Overview
Resilience Training + Community Crafting in a Time of Systemic Change
Practical collaboration skills, hands-on build project, and relational capacity building.
Something is shifting.
Many of us can feel it in our bodies, our relationships, our work, and our sense of place in the wider web of life. The ways of living we once relied on no longer feel steady or sufficient. What used to offer certainty now feels fragile, and the future no longer provides clear maps.
This training is an invitation to meet that moment together, in kinship with one another and with the more-than-human world.
A Broader Understanding of Resilience
Here, resilience isn’t about pushing through, staying positive, or coping alone. It’s about cultivating the capacities that allow life to continue, adapt, and regenerate within people, communities, and ecosystems.
We explore resilience as something that is relational rather than individual, ecological rather than human-centred, and practiced through participation rather than held as an idea.
Resilience emerges through connection, reciprocity, and belonging, not control or certainty.
Learning by Doing, in Relationship
Over ten days, we’ll work, learn, and live together at Bjärkan in northern Sweden, in ongoing relationship with the land that holds us.
Alongside reflective and relational practices, we’ll engage in a three-day hands-on build project such as creating a growing room or polytunnel. This work contributes something tangible to the land while developing skills of collaboration, communication, and collective problem-solving.
The work is practical and real. It asks us to listen to one another, to place, and to limits, and to respond together.
A Training Ground for Community and Kinship
This is not an event designed for rest or escape.
It is a training space for those curious about how we might live in deeper kinship with human and more-than-human communities, build forms of community that can adapt and regenerate, stay responsive in times of uncertainty, and practice resilience as something we do with others and with the living world.
You don’t need to arrive with answers. You do need a willingness to participate, work together, and be shaped by the encounter.
An Invitation
If you’re sensing that it’s time to move beyond thinking and talking toward embodied, relational, land-based practice, this may be a threshold worth crossing.
What This Training Offers
This training brings together inner and collective work through a series of facilitated sessions, each focused on a different aspect of resilience. Within these sessions, we share clear, practical tools and embodied practices that support collaborative living, emotional resilience, and adaptive ways of working together.
Rather than following a rigid curriculum, the training is held as a responsive learning space — structured and intentional, yet able to meet what emerges in the group and the wider context we’re living within.
Navigating Uncertainty
Develop practical tools and embodied practices to stay present, responsive, and resourced amid ongoing social, ecological, and systemic change.
A Living Map of Resilience
We’ll work with a layered map of resilience, exploring how different realms interact and support one another:
Personal Emotional and Psychological Resilience
Group and Team Resilience
Community Resilience
Ecological and Ecosystem Resilience
Transpersonal, Archetypal, and Ancestral dimensions
This map acts as a guide rather than a model to master, helping us sense where support is needed and where strength already lives.
Collaborative Living and Community Practice
Learn and experiment with practical tools for collaborative living — including communication, decision-making, shared responsibility, and navigating difference — in ways that support adaptability, care, and long-term sustainability. These tools are explored through lived experience rather than abstract theory.
Practical Collaboration
Over three days, we’ll take part in a shared, hands-on project such as building a growing room or polytunnel for the Bjärkan site. This work becomes a training ground for collaboration, communication, shared leadership, and responding together to real-world conditions.
Inner and Collective Inquiry
Explore how personal growth, grief, and healing intersect with wider systemic shifts, and how inner work can meaningfully support collective resilience rather than turn away from it.
Rituals for Transition
Simple, grounded rituals will support our capacity to sit in liminal spaces — honouring endings, beginnings, and the unknowns in between.
Shared Connection
Be part of a small group of people engaging similar questions about these times, building relationships and networks that may continue beyond the training itself.
Who Is This For?
This training is for people who sense they are living at a threshold — personally, collectively, or both — and who want to develop real skills for navigating what’s unfolding.
You may be a practitioner, organiser, facilitator, land-based worker, or someone already engaged in community or collaborative projects. You might be collapse-aware, questioning familiar ways of living, or feeling the limits of individual approaches — and curious about what becomes possible through shared practice, collective responsibility, and learning to live and work together.
This training is particularly suited for those who want to:
Strengthen their capacity for collaborative living and community building
Develop practical resilience across personal, relational, and collective realms
Meet uncertainty with presence & responsiveness
Translate inner work into ways of being that support shared life
You don’t need to arrive with answers or a fixed role. What matters is a willingness to participate, to learn alongside others, and to stay in the work when things feel complex.
AN IMMERSION INTO RESILIENT COMMUNITY
Our offering will be a collaborative emergent and immersive experience guided through our three key principles of:
Kinship, Regeneration & Community
Which will be explored via
Frameworks
We'll explore multiple frameworks to support embodying resilience-building within different contexts
RELATIONSHIPS
To support building a ground of health from which community can flourish, we will share self, interpersonal and group, enquiry & connection practices
Nature-Connection
Our wilderness location offers an environment in which to immerse & connect deeply with the wider web of relations we are all a part of
practical Tasks
We will work on a practical task together that supports the development at Bjärkan and as a way of learning & implementing collaborative group skills
Being at Bjärkan
Schedule (Subject to change)
Arrivals are from 3pm on Day 0 - 19th August. Departure will be on morning of 29th.
There will be ample free time for participants to both to enjoy the beautiful wilderness, spend unstructured time in community & self-organise in bringing other group-offerings.
Early morning meditation is optional.
The schedule is subject to change and will be an emergent response to the group's needs.
Day 1
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15-13:15 - Morning Session
13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 - Free Time
16:30 - 18:00 - Meeting the Land
18:30 - 19:30 - Supper
Day 2
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 10:15 - Morning Session
10:45 - Walk up the Mountain (with picnic)
18:00 - 19:00 Supper
19:30 - 21:00 Sharing Circle
Day 3
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 13:15 Morning Session
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Free Time
18:00- 19:00 Supper
Day 4
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 13:15 Group Task -Practical Project
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Free Time
18:00- 19:00 Supper
19:30 -21:00 Sharing Circle
Day 5
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 13:15 Group Task -Practical Project
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Free Time
18:00- 19:00 Supper
Day 6
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 13:15 Group Task -Practical Project
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Free Time
18:00- 19:00 Supper
19:30 -21:00 Sharing Circle
Day 7
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 13:15 Morning Session
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Free Time
18:00- 19:00 Supper
Day 8
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 - 13:15 Morning Session
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Free Time
18:00- 19:00 Supper
19:30 -21:00 Sharing Circle
Day 9
07:30 Meditation
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:15 -13:15 Morning Session
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:00 Closing Session
18:00 - Celebration
COST
Standard
£1495
Lower Waged
£995
Bursary
£595
About the pricing
This is a 10-day residential training, and the fees reflect the real costs of hosting a small, well-held group over an extended period, including food, accommodation, materials, and facilitation.
We offer a tiered pricing structure to balance financial viability with accessibility.
These tiers help us make the training possible while sharing the cost as fairly as we can across those taking part. We invite you to choose the tier that most honestly reflects your circumstances.
About Us
Between 2013 and 2017 Nick Osborne & Justine Corrie offered trainings in Conscious Collaboration. Ranging from 1 day intros to 6 day residential deep dives, Conscious Collaboration ran both independent events and partnered with The Transition Network, EcoDharma, Shift Bristol, Buddhafield & The Festival of Human Organising among others. Since 2018 they have both been developing their work and in 2023 founded Bjärkan together.
Practical Information & FAQs
Dates & Timing
19–29 August
Arrival from 3pm on 19 August
Departure on the morning of 29 August
Please plan your travel so you can arrive in time to settle before we begin together.
Location
Bjärkan is located in the forested foothills of the Ansättfjällen wilderness area, approximately 1.5 hours north of Östersund, Sweden. This is a remote, land-based setting held at the wild edge of forest and mountain.
We are situated on the edge of a small village that is primarily active during the winter months, when it supports seasonal tourism and winter sports. The village includes a winter-season campsite and a small hotel, but there are no shops or other local services. Outside of the winter season, the area is quiet, spacious, and largely inhabited by land, weather, and wildlife.
Late Summer Conditions at Bjärkan
Late August marks the threshold between summer and early autumn. Weather at Bjärkan can be changeable — some days are warm and sunny, while evenings often cool quickly, and rain or wind may pass through.
This is also a time of abundance. The land and forests are rich with berries, mushrooms, and other foraging opportunities, and the atmosphere carries a sense of ripening, harvest, and seasonal turning.
A full kit list will be sent to all participants.
Accommodation
Accommodation is shared, with twin and double rooms available in both the main farmhouse and the adjacent guest cabin. Two smaller bunk rooms in the cabin are available for single occupancy at an additional cost.
Guests have access to all shared living and resting spaces across both buildings.
Facilities include:
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Three shared bathrooms
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A large community sauna
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An outdoor hot tub
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Shared dining and living areas
Workshops are held in our large barn, and sharing circles often take place in our traditional goahti hut.
Please note that accommodation is simple rather than hotel-standard. The spaces are warm, well cared for, and held with a rustic, lived-in charm.
Food
Registration includes three nourishing vegetarian meals per day.
Vegan and gluten-free options are available — please let us know your dietary needs when applying.
Cost & What’s Included
The fee is fully inclusive, covering all teaching, materials, accommodation, and meals for the full 10 nights.
Standard: £1495
Lower-waged: £995
Bursary: £595
Financial Accessibility
We recognise that access to trainings like this is shaped by many forms of privilege. Supporting diversity, inclusion, and wider participation is an important part of our work.
We especially welcome applications from people working in low-income, marginalised, or under-resourced communities. If finances are a barrier, please contact us directly — we are open to conversation and will do what we can.
Getting to Bjärkan
Our nearest town is Östersund
By train
Direct trains run from Stockholm to Östersund or Krokom (5–7 hours), including sleeper trains.
It’s also possible to travel from the UK to Stockholm by train via Hamburg over two days.
By road or ferry
Driving from the UK takes approximately three days. We’re happy to advise on routes from elsewhere in Europe.
By air
Fly to Östersund Åre Airport via Stockholm Arlanda.It’s also possible to fly from Gatwick to Trondheim (Norway), then travel by train via Storlien to Krokom (overnight stay required).
From Östersund or Krokom, onward travel by bus or shared taxi is available. Full details will be shared after booking.
Application Process
To support a thoughtful and diverse group, this training is offered by application.
Please complete the application form. We may be in touch with a few follow-up questions to ensure the training is a good fit for both you and the group.
Payment & Cancellation Policy
Once a place is offered, a £250 deposit is required to secure your place.
The remaining balance is due by 1 July.
If your place is confirmed after 1 July, full payment will be required at that time.
The £250 deposit is non-refundable.
If you need to cancel:
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up to 8 weeks before the start date: refund of any payments beyond the deposit
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within 8 weeks: 50% refund of the remaining balance
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within 4 weeks: 25% refund of the remaining balance
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within 1 week, or after the training begins: no refund
If you have particular circumstances you’d like to discuss, please contact us.
Contact
If you have any questions about the training, logistics, or whether this is the right fit for you, feel free to get in touch.
Email: info@bjarkan.org