Dear friends of Campfire in the Heart,

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein’s words have a particular resonance at this time of crisis in so many spheres. How do they relate to our hopes for Campfire we wonder …we hear a new consciousness is needed, our experience is that meditation gives us our best chance of really changing our hard-wiring, of not repeating unworkable ways.

Meditation and the contemplative life is at the heart of Campfire’s offerings. Our winter retreats have been enthusiastically supported, with a recent participant commenting “The landscape of central Australia is both visually dramatic and, in its endless and timeless spaces, somehow freeing. To go on a retreat in this landscape is truly time out of time. Stepping into an external and internal landscape that is new and different just invites an openness to explore new ways of being.”

We will offer again several weekend deep silent retreats in 2026, in April and August initially. Also two other weekend retreats especially appealing to locals at the beginning and end of June. And 5-day offerings in May and July, of interest to those living locally as well as those who come from afar. A rich variety, all based around meditation as taught by the World Community for Christian Meditation, which like Campfire, is grounded in Christianity and welcomes all.

As well there will be yoga and drumming retreats, together with all the wonderful school and cultural groups who choose Campfire as their ‘place’, who bless us with their presence. The website is being updated as we speak, have a look and see if something calls you.

In this season of gift, we have a special download available, offered by our Meditator-in-Residence earlier this year, Rodney Marsh. He has put together a digital book 52 Blessings from the Centre which can be used with groups or personally around times of meditation.

If you’d like to make a donation towards this or our ongoing efforts, it all helps in this quiet (hot) season, when costs remain high. We also have a beautiful 2026 calendar for sale (see below), thanks to Michelle Vass.

Bless you, dear friends of Campfire, your big hearts for this place encourage us daily.

Judi & Paul for the Campfire staff and board

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