Kindred Spirits Camp
A Community Supporting Healing & Self Discovery
$875
10% discount for first-time attendees. Email camp@rowecenter.org to get discount.
August 19-24, 2024
Rooted in Recovery for Over 30 Years
For more than 30 years, Kindred Spirits has offered a way for people to expand their growing edges, relax, and have fun. It can do that for you, too.
A wide variety of activities are provided in a beautiful, natural environment. Stay in a rustic cabin or cozy dorm room or treat yourself to a private room. Enjoy the divine food. Free your imagination to create what you have always wanted. Explore “lifeshops” in relationships, breathwork, grief and loss, nurturing the self, arts and crafts, meditation, music, play, or movement. Immerse yourself in singing, dancing, campfires, support groups, a talent-optional show, swimming, and lots of time just schmoozing.
We Are “Kindred Spirits”
We are a purposeful community that creates the world in which we want to live for a week every summer in the beautiful mountains of Western Massachusetts. We unplug and connect with nature and with each other. Camp is a place to experience unconditional love, dive into deep healing work in safety, or just let your inner child have a blast. We nurture our bodies with farm-to-table amazing food. We connect through song, breathwork, art, dance, music, and play. Our roots are in the 12 Step movement. 12 step offerings are still an integral part of camp, but we have evolved into a community for anyone who wants to further their personal growth and experience an unconditionally supportive community. Many campers have been coming for over a decade and would not miss it for the world. Give yourself this amazing gift this summer. You will be welcomed with open arms!
Meet The Directors
Lisa Silverman
Program Co-Director
Lisa Silverman has been a certified breathworker from the International Breathwork Institute since 1994. She graduated from the Power of Breath Institute’s 2 year certification program in 2004. Since then she has been assisting trainings at POBI in Spofford and in Ireland, teaching classes and breath intros and seeing private clients in Portland, Maine where she lives. Lisa is also a shiatsu therapist and natural foods chef. She is the Founder of Five Seasons Cooking School since 1992. Lisa has been a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and has been leading breath work at Kindred Spirits Camp/Rowe Camp and Conference Center for 14 years.
Robin Craver
Program Co-Director
Robin Craver is a seasoned Rowe co-director and has been a part of the Kindred Spirit camp and community for over 30 years. She also volunteers as Host for the Rowe Center’s online education and in person workshops. Recently retired as a Town Manager, she focused on empowering individuals and groups in areas of health, public safety, education, environment and financial management. Robin is the founder of The Lake House, a small in person retreat center for personal and group development in central MA, where she leads and hosts workshops on personal growth. She is an experienced Reiki Master, Energy Healer and Medium.
Paul Fish
Assistant Co-Director
Paul has been a part of the Rowe community since 1985, attending Senior High Camp from 1985 – 1987 and was elected Spirit in 1986. He began attending Kindred Spirits in 2006 and served one year on assistant staff. He loves singing and performing, most frequently with Rock Voices, a chorus he joined in 2015, traveling with his wife, Marcella, and exercising. Paul brings an open heart, kindness and sense of humor wherever he goes and is looking forward to expanding his horizons as Co-Director in Training.
Kindred Spirits Staff
Tom Allan
Satyena Ananda
Ann Aurelia Jarvis
Desiree Lawrence
Harvard MacFarlane
Rodney Carl Mashia
Nicole Pelkey
Sarah Pirtle
Charity Joy Robinson
Duffy Spencer
Will “Spence” Spencer
You also can relax and take advantage of all Rowe has to offer: hike the trails in the nature preserve, visit the nearby town beach, and create in the art room.
The journey of Kindred Spirits is the joy of reconnecting with self, the natural world, and other human beings. With its roots in the 12-step recovery movement, Kindred Spirits encourages authentic expression of feelings and a commitment to balance tears with laughter as we awaken our hearts and move into our wholeness. We build a fun, safe, relaxed community to which many return year after year and where newcomers are welcomed into the family with open arms.
Year after year we see happiness and love in the faces of adults, as life-long friendships and sweet memories are formed. Please join us.
Kindred Spirits Camp
Roooted in Recovery for over 30 years.
August 19-24, 2024
$875
10% first-time attendee discount available by emailing camp@rowecenter.org