26 May - 2 June CESTThe island of Ekskäret

What is Elevate?

Elevate is a week-long co-living retreat where everyone is part of dreaming up, creating and holding space. It takes place on a private island in the Stockholm archipelago. 

Elevate invites you to create the week together with everyone else who will be attending. This means we are all co-hosts of this event and everyone creates it, including meals, looking after the space, workshops and activities. 

Elevate provides an open, curated, safe and inclusive space for the all attendees to work on their inner development, connect with others and nature in a deeper way and ignite the possibility of bringing something new to the world. 

Elevate is an initiative that connects sub-communities. Our intention is to open up different communities, and especially the ones that are not currently involved with the event. 

So, please, join us! You are very much welcome here.

“Elevate became the turning point in my personal transformation journey. I encountered myself in a more raw and authentic way, with the people I met becoming heartfelt co-creators of this change. The change is real. And I will bring that further into my life and endeavours.” M.K.

Elevate Retreat Essentials

  • This is a non-profit event: There are no producers and consumers.
  • This is a sober event: No drugs or alcohol.
  • We cook vegan meals: Once during the week you and your food team will prepare a vegan meal to the whole group.
  • It is an English-speaking retreat: You will be kindly asked to speak in English always. 
  • Co-working is optional: You will have a dedicated space for it. 
  • Spots are limited to 40 people: You will have your own bed in a shared room with one other participant.
  • It is an 8 days long event: We will prioritize those who stay the full week. 
  • We look for actively engaged attendees: The willingness to contribute to prior, during and after will also be prioritized.
  • It is multicultural: Everyone is welcome from any part of the world. 
  • This is an immersive experience: It holds the potential to shift the way you see reality, others and the community.

Elevate Ripple Effect

Elevate aims to create a positive impact in raising consciousness and connection in our society. Like a ripple effect. 

We want to encourage integration and connection between the individual self and society. Elevate promotes creating an integral perspective and mindset shift and a positive change for your life. 

It’s an intentional opportunity to reframe your sense-making and meaning-making, to shift your relationship to community and yourself, to provide inspiration for what life and world that is possible and how you see the world. 

There is something you will take with you back after the week, and It’s so much more than a weeklong experience. 

The Elevate Values

Co-creation: We are all hosts. Everyone is an active co-creator and contributor of the event. 

Self-reliance: Only you know your needs. You are responsible to be aware of, honour and take care of your own needs. 

Inclusion: Everyone is welcome. We welcome everyone with kindness and appreciation, even if it is challenging for us. 

Responsibility: Leave a better trace.  A mindset of being a caretaker of both the island and the group.

Elevate Newsletter

"Elevate has helped me so much in my inner journey. The combination of the co-created experience with workshops from people from all around the world, with their different areas of expertise has helped me expand my horizons, and reflect more on what can I do to integrate that inner progress in the outside world, out of Ekskäret" B.G. 

What is the cost?

Elevate is an independent event supported and sponsored by the Ekskäret Foundation.

Membership fee is 2700 SEK per person to cover facilities cost. 

You will also be part of a cooking team that will cook once for all attendees. Your team will be expected to self-organize prior to the event and buy the food as a gift to the group. We recommend a budget of 300-500 SEK per person.

Transportation is statemented 200-300 SEK per person (bus and boat).

There are a few reduced membership fees, priced at 2000 SEK. Please indicate the interest in signup form.

It is not easy to explain with words

Reconnecting with nature

Co-creating workshops and activities

Connecting with others authentically

Dedicated spaces for co-working

Sharing meaningful experience

Cooking together for everyone

Application opens now!

Ekskäret Island is modern and well-equipped facilities, optimized for retreats and gatherings. 

Retreat Dates: May 26th to June 2nd 

Application opens: April 21st 

Applications closes: April 30th 

Selection process finishes: May 4th

Save your spot by paying before: May 10th

Messenger group opens: May 5th

Kick-off meeting: May 12th, 18h30 CET via Google Meets 

*We will inform you if you've been offered a spot. You will then have a few days to confirm your spot, so please keep an eye on your inbox. 

We will provide information on how to get to the island. 

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    Let's celebrate together

    The theme for this early summer edition of Elevate is Celebrate. 

    We invite you to reflect a bit extra on what this means to you and to use this as a source of inspiration. 

    • What is alive within you? 
    • How do you celebrate you and your life?
    • What are you secretly wanted to celebrate with others?

    What is the schedule? 

    Monday to Friday (May 27th to 31st): 

    We'll have co-working sessions during the days, giving everyone time to focus on their own projects or simply relax on the island. 

    We'll come together for communal meals twice a day, where we'll cook as teams. Evenings are for shared activities that we'll create together. 

    Additionally, there will be optional workshops throughout the week, allowing you to choose what interests you based on your schedule, needs and energy levels. 

    Saturday to Sunday (June 1st to 2nd): Community gathering with co-created workshops, activities, and shared meals.

    Once you save your spot, you will be sent all the information: cooking teams, cleaning teams, workshops/activities application, how to get to the Island, etc. 

    Inner Development & Elevate

    The world is changing rapidly, and its complexity is increasing. So do we. This is why we believe it is important to cultivate the inner landscape as it creates the outer world. 

    Inner Development Goals is a framework which, through five dimensions, describes 23 different skills and qualities essential to our own inner development - and down the line in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. 

    At Elevate aims is to give special attention and focus to the first dimension of the framework. It is called'Being - Relationship to Self' :

    "Cultivating our inner life and developing and deepening our relationship to our thoughts, feelings and body help us be present, intentional and non-reactive when we face complexity".

    We invite you to explore the framework and reflect on the sing up form. 

    Welcome to Elevate

    Initiated and supported by

    Ekskäret Foundation

    The mission of the Ekskäret Foundation is to both make sense of the world we create and allow brave spaces for people to explore and work on their inner growth. Studies show that having a "safe place” in connection to nature, where we dare to challenge ourselves, can act as an important catalyst for the process of personal development. We support and contribute to these brave places by creating contexts for transformative learning, where skills can be developed to better handle the constantly increasing complexity of our world. 

    K9 Co-living

    An Ekskäret initiated and funded "conscious co-living community" with 50 young professionals from all over the world living and thriving together under one roof in central Stockholm. Started with the aim to support the development of a more conscious society.