Witnessing in Empathy:
Our next retreat to the former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau will take place in 2026 (!) from
Friday 20 till Saturday 28 March
OUR PRINCIPLES
Open Heart
Empathy for Oneself, the Others
Openess for Emergence
Lightness and Courage
without Expectations
Deep Trust in Not-Knowing
Humbleness and Surrender
Biography and Ancestry as Access
Strengthening Resources, Rituals and Sources of Agency
Perspective on Victims and Perpetrators
Staying on ... even with Fear, Horror, Shame or Numbness
OUR PURPOSE
Witnessing in Empathy is daring to really see and trying to feel the inconceivable. This is what our Auschwitz journeys have taught us.
The crises of the present broaden our view: in the here and now, we as a society and as individuals generate new traumata by unconsciously acting out of the old ones. We want to learn to witness them compassionately in the safe space of a familiar group.
Owning our own history.
Thereby discovering our resources.
Embrace the complexity of yesterday and today.