Mars College · Jan – Apr 2027
Community Lab Camp - is a three-month immersion at Mars College, in the California desert near Bombay Beach. Our camp will be researching what it means to be an "organismic being".
Mars College is a three-month, learning focused, Burning Man–inspired container
Participants — Martians — organize into different camps, each with its own focus and culture, building a temporary village together from the ground up and sharing skills, workshops, and events across camps throughout the season.
Within Mars, we form a camp called Community Lab, focused on researching "coherent community" — a group "state" where a collection of individuals become "a communal being" while remaining deeply connected to themselves. We research this through intensive, immersive experiences that develop awareness and connection: personal, relational, and with the land.
After the first weeks of arriving and building camp — physically and culturally — we settle into a tide of focused dives and spacious integration.
Our main focus time — Monday through Thursday we are together in our immersion, and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday we have off. During this time we dive into experiences that cultivate awareness, attunement, and bonding with ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
During integration weeks, there's a ton of personal time. We'll keep having meals together, we'll have a focused camp day once a week and perhaps a few meetings/ sharing throughout the week to keep us connected, but the bulk is for you to explore and offer things in the wider Mars schedule and to digest our immersion.
The last two weeks before takedown, we focus on a presentation for the wider Mars community — we will split into groups or create personal projects that reflect the learnings we harvested from our time together as a camp. This might include: an animated short, a mini documentary, an art installation, or anything that reflects what coherent community looked like for us.
We'd love to host recurring events for the rest of Mars as a camp — something gathering and joyful, like a weekly ecstatic dance or pancake brunches.
If you're a bodyworker and want to join us, we'll hold a clinic in the nearby town — roughly every other week
Mars is full of offerings, happening on any given day across all the camps. This is our camps frame.
Rather than one person making decisions for everyone, decision-making power is shared by the whole group.
Our money is pooled into a shared group budget that covers food, materials, and daily living during our time together. A budget circle manages our money and spending on behalf of the camp.
The cost is meant to be pretty inclusive of our time together. You might factor in another ~$200 for personal extras — eating out in town from time to time, or picking up extra food you'd like for yourself.
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A passionate human
His main joy and passions are in the worlds of space holding, community building, relational arts, Zenthai Shiatsu, Circling, and Western Tropical Astrology. Ultimately, whatever content he's studying, he loves sharing and teaching it. He loves being in connection with others and cultivating deep, intentional relational spaces.
Underneath all of his practices, his soul calling is community building — cultivating intentional communities and micro cultures. He has spent extensive time living in community, practicing in mystery schools, meditating in retreats, and exploring what it means to co-create culture that brings togetherness, collaboration, and symbiosis with each other and the earth.
He is on a mission to co-create a post-capitalist eco-village and be part of an education team that shares the seeds of culture with other curious creatures.
Sensitive attunement, expansion, experimentation
Magnus grew up in a communal setting and has explored different forms of communal living throughout much of his life. One of his deep passions is Human Design — he has studied it for 14 years, also teaching and reading charts.
Another side of him revolves around a deep love for plants, nature, and natural medicines. He spent time studying with indigenous tribes in South America, learning from their ancestral wisdom and integrating it into his life. His meditation practice is essential to him; he has been practicing and studying Buddhist philosophy and Vipassana on and off for the last 8 years.
For the last year his focus has moved toward body-related practices. After completing a 3-month Zenthai Shiatsu training, he is continuing to deep-dive into bodywork. As his material grounding for the last decade, he has worked self-employed as a 'Jack of all Trades' — construction, painting, tree felling, and various practical work.
We value collaboration, shared contribution, and active participation. Bring your craft, your curiosity, and your willingness to be changed by the people around you.
