New Culture Hawaii Winter Camp
Feb 5-14, 2027 "Brave Hearts in Connection"
In this fast-changing time, it is more important than ever to gather and show up for each other! These gatherings give us strength, inspiration, and courage to carry into our everyday lives. This year, as we explore Brave Hearts in Connection, we're creating a braver space to practice attuned, embodied connection with ourselves and each other—growing our capacity to hold the whole spectrum from discomfort to expansive joy.
Choose a 6 day or 10 day option to enjoy time with us.
Join us in co-creating a braver, nurturing, inspiring community, with a focus on how we can be more deeply connected with each other, with nature, and with the world.
Emotionally intelligent, embodied, poly-friendly, open hearted, community minded New Culture!
New Culture people are dedicated to examining every aspect of our existing cultures and experimenting to find out how to create a world based on love and freedom, rather than fear and violence.
This camp will be an intensive personal growth experience held at an established intentional community, on our lush permaculture rainforest land.
Come celebrate, be challenged, and enjoy yourself on the land and beach as we share our talents, knowledge and hearts with each other.
The Program
Our rich program centers embodiment, self-contact, play, and attunement
Our rich program centers embodiment, self-contact, play, and attunement
Our rich program centers embodiment, self-contact, play, and attunement
Alongside workshops in:
Parts Work + Self-Awareness
Consent + Attunement
Collective Care (care circles, conflict navigation, rupture + repair)
Nourishment (song, dance, play, movement)
Emotional Expansion (grief, rage, joy, pleasure + more)
Alongside our sensual and erotic space in the evening, we're offering more alternatives this year: connection activities, platonic touch explorations, and gentler on-ramps into sensual spaces. You can also expect BIPOC and trans affinity spaces, a creative and playful Cabaret night, and lots of cuddle puddles.
The daily schedule will include space for morning movement/dance, ZEGG-style forums, three meals and time for an afternoon snooze or workshops led by campers.
A note on who we are:
Our rich program centers embodiment, self-contact, play, and attunement
Our rich program centers embodiment, self-contact, play, and attunement
We're a predominantly cis/het/white/able-bodied community. While we're committed to creating belonging for everyone, we know we carry blind spots we're still working to recognize and unwind. We also know we have more work to do to create the kind of space we envision.
We're working to make this a safER space for people who hold historically marginalized and targeted identities, but we can't promise safety.
We're building teams around consent and belonging to support the community through ruptures, microaggressions, misattunement, and opportunities for repair.
We know that there will likely be interpersonal conflicts and hurt feelings (we are human), and we take this as an opportunity to continue learning how to hold ourselves and each other with more and more care.
Fostering Consent & Attunement Culture:
Our Community Commitments:
Our Community Commitments:
Our Community Commitments:
We envision camp as a living practice of collective liberation—a place where we actively humanize one another, even when we are in deep disagreement, confusion, or pain. Amidst the systemic crises we collectively navigate, we welcome the full complexity of your thoughts, feelings, and lived experiences.
To care for the collective, we invite everyone into a practice of mindful communication. We ask that we all refrain from personal attacks, putdowns, and language that carries structural oppression or demeaning tropes.
Because intention does not erase impact, we commit to being accountable for how our words affect others, particularly across differences in power and marginalization.
Your anger, fear, and grief are deeply valid. We encourage you to honor and process these emotions, and we will have supportive community members on-site to help you hold them.
If communication begins to cross into harm or dehumanization, we will invite you to pause and shift gears.
Thank you for stepping into this braver, compassionate, and more inclusive space with us.
Pronouns:
Our Community Commitments:
Our Community Commitments:
In this community, we want to build a safe enough container to genuinely invite people of all expressions to consciously relate. We honor and welcome people of all gender identities and pronouns. Pronouns are an individual's expression of their own gender identification.
The most common ones are she/her, he/him, they/them. They/them pronouns typically refer to someone’s identity as being non-binary or gender-nonconforming, although it is different for each person. Other pronouns are entirely welcome.
As we strive to honor ourselves and one another, please be respectful and intentional when referring to other people. Remember to use their correct pronouns during our entire event (and beyond!). We also ask that you respect that people have triggers and potential wounds for not being acknowledged in how they want to be acknowledged.
As such, please don’t joke as you introduce your pronouns. Not having to think about your gender pronouns is a privilege. If you do not understand this gender and non-binary terminology, we invite you to be curious, engage in a welcoming conversation with those who feel resourced (like the facilitators), and don't assume you know.
You are also welcome to have your own discomforts if you don’t understand or agree. We welcome your discomfort and curiosity. We do not welcome creating an unsafe environment.
Attunement and Consent
Attunement and Consent
Attunement and Consent
We practice being attuned to others and responsible for requesting our own boundaries. This includes physical, energetic (psychic space), verbal, and emotional boundaries and unintended projections on those around us.
We commit to paying attention to others and checking in about how they are feeling about interactions with us and adjusting to their needs, even when unspoken. We practice being in the discomfort of learning our boundaries as we lean into new experiences.
We respect others’ edges and boundaries. Be excited about receiving a no.
We practice affirmative consent—a verbal yes means yes; silence is likely a no or a freeze response. We strive to cultivate more attunement through awareness of nonverbal cues and to clarify those cues through verbal confirmation.
We strive to become aware of our own unspoken desires.
What might we want that’s subconsciously driving our actions.
Attunement and Consent
Attunement and Consent
In our community, we sometimes choose to play in intimate spaces. There is no assumption you will have to participate in anything you don’t want to. And we are in the constant discovery of our boundaries as we lean into our edges and shadows.
We practice saying no, even after the fact.
We notice what power dynamics might be at play that could be affecting our ability to say no, and are attuned to others’ ability to exercise their power of consent.
If our “no” was not heard clearly, and we feel safe and willing to communicate directly with the person we share conflict with, we do so. If we do not feel safe or willing, we reach out to others for support.
We remember that there are people in this community here to help and that we are not alone.
We talk with a member of the Consent team and/or event organizer about boundary and consent violations as soon as possible.
Logistics
Costs Part time
Part Time Attendance:
Cost for 5 night/6 Days: Feb 5-10
Residential in dorms or your own tent/RV: $825-$1525 sliding scale, including food and lodging.
Everyone staying here will participate in the group meals, because we have limited facilities for you to store and prepare food.
Local Participants: If you live in the area and wish to sleep at your own home, you may have a discount on the total camp fee. If you want to provide your own food each day, you may have an additional discount.
Offsite 6 day with Food for Local Kamaaina: $695-$1300. You stay in your own home and commute. Food included.
Offsite 6 days No food: $495-$995
You stay in your own home or elsewhere, bring your own food. We do not have a way for you to prepare or store food, so bring a cooler.
Fees are sliding scale. We encourage you to pay in sync with your financial resources. This helps us give a discount to those who need it to be with us.
Extra night Feb 10th for Part Timers- $85 in dorm or camping, leave Feb 11th before dinner
Full payment is required in advance.
After November 15th your payment is due within two weeks of receiving your personalized acceptance letter from Tracy.
The balance is due by Dec 1st at the latest if paying with PayPal or check.
We will be taking applications in order to balance and limit the group, and will let you know when you get a spot after you apply!
Cost Full time
Full Time Attendance:
Cost for 9 night/10 Days: Feb 5-14
Final payment due by Dec 1st if paying by Paypal or check.
Residential in dorms or your own tent/RV: $1050-1850 sliding scale, including food and lodging.
Everyone staying here will participate in the group meals, because we have limited facilities for you to store and prepare food.
Work trade is only for the 10 day event, and costs $495 plus 2 hours a day doing cooking or cleaning.
Local Participants: If you live in the area and wish to sleep at your own home, you may have a discount on the total camp fee. If you want to provide your own food each day, you may have an additional discount.
Offsite 10 day with Food for Local Kamaaina: $825-1525. You stay off site and commute. Food included.
Offsite 10 days No food: $695-1300.
You stay in your own home or elsewhere, bring your own food. We do not have a way for you to prepare or store food, so bring a cooler.
No Drop In Attendance: everyone will start at the beginning and will be there for the entire section they paid for, (unless they need to leave early), with the exception of workshop leaders in some cases.
Before and After Stays: If you want to stay at our place before the camp, the fee is $85 donation per person per day, including food, for a dorm or camping spot. More $ for cabins and huts.
We are open to visitors in the 2 days before camp but not earlier. You could stay up to 3 or 4 days afterward.
You are free to leave early, but not to arrive late.
Participation
Participation
Equity discounts if needed:
PGM/BIPOC — $75
Black/Indigenous reparations — $75
Trans — $75
Disabled — $75
Economic Need — $75
Kama'aina (Hawaii I.D. required) — $75
Community Service: Everyone contributes some hours of service to help camp run smoothly. This can include helping with the cooking or cleaning in the kitchen, tidying shared spaces, etc.
Performing service offers the opportunity to bond more deeply with each other as we share in the joy of co-creating community and making camp happen.
Participatory Music: All music-making is encouraged & greatly appreciated. Bring your instruments, voices, and talents. Be the live music & let's celebrate you! There will be a quiet time curfew of around 9 pm, because of our neighbors. This just means no really loud stuff after that, singing and playing guitar is fine.
Airport Pickups: We can provide pick ups from the Hilo airport, which is 1/2 hour away from the site, for $60 for one person or $35 per person if more than one.
This provides a benefit to those who can arrive on the afternoon of the beginning of camp. If you arrive at an odd time you will need to get an Uber or Lyft.
We cannot provide rides from the Kona Airport, which is a 3 hour drive, one way. If you must come in to Kona, please plan to rent a car or have a friend pick you up.
Early Departure: If you can't stay for the entire time, Hawaii Camp can still be a powerfully transformational experience. The price is the same in that case.
Food
Our Cancellation Policy:
Participation
Personal Foods:
There will be limited room for personal food in one refrigerator and some coolers. You will have access to a Personal Foods Kitchen (PFK) during camp.
Our menu is omnivore with focus on organic and humanely raised.
We provide a rich variety of dishes to cover the various dietary needs of today's health issues, such as vegan and vegetarian as well as meat eaters, but we are not able to cater to all special diets.
Please list special requirements on the registration form and our kitchen coordinator will reach out to you as needed.
Leave at Home: Alcohol or recreational drugs, valuables of any sort, pets of any make or size. We have enough of our own!
If New Culture Hawaii cancels an event is which you have registered, you will be contacted at the email address you provide when registering, so please be sure to provide a valid email address.
Our Cancellation Policy:
Our Cancellation Policy:
Our Cancellation Policy:
Attendees must cancel by midnight, Hawaii time, January 5th, 2027 to receive a full refund minus $100 processing fee.
Substitutions of attendees may be made at any time. Cancellation requests received after January 5th 2027 or failure to appear for the camp will result in forfeiture of the entire course fee, unless we can fill your spot.
Cancellation requests must be received by email. You are responsible for ensuring that we receive your written request. We will reply by email with a written acknowledgement. Cancellation refunds will be completed via check or Paypal.
New Culture Hawaii reserves the right to cancel or reschedule events at any time. This is very unlikely to happen, as the camp is usually overfull.
If New Culture Hawaii cancels or reschedules the event due to low enrollment, weather, or unforeseen circumstances beyond the control of new Culture Hawaii, you are entitled to a full refund, but New Culture Hawaii is not responsible for travel arrangements, travel fees, or any expenses incurred by you as a result of such cancellation.
However, you may be able to join us for a smaller group experience during that time.
Health Agreements
Our Cancellation Policy:
Our Cancellation Policy:
Pre-event Safety Agreements Summary. Refer to the Health and Safety Protocols for more details. These may change depending on the current situation.
We will be taking many steps to insure all of our safety, including:
*requesting a period of you moving in a relatively tight bubble at least 5 days beforehand, (with the exception of the travel to get here):
*refraining from risky practices such as going to large events for 5 days before the camp,
*avoiding anyone who is sick,
*We will not do a rapid testing of everyone the day the event starts at the site. Bring 2 or 3 tests with you in case you feel ill and want to use them.
*If you have any symptoms of illness, please do not come to the camp.
If you need to cancel in the 7 days before the event because of becoming ill, we will refund you all of your money if we can fill your spot, or half the money if we can't.
We all want to feel safe to explore and connect with each other! We know people have different beliefs around COVID and being safe with it, and we ask you to please abide by these guidelines to protect the organizers and other attendees.
Camping or Rv
Camping or Rv
Camping or Rv
Accommodations include tarp covered camping (bring your own gear and bedding) or use our private tents and tarps for an additional $100. Or bring a van or RV to stay in.
Cabins
Camping or Rv
Camping or Rv
We have 5 cabins which can be used onsite for 10 day only tickets.
Additional $40-65 per night.
Cabin Inside
Camping or Rv
DEluxe BnB Offsite
There are various sizes of cabins, but they are claimed very quickly so if you want one, register ASAP. They are currently full.
DEluxe BnB Offsite
DEluxe BnB Offsite
We can now offer an option for a really nice cottage including an indoor bathroom and a king or queen bed at a nearby B and B called Puna Rainforest Retreat. PRR is walking distance to Laakea on our same road. Extra $150-168 per night/room, for 10 day only tickets.
We have some available. Share with a friend or two!
Quanset Huts
If you would like a more roomy and private option on site, you can rent a smaller Quonset hut, which is a large walk in rounded tent cabin, which houses 2 to 4 people on single and double beds, for an additional $150 per person total cost.
For 10 day only tickets.
Dorms
We include a dorm bed upstairs in our Main House, and an outdoor dorm in a large quonset hut as pictured above.
For 10 day only tickets.
OUR Permaculture Community
Our Community
About us:
We are a small, family style, egalitarian, intentional permaculture community on the big island of Hawai'i. Staying with us is a vibrant immersion in our community lifestyle, and many visitors find it transformative and life changing.
We are a committed group of people working together closely as a means to health, relationship vitality, economic stability, personal and spiritual growth. We focus on the social aspect of sustainability: how to live together with honesty, love and peace, and share power and leadership.
Our Land
We live in one of nature's most amazing places, surrounded by mountains, oceans, dense jungle and black sand beaches. We are a short drive from the active volcano and the fresh lava fields.
Our visitors enjoy exploring the many unique features of this land, and the cultural activities nearby.
Our organic farm practices tropical permaculture in our lush rainforest climate. We bought our land in 2005 and currently grow a large portion of our food.
Our Gardens
Our Gardens
We are growing many kinds of fruits and nuts, and have extensive gardens and greenhouses, taro beds and orchards. We keep bees and chickens who are providing us with food and fertilizer.
Our electricity comes from solar photovoltaic panels, and our water is from a rainwater catchment system. We value alternative and sustainable building techniques.
Weather: Typically changeable. Expect hot to cold and wet to dry. Mostly wet.