Teaching life skills for resolving conflicts, and building trust, harmony and more long lasting meaningful family connections, in the present moment and into adulthood.
Come learn with us in a space where everyone’s needs matter!
Family HEART Camp
House in the Wood
Delavan, WI
June 23-29, 2025
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House In The Wood
House in the Wood, owned by Northwestern Settlement, rests on a beautiful forested peninsula on lake Delavan, in South Central Wisconsin.
Camp is one hour from both Milwaukee and Madison and approximately 1.5 hrs from Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Lodging choices include rustic cabins (limited availability) or tent camping. Tent campers provide their own tent and camping gear. There flush toilets and warm showers throughout camp.
You can learn more about House in the Wood on their website.
We understand that sometimes you may need to cancel due to circumstances that changed after you made your original plan to attend camp. We value flexibility, knowing that you are tending to the needs of your family. We want to be responsive to both your needs and those of the organizers of FHC who have made financial commitments in order to hold camp.
Our cancellation policy is guided by our care for your needs and our needs for financial sustainability and integrity. We have made agreements with our venue and our chef, each requiring a final count for camp by a specific date. This final count determines the fee we pay them, regardless of cancellations after that date.
- If we cancel we will return to you 100% of your tuition payment.
- If you cancel on, or before Friday, June 6 2025, we will refund your tuition, minus a (10%) cancellation fee.
- Cancellations made after June 6, 2025 will not be refunded
- We accept both check and credit card payments.
- Due to the high processing cost of credit card payments, we ask that registrants cover the 3.2% processing fee. This supports our small nonprofit in keeping our camp rates lower.
Donations
Help us create a world where children grow up into empowered, compassionate individuals, imbued with a strong sense of purpose, and equipped with skills to resolve conflicts and build long-lasting meaningful connections with people around them. Your donations make camp possible for families who would not otherwise be able to participate.
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Why Family Heart Camp
Our camp families come in all shapes and sizes, and have ranged in age from from 3 months to 80 years. Families at camp may span multiple generations or be a single person. What all of our families have in common is curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a longing for more connection and harmony, in their family, their community, and in the world.
Family HEART Camp is a family residential retreat, meaning only staff and registered families participate. Sessions are not open to members of the public who have not pre-registered for camp. We start and end the week together, without visitors, allowing for the creation of a clear community container to better support us in building trust, and a sense of belonging, that campers of all ages can lean into as they learn and practice.
Families come to camp longing for more:
- Harmony in their family
- Skill in navigating challenges in relationships
- Strategies for staying connected as they grow and change
- Autonomy and choice as individuals
- Support in growing their skills in nonviolence
- Tools for navigating an ever more polarized world
Programing & Activities
Camp is structured around Community Sourced Programming (CSP), an adaptation of Open Space Technology (OST), which allows both staff and campers, of any age, to make offerings for the day.
Sessions led by our Program Team infuse the community with a rich experience of the values at the core of Family HEART Camp, while sharing the communication skills that help us all realize those values. Session offerings range from more structured teaching of NVC, to engaging with nature, community games, crafts, and other explorations grounded in NVC, that appeal to a wide range of ages and interests.
The great benefit of Community Sourced Programing is its flexibility to meet the needs of each camp community, recognizing that everyone — children included — are important contributors to the community.
Engaging Conflict: We believe that conflict is a natural part of our human experience. NVC offers many practices to support us in relating to conflict with integrity and care as we try to understand the tension and restore connection and trust. At camp we co-create a restorative system that will serve the camp community for the week, as we explore tools for conflict resolution for all ages.
Who Comes to Camp
Financial Assistance: It is important to us that camp is accessible to every family wanting to learn. If you experience the fee to be a barrier to your family's participation, please contact your camp host.
Indoor lodging age 13+
Indoor lodging ag 3-12
Tent camping age 13+
Tent camping age 3-12
Ages 2 and under
$700
$600
$550
$450
$0.00
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Our indoor lodging is now full. We have abundant tent camping available!
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