Stalking Smallness: Circling, Relatefulness and Surrendered Leadership retreat

This will be a banger! Expect four days of exploring what it is really like to be you when you start noticing that you are free and that maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to drag around that backpack of responsibility and identifications that you have gotten used to. 

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Vision
We, Michael Blas and Peter Munthe-Kaas, met for the first time at the Borderland 2025, after years of subtly stalking each other on the internet. We have both been leading relating practices for more than a decade and are passionate about how to bring these practices into our lives. 

At this retreat will be exploring the waters of human connection. We will be working with how we can lead ourselves from a place of greater freedom, trust and love through becoming more in touch with our present moment experience. We are working with the sorting system that defines our reality and thus the ways in which it is possible for us to act in the world. In other words we are taking a playful look at our identifications. 



Some of the themes that will likely come up this retreat are: 
- Moving with pleasure.
- Meeting and dancing at the edge of your boundary.
- Seeing the “rules” you bring with you more clearly. 
- Exploring the greatness that comes with being small and insignificant. 
- And the joy that comes from moving with aliveness.  

 

As always, when working with relational presencing practices, we will be training the muscles of:
- Staying connected to your present moment experience.
- Allowing yourself to be impacted by others and sharing that impact.
- Generously sharing yourself in service of connection.
- Deeply listening to the experience of others.
- Meeting others from a place of love.
- Bringing presence and truth into connection without being attached to the outcome.
 

What to expect
You can expect 4 days of intense practice in a container where two of the main traditions of relating arts meet, collaborate, bump heads and find each other again in a friendly container at the Tögel Art Center outside of Stockholm, Sweden. 


What are relational presencing practices
With relational presencing practices we are pointing to practices  and leadership approaches such as Circling, Relatefulness and Transformational Connection. These practices are great for getting more in touch with our present moment experience together with someone else. It typically involves sharing our thoughts, feelings or bodily sensations as they are happening and then seeing how it impacts the people around us. 

What is Flow/Surrendered Leadership?
One way of understanding Flow/Surrendered Leadership is that it is an opportunity to see your own Karma in action. You get to see how the way you are holding yourself in the world impacts others and thus feeds back to become your experience of the world. More concretely Surrendered Leadership is a group practice where you are invited to surrender/welcome whatever is happening for you in the moment and lead yourself from there.

What is embodiment?
Embodiment points to actually being there, in your body, taking up as much space as you do with whatever is going on for you. The path to more embodiment typically is a process of discovery where we start noticing all the ways in which we are holding ourselves back, suppressing emotions, or not trusting that we are welcome.

Time and place

The retreat takes place in the easter days of april 3rd to 6th at Tögel Art Center outside of Stockholm.

The retreat starts at 12 Thursday. If you want to, you can arrive the evening before and get breakfast and accommodation at 100€ extra.

Tögel Art Center
Kilvägen 5
76391 Hallstavik
Sweden

Price and payment info
The suggested price for the event is 820 euro.

This price covers accomodation in a shared room and a vegan/vegetarian mealplan.

We hold an intention of wanting everyone to be able to participate, regardless of income situation. If you find that the regular price is too high for you, you can choose a lower price on the payment site.

If on the other hand, the suggested price feels very cheap (if you are thinking that this event 
can’t be high quality, because of the price, this is for you), we would appreciate it if you would pay a bit more. This will also help us support those, who are not able to pay the suggested price.   

 

Leaders

This weekend is led by Peter Munthe-Kaas and Michael Blas

Peter Munthe-Kaas
I am a Copenhagen based researcher, body therapist, coach and workshop facilitator. I am interested in practices that support me and others in relating and listening better and believe that the ability to relate to myself, others, society and nature is key to living a happy life in service of what is good in the world.

Michael Blas
I am based most often in Austin, TX. Right before he died, my grandfather said to me, “Don’t ever retire.” I was participating in relating practices in my off-time and decided to make that my career. I love connection and I love how I’m changed by listening to people without trying to change them. Some people realize that we can only ever know people better. Even fewer understand that the same is true about ourselves.