Futurecraft at The Garden

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 jae spencer-keyse, Jan Baeriswyl and Dominique Antonina for the fourth Futurecraft Residency, this time taking place at The Garden near Porto, Portugal from 2nd - 8th September 2025 – a living research institute and creative cauldron for embodied art & world builders.

Featuring:

💡 Radical Reimagination and emergence with jae spencer keyse
🔮 Technology and Metamodernism with Jan Baeriswyl
🧘🏼‍♀️ Singing, authentic relating and play with Dominique Antonina
🌳  Established orchards and groves
💧 Two swimming springs and a lake
🔥 Sauna and 12 person hot tub
🏋️‍♀️  Fitness centre with power rack, dance floor, silks and lyra
🎵A jam space full of instruments
🎨 Arts and crafts zone
🕺 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 The Garden, 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 colourful, wholesome, plant-forward meals
• 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 €517–€1386, made up of the Garden's fee, plus a Futurecraft facilitation fee:
  • The Garden's room & food prices range from €345-€924 (booked via https://in.thegarden.pt/, includes all meals and snacks)
  • The Futurecraft facilitation fee is then 50% of whatever you paid the Garden (€172–€462, paid via this page)
• Room options are as follows:

Facilitators

jae spencer keyse

jae spencer keyse (they/she) is a facilitator, community builder, learning designer, photographer, and artist, dedicated to reimagining systems for a more regenerative, just, and thriving future. Captivated by the question What if learning experiences supported individuals and the world to thrive?, they founded Radical Reimagination, a collection of initiatives that challenge outdated education models and co-create new ways of learning and being.

With 15+ years of experience in education, systemic change, and policy, Jae has consulted on education policy in Washington, D.C., Finland, and internationally, with research featured in Forbes. They recognize that traditional education systems - rooted in academic and industrial frameworks - often limit creativity, imagination, and relational ways of knowing. Instead of reforming these systems, they work to radically reimagine them through regenerative, anti-oppressive, and embodied practices.

jae’s work is also deeply informed by 5,000+ hours of dance training, movement medicine, 5 Rhythms, Body-Mind Centering, and somatic exploration, alongside their creative practices in visual arts, photography and songwriting. Their lens is one of deep listening—whether through facilitating learning spaces, capturing images, or weaving movement and music into learning.

They have collaborated with the United Nations, FutureLearn, Samsung Not A School, UNESCO, 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 in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of St. Andrews.

Jan Baeriswyl

Jan Baeriswyl is a technologist, investor, and thinker who has trained in the fields of economics, blockchain, and meditation (insight and Vajrayana traditions). He is a founding partner at the venture capital fund, Very Early Ventures, and writes about his eclectic interests at Octopusyarn.

He has advised major blockchain companies on mechanism design and co-founded the AI startup Superlinked. The outlet of the metamodern philosopher Hanzi Freinacht has co-published his writings on the future of religion. Jan has facilitated workshops in various contexts, including startup accelerators, artist residencies, and intentional communities. He is involved in several avant-garde communities that intersect technology, philosophy, and spirituality.

Jan holds an economics degree from the University of St Gallen, where he wrote his thesis on early applications of blockchain technology.

Dominique Antonina

Dominique Antonina is a multi-talented practitioner, facilitator and artist working at the intersection of personal and collective transformation. With expertise in Emotional Freedom Techniques, NLP, Grief Tending, and Transformational Life Coaching, she bridges mainstream mental health, psychedelic healing and community care.

Dominique has supported wellbeing through the NHS, Synthesis Institute, Psycare UK, and Kosmicare, bringing nuance, warmth, and humour to deep healing work. Rooted in the belief that trauma stems as much from disconnection as from harm, she is passionate about self-love as a foundation for resilience and systems change. Dominique facilitates 1:1 sessions, group work and ceremonies, seeking to integrate play, music and movement into all the spaces she creates.