The Art of Holding Space
June 23–26, 2025
The retreat dates don’t work for you?
Explore our Online Facilitators Training or join the month-long Performance & People Masterclass in May 2026.
Explore our Online Facilitators Training or join the month-long Performance & People Masterclass in May 2026.
This four-day summer camp (June 23-26) is for artists, creatives, and cultural practitioners who feel called to move beyond the solitary studio and toward something more collective. It’s for those who wish to explore how they lead, create, facilitate, and hold space, not just as a skill, but as an art form in itself.
Together, we’ll explore what it means to create not only artworks, but worlds, immersive, participatory, and multi-sensory environments where something transformative can happen. Quiet or loud. Internal or shared. You’ll receive practical tools to design and hold spaces that support individual growth and collective experience. I will guide you not only in structuring a session, but in crafting a space that reflects your values, aesthetics, and urgency, a space that can hold others, and yourself, with sincerity and courage.
This is about space-holding as artistic practice: performative, pedagogic, poetic, political. It may involve words, movement, silence, ritual, objects, questions. It may look like a durational performance, an experimental lab, or a collective dream.
You will:
Themes we’ll explore together:
Alternative pedagogy, non-formal education, authority and leadership, somatic practices, interdisciplinary tools, empowerment...
This is a space to build your own way of giving space.
A space to create something that creates space in return.
Come as you are. Leave with your own method.
Together, we’ll explore what it means to create not only artworks, but worlds, immersive, participatory, and multi-sensory environments where something transformative can happen. Quiet or loud. Internal or shared. You’ll receive practical tools to design and hold spaces that support individual growth and collective experience. I will guide you not only in structuring a session, but in crafting a space that reflects your values, aesthetics, and urgency, a space that can hold others, and yourself, with sincerity and courage.
This is about space-holding as artistic practice: performative, pedagogic, poetic, political. It may involve words, movement, silence, ritual, objects, questions. It may look like a durational performance, an experimental lab, or a collective dream.
You will:
- Learn facilitation techniques where creativity and freedom are supported by structure and frame
- Build your own toolbox of exercises, prompts, images, objects, and vocabulary
- Practice how to set a clear container, explore your leadership style, and enjoy leading
- Discover how to build brave, transformative spaces for artistic exploration, critical reflection, and empowerment
- Develop a participatory project and test it in a safe, supportive circle
- Learn how to extend your existing work into the social, educational, or communal—shifting audiences from passive observers to active co-creators
Themes we’ll explore together:
Alternative pedagogy, non-formal education, authority and leadership, somatic practices, interdisciplinary tools, empowerment...
This is a space to build your own way of giving space.
A space to create something that creates space in return.
Come as you are. Leave with your own method.
frame
While our retreats provide valuable opportunities for self-reflection and sharing, it's important to understand that these are creative, not therapeutic, spaces. Our focus is on artistic exploration, personal growth, and community building through art education, empowerment, and transformation.
Please also note that our space is not equipped for explicit discussions of trauma. We kindly ask all participants to be mindful and avoid over-sharing sensitive personal experiences. At the School of Disobedience, we celebrate separation of spaces, responsibility, and respect for each participant's emotional journey and availability.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in maintaining a supportive and enriching environment for all.
Please also note that our space is not equipped for explicit discussions of trauma. We kindly ask all participants to be mindful and avoid over-sharing sensitive personal experiences. At the School of Disobedience, we celebrate separation of spaces, responsibility, and respect for each participant's emotional journey and availability.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in maintaining a supportive and enriching environment for all.
practical information
Facilitator: Anna Ádám
Language: English
Accommodation: Simple and basic traditional Hungarian summer house (no wifi) in Balatonalmádi (Hungary), close to the beach with 2 shared bedrooms (bed + mattress), shared bathroom, terrace, garden…
Creative infrastructure: Lights, mike, sound, costumes, props...
Application deadline: Ongoing
Number of participants: min. 2 - max. 4 / camp
Vegetarian food: 3x / day
Price: 500 € / retreat (including accommodation, meals, workshops...)
Language: English
Accommodation: Simple and basic traditional Hungarian summer house (no wifi) in Balatonalmádi (Hungary), close to the beach with 2 shared bedrooms (bed + mattress), shared bathroom, terrace, garden…
Creative infrastructure: Lights, mike, sound, costumes, props...
Application deadline: Ongoing
Number of participants: min. 2 - max. 4 / camp
Vegetarian food: 3x / day
Price: 500 € / retreat (including accommodation, meals, workshops...)