WILD LOVE Festival Switzerland
How the festival works
Concept
This is how our co-creative festival is happening since 2020 inspired and energetically derived from the global Wild Love Movement. One of the core ideas: Co-creation. Emergence. Going with what is there.
What we do as a team: Provide the container for this to happen. And bring in our individual gifts, as part of the field. So keeping with the spirit of the Wild Love Movement, WILD LOVE Festival Switzerland is a collaborative, participatory festival that lives from the gifts, talents and wisdom of the community.
Based on open space technology, the festival offers a framework with time slots in which contributions or workshops from the tribe will take place throughout the day. The invitation EVERYONE is to bring in your words, sounds, colours, shapes, games, expressions, your knowledge, wisdom and experience – and share them with us! In that way the festival is shaped by contributions from the field and the presence of each individual.
Generally, offerings from the areas of body awareness, embodiment, mindfulness, movement and dance, conscious sexuality, forms of relationship and love, shamanic, spiritual and nature-related subjects and everything you associate with «Wild Love» are welcome.
IMPORTANT: Even if you are new to discovering and immersing yourself in the above-mentioned areas, you are welcome to contribute to the festival with your curiosity and joy of learning and offer your support in areas you feel you want and can. Emergence can be magical, and sometimes, just your presence, or carrying a mat to another room, is as valuable as proposing and holding a workshop.
Open Space Process
During the first day, everyone who wants to present their ideas (maximum 3) for workshops, rituals, experience etc. will have the space to transmit the essence of their offering. After that, we will collectively vote. The program will then be created by the orga team based on the results of voting, and will also consider a balanced program and variety of workshop themes and facilitators.
We will reach out to all participants before the start of the festival with more details.
All of this is subject to smaller changes. Inbetween our festivals, usually a lot is cooking… We are always dreaming, improving, listening.. The co-createve nature of the Festival as the basic principle though is fixed.
Materials for Workshops
Your workshop idea should be feasible without much material needed. We will have three group rooms available, and in case the weather gods are with us, workshops can also be offered outside by the lake for instance (no nudity outside).
Material that is available on site:
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Mats (oil for massage is possible, but requires mindfulness)
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Seat cushions
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Music system, microphones
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Whiteboard / flipchart
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Outside: fireplace, ritual space, beach
If you need anything else for your workshop: If it is not a lot of work, bring it along, knowing that your offering might or might not happen. If it is a huge logistical mission, get in touch with us first.
Language
The official language during the festival (for organisational matters, announcements to the whole group, and the evening program) will be English. However, the open-space workshops can also be held in German. If you do not understand English well enough to follow the program, we encourage you to find someone from the field of participants to translate at the festival. In our experience, this can work well, if you are fine to flow with the process. Please note though that we will not provide “official” translation.
