Life Itself Residencies
Life Itself

Residencies at Life Itself

Immersive in-person experiences at our Praxis Hubs in southwest France

Upcoming Residencies

No residencies are currently scheduled. Check back soon, or join us as a long-term resident.

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Past Residencies

A record of our residency programme since 2021.

2024

Relational Embodiment Residency June 2024

Jun 2024

Relational Embodiment Residency June 2024

Exploring how we come into relationship and co-create a safe space to connect with our nervous systems.

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Culture War, Culture Peace

May 2024

Culture War, Culture Peace

Are you sick of the culture war enough to make peace? Exploring what that could look like together.

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To We or not to We?

Apr 2024

To We or not to We? That is the question

Engaging in conscious community practices and exploring the social field and how it shapes shared experience.

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2023

Fall Winter Praxis Residency

Oct 2023 – Mar 2024

Fall Winter Praxis Residency

Focusing on personal inquiries while engaging in conscious community practices. Stays from two weeks to five months.

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Interbeing Residency

Sep 2023

Interbeing Residency

Exploring how insight into interbeing can be cultivated supported by personal inquiry and the understanding of science.

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Contemplative Citizen Science

Sep 2023

Contemplative Citizen Science

Building an extreme citizen science of contemplation, bridging ancient wisdom and modern scientific methodologies.

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Elder Gathering

Aug – Sep 2023

Elder Gathering

Blending learning, practice, and community with figures including Nora Bateson and John Vervaeke.

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Praxis Residency July 2023

Jul 2023

Praxis Residency, July 2023

Conscious communal living with ecology of practices — sitting, cooking, connecting — and enjoying the Good Life.

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Emergent Dialogue Intensive

Jul 2023

Emergent Dialogue Intensive

A 10-day intensive training to catalyze synergy and emergent potential in groups.

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Pioneering Next Food Culture

Jun 2023

Pioneering the Next Food Culture

A 3-week residency learning plant-based meal preparations to nourish mind, body and soul.

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Ouroboros Residencies

May 2023

Ouroboros Residencies

Dedicated to strengthening our connection to innate capacities by bringing attention moment by moment to our posture.

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Saving the World Together

Apr – May 2023

Saving the World (Together with Everybody Else)

A month-long residency for emotionally aware dialogue about our greatest societal challenges.

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Embodying Collective Intimacy

Apr 2023

Embodying Collective Intimacy

Opening the gate between personal intimacy and collective transformation through community living.

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Relation à l'argent

Feb 2023

Relation À L'argent et Histoires de Vie

A French-language workshop exploring our relationship to money and life histories through collective inquiry.

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2-week Relational Embodiment Residency

Mar – Apr 2023

2-week Relational Embodiment Residency

A 2-week immersive residency to explore relational insights and attachment resiliency through group work.

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2022

Embodying Collective Transformation

Sep – Nov 2022

Embodying Collective Transformation

Month-long residencies in personal and collective practices for courageous transformative change.

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Light, Shadow, Integration

Aug 2022

August '22: Light, Shadow, Integration

Enjoying presence and embodiment while playfully dwelling with the shadows of a new culture.

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Nourriture Essentielle

Jun – Jul 2022

Nourriture Essentielle

A 3-week residency to reconnect with the essentials and be nourished by community through mindful food practice.

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Open Summer Residency

Jun – Jul 2022

Open Summer Residency

Experience a taste of life and belonging in a co-created community of practice on the banks of the Dordogne.

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Insight, Interbeing and Science

May 2022

Insight, Interbeing and Science

Collaboratively exploring how insight into interbeing can be cultivated in a spirit consistent with science.

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Sympoiesis Series (2021–2022)

The Sympoiesis residencies were Life Itself's founding residency programme — a series of immersive experiments in collective practice and conscious community living at the Bergerac hub. Read about the Sympoiesis series →

Emergent Dialogue Residency June 2022

Jun 2022

Emergent Dialogue Residency

Deepening the capacity to catalyze synergy and emergent potential in groups through dialogue.

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Making Eco-Spirituality Accessible

Mar – Apr 2022

Making Eco-Spirituality Accessible

Fostering an eco-spirituality that is inclusionary to all, bringing together science and contemplative practice.

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Sympoiesis #4: Collective Intelligence

Feb – Mar 2022

Collective Intelligence (Sympoiesis #4)

Exploring practices that collective intelligence offers in service of transition.

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Conscious Food Retreats

Feb 2022

Conscious Food Retreats: Culture Broths

Seeding new narratives through fermentation and the practice of conscious food community.

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Cultivating Conscious Community

Jan 2022

Cultivating Conscious Community

What are the patterns and practices to cultivate conscious community? An immersive inquiry at the Bergerac hub.

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Sympoiesis #2: Contemplative Activism

Nov – Dec 2021

Contemplative Activism Writing Residency

What can contemplation bring to the current complexity of our time? A writing-focused inquiry.

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Sympoiesis #1: Daily Collective Practices

Oct – Nov 2021

Daily Collective Practices (Sympoiesis #1)

How can collective practices in everyday life nourish another way of being in the world?

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Interested in Joining?

Our residencies bring together people committed to personal and collective transformation. Apply to join as a long-term resident at the Riverside or Farmhouse hub.