The Microsolidarity Intensive - August 2026
Level up your hosting game this August at Casa Tilo
Microsolidarity is about discovering practical patterns for creating belonging, meaningful connection, and collaboration in groups. No matter the context - a dinner party with friends, a project team, support group, membership organisation, community, neighborhood, or family household - what ties all of it together is an understanding of what makes groups come alive.
At the heart of that understanding is hosting - the capacity to take responsibility for the social context. That means creating spaces where people feel genuinely welcomed, where collaboration happens naturally, and where something a little like magic becomes possible.
🧭 This year, we’re going deeper…
After a great run developing our hosting skills at Summer Camp last year, we’re gathering again this year around the question:
How can we host for belonging, collaboration, and care?
This won’t be a conference where you sit and listen. It’s a hands-on training: part workshop, part experiment, part community.
Our group will become our practice ground. You’ll learn core Microsolidarity principles, practice hosting in real time, and leave with skills and insights you can bring directly into your communities, organisations, teams or personal life.
The way it’s designed means you can choose your own path through the week based on your current hosting confidence and where you want to grow.
🤔 Why all the fuss about hosting?
We see hosts as people who curate spaces and moments where magic can happen - a deep sense of belonging, genuine mutual support and care, or the kind of collaboration that brings out the best in people.
How? By shaping the social context in a way that allows people to feel welcomed as they are, and encouraged to grow.
It’s the kind of magic that helps the group’s collective intelligence get to work.
Hosting is leadership dressed up as hospitality. In Microsolidarity, leadership means making a compelling invitation - creating the conditions for people to bring their gifts and step into their potential. There’ll be plenty of opportunity to practise exactly that, whether you’re a complete beginner or seasoned host.
We’ll be dancing around our growth edges, learning, being playful, being serious, and - we will surely be having a lot of fun while doing it!
“There is a sense of empowerment that comes from being able to share my gifts. This has been one of the reasons I came to Microsolidarity Camp: to test if the years’ worth of small experiments I had developed on myself, that had helped me out of my chronic pain, would be transferable to others.
As Rich puts it, hosting is taking responsibility for your social context. And spending 5 days doing R&D on the dials of structure and freedom that help bring out the best in any group with a bunch of fellow nerds was just what I needed to put my learning edge to practice.”
Agi Dubi, 2025 participant
📌 The facts
When? 11 - 15 August 2026
Pre-retreat call: July 29, 6-7:30pm CET
Where? Casa Tilo, just outside Barcelona
Option to stay on longer for the Microsolidarity Coliving Week and develop your skills further! (see below)
🌀 What are the (not-so) side effects of being in a Microsolidarity-flavoured social context?
A sense of being in the right place, as an expanded version of yourself with a toolkit full of gifts
Feeling woven into something larger - a living, nourishing group of humans that has your back
Being held and supported by collective wisdom, care and capacity
Helping each other grow and do work in the world that matters to you
Intense fun and shenanigans!
🏞️ The Microsolidarity Intensive Journey
Each day is hosted with a different format, moving gradually from a structured start toward increasing self-organisation:
Day 1: Foundation The hosting team leads a series of facilitated mini-workshops, surfacing core Microsolidarity principles through group and solo practices, stories, and reflection. You’ll explore your own hosting journey and identify the developmental edge you want to work with during the following days.
Day 2: Open Space With a shared foundation of belonging and context established, the agenda opens up. Senior network members host some core practices; everything else is co-created by the group.
Day 3: Opener Space A playful day dedicated to the art of spatial interventions - learning to shape social context through small, well-timed moves. This leads into party night.
Day 4: Harvest We gather what we’ve learned, make sense of it together, and think about how to bring it home.
Some practice lenses we’ll be working with throughout:
Cultivating presence and agency
Being a skillful participant
Taking responsibility for setting and shifting the vibe
Stewarding group potential
✅ This is for you if:
You’re interested in uplevelling your hosting capacity
You’re early in your hosting journey and looking for practical tools, principles, and real opportunities to practise with coaching and feedback along the way
You’re a more experienced host wanting a safe-to-fail environment to experiment, co-create, and stretch
❌ Maybe not, if:
You’re mainly drawn to the villa-with-a-pool-and-great-people part rather than the training part. There will absolutely be time to relax and have fun - it’s just not the main event.
You’re primarily looking to reconnect with people you already know in the Network and/or contribute to growing the Network more broadly. In that case, the Coliving Week might be a better fit!
“Microsolidarity is opening up the black box of how to gather and connect well. Overtly, I learnt that group size creates the conditions for powerful gatherings. Subtly, I learnt from others’ modeling how to structure my own ideas to be accessible for myself and others.
Structurally, I found ways to gather well. And in free flow, I constantly saw mirrors of the ways that I am still learning how to connect.”
Michael Tong, 2025 participant
🙋Your hosts
🎟️ What’s included in your ticket
A shared room - due to space limitations we cannot offer private bedrooms; camping may be an option if you need your own space
Three nourishing meals per day - accommodating dietary requirements as necessary
Shuttle to and from the nearby train station
Your ticket also supports the hosting and facilitation team - the people who hold the container. That includes shaping the vision and structure of the week, preparing and decorating the venue, managing food and logistics, and being present throughout to support the group’s evolving needs.
To confirm your place, you need to choose:
Accommodation covering food and transport to/from the train station.
Training Contribution which covers expenses for the hosting and facilitation team, and if we raise enough, a small salary for their time.
Scholarships
We provide scholarships to support people who couldn’t otherwise afford to join the gathering. If you would like to apply for a partial or full scholarship, fill in this form. The amount of scholarships we can offer depends on the donations to our scholarship fund.
“To see the process of a group of semi-strangers become each other’s temporary family is a beautiful artwork of emergence.
And though I’ve seen these kinds of processes unfold many times, being in it once again felt magical. To go from insecurity to connection within a few days touched my heart. And I think I’ll be seeking more of it again going forward.”
Ilja Maiber, 2025 participant
❓Questions?
Get in touch with anyone from the hosting team, or contact microsolidarity@gmail.com
We hope to see you there!
- Jocelyn, Nati, Ondrej & Mirjam
🏠 Extend your stay into Microsolidarity Coliving Week!
Not ready to go home? Extend your adventure! For those who’d like to continue sailing the seas of mutual support, there’s more to be explored…
What? 7 days of Microsolidarity-inspired co-living and co-working. Co-create the week together with other Network practitioners - share skills, co-work, offer each other peer support and hang out by the pool. Plus a few lightly facilitated conversations under the Tilo tree about evolving the Microsolidarity Network and framework.
When? 16th - 22nd August at Casa Tilo, near Barcelona
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