Bloom Camp 🌻
A camp exploring facilitation, embedded in a community village experiment.
June 25th – August 25th, 2026
Solfors – Dalarna, Sweden
Solfors – Dalarna, Sweden
Our Intention
The intention with Bloom Camp is to create a place for people who long to share their gifts and explore facilitation in different ways. It's a container where we'll honor and celebrate each other into daring to become more of ourselves.
Another intention is to support our thriving in community living - with tools such as sociocracy, authentic relating practices and morning practices.
With a circulation of facilitators (all of us) we'll be in the art of giving and receiving - also in exploring co-creations with each other. We hope this experience will give us all a sense of bravery to step out and share more both during summer & in the future.
With a circulation of facilitators (all of us) we'll be in the art of giving and receiving - also in exploring co-creations with each other. We hope this experience will give us all a sense of bravery to step out and share more both during summer & in the future.
The Workshops & Experiences
Each of us will facilitate some form of experience(s) for the rest of our camp. The intention of our offerings is supporting well-being.
We want to highlight that you don’t need to be ready to hold space or have any type of education or training beforehand - As long as there are things you want to share or explore that lights you up, a willingness to go on a journey and meet yourself along the way and meet others along their way.
We want to create a culture where stepping forth, exploring, trial and error are all celebrated. Where "failing" means you've been brave and opened yourself up for growth.
We want to highlight that you don’t need to be ready to hold space or have any type of education or training beforehand - As long as there are things you want to share or explore that lights you up, a willingness to go on a journey and meet yourself along the way and meet others along their way.
We want to create a culture where stepping forth, exploring, trial and error are all celebrated. Where "failing" means you've been brave and opened yourself up for growth.
What can I offer?
There are many different experiences you could offer at Bloom Camp, as long as they're well-being focused
Authentic relating
DJ-sets with guided movement
Singing & jamming
Yoga
Creative writing
Forest bathing
Contact impro
Painting
Bodywork
Creative cooking
Tantric practices
Watsu-sessions in the lake
Climbing in trees
Improv theatre
Lab: What is love?
These explorations of creation could be both individually or together. Let’s say you’re a musician and you contribute to someone else's contact improv workshop, or you’re 3 people co-creating an authentic relating event for all of the community lab in the common areas, or the whole camp exploring co-creation through collective consciousness practices… the possibilities are endless.
The wider container of Bloom Camp
Community Lab
Bloom Camp will be one camp among other camps in the wider container of Community Lab.
Community Lab is a two month incubator exploring community living. It’s a rich experience where around 40-50 people will gather in different camps, each one with a certain research topic. The whole experience will consist of camp time where you’ll deep dive into your camp, village time where all camps are collaborating / offering workshops & experiences to each other and solo time which is an encouraged time for rest and integration. You'll find more in depth info about the event on the webpage.
Community Lab is a two month incubator exploring community living. It’s a rich experience where around 40-50 people will gather in different camps, each one with a certain research topic. The whole experience will consist of camp time where you’ll deep dive into your camp, village time where all camps are collaborating / offering workshops & experiences to each other and solo time which is an encouraged time for rest and integration. You'll find more in depth info about the event on the webpage.
Solfors
This whole experience will take place in a beautiful eco village called Solfors in Dalarna, Sweden. We will live in tents in a lush nature with a gorgeous, lively river and a big, serene lake - either close to the rest of the camp or somewhere else in the beautiful nature of Solfors. Vans and mobile homes are also welcomed but you'd live with more distance from the others. We will have two big tents belonging to our camp as a kitchen and living room / workshop space. There will also be buildings, tipis and common spaces shared with the whole village of Community Lab.
The Camp Cultivators
We're Ashina and Sandra - we've been in an open relationship for 5 years - living, traveling and creating together. We both share a passion for community building, co-creating, self healing, self discovery, creative expression, playfulness, embodiment and personal growth.
While we are the camp's cultivators - we are not the fixed leaders. We're creating the frame and bringing people in to the camp. Once our group is gathered we will distribute responsibility into roles (kitchen lead, shopping etc), we'll make decisions together and continue to shape our container.
While we are the camp's cultivators - we are not the fixed leaders. We're creating the frame and bringing people in to the camp. Once our group is gathered we will distribute responsibility into roles (kitchen lead, shopping etc), we'll make decisions together and continue to shape our container.
Bloom Camp is born out of our own experience and longings. We’ve walked so deeply into our own internal landscapes. We've had years of inspiration, re-coding, exploring our emotions, attending retreats, and doing deep inner and relational work. We’re now at the point where we want to explore how we can share the embodiment, the tools, the creativity and other gifts that we’ve gathered along the way. The more we look around, the more we find people ready to bloom.
Here's a little video where you'll get a deeper sense of us and Bloom Camp 🌻
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Sandra
I love to unravel my patterns. It’s like an exciting game of finding what’s stagnating me, and then setting it into motion and feeling again. This so far happens mostly in my close relationships. I love learning intimacy. Learning how to be intimate without shutting down, hiding or running away or projecting. I love to experience the release, the softening, the surrendering. The point of old patterns cracking or melting, and a sweet new sense of aliveness emerges - as it happens both in me and in others. Intimacy for me though, is not necessarily about only my close relationships. I long to feel intimate with life, in everything I do and be on this earth. To nurture my trust in that everything that comes my way carries life’s love for me.
Ashina
I am passionated about co-creating spaces where people can come together, collaborate and experience what it feels like to be truly authentic and embodied.
With most of my life with physical limitations and severe spinal injuries, I am healing my body bit by bit. Today I feel myself at a capacity to not only continue my own healing journey, but also support and inspire others on theirs.
My journey has brought me to a deep love for embodiment through mainly dance and bodywork. It has also brought me into a relationship with life where I want to find ways to feel grounded, authentic, creative and in connection with life flowing through my body as much as I can.
Throughout 15 years being outside of the normal wheel of society I've found myself invested into the community movement more and more. As a big visionary for new systems arising I feel a devotion to contribute into it as a co-creator of it in different ways. With a lot of hope for humanity and the future I see so much beauty happening already where people land into more and more embodied love for themselves, each other and the earth.
With most of my life with physical limitations and severe spinal injuries, I am healing my body bit by bit. Today I feel myself at a capacity to not only continue my own healing journey, but also support and inspire others on theirs.
My journey has brought me to a deep love for embodiment through mainly dance and bodywork. It has also brought me into a relationship with life where I want to find ways to feel grounded, authentic, creative and in connection with life flowing through my body as much as I can.
Throughout 15 years being outside of the normal wheel of society I've found myself invested into the community movement more and more. As a big visionary for new systems arising I feel a devotion to contribute into it as a co-creator of it in different ways. With a lot of hope for humanity and the future I see so much beauty happening already where people land into more and more embodied love for themselves, each other and the earth.
Our Experience in Community
We've been actively learning about how to live & thrive in community since 2023 when we went to a Community course at Tamera Ecovillage in Portugal. 2024 we traveled around Europe visiting eco villages for a year learning tools and different type of alternative systems. 2025 we went to Mars college (similar event to Community Lab but in the American desert) for 3 months. There we met the other 3 co-creators of community lab. We have now spent the past 1.5 years living in self created community containers together for a total of 9 months - having meetings online throughout the rest of the time. All with the purpose of creating this event and learning tools to thrive as co-creators living in community together.
Our Tools
We will bring in some of the tools we've gathered throughout our journey to support a smooth, thriving, authentic, empowering and supportive experience of living and creating communally:
Authentic relating
Here we have different tools such as circling, forum and emotional cleanse. This supports real and genuine connection. It brings safety to be who you are within a held container.
Here we have different tools such as circling, forum and emotional cleanse. This supports real and genuine connection. It brings safety to be who you are within a held container.
Morning practices:
We want to live a well balanced life where the schedule supports morning practices - taking care of the body & soul. A perfect opportunity for sharing a practice (like qigong, dance or meditation for example) and to bring a good routine for yourself.
Free movement / dance:
Move freely and authentic, make sounds if you'd like, within a landscape of music are all such important elements in our own well beings and we want to include a slot for this each week. It can be with DJ, with guidance or simply everyone queueing songs into Spotify.
Move freely and authentic, make sounds if you'd like, within a landscape of music are all such important elements in our own well beings and we want to include a slot for this each week. It can be with DJ, with guidance or simply everyone queueing songs into Spotify.
Sociocracy:
Many successful communities we've visited use this governance system and we've used it in the creation of community lab as well. It is a way for a group to run itself - it's both a system and a decision making tool. Decisions are made by consent, roles are clear, and power is shared instead of concentrated. People work in connected circles, and everyone affected by a decision has a voice in shaping it, with a focus on achieving a jointly agreed upon aim. We've experienced this system to bring the group into more harmony, structure, empowerment and transparency.
The Camp Schedule
These tools among possibly more will be a part of the weekly schedule frame - each slot open for anyone to facilitate. Then there will be plenty of time for free slots where any facilitator (any one of us all) can step in and share freely. No matter if you have a lot or just a few experiences of something you can always play with sharing what you've learned so far.
All camps at community lab will be on a collective wave, meaning camps will dive in to their different research topics at the same time, and shared village time at other times. During village time all people at community lab are welcomed to share workshops and experiences in a shared online calendar - turning everything into a festival like setting.
The schedule will look different depending on which chapter community lab is in (see chapters further down).
Below is an example of what a schedule could look like for our collective activities during the second chapter (camp immersion) where we have the most camp research days per week:
All camps at community lab will be on a collective wave, meaning camps will dive in to their different research topics at the same time, and shared village time at other times. During village time all people at community lab are welcomed to share workshops and experiences in a shared online calendar - turning everything into a festival like setting.
The schedule will look different depending on which chapter community lab is in (see chapters further down).
Below is an example of what a schedule could look like for our collective activities during the second chapter (camp immersion) where we have the most camp research days per week:
The Community Lab Experience
2 Months – 6 Phases
1
Build — 10 Days
Ten days to construct our campus together — the campus is a mixture of already set structures, and our own gathering tents that we'll set up during this period. We have a fairly simple setup, and we believe that these ten days will be spacious, nourishing and fun. This is where our sociocratic structure and group culture takes root.
2
Camp Immersion — 3 Weeks
This is our main camp's learning time together. 4 days a week, we explore and learn as a camp, and the rest of the week is village time (see Phase 4).
3
Midway — 4 (ish) Days
We pause and reflect as a village to hear how everyone's learnings and processes have been and to get excited for our next phase together.
4
Village Time — 10 Days
During this time, we open our doors fully as a camp. We can hold weekly practice sessions for those who want to offer, we can host workshops for neighbouring camps, and join in to shared offerings with the wider Community Lab village.
5
The Gathering — Weekend
A closing celebration where we can invite friends and family to join for a weekend — to witness, participate, and share in what we've built and learned together.
6
Un-Build — 7 Days
Time to take down and say goodbye (for now). We deconstruct our camp and take time to celebrate, integrate and savour this powerful summer experience. This is a time for closing and harvesting.
Our Shared Resources
The Budget
The budget is our group resource — the engine that nourishes us throughout this experience. To keep costs as low as we can, we will try and gather materials from within our camp's resources: whether it's kitchen utensils or large gathering tents, we value resourcefulness. Anything that we as a camp can provide for each other saves us all money and keeps unnecessary consumption low. The camp will invest in shared infrastructure like couches, furniture, fairy lights, and other things to make our home cozy and inspirational.
Sleeping
All of us will be responsible for bringing our own tent and bed arrangements.
Food & Land
The budget includes everything — land rental cost, our food, infrastructure and furniture is included.
Organisers
The budget covers the organisers' food and infrastructure.
Investment — Sliding Scale14 000 - 18 000 SEKSliding scale pricing — choose what reflects your economical position. This investment covers all essentials; land cost, food for two months, petrol, our living room and kitchen fully furnished, etc. We've done everything we can to keep the cost as low as possible, and not from a place of earning income ourselves.3,000 SEK Deposit — books your space in our camp (included in the price above).
This Camp is For You if…
You long to live in high collaboration with others and wish to dive deep and explore a communal landscape
You want to explore facilitating groups in different ways, sharing your and receiving others gifts and cultivating an empowering climate
You want to meet yourself and others in a space of authenticity
You have been to other festivals, burning man events & communities and are wishing for a longer and deeper experience
You're interested and open to participate in a self-organizing group, using sociocracy
You love living close to nature, with limited comforts, but a lot of presence
You're excited about Community Lab as a concept → communitylab.life
Ready to Bloom?
Two months of connection, caring and creation. Come share. Come grow. Come build community with us.