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Women · Two-day residential retreat

Light, Shadow, Shift

Notice what's in the light, what's in the shadow, and what it takes to shift.

Bring it to your circle
What It Is

Two residential days for a circle of women — a pattern IN keeps returning to, reshaped for whoever it meets.

The pattern is simple to say and slow to live. Everything in the two days is a different door into the same question, and nothing in it is separate from anything else — one continuous conversation, carried by hands as much as words.

Why

Women hold a great deal for other people. This is two days of holding something for yourself.

Time to name what you are carrying, in a circle of women doing the same, and to leave with a pledge that is yours rather than assigned — written up on a shared wall so it is witnessed.

Who It's For
Participants
Women, any age · a circle of 12–20
Length
Two days, residential · mostly hands-on
Space needed
A wall to work on, floor to sit on, somewhere to walk out to
Run in
UAE · adaptable anywhere
Also good for
Mother–daughter circles, women's groups inside organisations
Languages
EN · 한 · 繁
What Happens
The wall
Light, shadow, and shift as three overlapping circles — each woman reaching up to add her own pledge.
The mural
Drawn together, some of it by flashlight after dark — shadow made visible by hand.
The walk
Out to find one small thing that brings joy, carried back and set beside a few words on reforming from within.
The timeline
Long strips of paper on the floor — where we've been, where we're headed, in coloured notes.
The close
Painting in a circle, unhurried, and a yoga session to end in the body.
Women adding pledges to a projected wall of overlapping light, shadow, and shift circles
The retreat circle at work
Women's retreat, UAE. See the full project →
Format

Two residential days, or an afternoon.

The three words hold whatever length you have. We set the balance of drawing, walking, writing, and stillness with you beforehand — and if your group would rather work in one language, or mostly in silence, we build it that way.

One pattern, many forms
Jungle Jam — UAE youth Shadow Shifter — Taiwan youth Möbius Making — start here
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