Description
New Year’s Retreat
Dive into a journey of connection, celebration, and powerful rituals!
Michael Rolnick & Jochen Stechmann
Our program will feature a diverse range of activities including :
- Opening Circle: A welcoming gathering to begin our time together. Exploring Personal Desires: Reflecting on what we bring to the experience and what we hope to gain from it.
- Setting Intentions and Boundaries: Establishing our individual intentions, boundaries, and creating a safe space for all participants.
- Morning Practice: Engaging in practices such as meditation, movement, and mindfulness to start the day with clarity and centeredness.
- Partnering and Touch Exercises: Embracing playful exercises to deepen connections and explore consensual touch.
- Reflecting on 2024: Taking time to review and learn from our experiences in the past year.
- Tuning into 2025: Cultivating a sense of anticipation and receptivity for the opportunities that the new year holds.
- Exploring Conscious Sexuality: Engaging in playful and enlightening activities that offer different perspectives on conscious sexual experiences.
- Dynamic Open Space Structure: Providing a flexible framework that allows participants to engage in activities of their choice.
- New Year’s Dinner, Performance, Ritual, and Party: Let’s celebrate the New Year.
- Non-Talent Show: A lighthearted opportunity for participants to share their unique talents or simply enjoy the diverse talents of others.
- Integration and Closing: Concluding our time together by integrating our experiences and creating a sense of closure.
Jochen Stechmann works as a body-oriented Traumatherapist with Somatic Experiencing and NARM in Berlin – in one-to-one session and group workshops, mainly with queer identified people. Jochen studied Mathematics, Contemporary Dance (BA) and Theatre (MA) and has been busy for 15 years as Performer and Choreographer in the Netherlands. In their work as Somatic Coach thae are fascinated by the variety of abilities of the body and the nervous system to intuitively balance itself, and how empathetic, attentive touch can support this process. With great empathy and joy in new things, he explores the role that mindful, non-judgmental emphatic touch can play in this.
www.body-attention.com
Michael Rolnick was born in London, where he trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet Schools. He has danced for companies such as Northern Ballet Theatre, Scottish Ballet, the Lindsay Kemp Company, AMP, and many others. Michael also works as a choreographer and is involved in the visual arts. In addition, he teaches Pilates. At we are village, he leads the monthly creativity course Queer Images and is a co-facilitator of the Authentic Eros – One Year Training and the New Year’s Retreat.
General Information
Start: Saturday 28 December at 14:00
End: Wednesday 1 January at 16:00
Program: Participation in all activities offered is voluntary, giving you the freedom to participate as you see fit. Please note that the programme may be adjusted and amended slightly to provide a rich and fulfilling experience for all participants*.
Participants: For gay, bi, trans and queer men* and people who locate their identity on the genderfluid spectrum between male and non-binary.Language: This event will be in German and/or English depending on participant needs.
Meals and accommodation: These are not included in the participation fee. Accommodation (overnight stay in the group room) costs €20 per night and the cost of meals is €240. To be paid in cash on arrival. Vegetarian food (gluten and dairy-free options) / 3 meals per day (incl. dinner on 28 December and lunch on 1 January).
The catering fee is also due for cancellations after 20 December.
Accommodation on 27 December and/or 1 January can be arranged in advance.
