Peace Camp

Peace Camp for Summer 2021

LFFP will be offering on-campus, in-person programs while implementing COVID-19 best practices to ensure that all campers and staff are safe while having fun! We will also have a variety of virtual programming this summer. Peace Camp Dates for August will go live soon!

Register for UUCA Peace Camp Here: https://form.jotform.com/210893538365161

Register for Virtual Peace Camp Here: https://form.jotform.com/210875753097162

Register for St. Camillus Peace Camp Here: https://form.jotform.com/211784297713160

Register for Mount Rainier Peace Camp Here: https://form.jotform.com/211654426920150

What is Peace Camp?

Peace Camps are week long LFFP programs designed to introduce peace to children ages 5-14. LFFP utilizes art, games, and presentations to teach children mindfulness, empathy, anger management, conflict resolution, and self-empowerment.

What Does Virtual Peace Camp Look Like?

MJ Park and LFFP Staff will be leading peace circles and classes each day! We will kick off the day with an Opening Circle with all peace campers and each day at 11:45am we will close out the day with our Closing Circle with all campers. This gives the campers an opportunity to interact and tell stories about what they have learned or experienced during the week. Classes will provide children (ages 5-14) with the opportunity to explore cooperation and conflict resolution in safe and supportive environments. Peace camp has always been about creating inclusive environments where campers, counselors and staff can experience, learn, and practice peace in ways our culture may not facilitate. Peace Camp is a highly interactive experience, where campers are taught the skills needed to deal with their problems in a peaceful manner and are encouraged to create solutions to the problems they see in the world. Join us this summer as we explore care for ourselves, each other, and our earth!

UUCA In-Person Peace Camp for Summer 2021

Who: Children ages 5-14
What: Week long LFFP programs designed to introduce peace to children ages 5-14
Where: The LFFP Peace Oasis
When: 9:00am -12:00pm
Week 1- July 12-16
Week 2- July 19-23
Price: $250
Register: https://form.jotform.com/210893538365161

International Virtual Peace Camp for Summer 2021

Who: Children ages 5-14
What: Week long LFFP programs designed to introduce peace to children ages 5-14
Where: Zoom
When: August 16- 20 from 9:00am -12:00pm
Price: $125-150
Register: https://form.jotform.com/210893538365161

For information about camps, scholarships, or if you have questions, please contact us at peacecamp@lffp.org.

Peace Camp Poetry Gallery

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A poem by Jonathan Harness

"I can see the sun
Through the clouds I've broken
Evaporating the walls of my cage
I set forth
Taking the path least traveled
Because I blaze it as I go
Putting prints behind me
Party grows larger
Because I hold my hands out
Pull people from the Rapids
Share the herbs I've picked up along my way
Remedy everything
With an open hand and an explorer's machete."

Peace Transformer
By Leila Park, age 12

"We are peace transformers
not robots, not cars
even though that would be cool
but we still transform, we still change
we change hate to love
we change racism into equality
we change war to peace
even though we are not robots or cars
we are peace transform."

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by Noelle, 5th grade

We need peace. You can find it in yourself. If you look at all of the things that are happening in the world, wouldn't you want to help? If you don't the world will get worse. For all of us. So please all I am asking is to be kind, care for people, and love one another. Find it deep down in yourself and create peace. Then the world will be a better place, for all of us.

What Is Peace?
A poem by Piper Powell

"What is peace?
Peace is a single breath that becomes stronger when we work together.
Peace is the choice that everyone has to make. Are you going to choose violence... or peace?
Peace is a voice that has been forgoten, but is rembered thanks to peacemakers all around us.
Peace is the fire that brings warmth back to us after a deadly war full of regrets.
Peace are new eyes you can look through like I did and so many others. Peace is all those things and more."