ReWILD
Clear Vision, Bold Strategy, Resonant Communication
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Clear communication and intentionality are the greatest amplifiers of your vision, and the impact you make with your work.
ReWILD is a 16-week course for 15 professionals in artistic and creative fields who want to strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset and position themselves with clarity, confidence, and long-term sustainability in a rapidly changing funding and media landscape - nationally and internationally.
This is not about surface-level visibility or quick fixes.
ReWILD goes deep.
It is a course for seeing clearly:
your purpose, your artistic/creative DNA, your vision, and the strategy that allows your work to reach the people, places, and contexts where it can truly resonate and open new opportunities.
ReWILD is designed for engaged, ambitious creators - artists, cultural entrepreneurs, and creative professionals - who want to listen to their own voice instead of getting lost in noise, trends, or external expectations. It empowers you to stand up, stand out, and align with your most powerful purpose, while remaining grounded in the difference you want to make in the world.
Strengthening your strategic foundation alongside your communication and positioning strategy, how you articulate, market, and embody your work, your company, and yourself as a visionary creator, is a powerful way forward. When communication is aligned with purpose, it doesn’t just describe what you do; it becomes the engine that drives your impact.
WHY ReWILD IS DIFFERENT
Some ask whether ReWILD is the same as our signature workshop SHINE YOUR WORK.
The short answer is: No. It is not.
SHINE YOUR WORK supports creatives in understanding themselves, their work, and the role it plays in the world—psychologically and sociologically—and what it means to become visible. Visibility, in this sense, is a natural side effect of success in your field.
ReWILD goes further and deeper.
It focuses on the details that truly matter for growing your creative power, clarifying where you are going and why, and developing a strategy that positions you and your work sustainably, so you are not only visible, but grounded, resilient, and proactive.
ReWILD supports you in:
Rewilding your artistic and creative DNA
Choosing to be proactive in developing supplementary income models
Creating or strengthening your own platform
Navigating rapid changes in funding, media, and opportunity structures
This is a course for cycle breakers and trailblazers—those driven to create what doesn’t yet exist or to change what urgently needs rethinking.
WHY “ReWILD”?
WILDTOPIA’s founding director, Karen Toftegaard, grew up on a family farm in Northern Denmark. Her close connection to land and nature has deeply shaped her work as a cultural entrepreneur - leaning into a regenerative mindset and a desire to rewild the power of art and creation.
Just as rewilding in nature restores balance by allowing wilderness to return to cultivated land, ReWILD invites a similar approach to artistic and creative practice: clearing space, restoring vitality, and allowing what is essential to grow stronger.
THE VISION
The vision behind ReWILD is to rewild the field - to strengthen an international community of artistic and creative visionaries so that bold ideas and meaningful projects can reach further and create deeper impact.
This is not about criticizing what already exists.
It is about co-creating breathing spaces for genuine artistic and creative entrepreneurship: spaces where clarity, communication, and courage amplify your vision and bring it fully to life.
To imagine new realities, new organizational forms, and new scenarios, it becomes essential to:
Answer unexpected questions
Let go of what no longer serves you
Try out other perspectives
Imagine and test alternative futures
From this place, you can craft an aligned strategy. One that positions and communicates your work in a way that flows from your artistic and creative DNA. ReWILD is not about throwing everything away; it’s about clearing the table and choosing what truly fits your wild creative vision.
COURSE FOCUS AREAS
We have created a strong framework for ReWILD, while leaving space for you to shape the course in a way that meets you where you are. Throughout the process, your communication strategy acts as the main amplifier; connecting leadership, strategy, and creative DNA into one coherent narrative.
Vision & Leadership
Clarify your vision in words and action and translate it into daily practice. Learn to navigate complexity without losing your creative core.
Platform Building
Identify and develop the platform that best reflects your artistic or creative DNA - the one you choose to invest in and grow as a lighthouse for your community.
Strategy
Recognize the strategy that will take you where you want to go - and how communication becomes the bridge between vision and execution.
Stepping into the Future
Align your vision and communication with the future you want to co-create. How can today’s choices strengthen the ecosystems you want to be part of tomorrow?
Communication
Develop clarity in language, visuals, and behavior so your communication feels authentic, powerful, and connected to your creative energy.
Personal Power & Positional Power
Strengthen your leadership so positional power supports, rather than overshadows your personal power.
Regenerative Business Model
Build a realistic, balanced, and equitable business model that allows both your creativity and your organization to thrive sustainably.
National & International Positioning
Map real opportunities for your specific vision and work. Clarify how your voice can resonate - locally and globally.
WHAT YOU GET
1:1 mentoring with two experienced experts, including Karen Toftegaard
Tools, insights, and guidance from international arts professionals on:
Strategy for purpose- and value-driven organizations and individuals
Vision, branding, positioning, and platform building
Personal communication and business strategies for the creative fields
A committed peer community—support, feedback, and shared inspiration
Course Format
This 16-week program includes in-person sessions, online group sessions, and 1:1 mentoring to ensure you feel supported and can fully dedicate your time and energy to developing your platform and company framework. You will also receive a set of worksheets on the first day which you can combine with your online course app.
All fees for guest speakers, mentoring, and inspirational talks are included in the total course fee.
In-person sessions
Location: ZOKU, Copenhagen (office + hotel) - this is a place we cherish a lot as the atmosphere is super kind and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Wh use this place as our office hotel, where we meet and collaborate.
Special accommodation rates at ZOKU, which is also a hotel, are available for participants – please contact us for a booking link.
Thursday, 22 January 2026 – 9:00–17:00 (including lunch and a snack bag)
Tuesday, 7 May 2026 – 9:00–17:00 (including lunch and a snack bag)
Online Sessions
Check-in & Development Sessions (focus on your process + exercises):
Tuesdays, 15:30–17:30 CEST (including break)
17 February 2026
3 March 2026
31 March 2026
28 April 2026
Inspirational Talks with Invited Experts + Exercises:
Tuesdays, 2 hour sessions (including break)
3 February 2026 at 9.00am - 11.00am CET
Your Wild Manifesto: Writing a Personal Brand Framework to and Thrive By - facilitated by Rupert Thomson who has a background as Head of Performance and Dance at Soouthbank Centre and Founding Artistic Director at Summerhall (Edinburgh). Now he is General Manager - APAC for Reed Words, a specialist brand writing agency.
17 March 2026 at 15.30 - 17.30 CET
The Art of Positioning: Understanding Markets, Contexts, and Adaption - facilitated by Kat Jarby who runs and has developed Kaja MANAGEMENT which represents some of Denmark’s most innovative and artists in the esperimental music scene. Located in Copenhagen and New York.
14 April 2026 at 15.30 - 17.30 CET
These sessions will be recorded and can be found in the online course app.
Online group where you can chat and exchange
A facilitated online group will be part of the course. Each Thursday there will be a 15 minutes coffee break in the afternoon CET in the online group.
1:1 Sessions
2 × 90-minute sessions with cultural entrepreneur Karen Toftegaard
2 × 90-minute sessions with one or two professionals – identified based on your needs for inspiration and guidance to address your current challenges
Payment
The price for this course, including food, 1:1 mentoring, course material, online community with peers and teaching by experts from the performing arts field is 16.200dkk + VAT for people living in Denmark. However a value for me is to make these kind of highly valuable insights accessible for more people, so I offer that you can split the payment and pay in rates with 30 days in between every rate - beginning no later than before the first day of the course 22. January.
To make choosing ReWILD safe and transparent, you can step out after the first module if it’s not the right fit and only pay for that module - with no obligation to continue.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us at hello@karentoftegaard.dk. Also happy to have a brief chat with you one the phone or online. Just write to us and we can set it up. Looking forward to getting to know you and your work.
As extra you get this online course as well as the in person event for free:
About the facilitator - Karen Toftegaard
Facilitator Karen Toftegaard – CEO of WILDTOPIA - always aims to support creatives in understanding themselves, other people and the world in order to navigate consciously when selling your work – shamelessly and unapologetically. Karen is acknowledged for her innovative entrepreneurship approach as well as her down-to-earth, cut to the chase, concrete exercise-centered workshops. So the participants get to have as much outcome as possible.
