What is
Kaland?
Kaland is a movement-based shared experience built on physicality and discovery. As adults, participants get to experiment and play again — with their surroundings, with their own physical potential, and with each other.
True of
every Kaland.
✦Anyone can do it
A key realisation for us was that none of this is a question of physical fitness. Play, movement and discovery are open to everyone, at their own level — the mountaineer and the long-desk-bound office worker alike.
✦Built up step by step
Our professional background provides a safe, easy-going space. Over the past years we've developed tasks and methods that simply and creatively create a mood of carefree movement, connection, discovery and experimentation.
✦Held anywhere
Forest, park, street, stairwell, office, festival or gallery — the place is part of the Kaland. We love to be inspired by new surroundings and to use familiar spaces differently.
What's a Kaland
good for?
Not therapy. Not sport. Not a workshop. Yet it has the effects of all of them — through a different kind of presence.
Play breaks you out of everyday routine — the brain and body shift into a different mode.
A fresh, safe and playful situation dissolves inhibitions.
Shared decisions, chosen routes, mutual support.
Moving outside the usual frames, new ideas are born.
The stakes are small but real — a chance to practise owning our own choices.
We tune in to each other, and trust builds — even without words.
It lastingly changes how we relate to our surroundings and to those around us.
“After the workshop I feel more connected with my body, and see more opportunities to play, and the joy of expedition.”
Why
we do it.
“We want as many people as possible to discover the potential for play hidden in our everyday spaces and in our bodies. We want adults to find their way back to play by getting to know the Kaland attitude.”
What does it look like live?
