Unfolding Together
A 1-day Gathering for Transformational Practice and Collaborative Action
Sunday 25 January, 2029 • London Shambhala Centre, London, UK
How can we meet today’s global challenges with open hearts and courageous action?
This 1-day gathering invites you into a living network of people exploring at the intersection of inner, interpersonal, and systemic practice and action. Together we’ll engage in personal and relational practices - presence, dialogue, creative experimentation - while co-creating projects that arise from deep connection to self, community, and the web of life.
This initiative was born of a longing for companionship and mutual support, to take compassionate and courageous action. We cultivate the skills, relationships, and courage needed to face today’s complex social and ecological crises and to bring life-serving initiatives into the world.
Join us to practice, create, and act in community - unfolding the potential we carry, together.
What It Looks Like
Morning Session: Transformational Practices for Presence, Embodiment, and Connection
We engage together in embodiment and relational practices, grounding ourselves in presence and connection to self, others, the world, and something larger than ourselves.
Afternoon Session: Co-Creation & Project Incubator
This time is dedicated to collaboration and project incubation in a variety of forms and parallel activities. There will be a variety of sessions on offer (and you can offer one yourself if you like), focused on collaboration, mutual support, or transforming obstacles to life-serving action.
Who is it for?
This gathering is for you if you feel called to be part of a community of people devoted to bringing life-serving, collaborative projects into the world - people committed to creating connection and possibility, in a way that reflects the world we wish to see, rather than acting from and thereby recreating separation and polarization.
We see the diversity of this community as one of its greatest strengths, and we warmly welcome a wide range of participants: entrepreneurs, creatives, students and policymakers, educators and executives, social activists and regenerative practitioners, coaches and healers.
Details
Date & Time: Sunday January 25 from 10:00 to 18:00 (doors open at 9:30)
Location: London Shambhala Centre, 27 Belmont Close, London SW4 6AY
Provisional Schedule
10:00 – 13:00 Morning Session: Transformational Practices for Embodiment, Presence, and Connection
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:30 – 18:00 Afternoon Session: Co-Creation & Project Incubator
(Option of going out to dinner together afterward)
Economic Interdependence
We want this gathering to be as accessible as possible, while also caring for our fixed costs (cost of venue rental, etc.) and the wellbeing of everyone supporting and hosting this event. We’re currently exploring new ways of pricing that step out of the old paradigm of pressure or coercion, and move toward a partnership-based relationship with money, giving, and receiving.
For this event we’re working with a sliding scale. If the current range isn’t accessible for you, please reach out to us at info@culturalcatalystnetwork.org — we’re happy to explore together.
Sliding scale: £40 – £120
We invite you to choose an amount that feels honest for you.
These are some pointers that could potentially support you:
- What supports the sustainability of the organizers and the work?
- What can I offer without strain or resentment?
- What amount helps me feel genuinely committed and included?
Food & Drinks
Please bring your own lunch or enjoy one of the cafés nearby. Tea and snacks are provided.
Sources of Inspiration
We draw on and integrate various practices, including:
Nonviolent Communication
Transformational Connection and Circling
Internal Family Systems
Aletheia Unfolding
Microsolidarity
Thomas Hübl’s Collective Trauma Integration
Restorative Circles
Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects
Permaculture and the Transition Movement
Multiple forms of meditation, embodiment, creative expression, and group ritual
Hosting Team
Emma van den Boogert is a group facilitator, purpose coach, and community builder with a deep passion for creating sourced and resourced spaces in which people can connect to the deeper intelligence that’s here. Her work is about emerging and embodying new ways of being; creating practices, frameworks and systems sourced from this field of presence. She studied Political Science and has a background in Nonviolent Communication, different we-space practices like Circling and Transformational Connection, parts work, bodywork, music and community building. She’s currently working as a career coach, facilitating The Singing Field and passionate about projects in the field where collective emergence meets societal and planetary impact.
Karl Steyaert is passionate about supporting people, communities, and organizations to thrive, fulfill their highest potential, and contribute to the well-being of all life. For over 25 years he has facilitated personal and collective transformation – catalyzing transformational community projects and offering coaching, training, group process & conflict facilitation across North America, Europe and Asia. A CNVC Certified Trainer and Assessor in Nonviolent Communication and a Level 1-3 trained Internal Family Systems practitioner, Karl has also undergone intensive training in Collective Trauma facilitation (with Thomas Hübl), Transformational Connection, Process Work, and Aletheia Coaching. More on Karl at www.karlsteyaert.com.
Testimonials
Thank you from the depths of my heart for doing and sharing this work in the world. I am feeling reconnected to the essence of what truly matters to me – life, care, awakened consciousness. It feels so good to care about the well being of myself, others and the planet. Thank you for the reminder of the need for collaboration and community in the re-awakening process.
- Erica Kriss
Sustainability Entrepreneur
This experience has given me hope in human connection. The world needs people who have the courage to go inward and to be with others even when it's difficult. We have been offered many tools to do that. It really moves me that what we do here on a very small scale can really ripple out and lead to more understanding, healing, connection, tolerance and compassion.
- Leni Cellini
Mindfulness Teacher
“The ultimate goal in life is to become the truest expression of ourselves, to live into authentic selfhood, to honor our birthright gifts and callings, and be of service to humanity and our world.”
We would love to have you join us!
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@culturalcatalystnetwork.org.