Group courses
My wish has always been to make stained glass and geometry accessible to as many people as possible. The group courses offer one more way to serve this goal that I hold so dear.
The principle remains the same: from cutting to soldering, the complete method, the tools yours to keep, autonomy guaranteed when you leave. If it were not so, these courses would not exist. But their nature is different. I will be there, whole, but less available one-on-one than in a private course.
Group course
We meet at 8:30 am over coffee, then the workshop welcomes you from 9 am to 5 pm.
They are set in advance, the same for the whole group, so we walk the same shape together.
Course prices do not include accommodation. You can stay in the communal tent on the property, in a guest room close to the workshop, or settle in the garden in a van, a camper, or your own tent.
Coffee and cakes await you at the breaks. At noon, we share a potluck lunch, everyone bringing something for the table; or, if you prefer, simply bring your own lunch.
- Accommodation
- Arrival
- On the first day, we all meet at the workshop between 9 and 9:30 am, over coffee, with time to get acquainted and discover the place; at 10 am, the course begins. On the following days, the day opens at 8:30 am and runs until 5 pm. Whether you stay in the shared tent, your own tent, a van or a camper, you are welcome to arrive the evening before and settle in quietly.
- Departure
- On the evening of the last course day, or the next morning if you wish to linger a little.
- Your creations
- They leave with you, or are shipped by parcel, just as I export my geometries all over the world.
- Materials
- Tools are provided and raw materials included. You leave with the guides and patterns used during the course.
- Availability
- From 4 to 5 people, to remain a small group where everyone finds their place.
- Price
- Advantageous, as the group format allows a lighter price than the private one.
- After the course
- The bond continues: a mutual-help group brings former participants together, and I answer there to carry on the guidance. Everyone is invited to join at the end of their course.
Five days leave time to approach both methods, the solid and the spiral, while refining the soldering.
We first lay the foundations with a solid, the cube, to tame the tools, discover the steps, the gestures. The night will settle the know-how, before setting off on a Zome 6 Yoni, the spiral's first flight, carried through whole in its hanging version: knowing how to make it hanging already means knowing how to make it freestanding. The passage from one to the other lights up the whole method: what the rigour of the solid has taught, the spiral extends; and along the way, you understand that both are born of the same tree.
It is a course that teaches the whole method. You leave with two or three geometries in your hands, and the overview of a craft that holds together.
The complete method, the tools yours to keep, autonomy guaranteed when you leave, as in a private course. The group allows a lighter price. Price for the course alone, accommodation extra (see Practical info).
A word on communal life. I offer this lodging in the intimate wish to make accessible all that can be, so that the course always comes first. A beautiful shared experience only has substance in the respect of each person, and I trust everyone's civic good sense to hear it. To share the tent is to accept silence from 10:30 pm, when a neighbour's rest comes before chatter, and to care for the place (no drunkenness, no substances). These few rules say only one thing: here, the collective comes before the individual, and I reserve the right to invite anyone who forgets it to leave.
Three sessions in 2027.
Book your place; the group takes shape together.
Courses offered all over France, in unusual and artistic places that welcome the method for a session.
The course takes place from 4 participants, up to 5 people.
The booking is confirmed by a 25% deposit; the balance is due at the latest 21 days before the course. Until that point, the balance is fully refundable; afterwards, nothing is refunded but nothing is lost: everything becomes a credit, valid for any other course, private or group, at the period of your choice. And should the session be cancelled for lack of participants, you would be fully refunded, or rescheduled, as you choose.
Need more information, or feel like talking the courses over? Do not hesitate to contact me.
You are all welcome. I will be honoured to share the workshop with you.
126 impasse du Loup
24400 Beauronne · Dordogne, France
Transfer possible from Mussidan station or Bordeaux airport.
Courses at Kahina’s take place at her home.
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