Before The Journey: A reflective evening for expats in Copenhagen

Name: Before The Journey: A reflective evening for expats in Copenhagen
Start: 2025-03-05T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-05T19:30:00+01:00
Location: QuietSpace.dk

Schedule

Wed Mar 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

QuietSpace.dk | Copenhagen , SK

There’s a moment—right before you become a foreigner—when everything is about to change.
A moment filled with hope, fear, curiosity, and the unknown.
A moment you can never quite return to, but one that shapes everything that comes after.
On March 5, we invite you to step into that moment again.
Join us for "Before the Journey", a reflective gathering for expats in Copenhagen. Together, we’ll travel back in time to that pivotal moment before your journey began. Through guided meditation, shared reflection, and quiet conversation, we’ll explore:
What did you carry with you?
What did you leave behind?
How does that moment live in you now?
This is a space to reconnect with your past self, to see how far you’ve come, and to prepare for the journey ahead—whether that’s The Foreigner’s Journey on March 23 (link to event: https://lu.ma/4950e95c?utm_source=pre-journey) or simply the ongoing adventure of living between worlds.
What to expect:
A peaceful, Japanese-inspired tatami room at QuietSpace, designed for stillness and reflection.
Guided meditations led by Maria, the owner of QuietSpace, to open and close our time together.
Warm tea and warm connections with fellow expats who understand the foreigner’s condition.
The community:
This gathering is part of The Foreigner’s Collective, a community for expats who feel caught between worlds—no longer fully rooted in their home culture, yet not fully at home in their new one. Here, we explore the foreigner’s condition with curiosity, creativity, and companionship. By joining, you’ll become part of a space where we gather monthly to reflect, connect, and rediscover the magic of living in the in-between. Read more here: https://ceremonica.dk/services/the-foreigner-s-collective
And if you’re curious to dive even deeper, this event is a beautiful prelude to The Foreigner’s Journey, our immersive 3-hour experience on March 23.
Details:
📅 Date: March 5, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 - 19:30
📍 Location: QuietSpace, Matrikel 1
👥 Spaces: Limited to 12 participants
Why Join?
This is more than an event—it’s an opportunity to pause, reflect, and connect. It’s a chance to honour where you’ve been, prepare for where you’re going, and become part of a community that truly understands the foreigner’s life.
Let’s gather in stillness, sip tea, and remember the moment that started it all.
About the organisers
Monica Matei - Experience Designer reimagining the way we gather, creating moments of connection, meaning and long-lasting memories. Living the foreigner's life for 17 years and counting.
Adelė Šalkauskaitė - Immersive Event Designer, content creator, cand.mag in Theatre & Performance studies. Living the foreigner's life for 9 years and counting.
Together, we are Ceremonica - Denmark’s first experience design studio dedicated to crafting extraordinary gatherings for curious humans. Read more at https://ceremonica.dk/
Maria Therese Jessen-Petersen - Meditation facilitator helping individuals and organizations cultivate stillness and clarity in our fast-paced, ever-changing world. Maria spent many years living the foreigner's life and is still a foreigner at heart.
Maria is the owner of QuietSpace where she offers 1:1 meditation coaching sessions as well as Urban Retreats for young founders and CEOs. She also holds weekly meditation sessions for expat women. Read more at: https://www.quietspace.dk/
We look forward to hosting you on this reflective evening!