3rd - 25th of July 2027
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This month, we will be exploring Systemic Family Constellations in relationship to our creative practice with experienced facilitator Katie Despres.
This will be a unique opportunity to delve into more philosophical and personal questions about the place of art within the wider context of the world. And lets also enjoy everything a Greek summer has to offer, your host Leah Heming will guide you to secluded beaches and mountain locations. |
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CREATIVE CONSTELLATIONSThe island is bustling in July, yet in the Water & Rock art residency house, we are secluded and blessed with peace and quiet. This will be the perfect setting to explore our personal and collective creativity within the context of our larger systems with Systemic Family Constellation Facilitator Katie Despres.
An average summer day will include an early stroll, a morning of art, an afternoon nap and an early evening sea swim and very often a social event or local celebration. HIGHLIGHTS🌿3 day intensive Creative Systemic Family Constellation workshop w/ Katie Despres
🌿 Weekly guided beach & art day with Leah Heming 🌿 Weekly group creative brainstorm & check in 🌿 Art in the outdoors 🌿 Stay in a traditional Greek house in a local community 🌿 Quiet working space and setting 🌿 Tailor made creative residency to fit your needs 🌿 Unforgettable experience 🌿 Nature, nature and more nature |
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CREATIVE CONSTELLATION RESIDENCY IS PERFECT FOR
☀️ creatives who want to explore the place of their creative practice within the wider context of our culture
☀️ creatives who want to discover Systemic Family Constellations ☀️ creatives who are curious about where their art is born from ☀️ creatives who want to look at art from a social, contextual, personal and historical perspective ☀️ creatives who are looking for inspiration from nature ☀️ creatives who want to join into the local community life ☀️ writers ☀️ artists ☀️ musicians ☀️ scientists / researchers ☀️ poets ☀️ PHD students ☀️ storytellers ☀️ photographers |
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS
Water & Rock's ethos is that through art we can bring awareness and sensitivity to our natural world.
We are true believers that creative communication is the driving force for change.
Therefore if your work is inspired by nature and you are motivated to get stuck into to your project or develop your ideas, then we want to hear from you!
We are true believers that creative communication is the driving force for change.
Therefore if your work is inspired by nature and you are motivated to get stuck into to your project or develop your ideas, then we want to hear from you!
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The residency is for you if...
🌿 You are inspired by nature 🌿 You want to make change through your art 🌿 You have a project that needs nurturing & attention 🌿 You want to live in community 🌿 You want to immerse yourself in local culture 🌿 You want an adventure |
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THE PROGRAM
WEEK 1: see average week below
WEEK 2: 3 day intensive workshop with Katie Despres + weekly excursion (optional) + market
WEEK 3: see average week below
WEEK 2: 3 day intensive workshop with Katie Despres + weekly excursion (optional) + market
WEEK 3: see average week below
AN AVERAGE WEEK AT THE SUMMER ART RESIDENCY
MONDAY: ☀️AM: drive down to the local village market in Prinos where you will find beautiful fresh, seasonal vegetables from local small scale farmers.
Stock up for the week from the market, local fishmongers, butchers and supermarket, then finish the morning with a Greek coffee in the café with the local community.
🌜PM: Head back to house, get creative or head out for a walk around the village or into the beautiful gorge full of springs and dipping pools
TUESDAY: ☀️AM + PM: Creative studio day
WEDNESDAY: ☀️AM + PM: Creative studio day
THURSDAY: ☀️+ 🌜AM + PM: Excursion day... tailored to the needs and desires of the group (secluded beach, mountain, mountain village...)
FRIDAY: ☀️AM + PM: Creative studio day
SATURDAY: ☀️AM: Creative morning
🌜PM: Weekly group creative brainstorm & check in
SUNDAY: ☀️AM: Go on a breathtaking hike with your guide Leah Heming.
🌜PM: Reward yourself after a hike with a traditional Sunday Long Lunch in a local taverna with friends and family
Stock up for the week from the market, local fishmongers, butchers and supermarket, then finish the morning with a Greek coffee in the café with the local community.
🌜PM: Head back to house, get creative or head out for a walk around the village or into the beautiful gorge full of springs and dipping pools
TUESDAY: ☀️AM + PM: Creative studio day
WEDNESDAY: ☀️AM + PM: Creative studio day
THURSDAY: ☀️+ 🌜AM + PM: Excursion day... tailored to the needs and desires of the group (secluded beach, mountain, mountain village...)
FRIDAY: ☀️AM + PM: Creative studio day
SATURDAY: ☀️AM: Creative morning
🌜PM: Weekly group creative brainstorm & check in
SUNDAY: ☀️AM: Go on a breathtaking hike with your guide Leah Heming.
🌜PM: Reward yourself after a hike with a traditional Sunday Long Lunch in a local taverna with friends and family
THE WORKSHOP w/ KATIE DESPRES
3 day intensive workshop during WEEK 2 of your residency.
Constellating Creativity: Belonging, Place & the Systems We Create From
Three days of Family & Systemic Constellations, embodied exploration and creative enquiry in the landscape of Thassos.
Day 1 - Belonging: the systems we come from
An introduction to systemic thinking through embodied group exercises and creative mapping.
We explore the systems we belong to and the different places we occupy within them: family, ancestry, culture, community and place.
Day 2 - Constellating Creativity
Bringing the systemic lens directly to creative practice.
Rather than treating creativity as something belonging solely to an individual, we explore it as something existing in relationship.
Through group exercises and small constellations we might explore relationships between:
Me and my creative practice.
Me and what wants to be created.
Creativity and visibility.
Creator and audience.
What supports the work and what interrupts it.
The individual and the wider system.
The natural environment can become part of the constellation: trees, paths, stones, boundaries, direction, distance and landscape can hold representative places alongside people.Residents can then respond through their own creative medium: writing, drawing, photography, movement, sound, making or simply observation.
Underlying question: What becomes visible when I experience my creativity as part of a larger system?
Day 3 - From individual to collective
We follow what has emerged through the first two days and move into deeper constellation work with members of the community.
The three days finish with integration and a return to whatever has been created individually and collectively.
Underlying question: What wants to move, change or be carried forward?
Optional: Individual Constellation
Alongside the group program, residents could have the option of booking a private 1:1 Family & Systemic Constellation with Katie during her stay on Thassos.
This would be separate from the three-day residency programme and particularly useful for someone who wants to explore something more personal or private than they want to bring into the resident group.
Constellating Creativity: Belonging, Place & the Systems We Create From
Three days of Family & Systemic Constellations, embodied exploration and creative enquiry in the landscape of Thassos.
Day 1 - Belonging: the systems we come from
An introduction to systemic thinking through embodied group exercises and creative mapping.
We explore the systems we belong to and the different places we occupy within them: family, ancestry, culture, community and place.
- embodied exercises around belonging, place, distance and relationship
- creating a visual/systemic map rather than simply a conventional family tree
- noticing what has been inherited, carried or passed on
- working with objects and materials found in the landscape
- beginning a shared altar / installation that develops over the three days
- exploring our relationship to the place we have arrived in
Day 2 - Constellating Creativity
Bringing the systemic lens directly to creative practice.
Rather than treating creativity as something belonging solely to an individual, we explore it as something existing in relationship.
Through group exercises and small constellations we might explore relationships between:
Me and my creative practice.
Me and what wants to be created.
Creativity and visibility.
Creator and audience.
What supports the work and what interrupts it.
The individual and the wider system.
The natural environment can become part of the constellation: trees, paths, stones, boundaries, direction, distance and landscape can hold representative places alongside people.Residents can then respond through their own creative medium: writing, drawing, photography, movement, sound, making or simply observation.
Underlying question: What becomes visible when I experience my creativity as part of a larger system?
Day 3 - From individual to collective
We follow what has emerged through the first two days and move into deeper constellation work with members of the community.
The three days finish with integration and a return to whatever has been created individually and collectively.
Underlying question: What wants to move, change or be carried forward?
Optional: Individual Constellation
Alongside the group program, residents could have the option of booking a private 1:1 Family & Systemic Constellation with Katie during her stay on Thassos.
This would be separate from the three-day residency programme and particularly useful for someone who wants to explore something more personal or private than they want to bring into the resident group.
YOUR FACILITATOR - KATIE DEPRESKatie Despres is a Family & Systemic Constellations facilitator and senior yoga teacher based in Bristol, UK.
Her work explores the often unseen relationships between individuals and the wider systems we belong to: family, ancestry, culture, community and place. She is particularly interested in interdependence and in extending systemic work beyond human relationships to include our relationship with land, animals and the natural world. Katie trained with the Centre for Systemic Constellations in the UK and has undertaken advanced training in Family & Systemic Constellations and intimate relationship systems. She has also trained with African Constellations in South Africa and is currently undertaking a 22-month training in Equine Facilitated Systemic Constellations. Alongside her constellation practice, Katie has taught yoga for more than a decade. Her background in embodied practice strongly informs the way she facilitates, bringing attention to what we experience through the body as well as what we understand intellectually. Katie works with individuals, couples and groups and facilitates workshops, ongoing constellation circles and experiential programmes in Bristol, online, at festivals and as part of wider training programmes. Katie's Instagram https://www.katiedespres.com/ |
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JULY
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July is usually the hottest month with temperature averaging around 36 degrees Celsius, sometimes with a heat wave.
This month we adopt the Mediterranean rhythm, with early mornings for physical activity, lunchtime naps and afternoons either at the beach or in the cool studio, followed by late evenings of eating and socialising. Bring light summer clothes, swim wear and a sun hat. July is so much fun and we love being in summer clothes from morning until night! |
WHAT TO EXPECT
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🌿 Weekly shopping at the local market & village
🌿 Weekly group creative brainstorm & check in 🌿 Excursions around the island (hiking, archaeology, beach, plein air...) 🌿 Desk in your room 🌿 Communal desk space 🌿 Many outdoor terraces with stunning views 🌿 A quiet place to concentrate 🌿 Community & other creatives to share ideas with 🌿 Peace and quiet 🌿 A local guide (Leah your host) 🌿 Delicious Greek delicacies |
🌿 Immersion into the local community
🌿 Friendly cats 🌿 Communal evening cooking 🌿 Magical gorge with ancient trees and Roman terraces 🌿Social evenings with friends and neighbours 🌿 Stunning turquoise sea water 🌿 Yoga mats and blocks 🌿 Fully equipped shared kitchen 🌿 Private bedroom 🌿 Shared bathroom 🌿 Excellent wi-fi |
FEES FOR THE 2027 CREATIVE CONSTELLATION RESIDENCY
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RATES FOR 22 nights
€ 1750 per person * (+ €800 for double occupancy) |
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3 ROOMS
🌿 Metamorphosis room: On the ground floor, next to the bathroom & the studio. With its original stone work, this double room is very cosy, like sleeping in cocoon!
🌿 Fern spirit room: Upstairs room with a view, original features and a small wood burner, this room can be made up as a single or double room.
🌿 Krana room: Upstairs, a smaller but double room with fantastic views and a lovely feeling with its original wattle and daub walls.
* 50% deposit required - see full Terms & Conditions here
🌿 Fern spirit room: Upstairs room with a view, original features and a small wood burner, this room can be made up as a single or double room.
🌿 Krana room: Upstairs, a smaller but double room with fantastic views and a lovely feeling with its original wattle and daub walls.
* 50% deposit required - see full Terms & Conditions here
WHAT IS INCLUDED✚ 1 weekly beach & art day with Leah Heming
✚ Weekly group creative brainstorm & check in ✚ End of residency group presentation & drinks ✚ regular early morning hikes ✚ Accommodation ✚ Pick up / drop off at the port upon arrival / leaving ✚ regularly cleaned bedsheets + towels ✚ Basic food condiments (salt, olive oil, etc) |
WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED
⊖ Extra excursions (optional) *
⊖ Personal laundry (€3 per load) ⊖ Travel insurance ⊖ Travel to and from the residency (except from the ferry port) ⊖ Entrance fees to the museum ⊖ Personal groceries and taverna outings ⊖ art materials |
* Click here for list and pricing of extra optional excursions
Any more questions... visit our Frequently Asked Questions page or drop us an email!
Any more questions... visit our Frequently Asked Questions page or drop us an email!
