Sunday 22 November 2026
Workshops & Experiences (Subject to change)
At The Home of the Human Safety Net & other locations
Throughout the weekend, a programme of workshops and experiential encounters invites participants to explore the connections between health, the body, creativity, consciousness and the environment.
Through movement practices, sensory experiences, conversations and artistic explorations, these events offer a holistic approach to well-being. Artists, therapists and facilitators will share their knowledge and practices, encouraging new ways of caring for ourselves, reconnecting with the living world and fostering collective well-being.
A weekend dedicated to reconnection, inspiration and inner transformation in the heart of Venice.
Music and Inner Health: the harmony of vibrations
With Maud Gnidzaz, soprano
Following the concerts on 20 and 21 November, we are offering two introductory workshops on Sunday 22 November. According to Hildegard von Bingen, music has healing powers: like plants, certain melodies can restore balance to the whole being—body, soul, and spirit.
Place to be confirmed
22 November – 10:00 am–1:00 pm or 3:00–6:00 pm
20 participants
Registration required - €15
French & English
Maud Gnidzaz studied flute and voice from an early age, graduating from the École du Louvre before specializing in Baroque music. For over twenty years, she has performed with leading early music ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, Cappella Mediterranea, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Alongside her performing career, she explores the therapeutic power of music and the human voice through meditation concerts centered on sacred chant.
Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) was an exceptional figure. The strength of this Rhineland Benedictine abbess has endured through the centuries. Known for her writings on botany and medicine, she was also a major composer.
Her monodies, solo a cappella chants on spiritual texts of her own inspiration, possess extraordinary beauty and power. Her entire work is devoted to care, to the well-being of body and mind, and to the elevation of the soul-dimensions more relevant than ever in the troubled times we are living in.
Healers of Care (film screening & dialogue)
With Dr. Nathalie Babouraj & Dr. Élodie Pironet
Screening and discussion on new approaches to care and integrative health.
The Home of the Human Safety Net
22 November – time to be confirmed
Free admission
French & English
Nathalie Babouraj is a medical doctor deeply committed to the living world. After a career in preventive medicine with the Paris Fire Brigade, she specialized in integrative health in India and the United States. Today, she is a speaker, coach, and author, building bridges between ecology, desirable futures, and new narratives, with the aim of supporting healthcare professionals, citizens, and organizations toward a more holistic, integrative, and joyful approach to health—one in which individuals reclaim their own agency.
She is the creator of the documentary series Healers of Care, which highlights inspiring people and initiatives that re-enchant the act of caring for others and for the planet. Her first featured “healer of care” is Dr. Élodie Pironet, founder of the Mia Sano network in Belgium, who will be present for the film screening and workshop.
Love Bathing in Venice (walk)
With Matteo Veggetti, forest bathing guide and hiking leader
Inspired by Japanese shinrin-yoku (forest bathing), this experience uses sensory immersion to enhance presence to oneself, the body, and the surrounding environment.
The “city bathing” practice transposes these principles to Venice: a guided walk punctuated by sensory explorations, moments of contemplation or meditation, and more playful group activities. The aim is to transform our perception of the city by developing a more refined attention and a direct connection to the living world within the urban space.
This approach also invites participants to integrate these states of presence into daily life, in a context often marked by stress and disconnection. Venice becomes a living field of experience to explore a more conscious relationship with the city—between beauty, fragility, and contemporary challenges.
Schedule: Sunday 22 November, Time to be confirmed
Participants: 15 people
Registration required
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish
Matteo Veggetti is a forest bathing guide (Forest Therapy Hub) and environmental hiking leader (AIGAE), specializing in the connection between nature, consciousness, and emotional well-being. With a background in philosophy, he divides his work between Spain and Italy.
He is the founder of the association Società Selvatica and develops projects at the intersection of nature and planetary health, in collaboration with the University of Padua and the Planetary Health Alliance network. He is also co-author of research on the benefits of forest bathing.
