Open Call RETREAT I Play & Contemplation: cultivating accessible intuition for uncertain times

Life transitions, whether chosen or unexpected, can leave us feeling uncertain, tender, but also open to new possibilities.

At work, we might feel called to a new vocation, experience burnout or question our professional direction. In relationships we might shift between family roles, end or begin a new relationship or experience a shift in friendships. We might change countries or communities and with it, our sense of belonging. Or we might simply feel something needs to change in our life, yet we don’t know what.

For anyone standing at a threshold, between roles, identities, or life chapters, the combined power of play & contemplation can be “good medicine”. It can provide the necessary space to pause, listen, and rediscover the path to accessible intuition.

“Intuition is often thought to be an endowment or mystical force enjoyed by the gifted alone. Yet all of us have known moments when the right answer “just came” or we did “exactly the right thing without thinking”, wrote Viola Spolin, considered the mother of modern improvisation theatre.

In this three day retreat you will be nurtured by an experience weaving together the playful, liberating practices of Viola Spolin’s improvisation method with the reflective, compassionate framework of the Courage & Renewal® approach, developed by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal, informed by centuries of wisdom traditions from around the world.

🌄 a welcoming venue, in a natural place, 1h from Porto

💮the wisdom of careful facilitation from the Center for Courage and Renewal

🎭 the spontaneity of Spolin theatre games.

Details and signups: https://meadows.today/registration-retreat-play-contemplation/

12 places available

If you want to have a teaser, feel welcome to our monthly workshops in Porto:

"Possibility - the gift of uncertainty": https://meadows.today/possibility-monthly-workshops/