Educational Project

 

Campo Escola (School Camp)  aims to be able to offer people a 2 to 15 days long non formal educational experience. All who attend Campo Escola contribute to keeping it alive and keeping its goal alive – allowing people the experience of living in Nature while having fun and learning from all the normal daily events and specific workshops and training. All activities held at Campo Escola are possible only because participants assume their responsibility in contributing to its Qualitative Economy (an economy based on the quality rather than the quantity of the exchange). Financial support, any kind of maintenance or life supporting work, bringing food items or any other kind of agreed contribution is welcome.

 

Campo Escola has artistic labs, pioneering workshops, team building programmes, training in autonomy (individual training) and council gatherings approaching relevant self development issues, such as health, family life, education and society). Our trainings often meet other organizations, associations, theatres, schools, communities and so on.

We may also help with logistics and support your own developing programmes. Because this suggestion has been made to us, it is now possible for groups of people to enjoy the place, suggest themes or bring their own activities in. All gatherings frequently find themselves crossing ways with an artistic expression.

 

Whatever one does for living or in whichever ever one may contribute to society, we at Campo Escola see knowledge as being (a) good in itself. Stimulating knowledge exchanges in different professional fields brings new solutions to our activity field and to life.

 

At Campo Escola we mean to teach and to effectively improve our individual and collective existence. It’s not about self-help or any kind of miraculous solution promising our lives will be everything we ever dreamed of for the best. Careful observation and analysis of our surroundings are our main tools.

 

We don’t always walk the desired path in life: often because we have been told that was the only path; other times because, while walking a particular path in life, we don’t know how to make the best of it; we are often lead to believe there’s no other or no better choice. Whichever path we walk, it is always possible to explore it and to make the most of it at each and every step of the way. Choice is always present because there’s always more than one possible path.

 

It is by becoming aware of “our own steps” that we may discover the ways already available for us to live and experience. Paying attention to the space and time in which we dwell we shall find adjusted moment to moment solutions provided in each situation. Solutions which will suit our own survival and development as human beings.

 

We use methodologies such as attention, observation, focused concentration, creativity and awareness and we may touch various fields and subjects ranging from the body and bodily expressions to reasoning and feelings.

 

Luís Rodolfo Stuart

General Coordinator

 

Luís was a scout in AEP (Portuguese Scouts Association) integrated in the 93rd group of Sintra, as well as in the 8th Lambeth in London, England. He was part of the leading team of the 93rd group in Sintra, he worked with the national leading team as a leader of Campo Escola Parque Nacional de Escoteiros da Caparica (PNEC) and he founded as well as leaded the 211th group in Costa da Caparica, Portugal.

 

He took part in AJPAS – Associação de Jovens Promotores da Amadora Saudável (youth association for promoting a healthy town) and also worked with the Junta de Freguesia of Rio de Mouro as an Animador Sociocultural (leisure, social and cultural events manager) for Holiday Camps.

 

Since 2012 he has lived in Alto Minho and, together with Joana Mealha, is the founder of an educational project which gave birth to a theater play Esta Nossa, Terra (This land of ours)), on the scene since June 25th in Viana do Castelo’s Public Library. Luís has endeavoured in various social interventions. The aim of these social actions is non-formal education, meaning to expand to approach issues such as social, economic and environmental sustainability.

 

 

Joana Mealha dos Santos

Artistic Coordinator

 

After studying and training as a Clinical Psychologist (Cognitive Behavioural and Systemic approaches) and in  Theater and the Community, Joana Santos has lead family and individual therapy sessions and held individual and group training sessions from 2006 onwards.

 

Since 2010 she has taken part in creating the characters for the play Os Sabotadores (with its opening session at A BARRACA theather house in Lisbon on April 22nd 2011). She has taken part in producing, playing and directing the play Espaço Off  at the School for Superior Studies of Theater and Cinema on February 10th 2012 and has also integrated  the team for Comédias do Minho from October 2nd to December 15th 2012 in creating the play Passe-Vite, starting in Melgaço, Quinta da Folga on November 8th 2012.

 

In  2013 Joana was responsible for the dramaturgy of the play Esta Nossa Terra. She coordinates the artistic laboratory and the workshops in which written texts are used to then produce theater and literary objects or just forms of creative communication.

 

Email: campoescolaterrasaltas@gmail.com

Mobile Phone: (00351) 910392122

 

Translation: Maria Madalena Peres

 

REVIEWS

 

REA LEE and Family | 18  a 22 de Agosto de 2016

Being in the wild at Serra D'Arga, wild camping

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Luis was a really good host. We felt very welcome in his place. He shared his big knwoledge about the nature and gave us a lot of informations about the surrounding, the landscape and about Portugal. The place is a little wild paradise in the nature with waterfalls, a fireplace and a self constructed kitchen. It was a very good ambient for a vacation in wild. Is nice to know still untouchable places and meet respectful and responsable people with nature like Luis. We are very happy to met Luis and we are thinking coming back to the Serra d Arga!

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