Quo Vadis2006 (v1.9)

Quo Vadis 2006: A Gathering of Lifelong Learners

Have you heard? This is going to be a great year for Quo Vadis, and there is a limited amount of space available! Reply

Join in, and look forward to an exciting gathering presented for the first time by The Education Empowerment Project. Reply

• Meet luminaries such as Grace Llewellyn, author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook and Guerilla Learning, Brad Blanton author of Radical Honesty, and Dr. Marty Nemko, author of Cool Careers for Dummies. Dr. Nemko was recently named The Bay Area's Best Career Coach by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, in the Reader's Choice Poll his book was rated the #1 most useful career guide. He will be giving a talk at Quo Vadis this year.
• Co-create an empowering week of growth and discovery
• Network and immerse yourself in a community of learning visionaries and enthusiasts
• Participate in dozens of participant-led workshops and discussions
• Relax near the Siuslaw National Forest!

For more information (see details below) contact the Quo Vadis office, or visit The Quo Vadis Website where you can Apply Online and download The 2006 Brochure! Reply

Or call (512) 380-0060 Reply

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Just a note to whoever's maintaining this page that it feels an awful lot like Spam to me. As a former QV attender, I don't like coming on NBTSWiki, a place that feels like home to me, and being advertised at. It's sort of like getting telamarketing calls during dinner or something. I understand that if QV is going to keep happening it needs some advertising, but the way you've been going about it has been turning me off, and frankly is one of the major reasons I'm not coming this year (the other being severe lack of money). More appropriate for this site would, in my mind, be a nice friendly, conversational, paragraph saying what QV is all about, with a link to the QV site for more information. —Lorin Reply

Hi Lorin. Thanks for your post. I'm sorry to hear that you won't be joining us this year. Those of us who facilitated Quo Vadis 2005 have been working to make information about it more available than in the past. In part this is because I received a lot of feedback from people saying they would have loved to participate last year if they had only known about it! Also, this is because all of us involved in organising, as well as planning on attending, Quo Vadis 2006 are ... well ... really excited about it. Many of us are anxiously looking forward to spending a week emerged in participant led workshops with other Not Back to School Camp campers, adult unschoolers, and lifelong learners. It's an important distinction that those working on Quo Vadis, (unlike telemarketers!) genuinely believe in what they are doing, are providing a valuable service, aren't doing it because they are being paid, and are your friends. I apologise if the post was not welcome or if you feel it is inappropriate for the wiki. It was not intended to be unfriendly or abrasive. It was posted by a recent NBTSC alum and was copied from the generic factoid sheet we created for this years event. I have tried to keep notices to a minimum in the past, but this year has been complicated by having an event that sincerely deserves to be opened up to a larger circle of participants and by the overlap between the various qv email lists, the nbtsc email lists, and the wiki. As a former Quo Vadis attendee you've born the brunt of this overlap. We will be working to streamline these communications in the future, but it will take some time so, please be patient or feel free to ignore anything you don’t want to read in the meantime. Please email me at evan at EducationEmpowermentProjectdotorg (I check my email with much greater frequency than I do these pages) if you have any other thoughts or constructive criticism to offer. Reply

Also, if anyone else has any opinions about this page, how we've been advertising for Quo Vadis this year, or anything else relating to the work of the Education Empowerment Project I’d feel lucky to have your feedback, please feel free to email me! —Evan Reply

I agree that this page could have been presented differently. However, for me, there is greater importance in making the available opportunities for self-educators known. I view the interavtive NBTSC wiki as a great place to introduce knowledge and resources—Particularly Quo Vadis since it was started by NBTSC campers and remains, in a sense, a product of NBTSC (or at least of NBTSC's resourcefulness). Behind the scenes of Quo Vadis, I see a small group of dedicated and well-meaning individuals fabricating a vision for the (not-so-common) common good. Consequently, they have my support. —Brittney Reply

I think this page is great and I'm glad it's here. I don't feel so much like it is spam because just like any other page on the wiki you can just not read it. —Ruth Reply

I think the problem is the tone; this is somewhat impersonal, which seems appropriate for a generic information page, but for an announcement of QV on the NBTSC wiki it comes off sounding like a sales pitch where I'd expect (want?) it to sound more like a note from a friend. I'm entirely in favor of QV, and of it being announced here, but yeah this was odd. Reply

The thing that really seems strange to me is that the announcement says there is still a limited amount of space available, but on the site the registration for is still for 2005, and there aren't even dates up for 2006. Are registrations being accepted for 2006 already? Reply

—Shad Reply

I have a question for anyone who's been to QV. I am seriously considering going next summer (if I can afford it), but I don't quite get the transportation issue. How do most people get there? If I fly, how would I get from the airport to the camp? I don't see any answers to this on the website, but its entirely possible I'm just overlooking it. —Julia Reply

• Get to Eugene or Portland by bus, train, car, plane, hitch-hiking, water-skiing, etc and you should be able to find a ride to Monroe Park, where there's a Quo Vadis bus to take folks to Camp Lane. There's a transportation coordinator to help with that sort of thing. Last year it was Alex G, but I think it's some one different this year. —Emma Rose

The Education Empowerment Project (EEP) is currently filling volunteer positions for 2006. For more information See, the VolunteeringForTheEEP page. Reply