Events & Workshops
Welcome to Feÿtopia, where the concept of a “typical day” has yet to be invented.
Our days are filled with impromptu, emergent, and participatory events—think improv workshops, music jams, all-night philosophy discussions, intellectual and cosmetic salons, sports (indoor, outdoor, or delightfully unconventional), movie screenings, and talks, just to name a few of the more familiar offerings.
Beyond these spontaneous activities, we also host a curated selection of week-long workshops and larger scheduled events, as a chance to go deeper into a topic with a group. From planetary health to love, from science to spirituality : the range of topics is wide.
🗝️ Open Workshops: These are workshops you can join by registering with the listed contact person—reach out, they’re waiting to hear from you!
🔏 Sign-up Workshops: Intrigued by a workshop that’s marked as “Sign-up”? Please contact the facilitator as this workshop requires a dedicated time commitment and full attendance throughout the allocated timeline to participate.
🔒 Closed Workshops: Intrigued by a workshop that’s marked as “closed”? Don’t worry! Even if you can’t participate directly, you’re welcome to stay with us during that time and absorb the vibrant, collective learning atmosphere.
And remember, even if you’re not attending the workshops, Feÿtopia is still brimming with joy, spontaneity, and creativity. With plenty of impromptu happenings like music jams, casual sports, and philosophical deep dives, you’ll always find a way to immerse yourself in the magic of Feÿtopia.
The Big Idea
In the era of TED, communicating your big idea well can open a lot of doors. If you’ve been sitting on an idea for a talk or want to improve your public speaking skills, come do it with supportive community. Together we’ll find and refine our big ideas, practice proven tactics for captivating audiences (with no stage fright!) and leave with a recording of your talk to share with the world.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
Open Science & Human Pyramids
Open Science in the AI Era: Shaping the Future of Research Together
As AI reshapes the scientific landscape, new challenges and opportunities emerge. Join us for a week-long immersive unconference, set in the innovative community of Feÿtopia, to explore how Open Science can evolve in tandem with AI advancements. This event will create space for deep reflection and dialogue on how practices such as open peer review, data sharing, and transparent code can foster collaboration, innovation, and uphold scientific integrity in an AI-driven world.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
Cyborg Camp
A week-long immersive unconference that explores the intricate interplay between humanity, technology, nature, and society.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
Futurecraft
As we walk the tightrope of planetary-scale transformation, it's becoming clear that we need to upgrade not just our technologies and infrastructures, but our ways of relating – to ourselves, to each other and to the living planet.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
The Art and Philosophy of Home-making
The art of home-making is a delicate and continuous process we all engage in throughout our lives. Our desire to feel safe, to belong, to find comfort, and yet to remain free and authentic individuals creates a constant tension and imbalance. Going far beyond our usual perception of home, this unique 2-weeks philosophical workshop inquires deeply into our human nature and the connections we form with our environment.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
Reconnect through movement: a dance and mindfulness experience
Join us for an immersive dance workshop that explores curiosity around movement, expression, and connection.
🗝️ Open Workshop
The Intimacy Lab
Intimacy, in all its forms, is one of the basic building blocks of human life. Whether that’s the bonds of intimacy that hold a community together, or the intimacy in romantic relationships, this web of relationships is fundamental…
Join us for a week-long exploration of relational life at The Intimacy Lab.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
Planet.Health
Join us during the Planet.Health week @Feÿ! Planet.Health is building a translocal network of actions for planetary health, honouring and grounded by Indigenous knowledge systems + supported by emerging technologies.
🔏 Sign-ups Open
Immersive Theater & Experience Design
From the creators of Ajar AI, The Hindsight Institute and The Kebab Cabal comes another epic week of immersive art and experience design at Château du Feÿ.
Join Anna, Shelby, Sofi and Sarah D. for a week of workshops curating a final party.
🗝️ Open Workshop
Enchanted Convergence: A Mystic's Sabbath at Feÿtopia's Otherworld
Under the waxing moon, we'll weave spells of intention, binding our desires to the cosmic tapestry. Gather 'round the sacred fire, where ancient whispers guide our collective trance dance. In the herb garden, we'll commune with plant spirits, crafting potions to unlock hidden realms of consciousness.
🗝️ Open Workshop
Treetopia
Did you know you can build incredible treetop structures with just four knots? Treetopia in the Fey Forest is a collaborative tree net project to bring us closer to the trees.
🗝️ Open Workshop
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.
— closed event
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...
— closed event
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.
— closed event
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.
— closed event
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.