Do you have a vision you'd love to bring to life, but feel too overwhelmed to get started? Do you already have a project and feel alone with it, like no-one around you understands you? You’ve come to the right place!
This retreat is a space to reconnect with your purpose, gain practical tools, and find a supportive community of like-minded changemakers.
This retreat covers topics like the practice of Active Hope, project design and communicating about your project.
We begin with Active Hope—transforming fear and overwhelm into inspiration and action based on the work of Joanna Macy, "The Work that Reconnects". Together, we will acknowledge the challenges we face while cultivating resilience, creativity, and the courage to move forward.
Moving on, we’ll explore how to design, share, and sustain meaningful projects—balancing vision with action. You’ll work with tools for project design, ethical decision-making, digital strategy, and conscious marketing, while also creating space for deep reflection and connection 🌳💡
Schedule:
⭐️ Wed 11.6. arrival at Haltian pappila starting from 15.00, welcome circle at 18.00, light supper together
⭐️ Thu-Fri 12.-13.6. Active hope work
⭐️ Sat 14.6. Project design work
⭐️ Sun 15.6. Sharing your project work (navigating the digital realm and marketing ethically)
⭐️ Mon 16.6. Reflections on the weekend, time for personal tutoring, day ends with lunch
This means if your schedule is tight, you can choose to arrive Thursday morning and leave Sunday evening, too.
Price:
Whole retreat including all teaching and workshops, all meals and snacks and of course lakeshore sauna, with different accommodation options
🧡 180 € accommodation in the common dorm (mixed, mattress available, please bring your own sleeping bag or sheets) or tent (bring your own tent & gear)
🧡 250 € accommodation in shared 2 person rooms in the main house (per person)
🧡 130 € no accommodation (for people living or staying nearby)
Teachers and coaches
🌱 Kaisa Käärmemaa, artist and coach, will lead the Work that Reconnects / Active Hope workshop
🌱 Kathy Otto, teacher and specialist in organization and project design from Gran Canaria will guide us in these topics
🌱 Lumia Huhdanpää-Jais is a permaculture designer and an entrepreneur in the field of marketing, and will teach us holistic marketing
🌱 Dominik Jais is the author of "Digital Permaculture" and will share his decades-long experience in ethical IT and design.
Read more and sign up:
https://links.vihreapourusmaki.fi/peripheral-links-retreat-finland-2025-empowerment-gamechangers
The retreat is part of the LINK project by Vihreä Pourusmäki and Luna Red Producción Cultural. The retreat is co-funden by the European Union.
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