Relating Arts Retreat: Casa Tilo

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What we wish to invite at this retreat is a six day exploration of how we want to show up in the world and how we want to be with others. It will be a deep dive into your self-leadership through circling, surrendered leadership and embodiment practices. You can expect to connect deeply to your vision for your life and what you most care about - not through vision boards or mind maps but through presence, movement and embodied expression in relation to others. We will be with what we most want for ourselves and how that shows up in our moment to moment experience. What is it like when we lead ourselves more towards what we really want and also sense the ways in which we might shy away from it or hold back. The days we have together will involve time spent in nature, movement and touch practices, self-connection and relating practices.   What is it like to participate in life rather than waiting for it to happen? What will the experience be like? Practicing being in- and relating from our present moment experience shows us powerful new ways of being together, it invites us to sense and notice what is really going on, in ourselves and between us, moment to moment, and makes it possible to gently let go of our habitual ways of acting. Bringing awareness to whatever emotions, sensations or thoughts arise may not be comfortable all the time. However, it is often both enlightening and healing, because it lets us move from autopilot to being more awake to the uniqueness of each moment. By sharing our experience as it arises, we drop into presence and connect deeper and more vulnerably. You never quite know what will come up and we surrender together to what arises. What always seems to show up are experiences of connection, vulnerability, depth, personal insights and new ways of being. Usually there will also be some chaos and challenges that ask us to move towards our next growth edge. This is also an exploration of freedom and self-responsibility. You do not have to sit still. You do not have to talk. You do not have to listen. You are invited to follow whatever feels right for you in the moment, and then experience how that affects those around you. The group field offers us very clear and direct feedback about how we impact others. We invite you to practice freedom of expression that stays in touch with how others are impacted. The resonance and feedback we receive from others can guide us towards our most truthful expression of aliveness.     What can you expect to take home with you? Through these practices, we develop our sensitivity and empathy, build capacity to be with more of life, we become better at understanding our impulses and intuitions and we learn to communicate and act on our boundaries and longings more clearly. Experiences of synchronicity, collective wisdom or unusual, deeply insightful states tend to show up after a while. The Program The practices we work with at this retreat are emergent in nature and all about allowing experience to show itself and the program will also be of this nature. In other words, we will not have a fixed plan of what will happen. Below you can find a list of things that we imagine will be fun and supportive to do during the retreat. We plan to offer Various forms of free dance to drop into your body’s intuition Nature Connecting sessions in the forest surrounding the house Embodiment sessions with movement and touch Practices for deeper attunement to others and ourselves Being in the different circling forms, partner exercises, focus circling and surrendered leadership circles Explorations of self-leadership, through desires, agency and will Explorations of collective wisdom Meditation sessions Expressing through sound and sound baths Sensemaking sessions There will be workshop blocks every day before lunch and in the afternoon, with scheduled activities and optional practices in the mornings and evenings. There will also be time for you to be in your own flow. The retreat program starts on the afternoon of Sunday 8th November 2 pm and we wrap up on November 14th at 12 pm at Casa Tilo outside of Barcelona. Your ticket includes 6 nights accommodation.   What is Circling & Surrendered Leadership? These are practices that want to be lived and experienced by you, rather than understood through a description. Just the same way that it is hard to describe to someone what a hug feels like, relational presencing practices are experiential and felt. Circling and surrendered leadership invite us to become present with our experience just the way it is, without an objective or goal to change it or guide it to any particular outcome. This tends to allow more of our experience to emerge and people are usually struck by how much more they connect to the depth of their experience, as well as how much happens when you don’t try to fix anything. Surrendered leadership means that we practice surrendering to what is already happening and emerging and trusting in the intelligence of Reality. We do not know best what wants to happen, but can bring our leadership into alignment with the present moment. You are invited to both lead yourself and surrender to the present moment with us. You are not required to understand this practice or know more about it beforehand in order to participate, and there is more information about it available online if you would like to explore it more.   Is This For You? You are welcome both as a beginner and advanced practitioner. Check this interview with Marei and Rich to get more of a feel for the retreat:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw3_idpg75Q&t=3s The Team Marei Christensen - a grounded, deep & psychoactive presence with extraordinary capacity and spaciousness, that beautifully and softly slides into the most extreme spaces and brings everyone along with her. Could make reality into a smoothie through her heartfelt nuancing. She has been working with clients as a coach and psychotherapist for four years and has been leading circling even longer. Peter Munthe-Kaas - a warm, rooted & quietly electric presence with a rare capacity to hold complexity without collapsing it, who moves between the intimate and the systemic with easy fluency and brings people into contact with what's most alive in them. Pretty good at mapping the invisible architecture of a room just by being in it. He has been working towards central equilibrium through Tai Chi for more than 20 years and has been leading Circling and Surrendered Leadership work for over a decade. Richard D. Bartlett - an incredible host & musician that turns people into a more radiant & alive version of themselves   Choose your price The total price has two parts: Casa Tilo This includes 6 nights accommodation and food 400€ dorm room, 4 people 600€ shared room, 2–3 people   Retreat facilitation This goes to Marei, Peter, and the facilitation team. 600€ low income ticket 750€ standard ticket 900€ high income ticket We want this retreat to be accessible. If your financial situation is challenged, you can reach out and ask for a discount and suggest a price. You can sign up here: https://coliven.com/events/relating-arts   The term “Circling®️” is a registered trademark. Mareike is certified to lead the European Circling Approach, and is licensed by the International Circling Federation to use the term, in accordance with their guidelines. Read more on internationalcirclingfederation.org