Katja Wallisch
Katja has spent over 15 years designing, producing and hosting over a hundred experiences - from retreats, workshops and intimate ceremonies to unconferences, hospitality formats, destination immersions, bespoke gatherings and immersive brand and cultural experiences. Alongside her professional work, she has experienced hundreds more across an extraordinary range of formats. From business, educational and hospitality to travel and adventure, to wellness, wisdom circles and the wonderfully woo-woo, as well as highly experimental, edgy or simply weird ways of gathering.
After that much exposure, patterns become visible: what works, what falls flat, what stays with people. And why.
Her work is grounded in psychological sequencing, a precise attention to space and atmosphere, and a commitment to designing for what unfolds after the experience as much as what happens within it. She works with intention, ritual, and nature as active elements in the design process, drawing on a background in transformation coaching, facilitation, and experience design.
Katja has lectured in Transformative Experience Design at Salzburg University, contributed to courses on impact and retreat experience design, and advises on immersive formats and experience architecture.
Retreat Alchemy is her invitation to pass this on. In a form you can learn, apply, and make your own.
