Focus & Flow: The Wild Edge Summer Camp
Coming July 14-18th. A week of creative momentum.
Hello all.
I am back from some travels in beautiful (and hot!) Seville in the South of Spain. Much as I love Ireland, I sometimes long to get away for some fresh energy and ideas. I call it needing to get off the rock. And, gosh, it was wonderful. I deleted the apps off my phone, barely looked at a screen, and just wandered. In the wandering, some of the noise settled, and new ideas popped. I’ve a post from my travels later in the week, but for today, I want to share some details of the upcoming, inaugural, Wild Edge summer Camp, starting in less than two weeks. I’ve been on Substack six months now and one of the strengths of the platform has been reaching more people, from different countries. My hope for the camp is that it will become a gathering place for us- a place to share, connect, be inspired and find momentum and rhythm in our creative practices- whatever form they take.
You’ll be able to it all at your own pace and will have an opportunity to join live salons, co-working circles and even a showcase. Maybe you have been wanting to try out a salon or one of the Wild Edge Owl Hours- this is a great way to jump in and explore.
I hope you’ll join!
Clare x
Focus & Flow: The Wild Edge Summer Camp!
14-18 July 2025.
These are intense and challenging times. We are being pulled in so many directions, and finding time to create can feel like a radical act. But creativity is a radical act, and is a vital tool for helping us navigate times like this of change and transition.
Focus and Flow is a five day online summer camp designed to help you pause, re-centre and reconnect with your creativity, in creative community.
Each day you will be invited into reflection, imagination and creative action through prompts, live sessions, community campfires and creative exploration.
While the week borrows from design sprints, I did not want to call it a sprint, as frankly, that sounds exhausting. And while it borrows from good educational practice, it’s not a course either. There are no learning outcomes or expectations, and defiantly no grades. Instead, picture gathering around a campfire, sharing prompts, poems, stories and ideas. Picture some nourishing creative community. Picture a supportive, soulful place to nourish your creative self.
You do not need to be a writer or artist, just someone curious about what seeks to emerge when you give yourself time and space to explore your creative self.
Momentum and deepening of your creative process.
New perspectives on your ideas.
Fresh inspiration and resources.
Connect with like-minded others
Plus a sense of creating and connecting on The Wild Edge.
The five days… Grounding/ Sensing/ Becoming/ Imagineering/ Sustaining…
Day One, Grounding, will help you connect with your creative intention.
Day Two, Sensing, will guide you to creative expression through your senses.
Day Three, Becoming, will help open you to creative flow and authentic expression.
Day Four, Imagineering, will connect you to the power of your imagination and support you to bring your ideas to life.
Day Five, Sustaining, will offer guidance for on-going, nourishing creative habits and practices.
Daily creative prompts - journaling, art, mindfulness
Daily‘Owl Hours’ - community co-creation sessions.
Evening campfires, including an opening welcome session and a poetry salon.
An Ideas to Action Cafe- helping you to develop your creative projects and ideas.
Campfire showcase.
How to engage:
There are lots of ways to engage in the camp, choose your own pace! You can choose to do the daily prompts, in your own time. You can come to any or all of the live ‘Owl Hours’. You can come along to any of the live campfire sessions.
We are on camp time here. It’s about having some fun, and finding your flow. You can do all of it, or some of it. And the prompts will remain available in the archive for members.
If you choose to do just prompts, you’ll need about 30 mins per day.
Camp Timetable
All hours are in Irish/UK summer time. You can find your timezone here. Daily emails will go out at 7am Irish/UK time each day with that day’s prompt and a reminder of the camp agenda for the day.
Monday 14th July: Grounding/ Arrival and Orientation.
2-3pm Irish/UK time- Owl Hour.
6-6.45pm: Campfire Session: The Story of Us. (Getting to know each other).
Tuesday 15th July: Sensing
2-3pm Owl Hour
6-7pm: Campfire: Poetry Salon
Wednesday 16th July: Becoming.
2-3pm Owl Hour
6-7pm: Campfire: Ask me Anything. I will be in the comments section of the daily post with an Ask Me Anything session
Thursday 17th July: Imagineering
2-3pm: Owl Hour
6-8 pm: Ideas to Action Cafe.
Friday 18th July: Sustaining
2-3pm: Owl Hour
6-7.30 pm: Showcase! Share your work in progress, a poem, a piece of writing or art. This is our Wild Edge talent show! Participants will have 8 minute slots to share their work!
Focus and Flow is open to all paid members of The Wild Edge.
Emails will go out each day with our Camp Timetable, and will be available in the ‘members only’ archive of The Wild Edge.
We’ll use the same zoom link for the whole camp, to make it easy.
Packing for Camp
Setting up tent at the Wild Edge Camp is easy. You will need some pens and paper, some coloured pens if you have them, and if you are joining the live sessions, you’ll need access to zoom. All live session work best when you are in a quiet, private space, and are on a laptop or desktop computer.
You may want to get yourself some additional camp supplies, such as some really fine dark chocolate, some flowers for your table, and some delicious beverage of your choice!
Membership of The Wild Edge is only €8 per month/ €80 per year.
Yes, all this at that price. Why you may ask?
There are several reasons. Firstly I believe in the power of creative community and I want more people to be able to access this work, and my words. I want to give people an accessible way of coming together in shared creative space plus I want to grow my reach and presence on substack. Ordinarily I would be charging a higher fee for live events and retreats, but as it is a first, and an experiment, I have included them in the standard membership.
The camp feels like a great way of doing all of the above while giving people a taster of the range of offerings available.
If you can take out an annual membership, that really helps me too.
Why not join the camp with a friend! You can team up and do prompts together, go along to the poetry salon or even do a joint piece for Friday night’s showcase.
I’m so looking forward to the first Wild Edge Camp. I hope you will join too!
Questions? Pop them in the comments.
Thank you, with excitement, and a little dose of healthy nerves!
Clare x
Clare, I am looking forward to coming to this along with my cousin who is visiting from the US. A little nervous too :) My hope is to be dedicated for 5 days to writing creativity - in support of an ongoing project you know about. It's a bit about discipline and structure, a bit about support, a bit about 'just do it'. Thank you for providing the space and prompts.
I really look forward to it Clare !