Futurecraft at Lakefront

You're invited to join Futurecraft's second day retreat at Emerge Lakefront, Stockholm.

Futurecraft retreats balance intelligent discussion of emerging social, technological and ecological trends with play, somatics, song and ritual,  aiming to create prefigurative spaces where we can experience the futures of our longing, today. This will be our second day retreat in Sweden, following week-long retreats in the UK, Portugal, Costa Rica (Brave Earth) and France (Feÿtopia).

Our day at Lakefront includes movement and craft, a consideration of wiser approaches to technology, a playful exploration of wholeness, and delicious vegan food. Whether you've joined a Futurecraft event before or this is your first encounter, you're welcome here.

Schedule

10.00-10.15 Welcome

10.15-12.00 Crafting futures through movement with Laura Gottleib

Through movement and craft, we'll have the opportunity to explore the futures of our longing, and to reflect on where we are in our own journeys in an instinctual and embodied  way.

12.15-13.30 Lunch by Catarina Allen 

A delicious vegan, gluten-free lunch

13.30-14.30 Wiser approaches to technology with Stephen Reid

Ask what technology is doing to us and you tend to get one of two answers. Either it's ruining us — our attention, our privacy, our politics — or it's about to save us, if we can just build fast enough. The argument between these two sides often crowds out the questions that actually matter: what kinds of technology, built how, by whom, governed through what mechanisms, in service of what? This session will invite sharing on the impact technology is having on our lives, before exploring wiser alternatives.

14.30-15.00 Fika

A pause to connect and recharge

15.00-17.00 Compassion to creation: a playful return to wholeness
with Deniz Liebert

We live in a world that so desperately asks of us to turn towards. Towards ourselves, and each other. Towards our current systems, and our future. Towards our grief and our joy. Towards both what is and what could be. Welcome to a playful exploration of the world that could emerge when we reclaim our wholeness and tap into our potent creativity. This session will feature ‘non-performative’ performance, the power of community, and compassion, to turn towards what we’ve turned away from.  

Your hosts

Stephen Reid

Stephen Reid is a technologist and facilitator who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching and insight meditation. Current projects include leading the development of Dandelion (recognised at the Open Social Awards 2026) as a founder of not-for-profit worker co-op Symbiota, hosting courses and residencies as a founder of Futurecraft, and writing a book on Technological Metamodernism. He is a fellow of the Emerge Institute.

Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, which established the first legal psilocybin retreat programme in Europe. 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.

He lives with his wife Laura and daughter Runa in Stockholm, Sweden, where he enjoys swimrunning in the archipelago.

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/she 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.

Deniz Liebert

Deniz works with groups and individuals to facilitate experiences where more of our humanness, relational nature and aliveness is supported. Seeing the multilevel symptoms of shame and separation, she’s devoted to alchemising the root causes into wholeness, power-with(in) and embodied leadership. Offering attuned presence, creative methods and warm leadership to guide people towards embodied capacity and worth. Deniz is a certified compassion-focused coach (trau.inf.), physiotherapist, bodyworker and experienced group facilitator. Most of all she's human, woman, with light and dark – eager to meet you where it's real.