Invitation to the Life Itself Spring Gathering, 27th March-6th April 2025

Book now! Weekend Gathering 27th-30th March, followed by Community Co-working Week 31st March-6th April. Come for connection, nourishment, and inspiration ✨

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Jan 13, 2025

We’re excited to open up bookings for the Life Itself Spring Gathering 2025! Join us to connect and collaborate with others who are longing for a radically wiser world.

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Key Info

🥳 What: Life Itself Spring Gathering 2025. A weekend gathering followed by a Community Co-working week. You can come just for the weekend or stay for the whole time.

📅 When: Thursday 27th March to Sunday 6th April 2025

27th-30th March (Weekend Gathering)
31st March- 6th April (Community Co-working Week)*

*The Life Itself Research Community retreat will take place during this week

🏡 Where: Life Itself Bergerac Hub, south-west France (~1.5h from Bordeaux)

😄 Who: Members of the Life Itself network (e.g. collaborators; previous Hub residents; research community contributors; friends…) & newcomers curious to discover more. Based on the Hub’s capacity, this will be a relatively intimate gathering of 15-20 people.

💗 Why:

Take time out of your habitual context and everyday engagements for reflection, inspiration, and nourishment
Connect with others who are interested in topics such as: paradigmatic social change; contemplative, relational, and embodied practices; community weaving; inner development; alternative economics and politics… and more…
Mutual support on projects related to cultivating a radically wiser world
A taster of conscious co-living at the Bergerac Hub

💸 Cost: €230-€430 for the weekend or €460-€860 for the full 10 days, depending on room choice. (Ticket includes food and accommodation.)

🌱 Vibe: Playfulness, Curiosity, Creativity, Care

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Intention

The purpose of the Gathering is to create a space for Life Itself community members, collaborators, friends, and curious explorers to: meet each other, weave connections, and enjoy being together.

It’s also an opportunity to touch into the spirit of Life Itself: to tune into the question of what it means to cultivate radically wiser worlds, through our way of being together, as much as through the topics and activities we might explore.

Structure

Gathering

The Gathering will open at 6pm on Thursday 27th March and will close by 12pm on Sunday 30th March. Please arrange your travel to be present for these moments.

We will use Open Space Technology to create together a schedule of workshops and activities based on the wishes and gifts of our pop-up community.

In the spirit of collective care which is core to life at the Hub, we will prepare our food together – we will have a rota in which all participants contribute to our mini community life together.

Community Co-working week

The Community Co-working week will resemble a week in the life of a Praxis Open Residency – a conscious co-living experience with time for working on individual or collective projects as well as time for rest and play.

There will be a bit more focus on structures to support collaboration than usual in the Open Residencies: during the week, there will be co-working sessions with check-ins, opportunities to present and discuss work with each other, and opportunities for peer support on projects e.g. via case clinics.

Schedule

Wednesday 26th March

Between 4pm and 8pm Optional early arrival at the Hub*

*Please select and pay for an extra night on the ticketing platform if you would like to arrive a night early

Thursday 27th March

2pm onwards Arrival
6pm Opening and Welcome Dinner

Friday 28th- Saturday 29th March

Gathering Open Space with light “minimum viable” structures from hosting team

Sunday 30th March

By 12pm Closing
Departure of those not staying on for Community Co-working week
Self-organised lunch and dinner for those staying on for Community Co-working week

Monday 31st March-Friday 4th April

Schedule will resemble that of Praxis Open Residencies (see below)
+ some light structures to support co-working and collaboration
The Life Itself Research Community retreat will take place during this week

Saturday 5th April

Weekend fun! :)

Sunday 6th April

Departure

Community Co-working Week Schedule

A provisional schedule, based on that of Praxis Open Residencies, is:

7:30-8:00 Silent meditation
8:00-8:30 Movement practice (e.g. yoga)
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Collective care (cooking, cleaning, or gardening)*
10:00-13:00 Individual time or Co-working/Collaboration time
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:30 Individual time or Co-working/Collaboration time
18:30-19:30 Dinner
20:00-21:00 Evening activity or rest/downtime

*N.B. there will be some collective care tasks which take place at other times instead of during this hour, e.g. washing dishes which will take place after lunch and dinner.

Tickets

All ticket prices include food and accommodation. The food cost is €10/day.

Weekend Gathering (3 nights, Thu 27 March - Sun 30 Mar):

Shared room: €230 (€200 room + €30 food)
Standard room: €330 (€300 room + €30 food)
Premium room: €430 (€400 room + €30 food)

Gathering + Community Co-working Week ticket (10 nights, Thu 27 Mar - Sun 6 Apr):

Shared room: €460 (€360 room + €100 food)
Standard room: €660 (€560 room + €100 food)
Premium room: €860 (€760 room + €100 food)

N.B. Prices on the ticketing page include a 5% fee to cover the costs charged by the ticketing and payment platforms.

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Please get in touch with us at gathering@lifeitself.org if you’d like to make a booking which isn’t covered by one of the ticket options, e.g. if you are a couple or family sharing a room.

Room details

Shared room means shared with one other person. Premium room means a room with a private bathroom (there are a very limited number of these). Standard is an individual room.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs we should be aware of when it comes to room allocation.