Workshops & Gatherings
Some of the workshops and gatherings I’ve brought together with friends and collectives
Eros Retreat
A shared meal at our first retreat in Lamphun, Thailand, 2024.
Golden hour on the beach in La Union at the Eros Retreat, 2025
Over the past four years, a group of us have been bringing together organisers from across Southeast Asia and beyond to talk about strategies for collective care, think about how our movements can put care at their centre, and reconnect with ourselves and each other. Our programming draws on somatics, storytelling, poetry and play. Across two retreats, we’ve gathered almost 30 organisers, artists and somatic practitioners from Southeast Asia, the United States and Europe.
We’ve held retreats in Lamphun, Thailand, with Freedom Film School (2024), and in La Union, Philippines, with the artist-activist residency Emerging Islands, where we ran the four-day Eros Retreat in March 2025.
“The Eros Retreat felt like living within a beautiful poem of life and struggle throughout the retreat.
It expanded my perspective on pleasure and how it can be experienced and manifested in different ways. It also helped me understand how collective care is possible within our struggles and despite our individualities.”
– Demie Dangla, Filmmaker and Artist
“Thank you to the collective wellness retreat team for facilitating the Eros Retreat that allowed us to surrender to Eros, the depth of our hearts and feelings, joy, love, each other, the ocean and revolution.
What a gift it was to both play and laugh while plotting the downfall of imperialism!”
– Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Climate Justice Activist & Organizer
CAN ANOT? WAN BUILD PUBLIC SPACE TGT?
One encounters prohibition signs when one walks through Singapore. No Loitering! No Graffiti! CAN ANOT? WAN BUILD PUBLIC SPACE TGT wanted to turn this on its head and invite the public to make their own signs about public space, and imagine the public space they would want to build together.
The participatory exhibition and workshop featured an open talk where activists and migrant workers spoke about public space, a map of Singapore where people pinned places they’d felt free and joyful, a Loitering Zone with carpets and music, and a wall where visitors could make up their own signs.
In collaboration with Johanna Palmeyro of Movimiento Justicia Museal and Your Head Lah!, during Johanna’s Community & Education residency at Singapore Art Museum.
Participants’ signs about the public space of their dreams. Photo by Alvin Ho, courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.