CAMP DEATH
Face mortality instead of running from it.
Find meaning in your daily life.
Understand REAL love in practice.
Transform Your Life From Numb Routines to
Passionate, Purposeful Intention in 2 Weeks.
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If you're living on autopilot spending your time in front of screens trying to find purpose you've probably been told that taking a vacation, doing a medicine journey or going on a crazy adventure would help you find meaning in life.
But in reality, most of those escapes from 'normal life' bring temporary shifts that aren’t actually life-changing because they don’t stick with you for life… just a couple of days and then you’re back to the day-to-day world of a modern, always connected human.
LIVE A PURPOSEFUL, MEANINGFUL LIFE
Never feel that sinking feeling of, “Oh my god, I’m wasting my life here,” again.
FIND GRATITUDE IN WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
Your tools are always there when the adrenaline has worn off from your “next-level” spiritual experiences.
REALIZE YOU’RE NOT ALONE
You’re in a collective of emotionally mature, supportive explorers and we’re growing through challenges together.
PRACTICE SELF-LOVE ON A DEEPER LEVEL
No more life on autopilot tending to everyone else's needs and forgetting your own health, joy, fulfillment and impact.
The truth is, most life-long seekers don’t find long-lasting results that create real change and end up unsatisfied and unfulfilled on an endless search for meaning.
It's not your fault. You’ve been sold the hero’s journey. Go far away, find the depths of despair, meet your demons, destroy them, fly home business class. Thats the only way to change - be epic! do epic shit! Otherwise you’re a loser. But the truth is, we don’t need to go on a cinematic quest to get to the one truth that we’re looking for — we’re all gonna die.
It's not easy to settle into a life that is guaranteed to end at some point, that's why we so often look to push our boundaries and deny death as long as possible, so we don't have to face it when we eventually can't summit the highest peaks, run ultra marathons or kill our egos in foreign jungles.
Here’s the problem:
We spend huge amounts of time and money separating our real, sometimes monotonous, lives from our growth journeys and looking for answers to our existence outside of ourselves. This keeps us in cycles of self-inquiry and stagnation without ever getting to the deep, rich work of living with purpose for yourself, your relationships and the planet.
We become automatons living for temporary, intensely “meaningful” experiences in the jungles of distant lands, jumping off cliffs on the weekend or discovering our next healer. We lose connection to a life that feels intensely meaningful every day, hour and minute. Life runs out for us all and when we aren't able to land the purpose plane and stake our claim in what we truly stand for, we run the risk that our life ends unfinished.
There is a path…
There is a path to shifting this pattern of escape and routine. The only way out is through. As we say, it's not a means to an end, it's just 'the end'. Coming to terms with our mortality in a real way on a regular, moment by moment basis, drives us to live more purposeful, meaningful lives every day, and it’s not as depressing as you might think. 😏 Instead of the fumbling ups and downs of our journeys, we can settle into a reality of rich, deep, loving mortality and suck up the fresh juice of life while we still have it. It doesn't have to be scary or dismal, it can be a true expansion, a discovery of meaning in the life you already have and have always had within.
4 REASONS MOST LIFE-LONG SEEKERS FAIL TO LEAD FULFILLING LIVES
MISTAKE 1: We look outside ourselves for answers. We throw money at the problem and go on long walkabouts to discover a self that was always inside.
Actually, in truth, there's so many things we can do for free, every day in our lives, that can deepen our connection to our bodies, the value of life while we have it and living on purpose. You don't need to spend a ton of money or leave your home to begin a life with meaning.
MISTAKE 2: We tell ourselves; 'I need to get money, power, fame... then I can figure out how to live on purpose.'
Sure, having resources to support your lifestyle is super important, but ask any rich dude - money doesn’t equal purpose or happiness but it can make things easier. There are plenty of miserable millionaires. What if you could learn how to enjoy the present while working toward that lifestyle? Gentle reminder: tomorrow isn't promised. Don’t put off living your fullest, richest life now with the assumption that you’ll make up for it in the “future.” Too many well-intentioned people have wasted their lives saying, Someday. It’s possible to generate the resources we need to thrive and do it with purpose and integrity.
MISTAKE 3: We think facing mortality is depressing and painful.
Yeah it is! Ever been to a funeral? It sucks! But, just like most things, death is not one note.
Addressing death — and ultimately, acknowledging what it is to live — can be a moving, funny, awkward, enlightening, unifying experience. It’s the only thing we all have in common.
We can choose to live our lives as if we’re immortal and be unprepared when death catches up with us when a parent falls ill or a friend dies, or we can begin to practice a new way of relating to being a human and discover the rich rewards that come with it. You don't need a life threatening event to happen to you or a loved one to integrate the lessons that come with finding purpose and meaning. You don't need to keep waiting until you're wise with experience to gain wisdom from practice.
MISTAKE 4: We think; 'If I start questioning all these aspects of my life it will quickly topple everything I've built thus far and my world will go up in flames.'
The challenges that come as we begin to assess our priorities and attention can be difficult to face at first, but with trust and patience they bring incredible, life-altering rewards. And yeah, you might blow up your life.
But! Would you rather wake up in 25 years and be like, “Oh shit, what have I been doing this whole time?” or would you rather handle it now? Small problems become big problems when we don’t address them in ample time. Why risk wasting your precious life? It’s the only one you’ve got.
This is an open invitation into an ongoing exploration around love, life and death with others who are on the same path.
WELCOME TO CAMP DEATH
Learn How To Transform Your Life From Numb Routines To Passionate, Purposeful Living In 2 Weeks
Hey ya’ll, this is Ethan, Camp Death Director. I’ve taken everything I learned in the last 4 years facing a terminal brain cancer diagnosis to build the best guided experience to help life-long seekers go from living on monotonous auto-pilot, aka '‘wtf am i doing with my life?!’, to a life of purpose, depth and love every day.
* We know you're busy and you often pack your downtime with big growth opportunities and celebrations. We do this work as part of your daily life, it's not an escape, it's a series of new habits that can help you live more deeply. We welcome your curiosity and choice to show up to camp in your regular chill clothes.
* This isn't a spiritual or hippy dippy trip. Our practice is grounded in honest lived experience with terminal disease and death. You bring your own self-inquiry through journaling, mindfulness, creativity and conversation and we facilitate the group discussion and support.
* It's not a one-and-done thing, you're encouraged to take these practices with you into your daily life and continue with us as a community of support that isn't afraid to talk about what truly matters in our lives.
* For the cost of one therapy appointment you get an entire two-week program, access to leaders who have spent their lives studying purpose, love and death and a community of like-minded souls seeking answers and exercises to deepen their relationship to life and living on purpose.
Ethan Lipsitz - Camp Death Director / Love Extremist
Here’s How It Works*
MODULE 1
Welcome To Camp Death - Introduction to the program and guided death meditation
MODULE 2
Priority Mapping vs. Time Mapping - This simple exercise helps you dig into what's important in your life and see how your time aligns with those priorities. Then with that information we dig into changes we can and are willing to make with our priorities and our time to get more aligned.
MODULE 3
A Deep Dive On Breath. - How does our autopilot system of maintaining life through breath inform our comfort and discomfort around death and dying?
Module 4
What Does Death Look, Feel, Taste Or Sound Like To You? - This is an opportunity to get creative or do some treasure hunting.
Module 5
The Perfect Day Exercise - Discover your perfect day and how you can integrate it into your daily life.
Module 6
Creating An End of Life Plan - This is a crucial exercise for all of us, uncovering how we want to die helps us clarify how we want to live.
Module 7
Handling Relationships & Making Peace - Forgiveness, patience, boundaries, understanding and compassion are core elements of relating and connecting through healthy conflict and ease.
8
Day Off
Module 9
Supporting Your Loved Ones - Confronting mortality together and independently.
Module 10
Who Have You Lost? - How do you remember them? What was it like losing them? How do you honor them today? Will you share them with us? What stories stay with you?
Module 11
Body Relating - Discover an important part of your body and learn how to build a relationship with it.
Module 12
Create A Death Ritual - Write your eulogy, read it out loud on video (share it or not) and burn it in the fire. Allow yourself to go with it. What happens?
Module 13
Final Celebration of Life - Zoom gathering and group share with all campers (bring your most potent takeaway from camp).
* In addition to the email prompt, every weekday while camp is in session we will host an optional private camp call on the Clubhouse app to discuss challenges and learnings coming up through the daily exercise. These calls will only be open to campers in the Love Extremists Club, the app is free on iOS and Android.
STRESS-FREE MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Camp starts soon, if you have second thoughts or aren't ready to jump in with us, just reach out before then and we'll refund you completely.
HERE’S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU JOIN
2 weeks of daily email prompts supporting your growth in finding purpose and meaning in your life through challenging your relationship to mortality
Activities you can do at any time designed to deepen self love, relationships and life purpose
Private invite to 9 group support calls on the Clubhouse app where we discuss the prompts
Direct access to camp staff via email
Unique Camp Death tees + Love Extremist pins
Private invite to camp closing digital party campfire
Exclusive access to ongoing Love Extremist community, experiences and programming
FAQS:
Why am I paying $250 to confront my mortality?
Learning how to engage with challenging parts of life, like mortality and grief, are powerful ways to grow. It’s also important to have tools to confront these challenges on a regular basis. Perhaps you’re seeking to level up in where you give your attention. Maybe you want to learn how to love your life more deeply or with more impact. Or it could just be you never think about death and dying and you’d like to get more comfortable. All of these considerations are great reasons to join us.
How does Camp Death work?
Camp Death is a 2 week program where you will receive a daily email that prompts you to take an action or consider a new approach to life. Each prompt is informed by the challenges we face as people moving through life, supporting loved ones, addressing disease and grief and finding purpose to live more deeply and authentically. Throughout the 2 week program you have email access to the Love Extremist leadership to support you personally as challenges arise. As a camper you’ll also receive some sweet goodies from the Love Extremist project and we’ll have a whole camp virtual celebration of life at the end of camp on August 13th where we’ll share our discoveries.
Why is Love Extremist hosting Camp Death?
We believe love and death are intrinsically related. We grieve what we love when it’s gone and in deepening our relationship to death, we’ve found a deeper connection to life. Ethan, founder of the Love Extremist project, has had numerous confrontations with mortality over the past 4 years and his experience fighting grade III brain cancer as well as his partner and friends will inform how we support you through this journey. Our intention is to use the principles we’ve learned through studying love in practice to support all participants in a deep dive through dying and living with intention and love.
What makes you the person to teach this to me?
I spent my 20s seeking purpose and love by doing lots of wild adventures, living abroad, taking big risks, starting a business, meeting healers and going on heroic journeys. Then when I hit my 30s I was diagnosed with brain cancer after experiencing a horrifying seizure in my sleep. Abruptly everything changed; I went through brain surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, diet and other lifestyle shifts and was forced to focus on my own health and well being so I could survive and heal. Since my diagnosis in 2017 I’ve had daily reminders of mortality; taking medication, getting MRIs, fasting, avoiding all sugars and trying various treatments with doctors and therapists. In addition to getting as healthy as I can be, I’ve also discovered love. I’ve found self-love in prioritizing my health and well-being, I’ve met the love of my life and I’ve built the Love Extremist project as a platform to explore and define love through workshops, conversations, interviews, writing, music, art and much more. After a recent sketchy MRI, which turned out to be a false alarm, I have dug deeper on my own mortality and created a format to share my discoveries and learnings in community to support others in living richer, deeper lives without going through the whole cancer thing. I also love hosting conversations and creating workshops and have been doing this work, as well as working as a camp counselor since High School so it’s not my first rodeo.
If I can’t join the group calls, will I still get the most out of the program?
Yes! All calls are optional so no worries if you can’t make them. You get lifetime access to the content, you can do these practices and use these tools over and over again and you will!
What if I can’t make the party?
We’ll certainly miss you but the bulk of this experience is in the daily prompts and it’s designed for your benefit. The group celebration is a great opportunity for us to come together to celebrate our learnings but if you can’t be there you’ll still get the good stuff from camp.
What do I get again?
2 weeks of daily email prompts supporting your growth in finding purpose and meaning in your life through challenging your relationship to mortality
Activities you can do at any time designed to deepen self love, relationships and life purpose
Private invite to 9 group support calls on Clubhouse where we discuss the prompts
Direct access to camp staff via email
Unique Camp Death tees + Love Extremist pins
Private invite to camp closing digital party
Exclusive access to ongoing Love Extremist community, experiences and programming
I’m not a touchy-feely person, will this be for me?
You are in complete control of your experience and how you respond to the prompts. You can choose to participate in the group calls, show up and just listen or even opt out if that’s best for you. The goal here is to challenge ourselves to go a bit deeper that we may normally go and find others to support through their exploration of life and purpose while we explore our own. We seek people who are good listeners and are up for a challenge, just like the peak experiences you may seek, this is about cultivating that impact without the high highs and the come down afterwards.
I’m already pretty depressed, because pandemic. Is this gonna be somber and sad?
The point of Camp Death is to make this process fun, creative and impactful for you. It’s not going to always be a joyous party but we’re going to create space every day for us to process together so you don’t have to go through these challenging themes alone and when you come out of camp, you’ll have new relationships you can continue to nurture and grow as life continues and we practice together.
Is this helpful for people experiencing grief and loss?
Everyone processes loss and grief differently. If you are lacking supportive practices to work through your grief then this is a great opportunity to develop some. If you seek a community to hold you and support you in grief, to honor your loss and to be vulnerable in their own challenges and seek your support then Camp Death is definitely the move.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU JOIN US
2 weeks of daily email prompts supporting your growth in finding purpose and meaning in your life through challenging your relationship to mortality
Activities you can do at any time designed to deepen self love, relationships and life purpose
Private invite to 9 group support calls on Clubhouse where we discuss the prompts
Direct access to camp staff via email
Unique Camp Death tees + Love Extremist pins
Private invite to camp closing digital party
Exclusive access to ongoing Love Extremist community, experiences and programming
HERE’S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU JOIN US
2 weeks of daily email prompts supporting your growth in finding purpose and meaning in your life through challenging your relationship to mortality
Activities you can do at any time designed to deepen self love, relationships and life purpose
Private invite to 9 group support calls on Clubhouse where we discuss the prompts
Direct access to camp staff via email
Unique Camp Death tees + Love Extremist pins
Private invite to camp closing digital party
Exclusive access to ongoing Love Extremist community, experiences and programming
Camp Death is perfect for you if …
✔️ You're struggling to find meaning in your life
✔️ You’re never satisfied with your job, your new partner, your home, your new car, etc. and searching for fulfillment
✔️ You're secretly afraid of dying with nothing to show for your life
✔️ You don't have a community of peers who you can go deep with
✔️ You don't know how deal with mortality in a healthy way
✔️ You’ve tried every plant medicine ceremony and gotten every stamp on your passport, but you’re still disconnected from the clarity you seek
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re ready to join Camp Death