immersive retreat
november 13th-15th
Join Conspire Co-Directors Dani & Kim and guest facilitator Kezia Vida for a weekend of dreamwork and art-making.
We’ll explore resistance and obstacles as they appear in our dreams and how they connect to our creative blocks.
We’ll invite in the spiritual support that dreams offer and how it can take form through our own artmaking.
And we will bear witness to the beauty and depth that emerges when we share our dreams and imaginative realms in community.
Dreamwork and our creative process are embodied and relational approaches that focus on our felt experiences.
Through meditation, ritual, group work, and art making, together we will take a journey that will lead us into a new understanding of our own inner life, its longings, and our shared collective dreams.
Join us for a weekend with an intimate cohort of wellness practitioners, artists and world-builders as we explore our inner realms through the dreams we have when we are asleep and the dreaming we do through making art.
weekend schedule
gathering and grounding
Day 1 - Friday 11/13
1pm-6pm
We gather, introduce ourselves, welcome our blocks and obstacles, and create sacred objects for a collective dream altar to hold our intentions for the weekend.
Day 2 - saturday 11/14
into the well
9am-6pm
A full day. We begin with a dream circle, continue into buddy work, rest and enjoy a catered lunch and then spend the afternoon dreaming with art materials.
Day 3 - sunday 11/14
witnessing
9am-Noon
We share and witness our creative process and each other, letting bigger dreams emerge through the collective, for the future.
Add-on poetry workshop with Rodger Kamenetz at 1pm.
Join us for a weekend with an intimate cohort of wellness practitioners, artists and world-builders as we explore our inner realms through the dreams we have when we are asleep and the dreaming we do through making art.
special add-on:
poetry workshop
w/ Rodger Kamenetz
sunday, november 15th, 1-3pm
In this experiential, poetry-focused workshop, participants will be invited to savor the images that come to their inner eye and explore them using poetic forms.
about Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz’ most recent book, Seeing into the Life of Things, is an exhilarating intellectual and emotional journey, as he finds a natural spiritual path in the imagination. Kamenetz connects daily life to spiritual longing, from the musical rhythms of his beloved New Orleans to his tender bond with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, visionary founder of Jewish Renewal, and reflections on romantic poets like Walt Whitman.
Learn more about Rodger here.
You can add Rodger’s poetry workshop to your immersive registration at checkout ($10 off)
In this intimate retreat, we will gather to tend to our inner wells through deep engagement with our dreams, visions, and nightmares.
Through group exercises, partner work, and individual explorations, participants will walk away with the tools and perspectives necessary to spark their creativity and the courage to make their visions a reality.
Join us for a weekend with an intimate cohort of wellness practitioners, artists and world-builders as we explore our inner realms through the dreams we have when we are asleep and the dreaming we do through making art.
meet our guest facilitator
kezia vida, ma plpc
“Your dreams are a path of direct revelation that can serve as a guiding light in some of our darkest moments.”
With so much external unrest and instability, it’s hard to find a time to rest enough to even know which way to turn.
Whether you barely remember a dream, have what you consider ‘unimportant’ dreams, or consider your dream realm frightening and disturbing, this retreat will help you build a powerful relationship with your inner realms, one that can strengthen and fortify you for years to come.
Dreams are the key to getting back in sync with your authenticity, your desires, and your creativity.
Folks will walk away with a more visceral, embodied experience of themselves, a sense of connection to the collective unconscious realms, and the tools and perspectives necessary to continue to tend the inner well while the noise of the external world drones on.
about kezia
Kezia Vida has over 15 years of experience working with dreams and now works as a clinical mental health counselor, licensed in CO & LA. The guiding force of her work is to help individuals rediscover the power of their dreams and bring that power to bear on their lives through embodied, relational living. She is on the steering committee of Natural Dreamwork, an organization dedicated to the healing and transformative power of somatic, feelings-focused dreamwork. She is also a land steward at All You Need Institute, a budding community-conservation land trust in so-called Mississippi.
testimonials for kezia’s work
When you sign up for this immersive, you’ll have an option to add on a one-on-one dreamwork session with Kezia
program cost
Join us for a weekend with an intimate cohort of wellness practitioners, artists and world-builders as we explore our inner realms through the dreams we have when we are asleep and the dreaming we do through making art.
add-ons
1:1 Dreamwork Session with Kezia Vida - - - $75
Sunday Poetry Workshop with Rodger Kamenetz - - - $45
Join us for a weekend with an intimate cohort of wellness practitioners, artists and world-builders as we explore our inner realms through the dreams we have when we are asleep and the dreaming we do through making art.
frequently asked questions
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Natural Dreamwork is the modality we’ll be using. It is an embodied, visceral, and relational approach that focuses on the felt experience of our dreams. Dreams are shared aloud as we are guided deeper and deeper into them.
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Our creative facilitators are trained in the lineage of the Jewish Studio Project and the Open Studio Process. The process gently guides participants of all art experience levels into contact with their own creativity. While there is art-making, there no way to do it wrong—this is not about end products of goals, but about the alchemy that happens in the space of creativity itself, especially when we’re in that cauldron together.
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We invite wellness practitioners, therapists, creatives, facilitators, and world-builders of all kinds. This is especially for you if you hold space for others and encounter moments of feeling blocked and undernourished yourself. The only pre-requisite is the willingness to consider dreams and art as pathways to deeper spiritual connection.
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17 hours of facilitated dreamwork and creative process in our Asheville studio with an intimate group (capped at 10)
Coffee, tea, and nourishing snacks through the weekend
Catered lunch on Saturday
All art materials included
Recommendations for your time in Asheville (for out-of-towners)
Discounted registration for the poetry workshop with Rodger Kamenetz
Discounted 1:1 dreamwork session with Kezia Vida
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If you need financial accommodation, reach out to us and we’ll see what we can do. Email connect@conspire.studio
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Item descriptioIf you are coming from out of town, look for flights into Asheville or Greenville (1 hour away—you’d probably need to rent a car). The studio is located 5 minutes from downtown, in the Charlotte Street neighborhood. The Blind Tiger Hotel is within walking distance, and there are other hotels and AirBnBs nearby. Reach out if you need further assistance or recommendations.n