Events & Workshops
Welcome to Feÿtopia, where we have yet to invent the concept of a typical day.
Our everyday is peppered with impromptu, emergent, participatory events. Think improv workshops, music jams, all-nighter philosophy discussions, salons for your daily cosmetic and intellectual routine, sports (indoor, outdoor, inside out), movie screenings, talks… to name the most conventional happenings.
Below, you'll find our curated list of week-long workshops and grander, scheduled events.
🗝️ Open workshops are those you may register to participate in. Reach out to the listed “contact” person – they're waiting for your call (probably).
🔒 A 'closed' workshop struck your fancy? You can still stay with us during that time and soak in the ambient, osmosis-tic collective learning.
Feÿ Arts Festival
Feÿ Arts Website | Feÿ is a multidisciplinary arts festival founded in 2018 that brings together French and international artists each year in a village in Burgundy. For three days, the event transforms the Château du Feÿ into a platform for encounters and experimentation, 1h30 from Paris. Cinema, performance, publishing, contemporary art, music, architecture and gastronomy meet for a weekend to create an artistic laboratory that visitors are invited to discover.
Feÿ Arts Festival Residency
Feÿ Arts is a multidisciplinary arts festival founded in 2018. For three days, the event transforms Château du Feÿ into a platform for encounters and experimentation where performance, cinema, contemporary art, music, architecture and gastronomy come together to create an artistic laboratory that visitors are invited to discover. For the first time this year, the Feÿ Arts will be preceeded by a month-long residency taking place alongside the community season.
Planet Health
The health of people and the planet are inextricably linked and under threat. Planetary health is a solutions-oriented movement that addresses the relationships between human health and all life on the planet. Planet.Health is building a translocal network of actions for planetary health, built on Indigenous knowledge systems + supported by emerging technologies.
Ecole de la Nouvelle Citoyenneté
This 5 days-long program for 16-25-year-olds focuses on inspiring citizenship. Through interactive workshops, guest speakers, and collaborative projects, we aim to empower participants with the knowledge and skills needed for active civic engagement. The program also emphasizes cultural exchange, field visits, and reflection sessions to foster a sense of global citizenship and social responsibility.
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DELTA Immersion Weeks
Science and spirituality are two topics that are often regarded as antagonistic with one another. However, after careful consideration and meaningful exploration into this dichotomy, we have come to believe that there is a distinct union between them.
It is fair to say that the scientific method emphasizes empiricism—the use of empirical observations and experiments in order to uncover facts about the world around us. Meanwhile, spirituality focuses more on individual experience and what we can take away from it—it seeks meaning beyond our understanding of observable realities. The former allows us to measure external forces and provides insight into material objects. The latter enables us to develop internal insights about ourselves and the world, expanding our inquiries beyond mere observation, as spiritual practices provide access towards realms which remain invisible to today’s scientific practices.
While these two perspectives may appear contradictory at first glance, they are both rooted in gaining knowledge through different means with similar goals: to reach an ultimate truth which will help enhance human life on earth; whether physical or intangible.
Therefore when embraced together, each offers tremendous potential for truth-seeking and self-discovery. Allowing direct interaction between inner experiences—that may sometimes appear to be transcending logic—and scientific knowledge—exclusively based on tangible and reproducible data—can offer new insights about reality, helping us deconstruct some of the scientific premises that are too narrow to explain the wide variety of unknowns.
Regen Village Immersion Week
Gathering of International Regenerative Villages Founders (aka Solar Punk Utopian Communes). This collaborative network includes our sister communities: TDF, Selgars, L'Abre qui Pousse, Chateau Chapiteau, Les Passerelles...
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Education | En Revanche
This 5-day program provides a transformative experience for teenagers from challenging backgrounds, exposing them to new possibilities. We invite Feytopians to contribute workshops, sharing their passions and inspiring participants on this enlightening journey. Together, we aim to create a space where diverse perspectives and talents converge, fostering personal growth and empowerment.
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Family & Parenthood
Exploring a family-friendly prototype of Feytopia, envisioning a space that caters to the unique needs and dynamics of families seeking a harmonious and enriching communal living experience.
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Leadership Immersion Week
Feytopia has many accomplished leaders, and we all have different skills to share and stories to tell. Successful leaders are built not born, and the most transformative leadership development is done in groups. Feytopia Founders is a supportive community that helps each other grow and who win together. Come learn and teach the skills - from public speaking to fundraising and stress management to the secrets of scaling - that will help us all become better leaders.
Mothers Immersion Week
A retreat designed exclusively for mothers seeking respite and connection beyond their maternal responsibilities. This relaxing getaway offers a serene space for mothers to unwind, recharge, and connect with like-minded individuals, creating a supportive community of shared experiences.
Love and Sexuality Immersion Week
From the music of kink to the intersection of polyvagal and attachment theory, and from neurodiverse dating to the nuances of open relating, this Immersion Week is the place to ask and answer some of life’s deepest questions. What is love? What is sex? And how can we experience more of the good kind of both?
Workshop on organizational practices for collective intelligence
The goal of this workshop is to theorize how formal and informal aspects of organizations can be designed to foster collective intelligence. We will bring together a small group of scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, activists and engineers to consider the organizational forms that dominate the landscape today, how the future may unfold and how we can shape it.
Extitutional Theory and Practice
During this workshop, we will explore a novel theoretical framework to analyse the interplay between formalized social structures that are commonly described as “institutions” and the underlying social dynamics that animate these institutions, also known as “extitutions''. Using a series of case studies to explore the dialectic between these two components of social organisations (the institutional and the extitutional components), we will investigate the extent to which they are both necessary to ensure the long-term sustainability of social systems.
Theorizing Extitutions
The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop is to elaborate a comprehensive theory of extitutions and the process extitutionalisation. It will invite both institutional and extitutional scholars from different disciplines, as well as practitionners interested in exploring and better understanding extitutional frameworks. The goal is to elaborate new conceptual tools to better understand the process of extitutionalisation, and new vocabulary to better grasp the distinctive characteristics of this process. During the conference, participants will compare these two types of structured social dynamics (institutions and extitutions) and identify new forms of interactions between the two.
Governance Workshop
Feÿtopia has been recently collaborating with the Embassy Network to explore the various facets of institutions and how to innovate with new types of social dynamics that operate outside of the traditional institutional framework. Together, the network is exploring the possibility for the establishment of new “virtual nations” based on a mixture of institutional and non-institutional norms. The aim is to create a network of institutions that are not necessarily based on territorial jurisdictions, but on shared practices. The network of communities will allow us to experiment with new practices to improve community life, and explore how we can co-create new types of institutions that will help us collectively address the most pressing challenges that urgently need to be addressed both at the local and global level.