Forty degrees. Four days. Everyone went home with a different life than the one they brought.

Thank you to everyone who was there.

THE STORY|THE LABS|THE PLACE|WAITING LIST

THE STORY

How it was

The first thing we did was hand out maps. The second thing we did was tear them up.

That was the afternoon it got real. A room full of people ripping paper on purpose, in forty degrees of Swiss summer, agreeing to be lost together for four days. Re:worlding starts with admitting that the map in your hand stopped matching the terrain a while ago. The vision can come later.

We spent those days in an old house in the hills. It was once built for people whose reality didn’t fit their time, and it still has room for that. Chairs hang from the ceiling in one room. In another, the windows are so big the hills come inside. The walls did half the work.

At the door, everyone left something behind. A role, a certainty, a story that had grown too small. It went into an envelope and into the Wardrobe, with a claim tag for your pocket. You walked in lighter than you arrived.

Then a man came through with a tray around his neck, selling identities. He was an actor, and he really was trading lives. People picked one and wore it for the day. At lunch you’d sit across from someone who was somebody else for the moment. Oddly, the conversation got more honest.

In the afternoons, four labs went deep. RE:GENERATE worked in the ruins: what is worth carrying, what we have to mourn, what we can finally drop, and which lost threads can be woven back in. RE:AUTHOR asked who actually holds the pen. RE:LATE stayed in relationship right where leaving would have been easier. RE:SENSE went into the body and asked how it finds its bearings when nothing is what it seems.

Every evening, all four labs came back to one fire. Nobody gave a report. People brought something, set it down in the middle, and by the end of the night it belonged to everyone. In between there was open space, sessions nobody had planned, long tables, and hills too hot to walk. We walked them anyway. Some conversations outlasted the candles.

On the last day the Wardrobe opened again. Everyone got their envelope back, with what they had left at the door. Next to it lay notes in other people’s handwriting about what they had seen in you during those four days. Written down like evidence.

We came with maps that had stopped working. We tore them up and got lost on purpose. What we put back together was a different world, and it had good stories in it.

The map is gone. Good.

**“Such a rich experience full of deep conversations, inspiration, aha moments hosted in the extraordinary Impulszentrum Holdenweid.”**

Participant, RE:WORLDING 2026

THE LABS

Four territories, one fire

Each afternoon, four Deep Dive Labs ran in parallel. Everyone chose one territory and went deep with a small group. Each evening, all four labs came together for the Harvest at the fire.

LAB 01 | RE:GENERATE — Leading through the In-Between

Transition, transformation, working with what is taking shape

Worked in the in-between: what is worth carrying, what has to be mourned, and what is starting to take shape.

LAB 02 | RE:AUTHOR — Who Gets to Shape the Story?

Agency and authorship in times of change

Asked who actually holds the pen, and where each of us has real room to shape direction and meaning.

LAB 03 | RE:LATE — Relational Intelligence

Strengthening our capacity to connect and collaborate across differences

Stayed in relationship where leaving would have been easier, and practised listening across difference.

LAB 04 | RE:SENSE — The Body as Compass

Somatic intelligence, intuition, embodied decision-making

Went into the body and asked how it finds its bearings when nothing is what it seems.

**“Are you also digesting so much input today? And miss all the people you met at Holdenweid? I feel like having a hangover/heartache …”**

*– Participant, RE:WORLDING 2026, the day after*

THE PLACE

A place built for threshold moments

Impulszentrum Holdenweid sits in the rolling hills of the Swiss Jura, near Basel. Originally built as a shelter for people whose reality didn't fit the conventions of their time, it has since become a place for rethinking those very conventions.

Fully residential

You sleep, eat, and work in the same place. This is not incidental, it's what makes the depth possible.

Honest, local food

Full board throughout. Shared at long tables. Meals here are not logistics, they're where the other half of the thinking happens.

The Jura hills

Walking trails, open air, space to think outside the room. Nature is part of the rhythm.

Near Basel

Easy to reach from across Europe with enough distance from everyday life to actually arrive.

WAITING LIST

The next gathering is taking shape

Put your name on the waiting list and you’ll hear first when the circle opens again. No spam, just the invitation.

Until then, the BST community meets online. The next call is on November 17, 2026, at 18:30 CET, and it’s open to everyone.

The Lineage

BEYOND STORYTELLING

A decade of building rooms that matter.

Beyond Storytelling isn’t about communication skills or how to tell a better story at work. It’s about something older and harder to name: how the stories we live inside — about ourselves, our roles, our organisations — shape what we can see, decide, and become. For nine years, we’ve been building spaces where that kind of thinking is possible. RE:WORLDING was the latest one.