Campfire in the Heart is a sacred place of retreat, in the spirit of love the Campfire community welcomes all who come. Read our Vision statement here. The retreat is set in a restful location on Arrernte land along the East MacDonnell Ranges, just seven kilometres from the centre of Alice Springs.
Facilities
Campfire in the Heart offers a peaceful location for seminars and retreats, as well as cabins overlooking the East Macdonnell Ranges for individual, self-led solitude.
What’s On
Join our free weekly meditation and gatherings around the campfire! We have a range of regular events, as well as an evolving calendar of extended retreats to inspire and rejuvenate the spirit.
In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal. As in the word ‘remember’, we re-member, we bring together the parts, we integrate that which has been alienated or separated out. Self-discovery is more than gathering information about oneself – it alters us. We re-store, re-member, re-vitalise. Writing our story takes us back to some moment of origin when everything was whole.
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Latest News
Why we became oblates
It was in Shantivanam, Fr Bede Griffith’s ashram in India, that we learned of Christian mediation over thirty years ago. Each morning and evening we sat on the banks...
Benedictines at the Billabong
In July 2023, 14 oblates from around Australia responded to a call to be pilgrims at Alice Springs in Central Australia, on a national oblate retreat. This landscape...
Autumn Newsletter 2024
Dear friends of Campfire in the Heart, Greetings from the Campfire community as we gradually transition to cooler weather and enter into a new season of retreat...