Embody the work of Radical Honesty
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The Full Radical Honesty Experience
There's nothing like a full-time, communal experience of an immersive Radical Honesty workshop right in the beautiful rainforest of Costa Rica. Together we will explore and uncover what it means to be alive, to be human, to be in connection, and to be yourself.
Throughout your 8 days at the workshop, three highly skilled Radical Honesty Trainers will lead you and your peers through the full spectrum of Radical Honesty. This is the only workshop format that includes Naked Work, Life Stories, and Life Purpose Work. It’s a powerful experience designed to shift your attention out of old patterns and expand into a new, authentic version of yourself.
Your Radical Honesty 8-Day
Workshop Package
8-days and 8-nights of Radical Honesty with three experienced trainers
Three delicious, vegetarian meals per day plus snacks
Daily Yoga, meditation & conscious movement
Jungle walks, hikes, and waterfall explorations
Optional detox from your mobile devices (if you chose to)
2 post-workshop Skype sessions to help you integrate the practice
Opportunity for ongoing connection and community with your fellow participants
When?
Sat, Dec 11, 2021 5PM - Sun, Dec 19, 2021 1PM
Where?
Cascada Elysiana, San Juan de Dios de Barú, Costa Rica
Investment
The price includes accommodation, three delicious, chef-prepared meals for 8 Nights & 8 Days of Radical Honesty (the price does not include transport to and from the retreat center.
Camping: $2690 (tent, air mattress & bedding included)
Shared Dorm: $2890 (stay with other participants in our wooden bunkhouse)
Private Glamping Tent: $3190 (private deck w/ jungle views, shared eco shower/toilet)
Private Deluxe Cabina: $3390 (private bath & deck w/ jungle views)
Your 8-Day Deep Dive into the world of Radical Honesty
For 8 days, you will be living amongst toucans and monkeys in the heart of the rainforest to reconnect with your body and build authentic relationships based on who you really are. You will learn to express yourself, your feelings and thoughts, in a real and vulnerable way in order to reclaim your personal power, get grounded in your body, and build lasting relationships.
You will stay at the Eco-Lodge Cascada Elysiana, surrounded by pristine green nature, waterfalls, and breathtaking hiking trails. In this picturesque environment, you will come face-to-face with who you truly are and strip away all that you aren’t. Don’t worry: we have comfortable beds (if you want), professionally prepared meals, a nearby beach and community of truth tellers that will help you to integrate your experience and have a good time!
This 8-Day Intensive Radical Honesty workshop is for you if you want to
Clear your headspace from the city noise
Experience a life-changing holiday of personal growth and real friendships
Recharge your energy in the vibrant rainforest
Learn to express yourself freely, clearly and directly
Improve the quality of your life by taking charge of your attention
Increase your ability to speak about your current thoughts and feelings
Regain your focus and creative power
Experience whole-body forgiveness and heal your past
Get over anger, guilt and shame
Create a community of honest, loving friends
Practice conscious movement, meditation and breathing
The workshop is not for you if you
Need the comforts of big city life at all times
Are not willing to tell the truth
Are unwilling to step out of your comfort zone
Don’t want to hear others expressing themselves loudly
Insist on changing people rather than changing the way you relate
(Note: If you’re interested in participating in a future Radical Honesty Trainer’s Training, attendance at an RH 8-day intensive workshop is a prerequisite for attending the TT.)
Our Daily Rhythm and Agenda
We will begin each day with conscious movement meditation, followed by breakfast and a morning session of teaching, group conversations and paired exercises. We will then have a healthy lunch and an afternoon siesta. After the break, we will continue working with “hot seat” work, teaching, meditation, movement or dancing, and more paired and small group exercises.
After dinner, one by one, each person will spend about 45 minutes telling the whole story of their life. By the time the workshop has ended, each participant will have told their own life story and will have heard the telling of everyone else’s. Each person will also receive a copy of their Life Story video recording. They can later watch the video with their parents, (ex-)partners, siblings, lovers and friends with whom they have unfinished business in life and use the video-watching as a way to start honest conversations and create connection.
On the fifth or sixth day, we’ll all get naked. One at a time we’ll stand in front of the group and talk about what we like and don’t like about our body. We’ll also tell our sexual histories: when we first discovered we were a sexual being, when we first masturbated, whether we prefer doing it with men/women/vegetables/minerals/etc., how many partners we’ve had sex with, our favorite and least favorite sexual experiences, and so on. Though we’ll probably get embarrassed, with good coaching and complete sharing of the truth and support from the group we will face our shame/fears/taboos—and get over them.
People often presume that Naked Work is some sort of “sexy” experience. Usually, the experience is anything but sexy. Mostly the naked work is about embarrassment and shame and suffering—and about how our avoidance of those aspects of ourselves controls our lives. Quite often, the participants who, beforehand, scare themselves the most about doing this exercise are the very ones who benefit the most from it!
Then, together, we’ll review the videos of our Naked Work. One by one, each person will sit in front of a television screen and observe their video while receiving feedback about it. For some people, the process of watching oneself on a screen, naked, while talking about their sex life can be a more confrontational process than the original experience of standing naked before the group. Again, the willingness to face the experience and live through it can provide a decrease in the intensity of the sensations related to shame/embarrassment and a change in perspective on one’s own life in the direction of compassion for oneself as well as compassion for others. And then, most likely, we’ll appreciate ourselves and others for doing this work and live more fulfilling lives with less shame about ourselves and our bodies.
Just as with the Life Story video, each participant will receive a copy of their Naked Work video to share with important people in their life (the original files of those recordings will be deleted).
As you can imagine, by the sixth or seventh day, people will have gotten to know themselves and each other pretty well. What happens—and it happens again and again with very diverse groups of people—is pretty much the same each time: everyone falls in love with everyone else. Now, isn’t that a hell of a thing? Imagine all the time and energy we have wasted putting on acts and pretending to be someone we’re not in hopes that others will love us for our performance, when actually what we needed all along was to drop the act and tell the truth—and be ourselves!
Dr. Brad Blanton—Radical Honesty founder—about the workshop
“The 8-Day workshop is an experiential course in living out loud, increasing your capacity for intimacy and creativity, and living your life on purpose, instead of residing in the jail of your mind and reacting to life’s circumstances while believing you’re in control.
“In our workshops, we get together to make some agreements about what we will do together for the next nine days. One of the most important agreements is that we will tell the truth to each other completely for the next nine days. If that was all that occurred, and there was no other agenda whatsoever, the course would be powerful because the power of that agreement alone is incredible.”
Extracurricular Activities
Guided outside walking meditations
Exploration of a nearby reforestation project
Breathwork with Marvin
Communal hikes at the Eco Lodge
Trips to local beaches and surf towns
Excursions to nearby waterfalls and swimming holes
You can create and offer your own activities such as ecstatic dance, conscious touch, movement, play music or have more Radical Honesty conversations. We encourage you to ask for what you want and use the workshop space as your playground to experiment with living out loud and consciously creating your own experience.
Optional City Detox
If you feel drained from living in the city and using your screens, you can create your own City Detox experience by giving us your portable devices. We will keep them safe for you and you can make conscious decisions about if and when to use them.
Donate 5 trees when you fly
You will probably fly into Costa Rica. If you do, you can compensate the emissions by funding five new trees. Each tree costs 5 dollars and will be planted and taken care of in your name on the reforestation property of our friendly neighbors.
A Workshop in Living Life out Loud
and Reconnecting to Your Senses
Radical Honesty is a revolutionary and compassionate communication method, cutting right through obsessive thinking to get grounded in the present moment. We believe that most modern human suffering is based on lying, whether in the form of withholding, manipulating, or the direct telling of lies (including so-called “little white lies”). We also believe that withholding feelings is one of the fastest ways to make yourself sick and create dis-ease in the body.
By lying, we entrap ourselves in our own thoughts and live a half-depressed, half-sleepwalking lives, wondering what happened to our childhood aliveness. We postpone happiness. We keep ourselves small and live out the same old day – over and over again. We wonder why we feel alienated from our friends, family, and loved ones and feel isolated from the world.
Cascada Elysiana?
Cascada Elysiana is a beautiful Eco-Lodge with breathtaking jungle views, hiking trails, and private access to an amazing waterfall. The lodge is secluded and fully immersed in surrounding nature. There is hardly a better place for a Radical Honesty workshop anywhere.
Lodging
According to your personal budget, you can choose from basic tent accomodation to private deluxe cabinas with glass sliding doors and jungle views. For detailed pictures visit www.cascadaelysiana.com
When exactly does the workshop start and end?
We kick off the workshop on Saturday, 11th of December 2021 around 5 pm.
We will end on Sunday, 19th of December 2021 around 1 pm.
Please book your trip to be present for the entire time. If you want to stay a bit longer or arrive earlier, let us know and we will connect you with the venue managers.
Who can participate?
Anyone! No prior experience with Radical Honesty is required. You will, though, have to agree to the workshop’s agreements: to keep confidentiality, to tell the truth, to support others in telling the truth, to be on time and present, to allow the trainers to coach you and to ask for what you want. We also recommend you read Brad Blanton’s books Radical Honesty and/or Practicing Radical Honesty before the workshop.
Commitment
Please plan your travels in a way for you to be present at each session. To make this workshop work for you and everyone else, we will all agree to take part in every session, including the Naked Work, body movement, meditation and telling of Life Stories. If you have any concerns with any of the programs, let us know in advance.
How can I join?
The group is strictly limited to 16 participants. In order to join, write us a message. You will have to pay a deposit to reserve your spot. As for most 8-Day Intensive workshops, we expect this workshop to be fully booked. Please make your reservation earlier than later.
How much does this cost?
Camping: $2690 (tent, air mattress & bedding included)
Shared Dorm: $2890 (stay with other participants in our wooden bunkhouse)
Private Glamping Tent: $3190 (private deck w/ jungle views, shared eco shower/toilet)
Private Deluxe Cabina: $3390 (private bath & deck w/ jungle views)
