Investment
Early Bird: 2.500 Euros (First 5 tickets)
Regular price: 2.700 Euros (thereafter)
Includes three delicious, locally sourced, meals per day, lodging, and the workshop!
Accommodation will be in shared rooms with one other person.
When?
August 19th to August 27th
We start on August 19th at 5PM
We end on August 27th at 1PM
Your arrival day at the location is the 19th of August around 1PM. Please do not plan to come earlier as our team will not be ready setting up the place for you before this time and day.
Facilitation
This Radical Honesty 8-Day Intensive is facilitated by three experienced Radical Honesty Trainers: Marvin Schulz, John Rosania, and Gudrun Graichen.
An incredible 8-Day journey into the depths of your being
Join a group of courageous truth-seekers on an incredible journey to grow into the most authentic version of yourself. Radical Honesty is a straightforward way to getting real and connected in ways you did not think were possible.
In these intense and transformative 8 days you get to be completely honest about your true thoughts and feelings. With the support of the group you can open up, come out of hiding and free yourself from constant thinking and control. You get to be seen, heard and understood, and to connect to other people who tell the truth about their lives.
As the days progress, you get to know yourself better and you can reconnect with lost parts of yourself. You can gently soften the armor you have created based on past hurt and shame. Then, instead of protecting yourself, you can experience full presence, aliveness, and genuine connection. Telling the truth in a supportive environment can help you outgrow habits that don’t serve you anymore and reclaim the power to lead a life of choice.
The 8-Day Intensive is a work of genuine love and care during which you set your energy free and unleash your potential to create the life and relationships that work for you.
What’s included in this?
8-days and 8-nights of Radical Honesty with 3 experienced facilitators
Healthy vegetarian breakfast buffet, snacks, lunch and dinner
Beautiful hikes, stunning landscapes, lake, waterfalls, and a swimming pool
Conscious movement, yoga & meditation every morning
2 post-workshop Zoom sessions to help you integrate the practice
During our 3-hour-long afternoon break you can relax by the beach, explore nearby waterfall, or just continue practicing Radical Honesty with newly made friends.
Note: If you’re interested in participating in a future Radical Honesty Trainer’s Training (TT), attendance at the 8-day intensive workshop is a prerequisite for attending the TT.
Our lush and beautiful garden at sunrise :)
The Deep Dive into the World of Radical Honesty
This 8-Day Intensive Residential Workshop is the complete Radical Honesty immersion – the only format including naked work and life stories. For 8 full days, you’ll get to experience yourself in a raw and vulnerable way, learn to create real connections, make true friends, enhance your aliveness, and work on letting go of the past and design your future.
The trainers will support you in:
Being completely and compassionately honest
Letting go of shame, fear and attachment to approval
Feeling your own body and expanding bodily awareness
Staying comfortable with the uncomfortable - expanding your comfort zone
Asking for what you want - increasing your capacity to give & receive
Getting over anger, guilt and obsessive thinking
Healing personal relationships and experiencing whole-body forgiveness
Living out loud - laughing, crying, yelling, smiling and completely changing your life as you know it
Here’s what you will learn at the workshop
Develop skills in telling the truth and being without filters
Connect to yourself and others in a deep, honest and compassionate way
Attune to your body senses and awaken your aliveness
Practice asking for what you want in a direct, non-manipulative way
Experience being fully present and grounded in the moment
Expand your awareness and grow in power as a creative human being
Express whatever arises in the moment: excitement, attraction, anger, fear, etc.
Pelion, Greece!
The workshop will take place in the beautiful, green Pelion area. According to Greek mythology, this is where the gods came for their vacation. We can see why. You will wake up to an amazing sunrise over the sea, surrounded by lush green mountains. The water is crystal clear and perfect for snorkeling. The place vibrates with aliveness in summer.
Our house is an old traditional mountain house with its own fig trees, olive trees, grapes, and berries. You will share a room with one other participant. Every room is equipped with its own shower and toilet.
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.
Life Stories
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.
The Naked Work
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).
Falling in Love with Everyone
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!
Weather
We will be in Greece during August. Expect perfect summer weather and warm temperatures. You have the afternoons off to walk to the beach (12 mins) or explore the nearby waterfalls, taverns, forests, or caves. At night it sometimes thunderstorms, which is amazing to watch from our house :)
Lodging
You will stay in a shared room with one other participants.
When exactly does the workshop start and end?
You will arrive at the venue on the 19th of August and we will get together in the evening. We will end the workshop after lunch on of the 27th. Please plan your trip to be present the whole entire time.
Who can participate?
No prior experience in Radical Honesty is necessary. We do recommend that you read Radical Honesty or Practicing Radical Honesty before arriving.
You will have to agree to the workshop 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 understand that such agreements, Radical Honesty and/or the 8-day intensive program can bring up feelings of doubt and fear, therefore, we recommend you reading Brad Blanton’s books Radical Honesty and/or contact us and have a chat about the things that might be getting in the way for you to make a decision.
Commitment
Please plan your travels in a way that you can 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 part of the program, let us know.
Continuous Support
After the retreat, you will receive continuous support from the trainers. You can join an ongoing community and get access to the network of Radical Honesty graduates - a fantastic resource for co-hearted living amongst friends.
How can I join?
The group is strictly limited to 16 participants. In order to join, fill out the fill out the application here here. You will have to pay a deposit of 600 Euros to reserve your spot. We expect this workshop to be fully booked. So, if you want to attend, we suggest that you book your spot sooner rather than later.
What is the refund policy?
If you cancel before July 1st, 2023, we will refund you your fee minus credit card fees and the nonrefundable deposit of 550 Euros. After July 1st, 2023, there are no refunds.