Re:Connective Circles
What are Re:Connective Circles?
Re:Connective Circles are, like Ayama’s seminars, transformational experiential spaces of reconnection that invite the witnessing and healing of our many layers of disconnection through inquiries and explorations into Re:Connective Arts. Together we create nurturing, safe, non-judgemental and compassionate spaces of authenticity, trust and care that invite us to (re-)open ourselves to the beauty and joy of connection – to ourselves, others, Mother Earth, life and love.
Each circle focuses on a specific topic related to love, connection, transformation and healing. During the circles we will employ a wide variety of Re:Connective Arts that allow us to deeply engage with and embody the topic of the circle and that facilitate reconnection by engaging and nourishing body, heart, mind, soul and spirit.
Re:Connective Arts include practices inspired by, depending on the actual circle: Sharing Circles and Circling, Self- and Collective Relational Explorations – Dialogue and Presentations – Reflection and Awareness Practices – Shadow and Inner Parts Work – Conscious and Authentic Relating – Embodiment, Somatics and Bodywork – Free Movement, Dance and Contact Improvisation – Conscious Touch – Meditation – Compassionate and Non-Violent Communication – Ritual – (Primal) Play and Performance – Co-Creation – Compassionate Inquiry – The Work that Reconnects – Open Spaces.
Re:Connective Circles invite you to drop your masks and come as you are, with everything that is alive in you. You are very welcome. Let us explore and co-create new ways and paths of relating and healing for a “more beautiful world our hearts know is possible” (Charles Eisenstein).
Please come with an open mind and a readiness to gently challenge yourself – within a space that is created to carry and nurture you throughout this process. A challenge holds great potential for growth, expansion, understanding, realization – particularly if consciously experienced and integrated and held in a caring and compassionate space.
Who is this for?
Re:Connective Circles are likely for you if at least one of the following rings true to you:
- you feel that you are lacking authenticity, depth, connection, meaning and/or touch in life
- you are interested in the healing of love and connection – within and outside of yourself
- you wish to grow, expand and challenge yourself
- you are curious about exploring practices and ways of conscious and authentic relating
- you are interested in facilitating and nurturing a regenerative and reconnective community and culture
- you wish to co-create spaces of authenticity, trust, compassion, joy and healing
- you feel that there is something strange, missing, repressed or disconnected in our culture’s normal ways of relating and connecting
Now we invite you to drop into your body. What do you feel? What comes up for you reading this? Excitement? Joy? Pain? Fear? Rejection? Insecurity? Shame? Judgement? Beyond fleeting thoughts and feelings, does the wisdom of your body tell you that Re:Connective Circles are for you?
Upcoming Re:Connective Circles
The next circles will take place in Barril de Alva, Central Portugal:
Embodying Love – 9. April 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Embodying Trust – 23. April 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Embodying Authenticity – 7. May 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Embodying Playfulness – 14. May 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Circle Details
Embodying Love – Wednesday 9. April 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Let’s come together and explore what it means to embody love. We will explore different meanings and practices of love and loving that allow us to come into deeper contact with ourselves and others.
Together we will explore what love means to each one of us, where our own love may be blocked and how we can embody and practice The Art of Re:Connective Loving with ourselves and in connection with others.
This very special Re:Connective Circle invites us to experience ourselves in a deeply re-enlivened way – by reconnecting with our emotional, sensual, physical and authentic being.
Facilitated by: Lars Weckbecker and L’Aura D’Alba
Embodying Trust – Wednesday 23. April 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Trust is foundational for the experience of (healthy) connection and needs compassionate and safe spaces to flourish. And it’s becoming increasingly scarce in our culture.
During this circle we will explore questions and issues of trust and how they relate to our (in-)ability to experience and express love and connection. We will invite you to explore your own relationship to love, trust and connection. Through this self-inquiry you can come into deeper contact with yourself by growing your understanding of how trust, love and connection are interrelated and how they shape your personal life.
Together we will playfully, lovingly, mindfully and openly encounter ourselves and others and look at where our own trust may be hurt or limited and how we can cultivate trust to create and deepen intimate and meaningful connections and to grow deep community.
Facilitated by: Lars Weckbecker and Linda Burdall
Embodying Authenticity – Wednesday 7. May 2025 – 18.30-22.00
What does it mean to be “truly authentic”? Are you able to authentically live your life without hiding? Are you able to receive and accept the authenticity of others? How do personal and social expectations condition your authentic expression?
In this circle we will explore what it means and requires to be authentic and how it can act as a liberating and healing agent for individual and collective transformation.
You are warmly invited to step into the circle in your full authenticity, with whatever wants to show up in the moment. Which thoughts, feelings or needs do show up? Where are you limiting yourself in your authentic expression and how can you fully embody it?
Allow yourself to come playfully into touch with your own needs, desires and boundaries, for instance the need and desire for connection, and experience how liberating and healing it can feel to be in authentic and vibrant connection with yourself and others.
Facilitated by: Lars Weckbecker and L’Aura D’Alba
Embodying Playfulness – Wednesday 14. May 2025 – 18.30-22.00
Let’s come together and play!
Playfulness is a fundamental aspect of being human. As children, play is the means by which we explore the world, inquire, grow and learn. It is a naturally given impulse and drive that gives them deep joy and let’s them be fully present in the moment.
As grown ups most of us have forgotten how to play and repressed the impulse and drive to being playful. Some even become shameful or judgemental when it comes to grown ups being playful. Yet play can be incredibly joyful, healing, transformative and even liberating.
So let’s explore the importance of being playful. And then, let’s embody playfulness together! Let yourself be surprised…
Facilitated by: Lars Weckbecker and Marieke Drent
Where:
Trust Collective
Rua Albertino Madeira 76
3305-020 Barril de Alva
Portugal
Location Link
Please bring:
Please wear comfortable clothing and bring pen and paper, drinking water and, if you like, some simple wholesome snacks to share.
Ethical Guidelines:
In order to create open and safe reconnective spaces of authenticity, trust and loving kindness, we ask that you commit to some basic ethical guidelines before coming to any of the circles. If you are not prepared to respect these guidelines, please do not participate.
To create a safe and trusting space for reconnection, please arrive on time and stay until the end of the circle.
Language:
The Circles are offered in English.
Contribution:
15-30 Euro depending on your financial means and appreciation. Please bring cash. If the lowest amount is still too high for you, please contact us. We want you to be able to participate.
Circle Facilitators
Dr. Lars Weckbecker: Lars is a doctor of philosophy and former university professor who followed his heart’s calling and turned explorer, researcher and facilitator of loving, healing, embodiment, regeneration and reconnection. He is the root facilitator of all the circles and recently established Ayama – Centre for Re:Connective Arts. If you want to know more about him and his work, click here.
Each circle will be co-facilitated by a (female) facilitator:
L’Aura D’Alba: L’Aura is a seeker of knowledge, passionate about ancestral wisdom, Nature and Earth medicine and curious about human connections and evolution processes. For her, it is a strong and natural calling to co-create sharing circles for self-knowledge and development. It was through her journey of self-discovery and personal transformation that she gained knowledge and tools for personal development and empowerment. This is her personal contribution for those seeking consciousness expansion, in tune with their own truth and authenticity.
Linda Burdall: Linda is a creative Being who is connected to all kinds of Creation, starting from textile and art to healing workshops, including Art as a form of Meditation and Self Expression, medicinal plants and foraging. Linda’s being is all about Sustainable Happiness and finding your Inner Song. She works with Soul Mentorship to Re-remembering the deepest essence of inner depth and holds Sacred Women’s Circles. They are about finding our Voice and setting ourselves Free.
Marieke Drent: Marieke is a playful being. Working as clown, physical actress and acrobat she’s always inviting everything that’s already present in us to come out and be expressed. Authenticity, playfulness & trust are core values for her. She has a background in music therapy, youth mental health and mindfulness.
Registration
If you would like to attend our Re:Connective Circles, please register below. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you soon.
Hold a Re:Connective Circle at your Event
We are available to facilitate a Re:Connective Circle at your event, location or organization. These can range in duration from 3 hours to several days, depending on your needs.
Each Circle, including the topic and the Re:Connective Arts practices employed, will be tailored to your specific requirements as well as to the event, location and the specific group of participants to create a unique and deeply transformative and reconnective experience.
Please contact us to clarify details and specifics.