EVENTS AT BJÄRKAN
Volunteer Community Gathering
Living and working together in the long light of summer
JUNE 30 - JULY 11 2026
The Volunteer Community Gathering is a 12-day work exchange at Bjärkan in northern Sweden, running from 30 June–11 July 2026. Together we will contribute 4–5 hours a day across eight shared workdays, supporting land care, maintenance, building, forestry, and communal life. 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 in the long light of high summer.
The Gathering
A Summer Retreat at The Wild Edge
JULY 17 -23
Join us for a six-night summer retreat at the wild edge of northern Sweden — a spacious, carefully held time to gather in the fullness of high summer and turn toward the direction of the South: warmth, vitality, expression, and connection. Rooted in systemic ritual & constellations, embodiment and nature-based connection, the retreat centres community as a living field in relationship with land, forest, and water. Held by long light, lake, sauna, and the expansive rhythm of northern summer, The Gathering invites renewal through shared presence, aliveness, and belonging within the more-than-human world.
Meeting at
The Threshold
Resilience Skills for Uncertain Times
AUGUST 19 to 29 - 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.
