Retreats for Creative Teams
Immersive Relational Field Workshops for Writers' Rooms, Performance Ensembles, and Creative Collectives
Relational Field Retreats are immersive 1-3 day experiences designed for the core team of a creative project.
Relational Field Retreats create a liminal nurturance space for emergence, widening artistic process to include the ancestral, ecological, and systemic forces that are influencing what it is possible to imagine. Through constellation approaches, systems sensing practices, and collective ritual, your team will explore the wider relational contexts that are shaping your creativity, clearing patterns of exploitation and domination, tuning your collective field towards conditions of somatic nourishment and regenerative belonging.
“The way that you hold space is so juicy. Your energy really set the tone in slowing down time (or maybe opening it up is more accurate) during our groups. Just the way that showed me what is possible to access felt like such a big deal, and that shift in relationship to ecosystems / ourselves / each other carried over for me after our groups like a sweet afterglow. The potent magic of the group container helped me reconnect to the wider web in ways that have been holding me on my own, even in moments when I am having trouble connecting, because my body remembers more of what's possible now, and more of what's real and available...You have a really skilled ability to show up honestly, creatively and supportively with yourself and all of us as we all navigate this dance. The value of what you offer is tremendous.”
—Parker Rice, Group Participant in Ecosystem Spoons and The Mycelium
This is Research and Development at its most Alchemical,
tuning collaboration to a wider microclimate of emergence.
Storyboarding a Possible Relational Field Retreat
Pre-Retreat Meeting with Core Team
We begin by entering with silence, space, and listening. Dropping into the sense of many threads of self and relationship that are part of the weaving. We attune to the creative impulse guiding this co-dreaming, collectively naming the beings and contexts present in the field. We create a design process for the team retreat based on the needs for emergent exploration and identify desired alchemical processes.
Day One:
Distillation of Essences
We open up space for emergent creative process by bringing relational concepts into embodiment. Through a facilitated palette of expressive options including voice, movement, rhythm, drawing, and mapping, your team explores the energetic patterns, rhythms, and ways of expressing that your project brings up and begins to orient to the field of relationships that are shaping your project’s emergence.
Systemic Sensing and Warm Data
We bring the expressive essence qualities that we have gathered into the tangible relational process of a Warm Data Lab—circulating between social field contexts such as History, Family, Economy, Spirituality, Health, Politics, etc. This process of storytelling and being in the not-knowing together begins to hydrate the relational fascia of your project, exploring its connection points with wider contexts and processes of transformation.
Resting and Integration
Each evening will complete with gentle prompts for resting and integration. These prompts will support the metabolizing of the systemic energies we have stirred up during our time together, integrating them with diffuse focus as participants are encouraged to nourish themselves through deep resting and embodied presence.
Day Two:
Moving with Complexity
We return to the body, meeting what's present through facilitated movement. Oscillating between present moment expression and an awareness of systemic patterns, we dance with and as the qualities we have been presencing in our exploration, meeting any edges or stuck places in the field and exploring the interplay between self, project, and wider contexts.
Systemic Constellations
Through Systemic Constellations, we explore specific questions and intentions that have emerged around the field of the project. We witness ancestral and collective Relational Field patterns that are influencing the project’s evolution and co-create systemic alchemy to create the conditions for transformation.
Collective Ritual
We complete the Relational Field Retreat with a Collective Ritual, presencing the beings we need to acknowledge, asking for support, growing Relational Fields, and planting intentions for the project’s evolution. We explore tangible ways in which the resources and learnings from the project can ripple out into the wider world to nourish ecosystems and communities.
Ongoing Engagement
After the completion of the retreat, I meet with the leadership team of your project to identify conditions towards vitality that can keep the field vital within your collective, nurturing collective tones and staying in presence with the wider relational patterns that in a process of emergence.
Core team members also have the option to continue in ongoing process and communication with Relational Field Consulting, tracing intimate journeys and questions that ripple into wider life contexts.
Multiple Relational Field Retreats can also be integrated across project's development to act as cosmological compass bearings, orienting your team back to the core Relational Fields that will support the emergence of your vision.
Investment & Structure
R&D Retreats are bespoke experiences designed for your team's specific project and needs. Investment varies based on retreat length, team size, and location.
Relational Field Retreats can be paired with long-term Relational Field Consulting relationships with one or more core team members.
All Retreat Proposals begin with a Cosmology Call.