Community Lab

The Vision

Community Lab is a bridge for people wanting to explore the field of community living. Our intention is to offer a space to empower groups to create systems, curriculums and micro cultures that support their process of organizing, collaborating and living communally. Ultimately we want to be part of creating a world where people who want to live more communally and collaboratively, have a place to practice, make mistakes, and develop together.

Some of the Original Inspiration for the Birth of CL

– To help the community movement grow and bloom
– To learn about tribal living, community building and practices needed within it
– A place of empowerment and freedom to co-create
– To find others with similar visions & inspire each other
– To create networks between existing / future communities or organisations
– To empower each of us to share our gifts with each other
– To support the ecovillage of Solfors and for them to possibly expand their community vision
– To experience a different world with sustainable systems and healthy living – a life we could see for future generations (addressing topics like: income, alone time, healthy routines and authentic relating)
– To have a summer with heartful connections, profound realizations, gaining clarity, creating, playing, healing and learning / teaching

The Camps

The experience will be a lot around you, your camp and what you’re researching together.
There are now 4 camps established that people can apply to!

These camps are;

Tiny house camp:
Learning to build a tiny house together.

Listeners camp:
Focusing on practices of deep listening, both into oneself, the body but also in the field of the group.

Bodywork camp:
Learning and exploring different types of bodywork with different teachers. You can step in both as a student and a teacher.

Bloom camp:
Explore the art of creating and hosting workshops. A space where you get to take part of experiences held by others, and step into your own explorations of spaceholding in a held container.

Within the wide frame that we offer, each camp shapes their own culture, curriculums and time spent together. They’ll explore how to live a life together with things such as cooking, decision making or conflict resolution tools. So no matter the research topic or theme, it’ll be a deep tribal experience for those participating.

The Village

Our camps will create our village setting. There will be days more focused on camp time, and days that are more focused on village time.
During village time, everyone is invited to both offer and join workshops, experiences, discussions etc. beyond your camp, transforming the atmosphere into a dynamic, festival-like vibe. On these days you will explore, create, and learn—not only within your own camp but also across the wider village.

Solfors – Our Home For 2 Months

Community Lab will take place at Solfors – an ecovillage in Dalarna, Sweden. It’s a big land with beautiful nature, a lively river that flows into a big lake, several buildings and plenty of space to create camps.

Solfors will support us with electricity and running water that we will pull from the main campus through extension cords and hose’s to our camp kitchens and living rooms. These will likely be located on the big main field where our main campus will be.

There are simple out houses near our main campus. Each camp will be encouraged to build their own form of a compost toilet for their camp!
Lastly, we’ll bring most of our gathering tents for our village workshops, but we will also have access to a big barn, a pre built yurt, a few teepees, a sauna and a few other ceremonial spaces.

Membership Cost

Membership cost is comprised of two fixed costs and one gift experiment

1. Solfors Contribution
– 3 000 kr per person for using the land
2. Village Infrastructure Cost
– 2 000 kr per person for the event
3. Our Compensation
– A Gift Experiment

Additional Camp Fees:
Each camp will have its own budget that includes food, materials and supplies to make their camp unique and homey. We encourage camps to be creative and resourceful in how they acquire their materials either through thrift shops, borrowing materials or participants bringing supplies to “lend to the camp”. From our own experience, we imagine that a realistic cost for the entire program (including your camp costs) would be between 1000kr and 2000kr

There’s much more information about Community Lab and the different camps on our website! -> www.communitylab.life
There you can also apply to different camps you’re curious about to then have an interview with the camp organisers to feel in if it’s right for you!

A summer for the community movement and to feel that it is possible to create something new! Welcome to Community Lab!