couples, and families.
His specialties include the psychology of body symptoms, relationship work and sex therapy, family issues, working with teenagers and their families, death and dying, spiritual crisis, and extreme psychological states. He has counseling offices in both Eugene and Portland, Oregon.
As a facilitator, Gary leads town forums on topical and often contentious community issues, both locally and internationally. He also works with business, government, spiritual, and non-profit groups, guiding organizational development and conflict resolution.
Workshop:
Group Process Work
In our Workshop we will focus on group process from a Process oriented Psychology approach. We will start by sensing what issues are present in the atmosphere and then go deeply into unfolding and facilitating those issues.
The issues that arise are both local, that is immediate to this camp, and non-local, meaning the larger world field is always present in a group and wanting to be processed. We move into and through these issues with a combination of intensity and depth, and our intent is to do this in a trauma informed way.
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Melanie Rios assists people in moving towards health and justice by offering communication, self-management, decision-making, and conflict transformation skills to intentional living, activist, and social entrepreneur groups. She is committed to dismantling racism, not by using shame and blame but by building connections.
Melanie has been attending and presenting at NFNC summer camps off and on since 1999, and she has lived in intentional communities for most of that time. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon immersed in a three-generation extended family that lives nearby.
Workshop:
Liberation is a Collective Endeavor
Come share and listen with open hearts to our experiences of being harmed and/or benefited by the roles we play as agents and targets of oppression based on race, gender, and other identities that we hold. We will explore Letitia Nieto’s model of stages people go through on their journey towards liberation, and we will generate ideas for how our community can become a more welcoming nest for all.
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Alara Tiernan is obsessed with Human Connection — she is a certified mediator and intimacy coach, trained in nonviolent communication, and has a degree in interpersonal communication. She has two decades of experience facilitating groups in how to overcome loneliness and build extraordinary relationships.
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Love Lab
Do you desire an experience of deeper connection, genuine laughter, and the magic of vulnerability? Join us for Love Lab — facilitated connection experiences for authentic relating, nourishing fun and nurturing touch
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Bonbon Spirit (a.k.a., PJ Weinstein, gender-integrated) is a DJ, music remixer, and event producer in service of conscious movement, drawing on PJ's own more than 20-year practice of ecstatic dance, Soul Motion, 5Rthythms, and contact improvisation for inspiration. PJ is known for their eclectic and wide-ranging musical taste and for playing some of the latest cutting-edge dance music. PJ co-founded Ecstatic Dance Corvallis, Amoeba Dance, and Ecstatic Dance Immersion retreats at Breitenbush Hot Springs. PJ has DJ’d at more than 600 dance events around the globe since 2010.
Workshops:
Ecstatic Connection Dance
Ecstatic Dance is movement meditation — an opportunity to drop out of the thinking-judging mind and deep into the feeling body. The theme of this session is connection — with self, with others, and with the whole community. The music for this connection experience will be infused with rhythms from around the globe, with lots of joyful and playful moments. Opening with flowing warm-up music, steadily increasing tempo and intensity to reach peaks of ecstasy, and gently landing into meditative stillness.Dancing the Realm of the Sultry, Sensual and Sexy
This dance journey is an invitation to explore pleasurable feelings that arise within and between. The music will be slinky, steamy, soulful, bluesy, seductive, passionate, flirtatious, suggestive, and tender. It's a chance to play with sensuality in dance and music, to luxuriate in your inner yumminess, and to make new community connections. And while you may be most excited to explore affectionate contact in duets or groups, there's no obligation or expectation that you will dance with other people — you do you!