In everyday life and as we witness ecological and societal breakdowns, our emotions often have to take a back seat, while reasoning takes the wheel in an effort to fix or control what feels uncertain.

Yet what if emotions, whether joyful or painful, first needed to be felt and acknowledged before they could become generative sources of insight? What if, instead of suppressing them, we allowed their movement to guide how change unfolds and how we respond, together?

This workshop offers a space where emotions are gently invited back in — through our hands, our senses, and the living process of making bread.

As we move collectively through the stages of mixing, kneading, shaping, and baking, we use the rhythm of craft to connect with what moves within us. Bread becomes a vector for embodiment: emotions, as energy in motion, can be felt, stretched, and transformed through movement and touch.

Inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, we weave short reflections and shared moments into the practical process of baking. The session is both grounding and expressive, part skill-building, part emotional digestion in a held and supported place. 

You’ll learn the basics of bread-making while exploring how embodied practice can help metabolise what daily life leaves unprocessed.

Workshop elements:

• Welcome drinks and snacks 
• Mixing, kneading, shaping, and baking your own loaf
• Gentle guided reflections inspired by The Work That Reconnects
• Basic bread-making techniques and sensory learning
• Breaking bread together with dips at the end of the workshop

Language: English & Dutch
Duration: 3 hours (18:00–21:00)
Group size: Maximum 8 ppl
Facilitators: Claudia Angeli & Anneke van Woerden
Questions schumacheractionlabs@protonmail.com

The event is subject to the Baking Lab cancellation policy.
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Address

Baking Lab

Linnaeusstraat 99, 1093 EL Amsterdam