holding spaces for deep connections

facilitation

I work as a facilitator both individually and together with new visions collective, offering engaging, holistic and transformative workshops, courses and trainings at the intersections of personal, ecological, spiritual, and political wisdoms.

beyond thematic workshops and courses I also love guiding group processes for teams and organizations that can help bring clarity, alignment, and a renewed sense of purpose. I also offer individual mentoring sessions (more info further below).

my practice is rooted in a regenerative approach, attuned to the unique needs and dynamics of each group I work with, making all sessions immersive, engaging participants’ bodies, minds, senses, and imaginations in the exploration of the topics at hand.

You can explore some examples of my previous workshops and courses below and learn more about new visions work here. Don’t hesitate to reach out to see how we could collaborate to create a space for your particular need.

“believing that every interaction holds the potential for meaningful connections and personal and collective transformation, I see facilitation as sacred work and the role of a facilitator as one of first deeply listening and then creating the right structures and impulses for these connections to emerge”

  • Work That Reconnects

    Work that Reconnects is a group process which helps people to (re)discover and experience their innate connections with the Earth, each other, oneself. To move from a sense of isolation to a sense of community and participation, from eco-anxiety and overwhelm to taking inspired action. It is rooted in deep ecology, systems theory, ancestral practices, and core teachings and methodology developed by Joanna Macy.

    I am part of a global network of facilitators in this work, and have facilitated work that reconnect workshops both in the form of open workshops for general audience, and as tailored workshops for climate secretariat in Aarhus Municipality, activist groups, gathering for New Democracy Fund and in other contexts.

  • Tools for change

    Workshop for activists, change-makers and all those willing to explore their place in contributing to positive change. offered as a space to get inspired to keep responding to the challenges of our times with active hope, connectivity, and creative actions. part of Frontløberne, UKH and Institut for X's project www.sweetcity.dk

    The workshop was documented by a TV program. You can watch it here.

  • Council of All Beings

    A ritual practice and performative workshop at the conference “Global Environmental Justice and Its Limits: Complexities of Time and Space” organized by Aarhus University. A workshops that enables a deeper engagement with the more-than-human worlds and acknowledgement of interconnectedness of all beings in the web of life. In the context of this conference, it served as a space for broadening the conversions around environmental justice and its colonial entanglements by inviting more-than-human lifeforms to the “table”. Participants of this space were invited to a series of embodied and creative practices to both prepare for the communal ritual of the council and weave the experience into their further work.

  • Creating Communities of Well-Being

    A series of workshops for grassroots cultural centers, exploring practices for fostering resilience, self- and community-care, well-being, and setting healthy boundaries in a working environment. Offering tools for creating nourishing and equitable relationships in teams.

    The workshops took place in three different cultural centers in Europe, each adapted to specific working and team context of each of the centres. The project was supported by Trans Europe Halles Wellbeing Hours program.

  • Exploring our bodies as maps of racialization

    Workshop at Whiteness and racialization in/between East and West Symposium, Roskilde University. Focus on our physical bodies as vessels of racialized experiences and sources of knowledge of how to tend to the individual and collective scars of racialization. Through a series of embodied practices and individual & collective reflection exercises we practice listening deeply to our bodies; unravel some of the ways racialization affects different bodies in different political contexts; and explore ways of tending & mending some of the impacts of racialization through our bodies. 

  • Moving with the Forest Within

    A sensory experience at Sustain Your Mental Event dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of Mental health. Organized by Tiny Planet FM. Nature connectedness is shown by countless research to be a critical factor in supporting good mental health and preventing distress, anxiety and depression. There are many ways to cultivate nature connectedness, even when the wilderness outside might not be in reach. This embodied session will invite us to explore the idea of interconnectedness of all life through movement, sound, and reflection, aimed at deepening our connectedness with oneself, one another, and the Earth.

  • Connectedness Journey

    An imaginative, site-specific workshop/ experience and journey for a team to offer a space and some guidance to have a collective experience out of the ordinary doings of their day to day. An experience that is highly playful, involves storytelling, moving through different places as a team, talking about a variety of topics and engaging in different creative exercises.

    This one was crafted specifically for the office and board of Institut for (X).

  • Estonian Creative Residencies Network meeting

    Moderating the annual network meeting by offering practices to get to know one another as persons, align on long-term vision and strategy, as well as agree on next years priorities and responsibility division in the network organization.

    https://www.loore.ee/post/loore-network-members-got-together-in-massia

  • "What is our Vision and Mission" process guidance

    A one year process with Institut for (X) to arrive at a vision and mission statement, as well as strategic work areas for the future, aligned with the vision and mission. This process involved several workshops with different key member groups at the platform, individual interviews, drafting the vision and mission statements based on this process, and guiding the finalization and internal communication of the vision/mission.

  • “Can cities afford to experiment?”, lecture

    Speech/ inspirational input at the Social Innovation forum organized by Liepāja municipality, within the framework of the "Future Diversities - Creativity in an Urban Context" project. Talking about the culture festival Kometa I was coorganizing in Riga, Latvia, elements of innovation in in it, relationships with different partners in festival organization, and the role of grassroots cultural initiatives in urban development processes.

  • Wild Women Rising

    7 week course & creative activist intervention. An experimental, playful, embodied, earth-connected course exploring womenhood(S) of today. 10 women exploring how to challenge patriarchal and colonial modes of living and working and build relationships otherwise. Through uncovering authentic voice, deep listening and radical care work.

  • We are relationships

    Workshop at Trans Europe Halles conference “Cultural Impact! Now!”. This workshop was a space to come together both as cultural leaders and as humans to (re)connect with the core of the work of cultural practitioners. What are the diferent missions (even if not formulated in this way) that drive our work? What changes are we longing for? How are we working and how can we work towards these changes? Together participants explored these and other questions through a set of self-reflection exercises, exchanges with one another, and embodied practices, woven together to invite learning and unlearning with body, mind, and emotions.

  • Being Nature

    One day temporary island of pause, reflection, connecting and sensing.

    To listen to nature sounds in the middle of the city bustle; sip a herbal infusion from plants growing in Aarhus; participate in nature fortune telling; go on a guided exploration of the more-than-human world at Bispetorvet, take part in the co-creation of a zine of nature connection practices or simply get some inspiration for cultivating more connection with the rest of the living world.

  • "This team journey was incredible. Connective. Self-reflective. Communion oriented. Bonding. Refreshing. Growth oriented. Mythological. I have laughed. I have cried. I have felt like being in a fairy tale with my good companions. The framework of the journey, the gamification and mysterious story-telling made the whole experience very bonding, honest and joyful. My takeaways are both personal, professional and social - spending extraordinary time together with colleagues and board members was a brilliant way to connect."

    Participant of the end of year journey and team building day at Institut for (X).

  • "It feels so great to know you are in this city doing this work. I appreciated the safe space a lot to explore topics that are often uncomfortable I loved the facilitation - calm, gentle, structured. It was great to attune more to each other and spend quality time together as a team. I feel we are more connected as humans and as colleagues in climate work."

    Participant of the “Work that Reconnects” Workshop for Aarhus Omstiller team

  • "I am so grateful, thank you from the widest space of my heart. I feel connected, seen, heard and safe in that. I was very impressed with how much we managed to go through in the day and thats thanks to your pro and humanly facilitation. I have gained a fresh perspective on the different ways of activism, feel like part of a strong network of other changemakers and am leaving with confidence and huge amount of energy to channel into my strategic planning and next actions. "

    Participant of “Tools for Change” workshop

  • "Thank you for your clarity, care and generosity. I felt deeply held, and safe in this workshop. Thank you for clearing the space for grief, fear, anger, emptiness - because we stand / sit on hope. I loved and cherished that you integrated where your practices come from. Whether it be you, your mentors, teachers, theories, stories. Acknowledging the lineage, the shoulders we stand on and roots we grow from. The access to go deep into this work came easy because of your courage and skill to hold the structure so beautifully, to set a clear frame, while leaving so much space for flexibility, to look with kind eyes. I'm inspired."

    Participant of the “Work that Reconnects” open workshop

  • "I feel empowered, connected. I feel agency and power to create! Thank you so much! These kinds of spaces are so massively needed on conferences. To remind us we are here as full humans."

    “We are Relationships” workshop participant, TEH Conference in Ebeltoft “Cultural Impact! Now!”

  • "It is so needed to have these moments of being together and sharing, imagining, dreaming about what relationships we want to have with each other. And to put it as priority - as one of the important tasks during the worklife, not just as a conversation to have "if" we have spare time and inspiration. We need to mindfully create the time and space for doing that. Thank you for this amazig workshop to have the space and tools for that."

    Participant of “Creating Spaces of Wellbeing” workshop for Kaņepes Culture Centre

  • "The workshop was so well prepared, with a format so we had something to work after. It was very relevant for all of us as employees / users / humans at Institut for (X). Safe space is a brave space and it was so inspiring to see how that was already reflected in the structure of the workshop. I also loved how hands on and informed it was - with the journal you had made and the examples from other cultural platforms tackling similar challenges. Tools of brainstorming and manifesting was also useful. "

    Participant of the “Creating Safe(r) Spaces” workshop at Institut for (X)

  • "I’m leaving with so much. A wholeness in believing that we are connected to the earth and each other. That we are synergy. And the courage to trust my instincts and wild womanhood more. I really liked the mix of being invited to explore within myself and my communication with the world around me and the space being held for vulnerability and “trying things out, with the risk of loosing control for a while. Getting direct assignments to practice this other side of me. You are a magical human and space-holder. Your honesty, love and care, and attention to details made it all so special."

    Participant of the “Wild Women Rising” course

  • "It was such a breather. The topics covered and what we research can be emotionally taxing so just having an opportunity to take a step back and center in our bodies and emotions is so good. But it was also a great experience in listening deeply to other people and exploring racialization more somatically. I am also walking away with the reminder that there needs to be more of these spaces to explore our thoughts and emotions in academia. "

    Participant of “Exploring our bodies as maps of racialization” workshop, part of Whiteness and racialization in/between East and West Symposium, Roskilde University

  • "I leave with a feeling of connection and common experiences between all of us. I liked the progressive weave of shared experience. It was an amazing invitation to explore different ways of thinking and I have learned a lot and feel inspired. It was also such a beautiful start for my TEH meeting. I got to know some of my colleagues on a much deeper level than ever."

    Participant of “Everything Leans” workshop, TEH Conference in Prague

  • "Cooperation with Liene in moderating our network meeting was very pleasant and smooth. The clarifying questions Liene asked after we had described our wishes were a great help in understanding better what we really want to achieve with our meeting. The moderation process itself also exceeded our expectations - the work sessions conducted by Liene were very effective, but at the same time humanly warm (just what you need if you want to make people work together). I really hope that we will be able to cooperate with Liene in the future and for longer period- she thinks constructively but at the same time really considers your needs."

    Evelyn, LOORE: Estonian Creative Residencies Network

mentoring

a safe space and guidance to explore

your creative, spiritual, activist and/or professional life;

  • whats yours to offer in these times

    marked by interconnected socio-ecological crises;

  • how to navigate the relationships you are part of,

    including the one you have with yourself;

  • how to live with more authenticity and integrity;

  • how to navigate uncertainty and complexity.

  • and other questions relevant to you.


If you are considering mentoring with me, please do reach out, I will send you a no-strings-attached detailed PDF on what to expect, how exactly mentoring with me works; and the hourly rates. Depending on my time and emotional resources, I have one or more free mentoring spots reserved for women and queer artists and/or activists, just ask!

what people have experienced in mentoring with me…

Liene has showed me love in action, by the commitment of being there for me every week. With ‘being there,’ I mean really being there. In the most authentic, caring, respectful, honest, and responsible way. Throughout our 2 years together, she has supported me in emotional, spiritual and professional growth by holding space for me and sharing her wisdom in a non-judgemental, caring and truthful way. This have made it possible for me to connect deeper to myself and others. It has encouraged me to follow the path of unfolding my true self. And even more important - to become the wild, loving and free woman, i was made to be. I warmly recommend mentoring with Liene - it has been life-changing.

- Vivian

I have done both individual sessions and collective workshops held by Liene, and they all share the invitation to start from the point where you are and feel at that particular moment and acceptance of it, care of one’s needs, gentleness, empathy and great understanding of the subject. The sessions are open and easy to be at. Liene has helped me to find necessary guidelines related to work and personal life, boosted self-confidence, as well critical and fair thinking - all under the genuine care for equity and equality.

— Kristīne

Working with Liene as my mentor has been such a rewarding, eye-opening, loving and enlightening experience. Going into the sessions, I did not have a clear picture of what it would be or what I needed. I am forever grateful for jumping into it with open arms, and I know for sure that the work we have shared together has impacted my life on endless different levels. Liene is a great mentor, - she has a special ability to hold space for reflections and emotions to unfold in a safe and nourishing way, and to accomodate a wide variety of needs - conscious or not. The mentoring journey with Liene has supported me in living more authentically and curiously. She has helped me identify my own learnings and progress, and our shared wisdom has become a true treasure of mine. Liene’s approach is holistic and can vary from conversation, movement, drawing, meditation and even free-singing. I am forever grateful for my shared time with this amazing human being, and for the endless learnings that were part of it.

— Sara