An Adult Singles Vacation Camp
AMUUSE
Adult Midwest Unitarian Universalism Singles Enrichment
August2019 - Week
"High Spirits"
Tower Hill and Retreat Center
Sawyer Michigan
August 11-17, 2019
Please join us at August Camp this year! We will be in High Spirits at Tower Hill in Sawyer, Michigan.
After several years of weekends, and two taste of AMUUSE partial weeks at the lovely Tower Hill Camp and Retreat Center in Sawyer, Michigan, we have finally secured a full week from August 11-17 for the 2019 camp season. Director Dave L. and Associate Director Elise R. have a fun-filled week planned for you.
In the afternoons there will be organized trips off site to the local Sawyer brewery and/or distillery, and to the beautiful lake Michigan beaches. Tower Hill has its own beachfront, and there is also a public beach and several miles of nice trails in the adjacent Warren Dunes State Park. It’s a short walk to the beach, but on at least one afternoon we will try to organize transportation for those who aren’t able to make the trek.
Of course, you are always welcome to spend your afternoons napping, eating too much candy and chocolate, playing games, or just sitting around reading a book or chatting with friends.
In the evening, we will have an organized game night at the speakeasy with cocktails or mocktails (if you prefer to keep your wits about you). On another day, lively music and perhaps servers in traditional dirndl attire into a German Hofbrauhaus? Full disclosure: you may be required to polka. There will be a darts tournament and pub-crawl, with actual pointy tipped darts, so be careful please! We don’t want anyone going home with any new piercings they didn’t intend on getting.
Naturally there will be the usual music and dancing that you have come to expect from your AMUUSE family, and no camp would be complete without a camp show.
Morning Groups
Yoga and Other Healthy Habits - Sandy A.
The yoga poses will be those aimed at improving overall posture with a meditation at the end of the session. Learning to adopt healthier habits is drawn from the author Gretchen Rubin-writer of "Better than Before-mastering our everyday habits".
Materials fee $10
Mind to Mind, Heart to Heart - Rev. Rosie R.
This group will touch on some deep questions like; how did we get here? how do we live our lives?, what is our future? It won’t just be heavy topics but some light ones to. It will be a sharing of our minds and of our hearts.
We will begin with a conversation about a book called, ‘A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science and the Future of our Planet’ by Nancy Ellen Abrams. No need to read the book (but you could), I will share the parts we will be discussing.
It will be a light-hearted take on some deep questions. Daily topics will be forthcoming.
Improv Being in the moment - John Nollen
We will be doing warm up Improv activities and short inmprov games designed to being open to what your scene partner is saying/communicating to you.
Emphasis will be on communication via listening, observing and doing.
A New Look at Haiku and Related Short-Form Poetry - Jill Lange
Want to relax, improve your memory, be fully present, take a look at life from a different view, make friends around the world? An exploration of contemporary haiku, senryu, tanka and more can promise you that. Whether you want to get deep down and personal, or wide and out there with the universe, this may be your Goldilocks opportunity. Beginners and experienced writers are welcome; all assignments voluntary.
Jill has been an AMUUSE camper for ages, and has lead morning groups previously.
