Learning for Liberation. Healing in Community.
Connection as Practice.
Our Purpose
Camp Ujima exists as a classroom without institutional walls—a learning space where education, liberation, and connection are practiced together. Grounded in somatic, trauma-informed, and culturally rooted approaches, Camp Ujima centers collective knowledge over individual performance and embodied learning over extraction or urgency. Here, people learn with one another, in relationship and in context, honoring lived experience as a source of wisdom and community as essential to healing and freedom.
What We Practice
Experiential Learning in Community
Knowledge is built through dialogue, reflection, and shared experience rather than lecture alone.
Somatic and Trauma-Informed Education
Education which attends to the body, nervous system, and emotional context of the material to create space to learn without fixing, producing, or proving
Liberatory Educational Practice
Education grounded in Ubuntu, Ujima, and cultural relational approaches that support freedom through relationship and collective connection.
Collective Meaning-Making
Honoring lived experience, cultural wisdom, and relational knowledge as valid sources of insight.
Who Camp Ujima Is For
We Learn Together
Camp Ujima is for people who want to learn their way toward freedom and healing—in community, with intention, and without institutional constraint.
This space is for:
Counselors, educators, and clinicians who want to study and practice Ubuntu and Ujima as liberatory frameworks that support ethical, relational, and culturally grounded therapeutic work
Community members seeking language, understanding, and collective analysis of the systems that shape our lives, labor, bodies, and possibilities
People interested in somatic, trauma-aware learning that supports clarity, presence, and agency rather than fixing or treatment
Those who want to think together, question inherited narratives, and expand how freedom, care, and responsibility are imagined
Anyone ready to engage learning as a collective practice, where lived experience and shared knowledge are valued over hierarchy or expertise
Camp Ujima does not offer therapy or promise healing. It offers education, reflection, and relational learning so individuals and communities can better understand their conditions—and imagine their own paths toward liberation.
How We Gather
At Camp Ujima, gathering is intentional.
How we come together shapes what can be learned.
We gather in ways that prioritize presence over performance and learning over productivity.
We attend to the body and nervous system to support clarity and regulation to sustain engagement in learning spaces.
We value collective responsibility for the learning environment, including pacing, participation, and care for one another.
We engage across difference with curiosity, accountability, and respect, not debate for dominance.
We limit distractions and documentation in shared learning spaces to protect attention, trust, and relational depth.
We honor consent, choice, and boundaries around participation, reflection, and sharing.
Camp Ujima gatherings are structured, facilitated, and held with care—so learning can happen in community.
What’s Coming
Camp Ujima is an evolving educational project. Offerings will unfold intentionally and in rhythm, not on a fixed production schedule.
Future offerings may include:
Experiential learning gatherings rooted in collective study and reflection
NBCC approved CE educational spaces for counselors and educators exploring Ubuntu and Ujima as liberatory frameworks
Community learning spaces focused on understanding systems, constraint, and freedom
Seasonal gatherings that center rest, study, and connection in nature
Details will be shared when ready.
