IMAGO summer of 2026
The Program
Thursday
14:00 – 16:00 Arrival
16:00 – 18:00 Tapas in the garden
Location: Klostergaarden Garden, Oestergade 7
19:30 – 23:00 Fun tango/dance-event
Location: Allinge skole, Kaernehuset – Kirkeplads 2
(we start at 19:30 but leave when you feel tired)
Friday
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast time
If you are a guest at Hotel Klostergaarden, breakfast is included, otherwise you can choose one of the nearby cafés.
9:00 – 9:45 Opening Ceremony
Location: The Venue, Fabers
9:45 – 10:45 – KEYNOTE: The Cosmic Journey & The Evolutionary Journey
Keynotespeaker: John Hjarsø Mortensen
10:45 – 11:00 Coffeebreak
11:00 – 13:00 – Workshop – The Cosmic Journey
Workshoppresenter: John Hjarsø Mortensen
How does our work change when we dare to place relationships within a larger context?
This workshop invites you into the cosmic dimension of Imago work, where meaning, purpose, and belonging come into focus. Through experiential exercises, reflection, and dialogue, we explore how a larger perspective can be embodied and brought into the therapeutic space.
You will leave with a deeper inner grounding, an expanded sense of perspective, and concrete ways to support clients in finding meaning and coherence within their relational challenges.
Location: The Venue, Fabers
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:45 – Workshop – The Evolutionary Journey
Workshoppresenter: John Hjarsø Mortensen
What if relational reactions are not problems — but intelligence?
In this workshop, we work directly with the nervous system, attachment, and our evolutionary inheritance. You will have the opportunity to both understand and feel how ancient survival patterns continue to shape relationships today — and how this knowledge can be translated into precise and effective therapeutic interventions.
The workshop offers practical tools, increased somatic regulation, and a sharpened capacity to work with intensity, reactivity, and repair in the therapeutic space.
Coffeebreak will be included
Location: The Venue, Fabers
18:00 – 19:30
Dinner at your choosing with Imago-friends or on your own. We will have options to present.
19:30 – 23:00 Fun Tango and danceevent
With Helle Mikkelsen and Tomas Burvall
Argentine tango and Imago share a common language — a bodily, relational language where contact, attention, and mutual regulation are at the center. Tango is a living dialogue between two people. It invites us into an experience of leading and following, giving and receiving, listening and responding — not with words, but with the whole body.
Just as in Imago work, the dance emerges in the space between us, in the subtle attunement where presence and clarity coexist.
Tango becomes a bodily learning space for relational awareness — where relational theory is allowed to come alive, become sensory, and integrate into the body.
No previous dance experience is required. What matters most is curiosity and a willingness to meet both yourself and the other in movement. Tango here is not a performance, but an invitation — to contact, play, depth, and connection.
After the tango, music from the 1980s will set the frame for the final part of the evening, opening the space for dance, playfulness, spontaneity, and laughter.
Let your inner, hidden — or perhaps long-forgotten — parts step into the light and dance along.
We begin at 7:30 pm with tango (approximately one hour of teaching), after which the evening flows freely, and you are welcome to leave whenever your dancing feet have had enough.
Location: Allinge skole, Kearnehuset, Kirkeplads 2
Saturday
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast time
If you are a guest at Hotel Klostergaarden, breakfast is included, otherwise you can bring your own, or choose one of the nearby cafés
9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE: Psycological journey & The Social Journey
Keynote speaker: Maya Kollman
Location: The Venue, Fabers
Workshoppresenter: Maya Kollman
True transformation begins in the inner landscape.
This workshop dives into the psychological journey, exploring inner patterns, wounds, longings, and resources — in both clients and therapists. Through experiential processes, you are invited to integrate psychological insight in a way that strengthens presence, authenticity, and contact.
The workshop supports both personal transformation and professional deepening, strengthening the person of the therapist as the primary instrument in the work.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
Workshoppresenter: Maya Kollman
What if relational reactions are not problems — but intelligence?
In this workshop, we work directly with the nervous system, attachment, and our evolutionary inheritance. You will have the opportunity to both understand and feel how ancient survival patterns continue to shape relationships today — and how this knowledge can be translated into precise and effective therapeutic interventions.
The workshop offers practical tools, increased somatic regulation, and a sharpened capacity to work with intensity, reactivity, and repair in the therapeutic space.
Location: The Venue, Fabers
18:30 – Dinner & garden party
As only Imagoans can party, we will dance, laugh eat and have as deep or fun conversations as we want.
This year the garden party will take place in the beautiful Klostergaarden garden.
We will have the entire hotel-garden to ourselves and we have already been promised that we can make as much noice as we want without bothering anyone.
There will be dinner, for both vegetarians, vegans and carnivores.
And, we will have the huge pleasure of a very special and rare guest, Elvis, the King himself (aka the amazing John Hjarsoe Mortensen).
The party of the summer 2026 that you don’t want to miss!
Location: Klostergaarden Garden, Oestergade 7
Sunday
9:30 – 14:00 – POST CONFEERNCE
Guided scenic walk to Hammerknuden and Hammershus with historian Jim Toft
The trip offers completely unique nature, as well as a journey through a landscape full of stories and history. Bring your own snacks, water, and coffee. Enjoy nature, closeness, and each other.
We conclude with a communal lunch at the restaurant: ‘Brohuset ved Hammershus,’ Slotslyngvej 9, 3770 Allinge.
Registration is necessary as we will be making a reservation at the lunch restaurant.
Smaller changes might be made to the program
Maya Kollman Ph.D.
Maya Kollman Ph. D. has been a leader on the Imago International Faculty for 30 years, Trained by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
Maya Kollman is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the international Imago community. She is an Imago Master Trainer, former associate professor, seasoned psychotherapist, and a warm, dynamic presenter who has trained therapists and couples around the world for decades.
Maya is known for her exceptional blend of deep psychological insight, sharp clinical intuition, and a vibrant sense of humor that brings safety, clarity, and aliveness into every room she enters. She has been closely connected to the development and global spread of the Imago approach and remains one of its most sought-after trainers.
At the conference, Maya will bring her wisdom, passion, and signature ability to catalyze transformation through resonance, presence, and embodied connection. Her keynote offers a powerful and heartfelt exploration of The Four Journeys — through a clinically seasoned and profoundly human lens.
John Hjarsø Mortensen Ph.D.
John Hjarsø Mortensen, Ph.D. & M.Sc. psych.aut from the University of Copenhagen, employed as an external lecturer at the Department of Psychology (University of Copenhagen), responsible for the teaching on the extension module “Psychology of Relationships”.
John Hjarsø Mortensen is a clinical psychologist and one of the most experienced Nordic teachers within Imago and relational psychology. With more than three decades of practice, he has guided countless couples, therapists, and professionals into deeper connection, greater awareness, and a more integrated understanding of the transformative power of relationships.
John combines psychological precision with a calm, grounded presence. He is known for bridging theory, neuroaffective development, and the lived, embodied experience of connection. His work consistently highlights the profound maturation that becomes possible when we dare to meet each other beyond our defenses and old adaptive patterns.
As a keynote speaker, John will invite us into a richer understanding of The Four Journeys — not merely as theoretical concepts, but as embodied movements rooted in our nervous system and in our human way of being.
Jim Toft
Jim Toft is a Danish psychologist, researcher, lecturer, and author with a Ph.D. in psychology and decades of experience exploring the interplay between body, mind, and human wellbeing. His work spans clinical practice, academic research, and public education, with a particular interest in how movement, landscape, and embodied experience shape our understanding of ourselves.
He has published books and articles that illuminate the holistic connection between body and psyche, and he is widely known for his ability to bring complex ideas to life through clear, grounded storytelling.
At the conference, Jim will be our historical guide on Sunday’s communal walk to Hammershus. With a blend of psychological insight, historical knowledge, and a deep appreciation for human experience, he invites participants into a rich encounter with both landscape and history.
The walk becomes not just a hike, but a shared moment of exploration and connection.
Tomas Burvall
Tomas Burvall is a Swedish relationship therapist, certified Imago facilitator, and experienced Imago workshop presenter — as well as a supervisor for other Imago therapists. Alongside his therapeutic work, Tomas has an extraordinary background as an elite athlete: he is a former world champion in frisbee/disc sports and has represented Sweden internationally for many years.
At the conference, Tomas brings both his therapeutic depth and his playful, embodied approach into the program.
On Friday evening, Tomas will co-teach the Tango Event together with Helle Mikkelsen. Their teaching combines warmth, connection, humor, and a gentle invitation into the relational qualities that tango can awaken.
Tomas’ unique mix of grounded therapeutic experience and a lifelong passion for movement makes his contributions deeply engaging.
Helle Mikkelsen
Helle Mikkelsen is a Danish psychologist, Imago therapist, and supervisor with many years of experience supporting couples and individuals in creating more presence, connection, and understanding in their relationships. She is known for her calm, warm, and clear way of guiding people.
At the conference, Helle will co-teach the Tango Event on Friday together with Tomas Burvall — a soulful and spacious dance session that invites participants into connection, body awareness, and relational presence. Their teaching blends psychological insight, movement, and gentle humor, making tango accessible, safe, and enjoyable for everyone. Here, tango is not about performance, but about sensing yourself and the other — and experiencing the dance as a living form of contact.
Helle brings a unique combination of professionalism, care, and playful energy, making her a valuable part of the conference’s warm and vibrant community.
Where will you stay?
Allinge Village & Klostergaarden
Accommodation on Bornholm
For this year’s conference, we have booked the entire Hotel Klostergården in Allinge — a charming, historic hotel with its own garden, quiet corners, and the unique atmosphere of an old monastery courtyard.
Many of us will be staying here, and it is also where we will gather for Saturday evening’s garden party.
The conference program itself will not take place at the hotel, but in the nearby venue – FABERS – just a short walk away. This makes it easy to move between sessions, community time, and your room.
The special experience of staying at Klostergården
There is something truly unique that happens when we all stay under the same roof. Because we have rented the entire hotel, we warmly encourage participants to stay at Klostergården — both to make the most of the beautiful surroundings and to deepen the sense of connection throughout the conference.
Sharing breakfast in the garden, meeting over a morning coffee in the courtyard, or pausing together between sessions creates a warmth and togetherness that is hard to replicate elsewhere.
You are, of course, completely free to choose your own accommodation — but we would love to have you with us at Klostergården, where the closeness from morning to evening becomes part of the conference experience.
Freedom to choose
Accommodation at Hotel Klostergården is not included in the conference fee. You book and pay for your stay yourself, giving you full freedom to choose where you’d like to stay.
Hotel Klostergården offers a limited number of rooms:
Both single and double rooms are available, each with their own unique charm. As we have rented the entire hotel for the conference days, rooms will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you wish to stay at Klostergården, we recommend booking early to secure your preferred room type.
Under ‘Other places to stay’ below, you will find links to other accomodation-options, including:
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Airbnb (search for places in Allinge, Bornholm, Denmark)
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Local campsites
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Nearby hotels and guesthouses
No matter where you stay, you are part of the community — but we hope many will join us at Klostergården and share the cozy moments that make the conference feel especially warm and connected.
Nearby Accommodation Options
Hostel | Danhostel Sandvig
A centrally located hostel in Sandvig, within walking distance of the Allinge/Sandvig area.
Offers 27 rooms, all with private bathroom and toilet. Includes a guest kitchen, lounge, and pleasant outdoor areas.
Website: danhostelsandvig.dk
Address: Langebjergvej 12, 3770 Allinge
Camping & Cabins | Sandkaas Familiecamping
A campsite very close to Allinge. You can stay in a tent, motorhome, or caravan — and there are also modern cabins available.
Facilities include a pool, café, playground, kiosk, and breakfast available in the high season.
Websites:
campingbornholm.dk
bornholm.hanskorsgaard.dk
sandkaas-camping.dk
Address: Poppelvej 2, 3770 Allinge
Lyngholt Camping
A scenic campsite located approximately 3 km from Allinge, featuring a pool, play area, and options for both tents and caravans.
Website: bornholm.net
Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.dk/allinge-sandvig-denmark/stays
Booking.com
