The Field Festival 2026
Schedule
Tue, 18 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 23 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Skeppsudden Kursgård | Norrköping, OG
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The Field FestivalAugust 18-23, 2026
Skeppsudden, Sweden
More info & register now: www.the-field.com
The Field Festival is a multi-day immersive gathering centered around embodied presence, relational intelligence, and collective emergence.
We create a living field, co-created by facilitators, participants, and the subtle relational fabric between us.
This year, we are gathering around a simple but deep question: what actually happens when we come together? Not just in proximity, but in awareness, in honesty, and in relationship?
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In a time of growing polarisation, disconnection, and the subtle and significant violences of separation, The Field offers something that feels both simple and potentially radical. It is a space to explore relationality, power, care, and collective intelligence. Not as abstract ideas, but as lived, imperfect, human experience.
This is not an escape from the world, but a way of meeting it differently. Together. An exploration of what it means to build prefigurative cultures: ways of being together now we might bring into the world that reflect a possibility of what a different future can look and feel like.
We are not only interested in what happens in the space, but in how we show up with each other while it is happening. Because something in many of us already knows that the future is not created only by ideas, strategies, or visions, but by the quality of attention, embodiment, and relationship we are able to hold together.
There will be structure. There will be offerings, practices, and moments of beauty, play, connection, and depth. And there will also be the unexpected. Because this is not a scripted experience. We are creating conditions, and then listening, both individually and collectively for what wants to emerge.
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What This Gathering Is
The Field Festival is an experiential, relational, and emergent gathering. Rather than a fixed programme to move through, it is a space to arrive into… a space where attention can begin to slow down, where you can start to notice yourself, others, and the shared field between us.
There will be facilitated workshops, rituals, and practices offered by experienced space-holders, but much of the life of the festival unfolds in the spaces between. In conversations by the water, in unexpected encounters, in laughter, in moments of silence, in misunderstanding, and sometimes in repair.
We don’t promise a particular kind of experience. Some moments may feel deeply connected, alive, or even magical. Others may feel unclear, tender, surprising, or confronting. Each of us arrives with different histories, different nervous systems, different relationships to power, belonging, and safety and this all plays a role in what becomes possible in any given moment.
What we are committed to is creating the conditions for something real to happen. Conditions that support attunement, participation, and the possibility of shared coherence, while also allowing space for difference, divergence, and the unknown.
The intelligence of the gathering is not something we control. It is something we learn to listen to, together.
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The Deeper Intention
When humans gather with enough presence, willingness, and curiosity, something tangible can begin to form between us. It’s not perfect, not always coherent, but it is undeniably alive.
In these kinds of spaces, we may begin to remember how to listen not only with our minds, but with our bodies, our hearts, our nervous systems, and our relational awareness. We may begin to sense more clearly what is happening between us, and how we are feeding that together.
This gathering is, at its heart, a practice. A practice of being with joy and discomfort, connection and difference, clarity and not-knowing, grief, eros, creativity, and play… all without needing to resolve everything, and without needing to get it right.
It is also a gentle but honest turning toward what is often left unnamed. The ways power moves between us. The ways that belonging is shaped or limited. The ways our histories and identities come into the room and influence what we can see, feel, and express.
Not as something to fix or solve in a few days, but as something we can begin to notice, feel, and stay in relationship with, together.
This is relational culture, practiced in real time.
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Who This Is For
The Field Festival is for people who are already oriented toward depth.
You may be a facilitator, therapist, bodyworker, activist, artist, leader, parent, or simply someone who feels a growing responsibility for the relational culture we are creating together.
You don’t need to be a facilitator to come, but you will likely feel drawn to this space if you care about how humans come together.
You might be curious about what needs to become visible in your own practice for you to share your work more widely with communities and causes that could genuinely benefit.
You may wish to sense somatically into the positive change that is needed in our relationships, families, communities, and societies. And how emergent field work might contribute.
You may want to explore your own shadows, history, and positionality when it comes to the flows of power and privilege within which we all swim.
Or you may want to deepen your emergent facilitation practice, and join an experiment in attunement, coherence, and co-creation with some of the leading practitioners in this field.
This gathering is for those who care about nervous system literacy and relational clarity. Who feel disillusioned with performative spirituality or extractive group culture. Who sense that how we gather is itself a form of cultural leadership and who find joy and meaning in the complexities of coming together.
This is not an entry-level personal development event. And it is not an exclusive or elite space. It is a space of maturity, humility, and shared responsibility.
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A Note on Responsibility
The Field Festival is co-created, which means that no one is outside of the field. Each of us contributes to what is happening through how we arrive, how we listen, how we move, and how we relate.
We are not aiming to create a perfect space where everyone feels met at all times. That is not something we can promise, and it is not how human relational spaces tend to work.
What we are orienting toward is a space where more of what is real can be present, and where there is enough awareness, support, and shared intention to stay in relationship with what arises.
You may experience moments of deep connection here, and you may also encounter moments where you feel unseen, challenged, or not fully met. Both are part of relational life.
The invitation is not to get it right, but to remain in relationship with yourself, with others, and with the field we are constantly creating together.
If something in you feels a yes... whether that is clear or quiet, grounded or uncertain- you are welcome here.
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Practical Details for 2026
Dates & Price
August 18-23, 2026
Arrival: 15:00-18:00 Tuesday, Aug 18
Depart: 13:00-16:00 Sunday, Aug 23
Early bird price ranges from €700-€1100 depending on accommodation selection. Includes Festival ticket, all food, and accommodations.
Tickets: https://buytickets.at/embodiedintimacy/2141797
Venue
The venue is located just south of Stockholm at Skeppsudden in Sweden
Address: Järstad Skeppsudden 1, 610 31 Vikbolandet, Sweden
http://www.skeppsudden.com/
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HOSTS
Rachel Rickards, Christian Pankhurst & Organizing from Elsewhere
More info can be found on the website: www.the-field.com
Get Tickets Now: https://buytickets.at/embodiedintimacy/2141797
When all channels open
The Field is who we truly are
No need to stay isolated
In the illusion of separation
Remember!!!
This field is a circle
Whose center is everywhere
You are its center
You are its source
As more and more centers
Open to wholeness
Open to Source
The Field comes alive
We do this together
Hearts open together
Each center expands
That’s how the field comes ALIVE!
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Immediately following The Field Festival STAY with us for LIBERATION: The Childhood Experience (August 26-21, 2026) also at Skeppsudden.
More info & Registration here: https://liberationworkshops.com/liberation-childhood-experience/sweden-2026/
For more info on The Field:
www.the-field.com/festival
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Where is it happening?
Skeppsudden Kursgård, Järstad Skeppsudden 1, SE-610 31 Vikbolandet, Sverige, Norrköping, SwedenEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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