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YOU'RE INVITED:
A soft place to land in strange times.
For staying soft and sane in a collapsing world.
The world is fast. This is not.
A space for real conversation, slow presence, and nervous system truth.
A gentle rebellion.
A landing place for tender-hearted humans in accelerating times.
Nervous system gatherings.
Space for grief, rest, aliveness, nature & creativity.
Slow, honest conversation.
Come if you’re tired.
Stay if it feels like home.
You don’t have to fix anything to belong.
✨ The future is a regulated nervous system.
🌿 A quiet space to come home —
to what’s true,
to what connects us,
to our wild remembering.

MEET YOUR GUIDE KATHARINA
Katharina holds space for our nervous systems when the world is moving too fast. A certified coach, international facilitator, and steward of slow, aligned change and growth, she weaves together deep presence, trauma-informed insight, and nature-rooted wisdom into spaces where true transformation can take root.
She founded Apocollapse Club as a soft place to land — and a seedbed for a different future. One where tenderness is strength, community is medicine, and slowing down becomes a radical act of hope.
Come as you are.
Let's build something that can carry us forward.

Upcoming
Events Summer/Fall 2025
🤸♀️ Upcoming in person gatherings:
STORY NIGHT
[breaking points] - An evening full of Gravel and Light
AUG 22, 2025
19-21:30
Linz
A Gathering for Embodied Storytelling, Deep Listening & Regenerative Practice.
As human beings we are wired for connection.
Sharing isn’t about impressing — it's about becoming. Through witnessing. Ourselves and each other. Remembering that stories live in our bodies.
Stories are how we shape reality.
They’re how we carry culture — and how we change it.
And right now, we need stories that reconnect us to what matters:
our bodies, the earth, and each other.
🌍 Upcoming gatherings online:
🔥 FIRESIDE CHATS
[Stories from the Edge] - weaving threads of meaning in unraveling times.
🕯️ Small group. Warm presence. Online.

🌱 Some formats we’re gently growing:
✨ Story Night
(see above)
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🌀 Kindred
Something's growing underneath the surface. A mycelium web. Slow, soft, alive. A space that holds us, as practitioners, facilitators, space-holders. A place of support and trust. The times we are in are asking us to step up. But the new way is not alone. This is a living ecosystem of mutual nourishment. If you feel the pull, please reach out here (quick contact form) or here (DM). 🌠
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👐 [ h e l d ] --- A Circle for Sacred Rage & Space for Grief
A gathering for what's too often silenced. A space to stop running. To safely witness and honor the fire and the ache. A place to stay and be --- with what really is --- and hold it wisely, in a world that tries to make us outrun our valid emotions. Where our anger is sacred, our grief is wise. Our truth doesn't have to be quiet and our heart doesn't have to be alone.
With tears in our eyes we laugh. Because in the face of the unspeakable laughter and community are sacred medicine.
When we make space for what truly wants to be heard, deep down underneath the cracks beneath the surface ---
when we stay with what aches and burns in the tender embrace of wise and warm community ---
together we birth our delicious reckoning.
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🫧 Sanity Hour
A quiet online gathering for tired humans.
online
We cannot save a burning world when our own house is on fire. The world is bleeding. Climate collapse. An endless string of evitable global catastrophes. Late stage capitalism and the post-colonial world order of patriarchy and white supremacy are clearly at the end of their life expectancy, yet holding on for dear life. The symptoms are omnipresent. A wildfire-like spread of acceleration, teenage depression, burnout, fear & anxiety, a deep spiritual crisis of meaning and purpose, an epidemic of loneliness. Too much to hold. Too much to fix. We’re not just tired. We’re dysregulated. Alone. Numb. Too many protests. Too little coherence.
What if a few tender moments of enough safety to exhale are all we need to begin?
Come as you are. We truly want you here.
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Some lighter but no less meaningful formats:
🎨 Crafts at the Park
A free for all community revillageing project. No creative genius needed (psst, we all have it!). All forms of creative expression welcome. Because slowing down and making things together in community is a revolutionary act.
Currently in 🌳 Linz and 🏙️ Vienna.
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🍽️ Don't Be A Stranger
in person
A long table. Shared farm to table food. Strangers who won’t feel like strangers for long.
Hate small talk and wish people got to know each other more? Then this is for you.
A dinner for meeting the people behind the faces.
We live in cities full of strangers — streets lined with faces, but no words.
We build opinions like walls, and they keep us apart.
This evening, we’ll set the table for something different.
A shared meal where every course opens a deeper layer.
Where conversations go beyond small talk.
Where strangers become friends.
Come hungry for food, and for connection.
Leave a little closer than you arrived.
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🌌 Table Under Stars
in person
The riverside version of Dinner with Strangers — 🌊 barefoot, blankets, a table cloth, feet in the grass, potluck-style, surrounded by water, trees, and starlight.
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🍲 Stories and Soup
in person and online
A low key blend between Dinner with Strangers, Story Night and Fireside Chats
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🔥 Fireside Chats
online and in person
Warmth and deeper conversation.
Candlelight, and a small group gathered around stories, resonance, and what’s real beneath the surface.
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📆 Times and dates are coming soon.
By signing up to be the first to know you are helping make this community root and grow.
Thank you so much for your warm presence here. ♡
💫 Held in Linz and Vienna, and wherever there’s need for the healing medicine of true connection — and a return to our belief in magic. ✨

THE FIRE WE GATHER AROUND
A glimpse into who this is for, what it could become, and how it feels.
This is not a brand.
It’s a firelight.
It’s a signal.
It’s a beginning.
Apocollapse Club / Gentle FAQs (or: For the Curious…)
Is this a newsletter? A course? A community?
Not quite. It’s a slow-growing space.
Sometimes it might look like a storytime, a circle, a quiet pause.
A weekly, biweekly or monthly gathering, a regulation practice, holding what's real, sketching what wants to be seen, catching our breath. It begins with staying close.
Right now, signing up means you’ll be the first to hear when something takes form.
Who is this for?
Tender-hearted humans and heart-led souls.
Those who feel the speed, the grief, the overwhelm —
and still want to live and lead with love and aliveness.
You don’t need to be fixed. Or sure. Or ready.
Just curious. Just real.
Will there be events or gatherings?
Likely, yes — online and in person.
By the virtual or physical fire. They are meant to feel like a sanctuary. Your presence helps shape what unfolds.
Do I have to do anything now?
Nothing at all.
Just sign up if your body says yes.
It’s a thread of connection — gentle, real, unforced. 🌱

🐢 The Wild Cards
You may find one of our cards in the wild.
Tucked into a library book, resting on a café table, or slipped into the back of the seat on your train at just the right moment.
Each one is a quiet invitation home.
If you’ve received one — welcome.
If you haven’t yet — here’s your own to print or share:
📥 Download the full set of wild cards (PDF)
💛 Print them, love them, leave them outside, gift them to someone.
Let the soft rebellion ripple.