Resonant Bodies
A 7-day residency in shared community and co-creation
26. - 01.08.2025
The Blue Horse
Brandenburg
Open Call 2025
Application deadline 16.05.2025
“Now, we think, is the time to ‘retreat’ into the real work of reclamation,
to re-member again our humanity through the intimacy of our relationships.
The time is very urgent – we must slow down.” - Bayo Akomolafe
Invitation
An Exploration, not a Solution
In a time marked by rapid change, uncertainty and fragmentation, we are faced with our world unraveling. Many of the ways we have been taught to perceive, relate, and act are no longer sufficient for the depth of the challenges we face. In response to this calling, we invite you into an exploration where we do not seek to solve, but to sense, to relate, to compost and to reweave in playful and joyful ways. An experiment in how we might live, learn, and listen together in a time of disorientation that asks us to be otherwise.
We offer an intentional space of shared attunement and unfoldment—where we are supported to become deeply present with and responsive to what is happening in the moment, allowing it to reveal, to come into being without forcing or predetermining the outcome. Not as concepts to be understood or as skills to be mastered, but as embodied practices that reshape how we relate to ourselves, to one another and the living world—ways of being, we can remember together and carry out into our private and professional lives.
Gathering as a Community of Practice
As an intimate group of 12 people, we will gather around this inquiry, co-creating a temporary sanctuary—a space, a pause that offers us refuge from dominant societal patterns and pressures allowing for deepened presence for collective learning, unlearning, and becoming. Together we abide in a dense and animated relational space where trust, care, and courageous inquiry unfold in emergent ways, allowing new possibilities of being, perceiving and relating to take root.
Our time together will be held by a light ecology of awareness, movement and relational practice sessions and daily moments of collective community care, like cooking and cleaning. Within this soft structure, an open and emergent schedule is dynamically co-created by the whole group in which all are invited to contribute to the collective unfolding process of becoming. Everyone is encouraged to explore their own potential for collaborative leadership and share their gifts, talents, perspectives and practices, through offerings, explorations and rituals.
Unfolding Emergent Futures
Together we engage in experiential learning that is lived and relational, not extracted and performed. A mutual learning that will happen through direct engagement, reciprocity and exchange; unfolding our intersubjective creativity as a group—as we deepen into a collective world-building body.
We will cook, speak, laugh, sing, move, communicate, create, dance, listen, lead, follow, explore, swim, dream, meditate, move, contemplate, shapeshift with and through each other.
Join us for this adventure!
Shared Lunch, Resonant Bodies Residency 2021, Kakheti Georgia
Who is this for?
We are calling for human beings who resonate with this call, who are willing to bring their whole selves to a collective inquiry—gifts, talents, challenges, questions, and contradictions. All are welcome.
Whether you are an educator, community weaver, facilitator, socially engaged artist, spaceholder, activist, changemaker, regenerative practitioner—or simply someone drawn to this way of relating to change and transition, this program is an opportunity for you to practice the art of attuning: To become deeply present with and responsive to what is happening in every moment and to spontaneously and effortlessly adjust in ways that nurture connection, aliveness and understanding—whether with yourself, others, or the environment.
If you are longing for a space to deepen into embodied practice, relational inquiry, and collective co-creation—to cultivate ways of being that nurture reciprocity, trust, and attunement, without needing to control or fix, this residency is for you.
You do not need to be an expert or have mastery of any particular skill—just a willingness to be in process, to meet yourself and others as you are, and to offer your presence.
This is for you if you feel called to:
- Cultivate capacities to be open, attentive, and responsive to what is.
- Understand and compost habits of self-improvement, extraction, domination and control.
- Explore the body as a site of learning, knowing, and transformation.
- Practice attunement in relationship—navigating complexity with care and courage.
- Step into a space of shared inquiry, mutual learning and reciprocal growth.
- Engage with art, movement, and play as modes of collective sense-making and sense-breaking.
- Build capacity for co-creating relationally sensitive, regenerative, and high trust environments.
- Contribute to an experimental space of becoming—where no one is a passive participant.
Where will it take place?
Resonant Bodies Residency
at “Das Blaue Pferd”
We will stay in a beautifully restored four-sided farmhouse (Vierseitenhof) in the rural region of the Ruppiner Seenland, one hour north of Berlin. Surrounded by forests, fields and lakes, at the edge of the Schorfheide biosphere reserve, this protected historical site offers both spaciousness and stillness.
The ensemble of buildings creates a sheltered courtyard atmosphere, reminiscent of a small village square. The 200 m² barn provides space for workshops, movement sessions, relaxing under the trees, exhibitions, screenings, or simply being together. Around the house grow fruit trees, flowers, vegetables, and herbs.
The house has been renovated with care and ecological sensitivity, using mainly wood and clay as building materials. Almost all furnishings are upcycled or handcrafted from repurposed materials, designed and created on-site by artists and designers
Website: Das Blaue Pferd
How much is it?
Accomodation 190.- Shared / 230.- SingleFood and Drinks 140.-
Coordiation, Hosting, Coaching 180.-
Material Costs 50.-
Transportation Costs 40.-
TOTAL 600.- / 640.-
How to Apply
- Application: Apply for a spot in the retreat by filling out the form so we get to know you. We will do our best to review the application within one week.
The deadline for applications is 16th May 2025. - Interview: We will meet with you online to clarify intentions and answer any questions that might be present, providing a point of contact before committing.
- Payment: After clarification, we'll send you payment information and you can transfer the fee to secure your spot!
We hope that this application process will be a helpful self-reflective and intention-clarifying experience for our shared time in summer. If you have any questions feel free to contact us at hello@resonant-bodies-collective.org
apply for the residency
In a time of great unraveling and disorientation …. How do we become soft, open, able, responsive, trusting, alive, exuberant, fluid, flexible, caring, nurturing, connected…. in body, mind, and community?
Rhythms, Rituals & Practices
Morning Meditations
Daily practice will support our inner space, calm, and self-awareness through sitting, walking, and contemplation in nature. These sessions invite presence and support open and aware communication, particularly during interpersonal tensions.
Daily practice will support our inner space, calm, and self-awareness through sitting, walking, and contemplation in nature. These sessions invite presence and support open and aware communication, particularly during interpersonal tensions.
Embodiment & Movement Sessions
With our Bodies as the main sites of learning, we will put a daily focus on embodiment and movement practices. We will explore our own bodies and emotions through movement and the experience of being in relationship with each other non-verbally. This includes experimenting with improvisatory movement, contact improv and safe and fun playfight
With our Bodies as the main sites of learning, we will put a daily focus on embodiment and movement practices. We will explore our own bodies and emotions through movement and the experience of being in relationship with each other non-verbally. This includes experimenting with improvisatory movement, contact improv and safe and fun playfight
Relational Attunement Sessions
We will explore different modalities like Internal Family Systems, Non-Violent Communication, Conscious Release and Deep Listening, that support us to relate to ourselves and each other with compassion. The practices support us to communicate authentically, offer tools for collective decision-making and conflict resolution and to nurture a safe and brave environment. We will explore how to hold space for and co-regulate each other, cultivating the ability to stay present during difficult conversations rather than shutting down.
We will explore different modalities like Internal Family Systems, Non-Violent Communication, Conscious Release and Deep Listening, that support us to relate to ourselves and each other with compassion. The practices support us to communicate authentically, offer tools for collective decision-making and conflict resolution and to nurture a safe and brave environment. We will explore how to hold space for and co-regulate each other, cultivating the ability to stay present during difficult conversations rather than shutting down.
Co-Created Spaces
The afternoons and evenings will be open for community contributions, using Open Space Technology, in which everyone is invited to step into leadership, sharing offerings and explorations. It is a space where you can experiment with taking up new roles, for collective decision-making, playful inquiry, impromptus, imagination and creativity.
The afternoons and evenings will be open for community contributions, using Open Space Technology, in which everyone is invited to step into leadership, sharing offerings and explorations. It is a space where you can experiment with taking up new roles, for collective decision-making, playful inquiry, impromptus, imagination and creativity.
Pod Groups
To nourish peer support, reflection and integration throughout the residency, we will meet in small practice pods of three people for an hour every afternoon. The pods stay the same for the length of the residency as a place to build supportive relationships. They offer a daily moment to address challenges, make requests and support each other in a more intimate environment, accommodating whatever is present in the moment.
To nourish peer support, reflection and integration throughout the residency, we will meet in small practice pods of three people for an hour every afternoon. The pods stay the same for the length of the residency as a place to build supportive relationships. They offer a daily moment to address challenges, make requests and support each other in a more intimate environment, accommodating whatever is present in the moment.
Community Care
We will dedicate daily rituals for community care, including cleaning and caring for the facility as well as preparing home cooked vegetarian meals for the group. Next to these voluntary obligations there will be plenty of opportuni ties to propose joyful spontaneous activities.
We will dedicate daily rituals for community care, including cleaning and caring for the facility as well as preparing home cooked vegetarian meals for the group. Next to these voluntary obligations there will be plenty of opportuni ties to propose joyful spontaneous activities.
1:1 Support
We are aware that a dense relational space can bring up emotional triggers and challenges that can seem overwhelming. The hosting team is here to support you with what might come up and can hold space individually for personal processing and guidance when needed.
We are aware that a dense relational space can bring up emotional triggers and challenges that can seem overwhelming. The hosting team is here to support you with what might come up and can hold space individually for personal processing and guidance when needed.
Nature Connection
The retreat is surrounded by beautiful nature. We want to emphasise time in nature as an opportunity to connect to something bigger than ourselves, to take time to touch the intrinsic value and beauty of the natural world, and to deepen our recognition that we are part of this sacred web of life—grounding our actions in service of life and opening up a deep sense of purpose.
The retreat is surrounded by beautiful nature. We want to emphasise time in nature as an opportunity to connect to something bigger than ourselves, to take time to touch the intrinsic value and beauty of the natural world, and to deepen our recognition that we are part of this sacred web of life—grounding our actions in service of life and opening up a deep sense of purpose.
Artistic Research & Play
We want to encourage exploration through artistic means and practices as a core catalyst for our process. Engaging in artistic inquiry and expression, we disclose novel conditions for encounter and poetic ways of understanding. We get the chance to playfully break with habitual ways of operating in logical, linear problem-solving ways, revitalising our imagination and creativity as disruptive and liberating world-building capacities. Artistic practice opens up a multi-medial, embodied learning field beyond the rational mind, in which metaphor, image and ritual can express what we do not yet have words for.
We want to encourage exploration through artistic means and practices as a core catalyst for our process. Engaging in artistic inquiry and expression, we disclose novel conditions for encounter and poetic ways of understanding. We get the chance to playfully break with habitual ways of operating in logical, linear problem-solving ways, revitalising our imagination and creativity as disruptive and liberating world-building capacities. Artistic practice opens up a multi-medial, embodied learning field beyond the rational mind, in which metaphor, image and ritual can express what we do not yet have words for.