-- Building the skills communities need to endure --
-- The village is the technology --
-- Preparedness beyond the individual --
-- Practice the future we need --
-- Prepared communities are harder to break --
-- Infrastructure, care, and collective resilience --
-- Build the village before you need it --
-- Community is critical infrastructure --
-- Relearning how to live together --
-- Building the skills communities need to endure -- -- The village is the technology -- -- Preparedness beyond the individual -- -- Practice the future we need -- -- Prepared communities are harder to break -- -- Infrastructure, care, and collective resilience -- -- Build the village before you need it -- -- Community is critical infrastructure -- -- Relearning how to live together --
Village Resiliency Summer Camp
August 1-8, 2026
Tryon Life Community Farm — Southwest Portland
This is a gathering for people who want to be more capable, connected, and prepared for uncertain times.
This is not a survivalist boot-camp. It is not a conference where you sit in rows and consume information. It is an immersive resiliency camp focused on building practical capacity, collective intelligence, and cultures of care that can withstand crisis, disruption, and reliance on external institutions of support.
Over the course of the camp, participants will learn hands-on systems for sustaining life, supporting communities, navigating conflict, and organizing under pressure — while also making space for creativity, joy, and human connection.
Camp Training Includes
Physical Systems
Build real-world skills for sustaining people and infrastructure under stress:
Food systems, kitchen setup, and efficient energy cooking
Water access, filtration, and storage
Sanitation and hygiene systems
Community health and wellness
Emergency and decentralized communications
Energy and power resilience
Shelter and camp infrastructure
Care Systems
Strengthen the emotional and relational foundations that movements and communities depend on:
Trauma aware peer support
Burnout prevention and recovery
Disability, elder, and child-centered preparedness
Conflict navigation and repair
Collective defense and community safety culture
Village Making
Because resilient communities need more than logistics:
Negotiating shared culture
Play and celebration
Song, ritual, and storytelling
Art, beauty, and meaning-making
Social Systems
Learn how groups coordinate effectively in complex situations:
Consensus and participatory decision-making
Council practice and deep listening
Incident Command Structure and adaptive leadership roles
Flexible power relationships and decentralized coordination
Human resource mapping
Mutual aid logistics
Anti-oppression frameworks and solidarity actions
Political Systems
Develop strategic awareness for organizing in rapidly changing environments:
Network building
Finding belonging in a movement ecosystem
Neighborhood unions
Organizing from common ground and shared values over ideologies
This camp is for organizers, caregivers, educators, medics, facilitators, homesteaders, technologists, movement builders, parents, artists, and anyone who wants to help create communities that can survive difficulty without losing their humanity.
Participants will leave with:
Practical skills
New relationships and mutual aid connections
Experience living in collaborative systems
Greater confidence under pressure
Tools for building resilient local culture where they live