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.

Accessibility 

From the perspective of The Work That Reconnects and Schumacher Action Labs, we want to keep this workshop as widely accessible as possible without compromising the real costs of the offering.

That’s why you can choose between two different ticket types (inspired by the Green Bottle sliding scale

Full bottle – for people with financial security, disposable income, and the ability to easily meet all their needs: €115
Half-full bottle – for people with reasonable stability, some constraints, or who can pay but need to give up other things to do so: €95
Empty bottle – for people experiencing significant financial difficulties, who struggle to meet their basic needs: please contact us. schumacheractionlabs@protonmail.com

We trust you to choose the bottle that best reflects your current situation honestly, but if you are doubting, don’t hesitate to reach out.

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

This workshop is taking place at Baking Lab Amsterdam, the School For Circular Innovation.

The event is subject to the Baking Lab cancellation policy.
Additional information

• Cancellation Policy Workshops
• News: read more
• Getting there & parking

Address

Baking Lab

Linnaeusstraat 99, 1093 EL Amsterdam