Are you feeling called to explore a different way of creating change—one that honours the wisdom of the body, invites play, and encourages human connection? Are you ready to discover what becomes possible when we transcend tired polarities and embrace both/and thinking? How would your life change if you centred presence, emergence, and wholeness?
You're invited to join Stephen Reid, Anna Ling, Laura Gottlieb and jae spencer keyse for the third Futurecraft Residency, this time taking place during Feÿtopia at the inspiring Château du Feÿ near Paris, France from 17th - 23rd February 2025.
Featuring:
🔮 Technological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid
💡 Radical Reimagination with jae spencer keyse
🧘🏼♀️ Yoga and singing with Anna Ling
👫 Dialogue and authentic relating with Laura Gottlieb
🔥 Wood-fired sauna
🌳 Huge private forest
🕺 Time for co-creation and emergence
As we walk the tightrope of planetary-scale transformation, it's becoming clear that we need to transform not just our technologies and infrastructures, but our ways of relating – to ourselves, to each other and to the living planet.
Futurecraft is a playground for a new culture of wholeness, where we reimagine the meaning of self, community and world; reintegrate body, mind and soul; and rethink the relationship between technology, humanity and nature.
During the week, we'll balance intelligent discussion of emerging technological, ecological and cultural trends with meditation, embodiment, voice work, play, dialogue and other modalities as part of a holistic approach to personal and collective transformation.
How we care for and co-create with one another will be emphasised as much as what we do.
The theme of this residency is 'I, We, World':
The I: Personal Development & Inner Work
As our outer world shifts with increasing speed, the invitation to cultivate our inner landscape grows stronger. During our week together at Feÿtopia, we'll create a playful yet profound space to explore meeting the world with more awareness, presence and compassion. Through meditation, yoga, somatic practices, and soulful inquiry, we'll develop practical skills for navigating complexity while staying grounded in direct experience. This inner work creates a foundation for authentic engagement with others and sustainable action in service of the whole.
The We: Collective Intelligence & Community
Transformation is a process that ripens through relationship. Together, we will explore how to create containers for genuine connection and co-creation that can hold paradox with grace and creativity. Through practices of authentic relating, generative dialogue, and collaborative art-making, we will develop the skills needed to navigate difference, harvest collective intelligence, and build communities of practice that encourage aliveness and possibility.
The World: Systems Change & Planetary Regeneration
The challenges and opportunities we face as a species require us to develop our understanding of interconnectedness and act at a planetary scale. Through a combination of systems thinking, philosophical inquiry, and creative futuring exercises, we will develop our capacity to respond to the complex dynamics shaping our world. We will investigate how emerging technologies can support rather than supplant human flourishing, and explore what it means to be good ancestors - crafting practices and stories that could help carry humanity through this pivotal moment into a thriving planetary civilisation.
Typical schedule:
7.30am Wake up
7.45am Meditation and yoga 🧘
9am Breakfast
10am – 1pm Session 1
1pm Lunch
3pm Group singing 🎶
4pm – 7pm Session 2
7pm Dinner
8pm – 10pm Session 3
Practical notes:
It's OK to miss a session here and there if you have important matters to attend to.
All meals and snacks are provided, and will be top-quality, microbiome-boosting, locally-sourced organic and vegan with occasional vegetarian options.
We welcome people of all ages, genders, abilities and sexualities.
Application and cost
Participation in this residency is by application: Read more and apply
The total cost is between €350–€1100, made up of your room & board fee, plus a facilitation fee:
Room & full board prices range from €350-€740 (paid to Feÿtopia, includes all meals and snacks)
The facilitation fee is 50% of your room price (paid to Futurecraft, waived for the lowest priced rooms)
We hope to see you there!
Mettā,
Stephen, Anna, Laura and jae
Looks awesome. Wish I could come!