What You'll Learn

You will start to understand the deeper principles of Firekeeping — and unlock a new dimension of your guidance. This is not another leadership model. It’s a shift in how you see, sense, and show up — for others and for yourself. You will learn:

• How to work with the mythological dimension of your client’s experience

• The structure of liminality and how to lead through it

• Firekeeping as a leadership archetype

• How to create and sustain "campfire" spaces in your work

• How to stay in your seat—your power—while others burn, shift, transform

• The language of Firekeeping: how holding space itself becomes a transformative environment where the self can unfold and the soul can grow

Course Content — 4 Weeks

From the very beginning you start practicing the principles of Firekeeping. You’ll quickly notice the impact in how you show up, listen, and hold space. Each week opens another doorway into presence, listening, and the language of transformation.

Week 1 — The Gift of Fire — The Gift of Fire**
Liminal space, opening to the fire within. Discover the quiet force that begins transformation.

Week 2 — At Your Fire
Intuition, listening, coming home, strong ground. Learn to trust inner signals and meet any situation with presence.

Week 3 — The Firekeeper Model
To guide and teach. Gain the framework to hold space and share the method with others.

Week 4 — Guiding & Leading with the Fire
Bring it to your work and community. Integrate Firekeeping into coaching, facilitation, and leadership.

You’ll not only learn the Firekeeper model — you’ll be able to teach it to others. This is a method that spreads. That sustains. That empowers your clients and your community.

About Us

Hélène van Engelen & Danny Vader are the founders of Firekeeper Academy and the guides of this journey into the Sinai. Together, they carry a deeply rooted body of work—woven from years of spiritual listening, professional leadership, and lived connection with the natural world.

From a young age, Danny was gifted with a rare sensitivity to the language of the land and stones. His presence opens ancient pathways—especially through the medium of stone circles—which act as bridges between human consciousness and the wisdom of nature. His ability to listen beyond the visible world has laid the foundation for the 12+1 Stone Circle Movement.

Hélène brings a profound depth of feminine insight and a sharp eye for structure, timing, and transformation. She has a gift for guiding others through liminal spaces with clarity and warmth—whether in ceremony, in conversation, or in the shared silence of a circle.

Over the past eight years, it is through their shared connection that most of what now lives within the stone circle movement has come into form.

Their collaboration is more than complementary—it is catalytic. When they met, something in nature responded. The stones began to speak more clearly. People began to remember more deeply. Their joint leadership creates a safe and vibrant field where wisdom can rise and be passed on—not only for personal insight, but for shaping the future of community, leadership, and culture.

At Firekeeper Academy, they guide individuals, teams, and organizations through processes of reconnection and renewal. Their work is an invitation: to step into a circle where ancient wisdom and modern life are not separate, but part of one breathing whole.

Together, Hélène and Danny will guide this journey in Sinai—not as instructors, but as fellow listeners, space holders, and companions in remembrance.

With Special Thanks to Garda Alexander

This journey into the Sinai is made possible through the connection and collaboration with Garda Alexander. Garda, born in Germany and based in Zurich since 1990, is an artist whose work bridges the material and the symbolic—combining colour, form, and space into a language of deep resonance.

Garda has cultivated a longstanding relationship with the Bedouins of South Sinai, where she supported the founding of Learning Centers for children and women for over 20 years.
She realized 2022 the Land-Art project «Terrya» at the bottom of the ancient Hathor temple by working on one of the sacred stones (this art intervention is actual shown at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Palazzo Mora).

Garda will be part of this journey in April and will bring her artistic sensitivity and spatial awareness into the activation of the circle, supporting its emergence not only as a sacred structure but as a living field of meaning and connection.

We are grateful to walk this path together with Garda, whose presence quietly weaves the threads of land, lineage, and light.

✧ Learn more about Garda and her work at:
👉  www.garda.ch