“The heart that breaks open, can contain the whole universe.”

~Joanna Macy

This is a retreat for all of us who care deeply about the wellbeing of the planet and the effect of business as usual on all beings, including our own well being and life-energy. This time, we gather at the beautiful seaside of South-Denmark, to lift eachother up in deepening practices, ritual and ceremony for our Earth and our Heart.

Practicing witnessing with eachother, WITHnessing our bodies celebrate and mourn all that we love, for 4,5 days and 5 nights. Supported by the Work That Reconnects, we are calling in the tender, the passionate, the lovers, those who keep the fire burning and those who keep the water flowing. Let us create a safe place to land, a home within, together. Holding space to unravell all that is yet to be expressed within us, to find out together what is alive in us after all that has fallen apart individually and collectively. To allow the unknown to be our guide and listen, in complete stillness, to where we want to go, going forth.

On the first day, you will get the chance to rekindle your fire, warm yourself with gratitude, root in it deeply. This reminds us why we are all still in this, all the beauty that we know and love and are. This joy fuels our love and power. And it grows our capacity to honour the pain, look it in the eye and allow it to just be.

We work with the expanded spiral, and will acknowledge and adress the elephants in the room together. We want to do this Work that Reconnects in reciprocity, compassion and in a shared reality of the heavy cost of capitalism, white and other privilege, like agism, ableism, sexism and post-colonialism. We all live in it, but we are not all impacted similarly. We might move on the same roads, but only bikers need helmets, not cardrivers. We are almost all dealing with individual grief, AND some of us are being heavily and consistently impacted, on top of that personal life, by the collective powers that be.

The vision of this retreat is to offer a space where all races, all genders, all cis and lhbtiqa+ folks and other VIBs (Very Important Beings), feel safe enough to be brave together. Where some folks can explore speaking their truths and be met with empathy, while others can fully experience the emotional intimacy when they listen and attune, with deep reverence, to the voices of the global majority.

Let us cocreate a field of decolonisation and liberation, that acknowledges history, herstory, rank & privilege, and the universal needs for enlivening diversity, real equity and a felt sense of inclusion. Our shared honesty and gratitude, together with our growing capacity for discomfort, will create a pathway for the second day, where we offer music and rituals for grief and a deep time walk.

On day 3, we will prepare for and participate in a Council of All Beings, that helps us see with new eyes what is happening right in front of us. We will also create the opportunity to travel through Deep Time and meet our ancestors in ritual, and the 7th generation from now, 200 years in the future. This inspires us to see with ancient and new eyes what is going on and to define our own role in it with more clarity.

On the fourth day, we offer space to let your creative juices flow freely. This is the day for imagining, inquiring, expressing your next step in your precious life, on this precious earth. What will you be doing that creates hope, going forth?

And so, the spiral is complete, we will end with a closing ceremony on the 5th day, to honour all beings and you, for showing up and allowing your heart to be broken open by Life.

The whole retreat will be weaved in with local nature & culture, stillness, grounding music, fresh and organic vegan food cooked by my dear NVC-friends & hosts: Alea & Mathias.

You will have opportunities to be nurtured by all the elements. You can celebrate the reviving water in the sea, the relaxing warmth from the sauna, the seawind of South-Denmark on your skin and in your hair, and go for beautiful beach- and forestwalks next to the venue!

Come see, smell, listen, touch and taste Life fully!

Our daily schedule is:

8h breakfast

9h morning session

12h lunch

13h break (swimming, walking, napping, …)

15h afternoon session

18h break (silent rest, write/integrate)

18h30 dinner

20h evening session

21h cocreation (campfire with live music, singing, dance, sauna at the beach / early rest)

Kathleen is a certified Work That Reconnects facilitator, and a long time NVC-trainer. She is dedicated to cocreating groupspaces and communities where we can face (and bless) the mess we are in, without going completely bananas. We can only fix what we face!

early bird all in (till January 15, 2026):

400€ pp for sharing a triple room

500€ pp for sharing a double room

1000€ pp for a single room

locals/ vanlife (only catering, program & parking spot, no accommodation): 300€

from January 16 on:

sharing triple room 555€ pp

two persons sharing 655€ pp

single room: 1155€

locals/ vanlife (only catering, program & parking spot, no accommodation) : 455€

If needed and received with joy: discount for returners from the Delight in Presence NVC-retreat, Active Hope driedaagse with Kathleen, and people of the global majority:

315€ pp for sharing a triple room

415€ pp for sharing a double room

815€ pp for a single room

locals/ vanlife (only catering, program & parking spot, no accommodation): 215€

U may chose to support us in reciprocity with hussling together gorgeous salads, putting the buffet on the table (with clear and doable instructions from Chef Alea) and get the dishwasher up and running after the meal.

You can register here

and ask questions here: actievehoop@gmail.com

like for example:

• How can i contribute more or less?

• Can i easily hitch a ride from Belgium? 

• Do i need an NVC background?

• Can i read something to prepare myself?

Do reach out with requests if you have any, we might find gorgeous ways to enrich eachothers lives!

Find out more about The Work That Reconnects on the global networkwebsite!