ECHN Workshop 2026 - Call for participants

Location: Senderiz, Lobeira (Spain)
Dates: 2nd-7th February 2026
Organized by: Sende, rural coworking and coliving hub

About the Workshop

How do creative hubs communicate their work to the world without content calendars, marketing plans, or endless hours behind a screen?

This 4-day workshop, hosted by Sende, will take place in our small mountain village in Galicia, where screens are not the centre of the process. You’ll explore simple, low-tech, and practical ways to talk about your hub’s work using whatever is at hand: pens and paper, basic cameras, phones, zip ties, improvised mounts, textiles, carpentry tools, and more.

Instead of KPIs, metrics, trends, and stress, we’ll look at steady storytelling, shared activities, and clear communication approaches developed through years of Sende’s practice. Through hands-on activities, meals, hikes, game-building, and creative play, you will learn over 20 methods to document and communicate your space while doing what you love.

This workshop will give you clear, ready-to-apply tools that make communication feel lighter, more intuitive, and part of everyday work rather than an extra task on your to-do list.

What You Will Learn

• 20+ low-tech methods for communicating your space or project
• How to document anything using 10 different tools & formats
• How to combine analog and digital communication
• How to build long-term communication concepts that tell your hub's stories 
• Real-time storytelling through hikes, cooking with neighbors, and creative activities
• How to make communication feel effortless, intuitive, and fun

Who Can Apply

Hub managers and coordinators* in rural or urban creative hubs

The spots are limited to 15 participants.

*Members of ECHN will be prioritised, but applications from non-members are also welcome.

What is Provided

• 4 days of workshops, field activities, and guided exercises
• Accommodation and food covered, meals cooked together (*alcohol not included) 
• Assistance in organizing a transport from and to the airport (travel costs covered by participants)
• A digital notebook with 20 practical communication methods
• All necessary tools and materials
• A supportive, hands-on learning environment led by the Sende team

Selection Criteria

Participants will be selected based on the following criteria:

• Clear motivation for improving communication at your hub or project
• Interest in hands-on, low-tech, playful learning
• Diversity of regions, fields, and types of creative hubs
• Commitment to participate in the full program

Timeline

• Application Deadline: 14th of December 2025, 23:59 CET
• Announcement of the selected participants: 22nd of December
• Workshop dates: 2nd-7th February 2026

Find the provisional program here.

About Sende

Sende is one of the first rural coworking and coliving spaces in the world, located in a 20-inhabitant village in northern Spain. For more than a decade, Sende and its co-founder Edo Sadikovic have been teaching about rural development and how we can build rural creative spaces and communicate about them.

We find that knowledge transfer is one of the most important skills in today's cluttered world of information, and our team is built out of educators who would spend days thinking on analogies, parallels, and ways to explain difficult processes in a simple manner.

So far, Sende has helped more than 50 coliving spaces and creative houses from all over the world with starting, running, and communicating about their projects.

APPLY HERE