PLACES · CEREMONIES · SHARED VISIONS
For those who hold a place, have a vision, or want to bring people together in a way that matters.
Bespoke ceremony design, intuitive facilitation and collaborative experiences for private gatherings, retreats, remarkable properties and emerging projects.
Some places have room for more than an event.
Some ideas need the right people around them before they take form.
In conversation with Ida
Ceremony design and guest facilitation can be commissioned. Place-based visions and partnerships begin as an exploration.
The ceremonies I create are non-religious. Their language is energy and light work, intuition and symbolism, with an earth-rooted, shamanic-inspired sensibility. The atmosphere may hold a quietly witchy quality — there is no doctrine to follow and no belief to adopt. Each experience takes shape around the people, the place and what matters to them.
Commissioned ceremony design
A moment given its own language.
Meaningful ceremonies for passages, celebrations, seasonal moments and private gatherings. We begin with your intention, then shape the symbolic, artistic and energetic elements around it. No belief or affiliation is required.
Concept, ritual structure and atmosphere — with on-site facilitation where agreed.
Commissioned facilitation
A living thread within your gathering.
Invite Ida as a guest retreat facilitator for Living Light Alchemy, Living Breath Alchemy or an intuitively designed group experience. The work can stand alone or become part of a wider retreat programme.
Guest facilitation, programme co-design and on-site sessions alongside complementary facilitators.
Exploratory place partnerships
Listening to what a place could hold.
For landowners, private estates, heritage buildings, retreat destinations, event venues and hospitality lodges. Explore site-specific gatherings and property retreat partnerships that respect the character of the place.
Pilot experiences, residencies and longer-term spatial or programme concepts, shaped together.
Exploratory partnerships
The right resources around a shared vision.
A conversation for patrons, sponsors, investors, wellness and retreat developers, and entrepreneurs interested in thoughtful co-development. Support may take the form of a space, introductions, production, expertise or funding.
Clearly scoped future initiatives, with transparent expectations. Projects take form through a mutual conversation.
Partnership and investment conversations are exploratory, not an offer of securities or a promise of financial returns. Any future arrangement needs its own scope, agreements and appropriate advice. Experiences vary; no healing outcome is guaranteed.
From first hello to held space
Every collaboration is shaped around the people and the place — there are no fixed packages or set prices. Most journeys, though, move through the same gentle steps.
We begin with an informal exchange — by message, call or over coffee. You share the place, the people or the idea you are holding, and I listen. No preparation is needed; it does not have to be fully formed.
If the interest is mutual, we go deeper. For place-based work this may include a visit, walking the land or the rooms, and sensing what the place itself seems to ask for. We explore what is possible, and what feels right.
From there I shape a proposal: the intention, the form, the atmosphere and the practical frame. We adjust it together until it feels true for everyone involved, and agree on scope, responsibilities and terms in writing.
I prepare and hold the space — the ceremony, the sessions or the gathering — with the care it deserves. Afterwards we take time to land, reflect and, if it feels right, imagine what might grow from it.
Land · Estates · Retreat destinations
You may hold a larger property, a stretch of land, an old house with history, or a lodge ready for a new chapter. Perhaps its next expression is not yet clear.
I welcome conversations about what could happen there — a carefully held gathering, a pilot retreat, a residency, or a longer-term programme. We can begin with the place itself, what you hope for, and what is practical. This is creative collaboration with landowners, not property sales or brokerage.
A place does not need to become something else to hold something new.
A first exchange
Tell me a little about the place, the people or the idea you are holding. It does not need to be fully formed.
Replies are personal. Sending an inquiry carries no commitment, and does not guarantee availability or a quote.
Ida Herleiksplass
She Speaks Gaia · Bergen, Norway