July 8 - 14, 2012
Camp Kettunen
Tustin, Michigan
Gwen Valore, Director
 
 S I M P L I C I T Y  

Summer is the time to relax and make your life easy. It is time to enjoy your surroundings and your friends. It is a time of simplicity, a chance to get away from it all! Come to a place where we are all new comers, Kettunen Center, and spend an exciting week getting to know new surroundings and making new friends. The Center sports a lake with a waterfront and acres of woods as well as a workout room and lots of good food. Here you can really get away from it all.

We will have the traditional costume party called "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." You can reuse former costumes or make yours out of reusable outfits! Start preparing your songs and writings for coffee house and camp show. Prepare to have fun and enjoy the simple things in life.

2012 Morning Groups will include the following and one to be added!

Nature, Conservation, and the Environment ~~ Lary Wasserman 
This will be an outdoor oriented group. Guided walks will explore the local area and environment. There will be group discussions of past and potential changes as a result of human and natural action. We will have a good time kicking around 'global warming' (real or convenient political strategy )and even try to figure out what, if anything, is happening to the climate here in North America.

Listening ~~ Joanne Lagattolla 
Morning group members meet daily to share their stories, thoughts, feelings and perspectives on a given topic, exploring themes and experiences in our lives. Topics will include listening, gratitude, balance and friendship. Members are welcome to bring their own materials to share with the group on the above discussion topics. We will focus on active listening of others, minimizing feedback and advice giving. We will use a process of readings, checking in, deep sharing and listening as outlined in Heart to Heart by Christine Robinson and Alicia Hawkins. Group members may purchase the book ahead on their own. Current cost of the book on Amazon is $10 for kindle and $12 new, not including shipping and handling. Facilitator will also purchase books in bulk, as needed. Please notify facilitator book is needed two weeks prior to camp start date.

Discussion and Other Activities Group ~~ Len Proctor
The theme of this group will be (1) enjoying each other’s company through fun exercises, games and discussions and (2) a sharing of our personal understanding of life in all its aspects. An atmosphere of acceptance and respect will be encouraged, but egotistical rambling will be discouraged or at least frowned upon. After morning check-in and some brief warm-up activities, we will choose from the following: 1.) Discussion of the book “How to Live - or - A life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.” by Sarah Bakewell. 2.) Physical and mental warm-up exercises and games. 3.) Topics from a hat: Put your issue, question, theory or whatever in a hat. We will draw and discuss items for no more than 15 minutes. 4.) Brief walks 5.) “Google Bell” Whenever anyone is so inclined they can ring a bell and ask for a speaker’s word to be “googled” (defined and explained either correctly or in a grossly incorrect manner) by the person to the speaker’s left. The explanation can then be “edited” no more than twice by anyone else ringing the bell. 6.) An activity you suggest.

For more information contact:

Gwen Valore, 2012 director
gwencody@hotmail.com
740-363-4630