Summer of Consciousness
7-day retreat for facilitators, by facilitators
A week to slow down. To set aside what you have been carrying for others. To receive, be inspired, and explore what is alive within you alongside fellow facilitators. Each person’s experience, gifts, curiosity, and presence contribute to the journey we create together. If you feel inspired to offer a workshop, session, teaching, or other contribution, you are warmly invited to mention this during registration.
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What makes Summer of Consciousness different?
Unlike many facilitator retreats that follow a fixed curriculum, Summer of Consciousness is intentionally designed as a living co-creation.
Participants are invited to contribute from their unique gifts and experience. This may take the form of workshops, embodiment practices, voice liberation sessions, creative explorations, movement journeys, artistic expression, contemplative practices, or other offerings that support conscious growth and connection.
At the same time, participants are invited to step out of the role of facilitator and into the role of participant to receive, to be surprised, to be inspired, and to deepen their own journey.
While the week unfolds organically, it is not without direction.
The Able team provides gentle guidance to weave the various contributions into a meaningful collective journey. Rather than imposing a rigid program, we create enough structure to support coherence while leaving ample space for spontaneity, emergence, and authentic collaboration.
The intention is to create a shared arc, a living journey that unfolds through the wisdom, creativity, and presence of everyone who gathers.
Every Summer of Consciousness is therefore unique. No two editions are the same, because the community itself becomes part of the curriculum.
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What this retreat offers you
- Slowing down, simple be and experiencing the space reconnect with yourself
- Deep self-reflection and inner growth
- Connection with other facilitators
- Exchange of wisdom, inspiration, presence and gifts
- Nature, silence, movement, laughter, dance, music and co-creation
- Not only hold space, but also to be held by the field of trust, presence, and shared wisdom
- Return to your work nourished, grounded, and open-hearted, able to guide and support others not from depletion, but from a place of embodied presence, clarity, and genuine inner alignment
Who is this retreat for?
Summer of Consciousness is for facilitators, space holders, and conscious guides from all backgrounds.
You are welcome to bring someone you feel aligned with
Please note that each participant is required to book their own retreat registration as well
Return to your humanity
As facilitators, coaches, therapists, artists, healers, and space holders, we spend much of our lives supporting the growth and transformation of others. Over time, it can become easy to identify with the role of guide, teacher, healer, or space holder. Yet beneath every role is a human being. A human being with questions, blind spots, vulnerabilities, dreams, fears, and an ever-unfolding inner landscape.
Summer of Consciousness is an invitation to return to that humanity. Not because something is wrong. Not because you need fixing. But because the depth of our work with others is inseparable from the depth of our willingness to keep meeting ourselves. Here, facilitators are invited to receive as much as they offer. To be witnessed as much as they witness. To explore as much as they guide. This is not only an act of self-care. It is an act of integrity. Because the work of a facilitator begins with the work they are willing to do within themselves.
Summer of Consciousness offers a space to reset, recharge, and remember. To reconnect with curiosity, humility, presence, joy, and the simple experience of being human.
Hosting a workshop or session
We have intentionally left space in the program for you to offer a workshop or session. If you would like to contribute, please mention this during your registration so we can explore how to integrate your offering into the retreat program. Please note that any workshop or session offered needs to align with the retreat’s intention, atmosphere, and overall flow. We will do our best to explore how your contribution can be integrated.
Practical info
2026
Dates
- Monday, August 17 (2:00 PM) - Sunday, August 23 (2:00 PM)
Contribution:
- We're accessible to facilitators in different life stages and financial situations. We invite participants to choose one of the suggested contributions (see below) that feels aligned with their current circumstances.
Number of participants
- There is room for a maximum of 20 participants.
Location
- The retreat takes place at a sacred retreat & healing center in the middle of nature, near the historic city of Silves in Southern Portugal.
The location is approximately 35 minutes from Faro Airport.
The exact address will be shared after registration.
Contribution
Low Budget Contribution – €450
For facilitators with a limited budget (max 12 spots) and for facilitators who offer a workshop, practice, teaching, or session during the retreat.
True Value Contribution – €699
This reflects the true cost and value of the retreat and is the contribution on which the event budget is based.
Generous Contribution – €899
For participants who have the financial capacity to contribute more and help make Summer of Consciousness accessible to others within the community.
What's included
Included
✓︎ accommodation (shared room or camper-spot with shower facilities), coffee/tea, all meals, all sessions
Excluded
× travel and transfer costs
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Stunning location
This retreat takes place at a sacred retreat & healing center amidst of nature and close to the ancient city of Silves - 35 min from airport Faro – Portugal.
A place where silence, nature, and open space invite you to slow down, recharge, and reconnect with yourself and with others.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Team
Bas de Cock
Founder of Summer of Consciousness, physician, and GROF® therapist. With his extensive experience, empathetic presence, and talent for community building, Bas creates a supportive environment where people feel seen, held, and invited to further explore and discover themselves.
Melanie Denissen
A wise and gentle woman who embodies the art of disarming. Through embodiment and de-armoring, she helps people come home to their bodies. During SOC, she is the glue that holds the community together and the loving guardian of the land.
Efia
A soulful singer who followed her own voice and, in doing so, found her truth. Through her presence, she opens the way to greater authenticity, self-expression, and a deeper connection with yourself.
Simona Rakuša
Psychotherapist and Grof® holotropic therapist
Disclaimer
The organization is not responsible for any unexpected (medical) problems or accidents. We advise you that you have a travel insurance. If you would like to participate in one of the holotropic sessions we expect you know the contra-indications for this work and you take responsibility for this.