Futurecraft at Feÿtopia

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

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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:

• 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: Apply here
• 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)

Facilitators

Stephen Reid

Stephen Reid is a technologist, educator and facilitator who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching and insight meditation. Current projects include writing a book on Technological Metamodernism, hosting courses and residencies as a co-founder of Futurecraft, and leading the development of Dandelion as a member of not-for-profit worker co-op Symbiota.

Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, taught the Introduction to AI, Introduction to web3, How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation & Life as Practice courses, and served as the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK.

Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, an MRes in Complexity Science from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley.

Anna Ling

Anna Ling is a singer-songwriter, choir leader, and yoga teacher based in Totnes, Devon, UK. Her days begin with movement and sound, grounding her to meet the outer-facing work of teaching and performing. She leads two choirs, teaches yoga locally, and performs at festivals and venues across the UK. She’s currently finishing her debut album.

Growing up with a community choir leader as a parent, Anna saw early on how music can bring people together. Later in her singing journey she became interested in more classical leaning modalities, and how understanding the anatomy of the voice can help singers feel more confident. She studied Ethnomusicology at SOAS and is a member of the Association of Teachers of Singing and the Natural Voice Network.

Yoga and meditation have been a big part of Anna’s life for over half her life. She’s completed two teacher training programs and learned from some incredible teachers around the world.

jae spencer keyse

jae spencer keyse (she/they/he) is a skilled facilitator, community builder, learning designer, and mentor. They are captivated by the question: What if learning and education supported individuals and the world to thrive? This curiosity led to the development of radical reimagination, a collection of initiatives aimed at addressing the urgent need to re-envision and co-create learning experiences and life as a whole.

For the past 13 years, jae has held various positions in the fields of education and systemic change. They recognize that traditional education systems often dictate what is considered "good" and "right," leaving many students feeling like "failures." Based on academic and industrial models, these systems tend to undervalue creative and imaginative practices. Rather than attempting to reform the existing system, jae is focused on radically reimagining it by exploring deeply relational, creative, regenerative, anti-oppressive, and embodied practices.

jae has collaborated with organizations such as the United Nations, FutureLearn, Samsung Not A School, Huddlecraft, Big Change, and HundrED, and co-founded YouthXYouth and The Weaving Lab. They hold a degree in Politics and International Relations from Warwick University and a BPS-accredited master's degree in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of St. Andrews.

Laura Gottlieb

Laura Gottlieb is an integral facilitator and design researcher who has studied philosophy, design, facilitation, Bohmian dialogue, Authentic Relating, yoga, taekwondo and Zen Buddhism. They are a qualified facilitator with Ten Directions, Real LIFE, The Philosophy Foundation and Core Quadrant, and the founder of the Stockholm Bohmian Dialogue group.

Laura has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Southampton, an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, London, and a PhD on Relational Sensitivity in Participatory Design from Mälardalen University.