GATHERIGNG & KIDS

« You need a village to grow up a child »

When I heard this sentence, I immediately understood what I was missing in my life. The village. A commun dimension where to find a real support. As single father, I find very challenging to assume this role. But already, back in the years, to become a father, it has been an acrobatic jump. If you also had and have this feeling of a weird loneliness, to not really know how to do, to feel that nobody is giving you a  transmission. Also, feeling the pressure to take care of the baby and the mother. Struggling to balance energies, dialogues and desires. I totally understand. There is nothing wrong in you, in me. We are village-less. And I believe that our role as fathers has been too much devaluated since generations in our societies. That’s why I feel the urgent call to create this retreat where the relationship between fathers and kids is the key-stone. A privilege space where to create a quality time with our kids and our brothers. Where we can invoque back the ancient wisdoms of kids cared by fathers. Honoring the lineage that brought us till here. There is so much to heal, to discover and to manifest. So much to reclaim. 

Arts will be at the center of this journey, supporting us to create resilience and trust. This has been fundamental to re-wire my connection with my own father and my inner child. As well as to become the father I am proud to be today. 

We will sing, play, paint, making fires, fishing, using shamanic tool to dive deeply into our emotional world, invent rituals and games, connecting with the beauty and the sacredness of nature, creating magic constellations and calling-in whatever we need to imagine a new saine, safe and conscious stream of fatherhood.  

For the kids, it’s gonna be an amazing adventure in an healthy and regenerative landscape.

They will be free to run, free to play, free to discover and invent, free to scream, free to bring all their own energy, to move whatever emotion needs to appear. 

They will be held by the fathers tribe, all together, in a deep connection and respect with nature, the Big Mother. Connection with the gifts of the land, with the food and cooking, with trees and meditation, with the healing flow of ponds and rivers, with the magic of dark nights and the gratitude for the sunrising. 

We will invite them to develop intimacy and deep listening, opening a window on the future we want to build together, and healing the tread connecting us to the previous generations. 

We will use dance, theater and painting to draw in space stories and emotions, to transform and get transmissions from the body, and all the bonds that keep us together. Learning to recognize them, to let them exist, to contain them without repressing. Remembering how to say what is difficult to say. Rediscovering the power of listening. The one without comment, without judgement.

And of course, we will play! Play, play, play as much as we can. Play till late, till we can’t do anymore. Playing and celebrating life. Giving to kids the possibility to experiment this carnival moment in which chaos is welcome. Where we invert the roles, and we renew our energies to create expansion in our hearts. 

We will be in contact all the time with our heart and our roots, blessing the world behind us and honoring the young knights of love stepping into this new life adventure. 

We can provide

• Beds with blankets, sheets and pillows in a sharing camping tent for six/eight people. 

• Delicious and healthy food for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• An amazing landscape, in the middle of the countryside in Portugal. Quite, green, full of abundance, river, horses, vegetable garden, ponds.. 

• All the props for our activities: fishing, gardening, cooking, horse caring, play games, painting etc.