RECOMPRESSION ‘07 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS!

Multi-Player Poetry
Facilitator: Timid
Max number of attendees: 6 – sign up at center camp!
Duration: approximately 2 hours
Do you like playing with words and co-creation -with absolutely no pressure to be any good at it either? Join in multi-player poetry -a few people taking turns scribbling lines that are guaranteed to produce laughs and pleasantly furrow some brows. Tap your juices of brilliance or absurdity and mingle them with others' drip, drip, dripping on the page.

Beginning Belly Dancing: Shake it Baby!!!
Facilitator: Susanne Brown
Max/min number of attendees: 10, but hey...more is good!
What to wear and bring: Comfortable clothing, a hip scarf if you like
Come on down and shake it! None of us are experts or teachers, but it's lots of fun.

Propane Fire Sculpture Workshop - "So you want to create LIFE! in your Sculpture?"
Facilitator: HannibalLecher
Max number of attendees: 12 – sign up at center camp!
Duration: 2 1/2 Hours
This workshop will focus on creating a propane fire sculpture from scratch, or adapting an existing sculpture for low volume propane flame effects. We will go over fire safety, propane theory, and then get our hands dirty building sculptures from what materials we have on hand. The more materials we have available, the more involved our sculptures can be!

Accumulator Flame Effect Workshop - "What's life without a ball of Fire?"
Facilitator: HannibalLecher
Max number of attendees: 12 – sign up at center camp!
Duration: 2 1/2 Hours
This workshop will focus on creating accumulator based propane flame effects, basically fireballs.... We will go over fire safety, propane theory, and then get our hands dirty building flame effects from what materials we have on hand. The more materials we have available, the more crazy we can get!
What to Bring: notebooks, adjustable wrenches if possible, sketches of ideas if you have them. If workshop attendees would like to take their projects home, please contact me directly!

Fire Tech Workshop - "What you're REALLY going to do when something goes wrong..."
Facilitator: Dillie Poo
Max number of attendees: 12 – sign up at center camp!
Duration: 2 Hours
This workshop is all about how to be a fire tech, with hands on firefighting practice and techniques, working with different fuels, and some theory and safety thrown in...perimeters, fuel dump safety, etc... You WILL be putting out real fires and handling fuels and spills, so please, wear suitable attire! Even if you currently are a fire tech, perhaps you've been doing it for years, but you've never had an accident, drop by and check your skills...

Intimacy Boundary Discovery
Led by EmoEric
Time & duration: 3 hours
Number of attendees: male or female, singles or couples, 6 minimum, maximum determined by space up to 48
Description: Intimacy can be achieved between two people through any of the senses. Eye contact can be intimate, as can verbal disclosure. Intimacy is born in a state of shared physical, emotional or intellectual vulnerability. Intimate experiences can be spontaneous, gifted or intentionally shared to strengthen relationship.
What are your boundaries, and why do you have them? Some boundaries safeguard our bodies. Some keep us within what we think we can achieve. Other boundaries protect an illusion of who we think we are, or how we think we should appear to others. Can you skydive but not be silly with someone? Can you share massage, but avoid discussing spiritual beliefs? When boundaries suddenly appear, anxiety, fear or rage can too. This is a survival response, protecting a real or arbitrary self. When we observe our boundaries instead of running into them, we can look at whether they serve us, or limit us.
Most boundaries around intimacy between men and women, women and women or men and men are acquired. Boundaries can be based on relative sex, identity, age, health, trust and many other factors. Self expression, selflessness and logic are rarely called as modifiers.
Discovering our boundaries around different forms of intimacy is the intention of this workshop. While boundaries may be irrational, and while they may be questioned, they should be respected. You may conclude your discovery at any point, and that is the point. This workshop is not therapy and it is not a competition. This is play within a framework.
Ideas for exploration will be created by you with the group. Some ideas will be intense, others, funny. There will be a clearing circle to share discoveries after completion.
Special requirements: Adults only; shower before attending; wear comfortable clothing; not suitable for those with past sexual trauma; please do not attend if you are currently experiencing transmissible infections, as you may be involved in a high level of physical contact within your own boundaries.

Alchemy of Manifestation Introduction
facilitated by Little Woo
Note: The workshop room should accommodate chairs or pillows to sit 10 to 15 people comfortably and be heated/warm enough.
We live in a magical world, where everything is made of energy. You are a divine being with infinite creative power. Whether you realize it or not, you are designing your reality in every moment. By knowing consciously about the Laws of Manifestation, you can have more fun materializing opportunities, careers, money, things, people, experiences and great joy. In this introductory class, we will also look at what life is like when we step fully into this new paradigm of being. (Please bring paper and pen/pencil if you wish to take notes.)

BIO: Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual counselor in Vancouver who offers a series of workshops in Spiritual Alchemy (energy-based teachings). She is also the creator of Burlesque Yoga (a dance and movement-based program). Her workshops help to empower and inspire, with practical teachings about how to work with energy and how to feel more bliss in your life. Website: www.littlewoo.org

Comm-Unity S.E.X. (Sacred Energy eXchange) Round table
Facilitators: DanSir and Endearment
Bring pillows, blankets, cushions and anything else that will help you create a comfy space.
Duration of workshop: 2 hours

"Sex is your only energy...it is Life Energy" (Osho). In the spirit of Osho, Deida, Odier, (and ?!?) we CELLebrate our S.E.X.-ual selves! All of us have played with our sexual energies in community on the dance floor but we've mostly been leaving out our juiciest and most sensitive parts (genitals, nipples, asses). What happens when we Stand Up (or Lie Down!) and drop our layerings and coverings and announce: "I AM A S.E.X.-ual Creature!..." When we let ALL our energies flow open? What are we afraid of? What do we desire? What's in this big exciting scary box? We'll be exploring this subject, creating definitions, sharing stories, healing, brainstorming, heartstorming, rootstorming, etc.... This will all take place in a guided Roundtable TALK (yes, STARTing with just chat, and then mayBe some simple group exercises: heart gazing, ask/receive practice, etc.). Further woManifestations of our circle will (can, may) be explored in the ongoing S.E.X. Laboratory at Camp S.E.X. (which of course, NEVER requires of you ANYthing you don't want to do!)

Just Say Know!
Facilitators: Dr Ian and Cabanaboy
Duration of workshop: 2 hours
No minimum number of participants, maximum 18.
A two hour interactive talk on how to decrease the risks of substance use. We'll give you a general overview of types of substances, their effects, and their side effects. Sorry, no tastings or free samples provided!

Sex, Love & Intelligence Workshop/Q&A
Facilitator: Julia Saunders
Max number of attendees: 12 – sign up at center camp!2-2.5 hours. 1 hour for confidential and open Q&A and 1 hour for sexual communication exercise (you can come for the first part and leave after Q&A if desired).
Special requirements of attendees - Ability to ask and talk about open sexual questions - asking whatever sex or sexual/relationship question they always wanted to know but didn't feel they could ask, or didn't trust the person/location they were asking. Pen, Paper, and open mind is all that's needed.
Description: This workshop provides an opportunity to have an intimate conversation about sexuality with a renowned sex educator and the host/producer of JuiceBox radio ( www.juiceboxradio.com). Ask any burning question you may have about sexuality sexual health, or relationships - Julia promises to entertain and inform. After the first 1 hour of Q&A, the workshop will turn to (if participants desire) - practicing negotiating sexual encounters that you've been fantasizing about but haven't had the courage to ask for/about.

Bio: Julia Saunders (M.Ed. student and three time burner '02, '03, '04, ReComp '06). Julia teaches youth and adults about healthy sexuality and relationships. She brings to Recompression a wealth of knowledge and experience about sexuality – which is backed by 8 years of higher education at UBC: BHE (Critical Studies in Sexuality) and her currently almost complete M.Ed. If you missed last year now's your chance to experience it. Julia's motto is: Expressing diversity, celebrating queerness, and encouraging pleasure at all stages and ages of sexuality.

The Laugh Club
Facilitator: squishe)'(e
1 hour, once on friday once on Saturday
If rainy out, we'll do the class inside the Dining Hall
Join the Global movement for Health, Happiness & Peace! Take advantage of laughter's therapeutic values and its contagious properties & learn how to laugh without reason.

Klown Triathlon
Facilitator: Kootie the Klown and BaBa the Pony
Maximum and Minimum Number of Attendees: min 6 max 12 (teams of 3)
If it's not raining, we'll meet outside the moose lodge. we need a fairly big space, due to the minibike race portion of it. we'll bring our own equipment.
you must be an alcohol drinker (there's a shot of tequila involved) and not scared of klowns. you must also be ok with NO2
Participants will be put through a grueling, 10 minute race in teams of 3. There will be 3 main events and each person on the team must do all the events.

Rope Bondage for beginners
Facilitator: Greg
Max number of attendees: 12 – sign up at center camp!
• Attend with your sweetie, or come single and meet your bondage play partner!
• Body-hugging clothing is great, nude even better! Bottoms required if sharing rope.
• At least 2 pcs of 1/4" (3/8" acceptable) twisted nylon rope per 2 participants: roughly 10ft and 25ft. 4 pc would be great (I'll try to get some to let a few people use)
• A blanket of your own never hurts

Ever want to hold down your lover so you can do delicious or sadistic things to them? Or seen hot sexy bound models and curious how it's done? Learn how to do it safely, comfortably and sensually!
• Rope bondage and its appeal
• Safety precautions and negotiation
• Basic knots and ties
• A few bondage positions

CanNoWorms ~ Healing Together
Facilitator: Howler
Duration: 2 Hours ...until we're clearly done.
This workshop is an exploration into better community health and sustainability by putting our shit on the table, owning it and seeking better ways of not stepping in it again. Together, we will identify
destructive patterns that we have experienced and wish not to experience again. We'll point fingers at mirrors and explore ways of handling tricky situations in a more clear and constructive way.
Bring a pen.

Music Jam Workshop
Featuring Chris! Facilitator: FireMan
Requirements: The desire to try. Plus any instruments are welcome.
A musical improvisation workshop facilitates collective harmonies and group participation. Some parameters will be offered to achieve a modecum of structure, though this will not be entirely the case. I (Mr. Fire-Man) will be bringing some horns for public consumption, and a hand drum. Chris will have some electronic devices to ensure a seditious bent to our efforts.

Sensual Hypnosis and Maximal Pleasure
Facilitator: Dominic
Imagine learning how to deepen the pleasure and fulfillment you share with your partners, using your imagination and intuition; imagine taking them on journeys mingling rich sensation and ravishing emotion, journeys that unfold worlds of ripe possibility, so that all you've shared together becomes a doorway to places inside you to which you've never yet been truly taken.
Imagine feeling more connection, safety, wonder, and freedom than ever before, in a way that allows you to discover more and more about who you truly are, and what you truly enjoy.
This workshop will teach you how to guide others, and yourself, into states of intense physical pleasure and deepened emotional and even spiritual rapport.
Loose, comfortable clothing recommended.

Naughty Kitten's Pole Erotica
Faciliator: Naughty Kitten
Maximum participants: 10 – sign up at center camp!
Clothing and shoes: When learning how to work the pole less really is more. Snug fitting, stretchy shorts and a bra or bikini top will be perfect...bare legs and abdomin are a must! For shoes, pick a pair of heals that you can walk/dance in.
Have you ever been currious about what it takes to throw your body around a brass pole? Have you ever watched a woman on stage and wondered if you could do what she's doing?
The answere is YOU CAN!
Kitten will take you through the basics of pole erotica, hopefully we'll all learn something new. The new is really the point. She'll show you some sensual dance movement and a few sexy poses (and maybe some not so sexy moves too). This workshop is meant to be FUN. I assure you that we will ALL laugh at ourselves and we'll all walk away with a few bumps and bruises too.
Kitten spent almost five years performing on the B.C and Alberta exotic dance circuts and now shares her experience with you!

Appreciating the Multifaceted You – check center camp for time & location
Facilitators: Jules and Anne
# attendees: 5 – 10 – sign up at center camp!
To bring: a pen and a friend (optional but neat)
We are many things to many people, yet we may not realize our positive influence on others without their feedback. Communicating appreciation is important, as it allows people to experience themselves through the lives of others, and opens us to more deeply love the qualities of others and ourselves. This workshop will develop appreciation within the group, by focusing its love on the many faces within.

Saké Saturday!!!
Cabin # 9 - Official Evil Empire of Burningman is hosting Saké Saturday! Bring a bottle if you can, and enjoy some Heart Warming Delight!
Santa Gift Exchange & Rampage
- Bring your Santa suits!
Bring yours if you don't plan on using it, for those who want to join the Santa Rampage - to be announced on site.
- Santa's Xmas Gift Delivery System!
Bring small / silly gifts, wrapping paper if you have extra, to put under the Xmas Tree.
Santa will deliver presents to any cabin/lodge throughout the weekend! Give anonymously, or send special gifts addressed to you your favorite participants!

Shakra Hunt!
This is a participatory fully interactive art project based upon the idea of a treasure hunt. It's easter weekend, and that reminds me of easter egg hunts, and the like. There will be pirates, as usual, at recompression too, so now I am reminded of a treasure hunt, and the like. I thought that it would be fun to not hunt for the usual things, like chocolate and candy, and I do not have any access to any real booty or gold, so I have created a hunt for the energy of the individual chakras in the body. Each chakra has a focus, element and vibration that identifies it as such, and based upon this knowledge I have put together a small game that will lead the participant through a series of activities that will actually bring them into contact with that energy. As the players informally find each place that is made for the activation and release of a particular chakra, they will be given the opportunity to make something, say something, do something, etc. There will be a 'treasure' map too that I have made to help everyone understand and find each chakra's energy.

Capture the Bunny
Facilitator: Carola
where: Outdoors, in the woods.
Minimum: 10, Maximum: 40
What to bring: Wear dark or camouflage clothing. Basically anything that can get dirty and is OK for running around in the woods, doing log rolls, comando-crawls, climbing trees, etc...!
This is Capture the Flag using bunnies in the spirit of Easter (don't worry, I will bring stuffed animals, not real bunnies. If you do happen to see a real bunny in the forest please leave it alone!)
How to Play: Players divide themselves into two teams. The legal boundaries of play are established (I will flag off an area). At the beginning of a round, each team hides their "flag/bunny". The bunny must not be obscured and should be a reasonable height off the ground. The object of the game is for one team to capture the bunny of the other team.
There are a couple variations of the game, Last Man (person/human/individual) Standing, or the Kids Camp verison using "jails" and middle boundaries (which one to play can be decided on later)
Forest Green face paint will be provided!
Bio: Carola is a crazy lady who really likes to play Capture the Flag.

SPRING RABBIT & CANDY HOLIDAY PRAYER
The Legion of Flying monkeys will lead a spiritual ceremony on Easter morning.
I figure there will be a few campers who will want to participate in some kind of holey ceremony on Sunday morning. I hope you can post this, and lead them to our ministries.
April, 8 2007 at Recomp 10 am Sunday morning
Legion of Flying Monkeys Lounge, Lodge #3, Elphinstone, BC
Cost : $0
Sunday morning cult rituals. Sermon, hymns, sunday school, Rock band, and ritual 'no rain dance' sacrifice by led Baboon Torture Division.

"Behold. For he is risen from the heart of man, but knows not want, nor need. His shape is ideal for labor in the micro arts, and now will be mass produced, packed into a rubix cube, anchored to a rocket, and fired toward the Eastward Rising Star. And may this be blessed, our most sacred day when we pack our shit and return to our homeland. May our new moon achieve telemarketing success from the cubes. May they remain docile and harmless that we may amass wealth. May the ape bones stay strong as man's mind within the Cubapes. O hang over. Still we take the sacrement of Jack Daniels. May the coffee and cigarettes keep us alert and safe as we search the cabins of near strangers for our lost clothes. And blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shephreds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brothers keeper and the finder of lost children." Austin 3:16