RELATING ARTS
A week of Surrendered Leadership,
Embodiment and Nature Connection
in beautiful Norway.
August 4-10
August 25-31
With the Relating Arts retreats we invite you into an exploration of body and mind, moving towards effortless being and action in everyday life.
Circling
Surrendered Leadership
Authentic Relating
Nature Connection
Tai Chi and Qigong
Body Therapy
The retreats are intimate experiences for max 13 participants and takes place in the beautiful archipelago of Southern Norway.
Our dates in 2025:
August 4-10
August 25-31
Programme
Each retreat starts off with a 2½ day immersion where we dive deeply into practice together and create a container for living from authenticity, presence and aliveness. The following days will have a looser structure with only a facilitated morning and evening session fixed in the program.
Between those we have an open space for practicing self-leadership while enjoying what the area has to offer: organized fishing trips, oyster safaris, island explorations, mushroom picking, expeditions to the local bronze age settlement, swimming, sun bathing, forest walks and bike trips to local, scenic villages are among the possible options.
While the main scheduled activities at the retreat are based on Authentic Relating, Circling and Surrendered Leadership, we will also introduce and play with other practices such as sitting meditation, bodywork, embodiment practices and various aspects of relating to nature.
Relating Arts
Immersion
The retreat kicks of with a 2½ day immersion intended to bring us all into a solid frame for self-practice the rest of the week.
Surrendered Leadership mornings
Every day will start with a Surrendered Leadership session where we connect as a group.
Relating in and with nature
We are inspired by how our interpersonal relating can be influenced by the nature around us and want to bring that in.
Embodiment
Practice
We will lead various embodiment practices inspired by elements from Tai Chi and Manuvision Body Therapy.
Explore the land and the ocean
Explore the archipelago of Southern Norway by land or sea. Visit the local forests or go island hopping by boat.
Locally sourced produce and seafood
We grow most of the produce ourselves in the garden and will go fishing to bring you the freshest seafood imaginable.
SOME WORDS FROM OUR PARTICIPANTS
I found Peter and Ronja’s stewardship of the retreats I attended to be wonderfully empowering. Their gentle prompts and hints heightened my awareness and allowed me to see myself and others with much more clarity and love than I had been able to on my own. Really appreciated their presence. Would love to work with them again.
Oli
2024
The week in Norway was memorable and I always look back to it fondly. I cannot express enough how special this time was for me, meeting people at such a deep level and getting to know myself more intimately, feeling my own limits and edges around sharing connection with others while sharing daily meals and routines.
Filip
2024
I can’t talk about the retreat without mentioning the absolutely gorgeous location, at the bottom of a beautiful fjord, lending a energy of calm and a vacation feel to the immersion, accentuated by the spacious programme that allowed plenty of time to bask in the sun, paddle paddle board or row in the beautiful fjord, go fishing, hiking or take a trip to the nearby town.
Morten
2023
After being home for a while I realized that the retreat has changed a lot for me. I was a beginner and got so much support so that was no problem. The food, the place and the beauty of it all at so many levels, inner and outer, made it an amazing week! I am really deeply grateful.
Eva
2023
PRICING OPTIONS
We have various options for accommodation available depending on your budget and your need for comfort and privacy. All prices include a full vegetarian/pescetarian meal plan based on the vegetables of the season and the catches of the day.
Double Room
We have four double rooms spread out in the house and the adjacent building.
€1250/person
Dorm
Large and light dorm on the 1st floor of the house with 4 single beds.
€1050/person
Bring your own tent
Bring your own tent + sleeping gear and put it up anywhere in the garden.
€950/person
Venue
The venue is “Kaasestua”, a 300+ m2 house in a rural area located in the archipelago of Southern Norway, half an hour outside of Kristiansand. The house is close to the forest and 50m from the ocean. It comes with a large garden, private bathing bridge, boat and our own developing vegetable garden.
You are invited into the heart of Peter’s childhood for an all inclusive retreat, surrounded by nature and the sea. We will share three meals a day of healthy, delicious vegetarian/pescatarian food based on home grown vegetables, self caught fish and berries and mushrooms from the local forest.
We want to have the retreat at this venue to create an intimate, personal and most of all real setting for exploration of what it means to be human.
MEET THE FACILITATORS
Peter Munthe-Kaas
Tai Chi, Surrendered Leadership, Body Therapy
Peter encountered Circling in 2015, became a certified facilitator in 2016, and has since been instrumental in building community around Circling, Surrendered Leadership and Authentic Relating in Denmark. Peter regularly hosts events weekends throughout Europe, is a senior leader for Circling Europe and is currently writing a book about Relating Arts.
Ronja Lofstad
Surrendered Leadership, Relating to Nature
Ronja Lofstad discovered circling in 2014 and it has been an active part of her life since. She is deeply inspired by nature and silence and spends a lot of time outdoors, just being with herself. Ronja has facilitated circling evenings, weekends, retreats and courses in Copenhagen for years and is a senior leader for Circling Europe.