Acknowledging your own creativity capacities enables alternative ways of knowing and being. Fostering creativity can help to unblock old patterns or habits of thinking, enabling empathetic and authentic ways of tackling challenges. 

 

This Creative retreat offers a four-day course with exercises that unleash your creativity, company that makes you smile and surroundings that make your body relax in the beauty of nature. 

 

The daily schedule includes two-hour guided sessions of collaborative working, time for individual creative work, full accommodation and sauna every evening. The guided sessions involve group activities and focus on tapping into creativity through various modalities: visual, sonic, writing and movement. The format of working is research based and inspired by the course of creative methodologies offered at the University of Helsinki doctoral school during the years 2022-2024. 

 

The retreat is open for anyone, who wants to

• get ideas of how to set the full gamut of our sensory apparatus into creative work.

• work on a certain theme, e.g. a piece of writing, painting, composing, or a personal question, an issue at work, etc.

• get feedback for their work.

 

Languages: 

English and Finnish

Depending on the language preferences of the participants, the sessions will be held in English or bilingually in English and Finnish. You are free to choose your own individual working language. 

 

Instructors:

Essi Ikonen, PhD. Philosophy, educational sciences 

Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas, PhD. Arts education

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Prices:

Conference fee with shared accommodation: $325.

 

Conference fee without accommodation: $170.

Includes meals and participation in the activities

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Participants are welcome to book private room accommodations through Villa Tammikko.

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