Camp Venture
Bring strengths-based community development to life through play.
Camp Venture is a playful, facilitated experience that helps teams and communities move beyond deficits and silos to discover strengths, build relationships, spark creativity and explore what becomes possible through collective action.
Rather than simply talking about community development, participants experience it. Through shared challenges, storytelling, asset mapping, collaboration and reflection, the game creates a shared experience that can be connected directly to your organisation, community or practice.
What can Camp Venture unlock?
See strengths differently
Shift the conversation from needs and deficits towards the gifts, skills, relationships and resources already present.
Build connection
Create conversations and shared experiences that strengthen relationships, participation and collaboration.
Turn ideas into action
Explore how people can connect assets, respond creatively to challenges and mobilise what they already have.
Choose your Camp Venture experience
Taster experience
A lively introduction for conferences, team days and gatherings. Play, reflect and experience strengths-based thinking in action.
Team or community workshop
A half-day or full-day facilitated experience shaped around your group, with deeper reflection and application to your real work or community.
Train your facilitators
Build internal capability so your staff or facilitators can confidently use Camp Venture in their own work. Soulgen also has trained Camp Venture facilitators who can support delivery for larger groups and projects.
Camp Venture can work well with: councils, youth and community organisations, schools and universities, place-based initiatives, community engagement teams, facilitators, leadership teams and organisations wanting a more participatory way to learn and work together.
See Camp Venture in action
See what happens when people come together to play, discover assets and explore community-led action.
Want to use Camp Venture yourself?
Camp Venture is also available as a physical game for facilitators, educators and community practitioners who want to bring strengths-based learning into their own practice.
How to play Camp Venture
Watch the short tutorial to understand how the game works and how participants move through the Camp Venture experience.
Bring Camp Venture to your organisation
Tell us about your people, place and purpose. We can shape a taster, workshop, facilitator training or larger project around what matters to you.