Nära Summer Festival 2025

We're planning Nära Summer Festival as of 6-10th of August 2025. This is will be our 4th annual festival. We're planning to be around 100-110 people in total, including organizers, facilitators, volunteers and participants. 2024 we where just under 90 people in total, and we're looking to expand slighly for 2025.

It's a much appreaciated festival that is part of strenghtening our community centered around Circling, Authentic Relating and Embodiment. With an intention to support people in cultivating skills and growth that they can embody in their lives. We have a smaller venue in central Malmö where we regularly host activities such as Circling, Authentic Relating, meditation, and community hang out.

Participants

40-60% of the participants at our Summer Festival are usually returning. As of 2024, about 60% comes from Malmö/nearby, and 20% from Denmark, and 15% from other places in Sweden and about 5% come from other countries. Most of the participants are experienced in being in AR workshops.

The venue

We'll host the festival at Patrik's venue at Sunnanå, just 10km outside Malmö. The main space (The Pool Room) is about 250sq meters and can easily fit 150 people. Additionally we have 2 other workshop areas (The Living Room and The Gandhi Room) with space for about 20-40 people in each and nice smaller space (The Light House) that can host some 15-20 people. The Pool Room has a juicy sound system and microphones ready for you to use.

Workshops

We'll be offering workshops in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Embodiment practices. All of them somehow acknowledging our human embodiment and relationality. We like to be able to offer a coherent orientention for the festival, and at the same time bring some new flavours each year. We're always looking to have a good selection of oppertunities to get moving and sweat - may it be to a beat or may it be in a embodied play/fight session.

Since of 2024 we also invite for more co creation from participants - an integration space where anyone can take initiative of what they need. Initiatives like cuddle puddle, contact impro, reflecting on something together, exploring some intense emotions together are examples of initatives that have been expressed.

Being a facilitator at the festival

We usually request facilitators to host at least 2 workshops during the festival. In return we offer indoor sleeping in a comfy room, and a free festival. We strive to reimburse you for travel expenses. If you come from far away/traval a bit more expensivly - check in with us about your travel costs. It's best (but not mandatory) if you can join us for the whole festival. Let us know if you don't think you can be with us the whole time!

We'll be having some online meetings with all facilitators leading up to the festival, starting early summer of 2024. We'll host a physical meeting to sense each other in the team the same day as the festival starts, but prior to the arrival of participants. And then we'll usually organize regular check in meetings during the festival - to support us all in holding the container of the group.

As a facilitator you're of course free to enjoy the other workshops when you're not hosting anything!

We're drawing about half of the facilitators from our local community and half from outside, as a way to keep in relation (give and recieve) with the surrounding world and other communities/people oriented towards similar practices.