Two sides of the same search
People who search and people who facilitate are already looking for each other.
On one side are people who need to move, breathe, meet new people, come back into their body. On the other are the people who prepare the space for all of this to happen.
They often live in the same city, a few streets apart, and never meet. Respy exists to close that distance.
The problem
The experiences are out there. They're just scattered everywhere.
Instagram · WhatsApp groups · word of mouth · newsletters · flyers · friends of friends.
People who search only find them if they're already in the loop. People who organize spend hours on posts, stories and reminders, and mostly reach those who already know them. It's the same effort, seen from both sides.
Less effort to find each other. More room for what happens in person.
Who is behind it
We built it first of all because we needed it ourselves.
We are three Italians who lived abroad for years, where each of us began a personal growth path in our own way. Coming back to Italy, we looked for events, facilitators, retreats and spaces where we could find that energy again. They existed, but they were hard to find. Talking with the people who organized them, we learned that being found was hard for them too.
What Respy does
One place that works from both sides.
On Respy you find nearby events by city, date and type of experience, and save the ones you like. If you're the one organizing them, you publish them yourself, and they can also reach people who are ready, curious and nearby but not yet in your circle.
People who search find more. People who facilitate explain less and do more of their actual work. Every event added to the map makes it more useful for everyone.
How publishing works
- Create your facilitator account: all it takes is a name and an email, and it's free.
- Add your event: title, date, place, price, a photo. You can save it as a draft at any time.
- Publish. Your event appears among nearby events and in its category.
What it costs
Free for people who search. Free for people who publish.
We want the map to stay open, useful and accessible. Later on, optional tools will come for those who want more support after the first contact: communication, sales, follow-up, community.
A map
Respy is a map. Not the territory.
Real experiences happen in person: in a studio, in a forest, on a floor where people dance, in a circle, in a shared breath. We want to do one thing, and do it well: help people who search and people who facilitate find each other.
The Italian tribe is growing. It isn't a static niche: it's a living movement.— Respy's founders
