- Program -
Nära Summer Gathering 2025
a cocreated deepening of community
This Year,
We Create
Together.
For 2025, we're exploring a more participatory approach to our summer festival. Instead of a line up of facilitators and a set program, we're opening the space for all participants to contribute, share, and lead. We invite you to step forward and offer your gifts practices during the workshop. This is of course optional! We'll also create a container to support less experienced facilitators to step forward, more on that below.
Below you'll find a selection of workshop offerings that we have chosen for this year's program. There might be slight alterations to this program, but most if is is by now planned to happen. And more workshops and activities will be offered on spot as we meet. So in that sense, it's more of living program this year.
Workshops and Activities
The following workshops and activities will be in our program.
But that's not all! There will be spots in the schedule for more offerings and co-creation possibilities by participants during the festival.
Conceremony
A ceremonial concert space to grieve, celebrate, land, share and rest in music. Move through what wants to be felt individually and collectively, making space for more life force.
Morning gatherings
Whole group facilitated morning gatherings which is supporting our sense of connection with the group as a whole. Different flavours different mornings.
Somatic Consent & Group Culture
Explore expressing your YES/NO and feeling into boundaries moment to moment. Learn to listen to your embodied truth through somatic practices, sharings and connection games.
See Yourself in Others
Bring awareness to projections that come between authentic connection. A gentle embodied journey that supports integrating lost parts within ourselves that we only see in others.
Forum Circle
Step into the center to be witnessed, held and supported while expressing what is alive for you across the wide spectrum of humanness.
Ecstatic Dance Journey
An ecstatic dance experience with live music and guidance, creating space for your heart to lead the way.
Morning Yogaflow
A soft and grounding awakening of your body and mind with flowing movements and breath connection.
Me, My Community, and My Longings!
Explore your relationship to community and longings. Supporting each other to understand, feel, and accept more about fellowship for our needs and dreams in this world.
Why Can't I Allow Myself to Feel Self-Love?
Dig in and challenge the stories that make love feel out of reach. For those who shut off when instructed to love themselves or suspect self-love is a scam.
Mens Gathering / The Unarmored Man
Confront old wounds and meet pain with fierce compassion. Break through emotional armor through self-inquiry, authentic relating, meditation, and deep reflection. For men only.
Moving Authentic Relating Group Meditation
Explore how you are being impacted and impact others in words or body language. Will involve somatic invitations to play, touch, or be alone.
Relational Presencing / Surrendered Leadership
Our preliminary name for one of our core practices. An organic process of authentic connection with self and others while being guided by self leadership. Will be offered throughout the festival.
Life/Death Meditation
This session will help us remember and discover what is important to us. It'll be challenging, vulnerable, brave. You will treasure it.
Sacred Touch - How to sacredly open into sensuality
Practice creating sacred containers and attuning to partners when offering or receiving touch. Explore opening into sensuality through presence and conscious connection.
True Belonging - How autonomy & intimacy birth love
Explore the delicate balance between self-connection and connection with others. Discover how honoring both autonomy and intimacy opens pathways to love and universal intelligence.
Slowdance Session
A slow and groovy movement space to ground yourself after the first day's intro and workshops. Enjoy the flow of your body and perhaps connect with some others.
Meta Authentic Relating
Step into the observer's seat of presencing itself. Explore the dynamics and patterns that emerge in authentic relating spaces, deepening your understanding of group consciousness.
Zouk
Explore the sensual Brazilian partner dance that emphasizes flow, connection and musicality.
Enough with Serious Self-Development - Let's Play!
Time to drop the burdon of self development and instead play like when we were kids!
Harvesting, Bridging and Creating the Future Together
Use the momentum from the festival to expand communitiy beyond this event by bridging experiences and co-creating our collective future.
Lindy Hop
Dive into the joyful, energetic swing dance that celebrates partnership, improvisation and pure fun.
Authentic Relating
What if we met with curiosity instead of expectation? We'll explore real connection through playful and honest exercises.