Campfire is hosting a Winter Gathering bringing together leaders and revolutionaries from around the world to trailblaze Systemic Social Change. It will take place over the weekend of January 13-15 at Paddington Farm, on the edge of Glastonbury, just a few minutes walk from the world-famous Tor.

This is an engaged event to be involved not just in presentational talks, but also workshops and strategy sessions for co-creating systemic solutions. The aim is to found and create a Movement that offers a practical framework for re-designing our societal systems and how we live.

We are staging it in collaboration with systemic change expert Julene Siddique and Musical Nutrition's arts based activism global network and Dan Astin-Gregory's Elevate Network. 

Physical Tickets for the event (we also have online booking options) are very limited and now available and will give you  access to Campfire's Systemic Social Change Circle (you will need to join the Campfire network or log in to see them)

This is a highly participatory event. Physical tickets would be for those who are really committed to systemic social change and being part of founding a movement to re-architect our society to be inclusive, just and thrivable, instead of oppressive, systematically flawed and unsustainable. If you feel called to join this experiential but also practical-strategic gathering to herald in a real paradigm shift then we invite you to join our gathering in Glastonbury.

Three nights shared accommodation are offered (Friday-Sunday) as a booking option but we also have an additional 15 spaces available for those who may wish to stay locally outside the farm.

Virtual Tickets are also available here. You can choose to just receive recordings and links to learn more about systemic social change, OR you can purchase and Engaged Virtual Community Member ticket which will mean that you join our sessions and workshops online and contribute to the creation of course content as well as talk through the collaboration options that work best for you. 

We will also have a Systemic Social Change course available after the event filled with the insights, testimonies and practical action frameworks that we co-create over the January weekend.

Event Programme

The weekend will begin with an afternoon welcome and evening social on the Farm on Friday. The weekend mornings will start with waking up our bodies with a somatically guided Dance-Flow into the powerful modality of Transformational Breath® with Yael Hockenberg and then move into talks from change leaders and revolutionaries, practical participatory workshops for visioning, strategising and experiencing/exploring systemic change methods. 

A range of activities from collective visioning, arts based action, to strategizing concrete plans for a Movement will take place across the weekend.

The evenings will be socially based, a great chance to enjoy music and meet others. Cooking will be communal.

Systemic Change was one of the dominant themes over the Campout weekend and is clearly a major priority for many who were there. The Elevate Network based their day around various approaches to bringing about change. It is now time to move beyond social change. It’s now time for full spectrum Systems Change. This weekend will take you through the key concepts and critical areas of action required to move our society out of structural violence and systems failure and into aligning social and natural systems for planetary wellbeing and human potential. 

Julene will be leading on key concepts around understanding the art of transformation, embodying a different way of life, seeing power for what it is, knowledge change, re-conceptualisation and focusing on how the mechanics of oppression work.

Invited guests include Peter Joseph (Founder of Zeitgeist Movement), Dr. Rama Mani (Founder of Home for Humanity), Political activist Phoenix Goodman, Beautiful Rising's Global South Arts based Activist Network, Dan Astin-Gregory from the Elevate Network and many more.

We will move through new literacies, capacities, and critical action frameworks to individually and collectively re-architect our society via a new social movement that we can co-create together that can empower us all.

This Trailblazers manifesto and work-in-progress website has been set up for co-creating our values and an action plan as a movement that starts with personal change, activates community at local and regional level and joins the dots globally between those doing the good work. So many people are so disaffected with the current anachronistic political system and the social chaos and uncertainty it leaves in its wake that the time for real change feels more and more urgent. 

We hope you will join us at this Winter Gathering to trailblaze new directions for humanity. It has the potential to be inspirational, nourishing and motivating. Bringing people together is at the heart of this new movement.