Applications Open | Mad Camp 2025 | July 31-Aug 4 | (deadline approaching - need to know soon!)
reminder- applications open - let's make it happen! www.madcamp.net
Hey wonderful people!
Just a reminder —
Mad Camp California applications NOW OPEN
https://forms.gle/UUMYLuH6DV1ntygB9
(deadline April 15th)
www.madcamp.net
Please share!
Help us raise money for SCHOLARSHIPS:
https://gofund.me/7bcca5c4
Mad Camp 2023 was a huge success! 2024 also super incredible amazing! Get ready for 2025 wowwwww!
Here’s what some people had to say about past Mad Camps:
It’s been a long time since I’ve been around so many people in a safe environment to talk about our experiences and I found it so healing. In fact, I can safely say that this is the first five-day period I’ve had in a long time that included this level of learning, good conversations, healing, fun, and laughter with people. I am amazed at how connected I felt to the people I met. I really felt like I developed new friendships and people who feel like family.
I’m ready to meet all of my mad folk again to play, dance, cry, laugh and connect deeply or lightly.
I’m mad for MadCamp! 2023 was the best, let’s make 2024 even better
I am so excited to return to the world changing, mind bending, love bomb that is MadCamp
I attended last year and it was amazing and I need more mad community in my life! I have a history with madness that I am still making meaning out of and I’d love to connect with other folks
Last year was a much needed, incredible healing space. Excited to be in such a space again.
This camp came like out of one of my dreams, basically…
I loved it last year and want to come back
Mad Camp last year was amazing. I am excited to continue connecting with the community and learning from other psych survivors and mad people.
I’m a returning mad camper and can’t wait to reunite with returning campers and meet new ones! Mad camp is the place to be! Such amazing connections to make and friendships to form
Last year was great
I am a Mad Camper. Because Mad Campers are the most awesome people on the planet!!!!
Feeling the call to be with community, in a 100% Peer setting. Been having some challenging times and appreciate spaces where I can emote and navigate my emotions authentically and unapologetically. That is a hallmark of healing.
I think I’m a little more comfortable now with the name of “Mad Camp” for this wonderful summer camp for those who have had experience with psych meds or identify as different. Maybe it’s because I’m a little more comfortable admitting I’m kind of mad.
BASICS ON MAD CAMP:
We are the Mad Camp crew, survivors of psych diagnosis and extreme states who live outside psychiatry and have been activists and advocates for abolishing the mental health system and replacing it with love.
We are very excited to organize Mad Camp 2025!!!! After two Mad Camps that were a huge amazing success!
We hereby invite planet earth’s survivors/evaders/transformers of psychiatry who are living with altered/visionary/extreme states of consciousness:
Join us for a 5 day summer camp slumber party at the beautiful Four Springs Retreat Center in Middletown, California July 31-August 4.!!! The retreat is two hours north of San Francisco (On public transit from the San Francisco/Oakland airport and accessible from the Bay Area transit line, though it takes a while… we try to organize ridesharing…)
(Check our Frequent Questions page for more details www.madcamp.net!)
Now announcing the barn-raising to make this happen, including asking for donations for and scholarship money. Please join us to make this a reality!
We want to feel stronger connection with you – the amazing incredible people of the mad movement, and we want to enliven our community solidarity with each other. Since the early days of the movement summer camps have been an antidote to burnout and key to weaving friendships and sharing our vision. We are called to reignite this spirit through MAD CAMP!
And we ask everyone – including allies and family members and supporters of the mad movement – please help make this happen! We need you to donate to our scholarship fund!
Mad Camp 2025 will be: fun, friendship, community, healing, replenishment, fun, sunshine, electrolytes, dancing, music, listening time, mutual aid, remembrance, art-making, more fun, swimming, hiking, hanging out, open mics, delicious food, frisbees, poetry, meditation, scavenger hunts, nap times, ecstatic dance, acupuncture, storytelling, healing offerings, starry sky gazing, jenga / board games, sun lounging, campfire hang outs, swimming pool, disco/80s happy hour, hanging out, get to know each other gatherings, optional day-long breathwork session, optional it’s-all-groovy community spirit ceremony, optional raging against the psychiatric machine (but encouraged), and optional scheming for activism (also encouraged).
JOIN US
Mad Camp California Applications NOW OPEN
https://forms.gle/UUMYLuH6DV1ntygB9
www.madcamp.net
Help us raise money for SCHOLARSHIPS:
https://gofund.me/7bcca5c4
— from Dina, Will, and the Mad Camp Crew
