EVENTS AT BJÄRKAN
Volunteer Community Gathering
& Other Volunteering Opportunities
JUNE 30 - AUGUST 23, 2026
Bjärkan is open for volunteers throughout the summer, from 30 June to 23 August 2026. At the heart of this is the Volunteer Community Gathering (30 June – 11 July): a focused 12-day work exchange with a larger group of 10–15 volunteers, contributing 4–5 hours a day across eight shared workdays — land care, maintenance, building, forestry, and communal life.
Outside this window, we also welcome volunteers for shorter, more flexible stays across the wider summer period.
In exchange, volunteers receive shared accommodation, all vegetarian meals, and participation in a living community shaped by sauna, lake swims, shared hikes, circles, rest, and play. This is not a retreat or training, but a relational, hands-on invitation into kinship, community, and regeneration.
Meeting at
The Threshold
Resilience Skills for Uncertain Times
JULY 15 -25, 2026
A 10-day residential training rooted in collaborative living and community practice. Through shared learning and a three-day hands-on building project, we explore how to meet these uncertain times together — with presence, responsiveness, and care — tending inner, relational, and communal capacities as familiar systems continue to shift.
Evolving Collective Leadership Residential
Building Groups & Teams as Living Systems
JULY 29 - AUGUST 5, 2026
An 8-day residential training in relational leadership and collaborative team dynamics. Through the Matrix Essentials™ framework, experiential practice groups, and time immersed in the Swedish wilderness, we learn the communication and leadership skills that transform groups into adaptive, self-organising living systems — building genuine relational infrastructure for collective intelligence to emerge.
