Embracing Complexity
21-26 September 2025
TOUCH&PLAY UK
Exploring the Mystery of Collective Creation
How do we honor our boundaries while surrendering to the mystery of creating together?
What unfolds when we lean into the intricacies of human dynamics with a playful spirit?
It’s time to explore the Self within the Collective and the Collective within the Self.
Step into a space where the complexity of human connection becomes a playground for creativity.
Embracing the beauty of collective creation we turn our curiosity to the complexities beneath the surface. What happens when we lean into both the harmony and the tension? What do these dynamics reveal about ourselves and each other? Do we choose to be a leader, a follower, the joker, a giver, a taker, the drama king or queen or the scapegoat, and how do these roles influence group interactions? How does the power distribution in our collective affect participation, decision-making, and relationships within the group? How do the unwritten rules and expectations of our collective culture influence our behaviours and interactions? How do we shape each other’s opinions, behaviours, and decisions through conformity, persuasion, or comparison?
Let us explore the emergent properties and unique behaviours of group dynamics that can’t be predicted by studying ourselves in isolation. Let us journey into this intricate tapestry of relationships, and embrace the complexity of human connection as a playground for creativity.
Touch&Play offerings:
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deCIDE consent workshop
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Morning intensives
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Afternoon single sessions
- Dance spaces and Contact Improv Class & Jam
- Voice journeys and singing cercles
- Group spaces to process
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Free time in the afternoons for rest and/or emergent revelry!
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Held spaces for connection conversations.
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Evening dances, rituals, intimacy spaces and co-created experiences.
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Intro to kink and playspaces
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Spa area
We are crafting the experience
Detailed information about the full team and their roles will be shared in the near future.
In the meantime, we’re offering a limited number of early bird tickets. Secure your ticket by reserving in advance.
Touch&Play gatherings are co-creations that emerges from an intimate collaboration between the curation team, and the teachers, artists, helpers team and participants that join the retreat. We’re an experimental container and open to inspiring off-beat ideas that can support the wider Touch&Play exploration of the Relation Body.
DANCE & EMBODIMENT
CREATIVITY & PLAY
POWER, KINK & SELF-EXPRESSION
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNITY
YOU BELONG HERE
Touch&Play embodies an international movement, a spirited and adventurous family rooted in various local communities across the globe.
Touch&Play is an exciting and growing global network of local communities that come together around a set of shared practices and a common culture.
We’ve been organizing retreats and community gatherings since 2010 and have held events in 16 different countries and 4 different continents.
Our events strike a balance between the local context and culture where a retreat takes places and the global embodied, humanistic and spiritual practices and values that underpin our work. In the end we are striving to build a deeply caring and seriously playful world where we can live authentically and in peace with ourselves and our communities.
“Leave your relationships more beautiful than you found them”
I want to join Touch&Play
Earlybird tickets now available