RITUAL PLAY FOUNDATION in FINLAND
*For professionals working with movement, embodiment, touch, body, tantra, kink, sexuality, relational intimacy, communication, culture-making, ecology + own personal development*
The first two days will be your own personal journey with Ritual Play. The 3 remaining days will build on the experiences from the first two days, making explicit the principles that Ritual Play has been developed in accordance with. The theory that supports the Ritual Play framework will be woven together with experiential practice. Ratio of theory is about 20% and experiential practice is 80%.
👉 REGISTER HERE:
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FIRST 2 DAYS:
🍀 Foundations: choice, voice, space, boundaries, felt-sensing, honesty, consent
🍀 Many experiences with the Ritual Play framework so you get familiar with how your non-verbal, bodily impulses & responses, emotions show up within the framework
🍀 Experience Ritual Play solo, in duos, trios, with the whole group in many variations.
🍀 Experience Ritual Play encounters that last from short 3 min encounters to longer 40 min ones
🍀 Having an Intention and supporting someone’s Intention in Ritual Play
🍀 Being a witness. And playing while being witnessed
🍀 A Ritual Play puja-type experience
🍀 Somatic sense of moving in reversible ways. To feel and emote in reversible ways
REMAINING 4 DAYS:
☀️ Ritual Play’s Roots in: Participatory Arts, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Movement Practices, Tantra & Kink, Deep Ecology and systems thinking & Marina’s book Hon som fick Veta (She Knows)
☀️ Foundational Relational Nervous system information
a) How to support a sense of safety in yourself and another – through awareness of location & explorative orienting habits
b) How to support a sense of safety in yourself and another – through deliberate social engagement. Understanding based on Polyvagal theory
☀️ Understanding Ritual Play’s primary mover, is tapped into by focusing one’s attention on an ever-present undercurrent of felt sense experience. A concrete way to be rooted in curiosity and to “lean in” is the inquiry of “Where is my felt sense attention drawn to next, next and next … “
☀️ Understanding and cultivating the skill of Dual Awareness: your ability to simultaneously witness your situation with another as well as being deep in your own experiencing. Part of cultivating fluency in cooperating with your own nervous system, reversibility and choice skills.
☀️ Understanding and cultivating a Participatory Mindset for Ritual Play. This approach is valuable to have when there is an intention to why you come together to play with another person. It can be play privately with a friend or professionally with a client. This approach is developed out of Marina’s Master Thesis on “Sexuality as Art”. Explored through roleplaying client and practitioner offering Ritual Play sessions
☀️ The Participatory Mindset is also key in a shift from a ’treatment’ based session approach, with a focus on fixing clients, to a co-creative approach, with a focus on partnering with clients to support them to be in choice. This approach supports autonomy, choice and transformation.
IS THIS A CERTIFICATION COURSE?
By it self the Ritual Play Foundations-event is NOT a certification course. YES, this Ritual Play: Foundations in-person event IS THE FIRST PART OF our 2-Part Certification Process.
After completing the residential Foundations 5-day event, you may apply for the apprenticing Certification and Mentorship part. Only graduates of the Certification and Mentorship can say they have trained with Marina and can become certified to guide official Ritual Play events, to be part of the Ritual Play referral network, and to advertise as Certified Ritual Play Practitioners.
This Ritual Play: Foundations immersion, you will deepen and broaden your experience of the various ways to use Ritual Play.
During the Certification and Mentorship part, through a series of calls, you’ll be supported as you practice leading your own sessions and/or groups and encounter real-life practical questions and issues.
Ritual Play: Foundations is the same event that before was called Ritual Play Training.
🌳 5-DAY INVESTMENT 🌳
Tier 1 ( first 10 people ): 999 €
Tier 2 ( before 13 June): 1099 €
Tier 3 (14 June - 23 July): 1199 €
FOOD & ACCOMMODATION: Price includes course training, food and own tent accommodation. It is possible to upgrade the accommodation.
WHERE: Dragon Temple in Solbacka Eco-village, Fagervik, 1h from Helsinki. The address is shared in the welcome letter.
TRAINING DATES: In-person 30 July – 3 August 2025
TRAINING HOURS: Wednesday 12 midday – Sunday 5 pm
WORKSHOP LANGUAGE: English
FACILITATOR: Lead facilitator Ritual Play founder Marina Kronkvist.
Co-organiser Noora Palokankare. Plus assistants
👉 MORE INFORMATION
https://www.ritual-play.com/ritual-play-training-for-professionals/
Also check out other Workshops in Fiskars, Arts events in Fiskars.
