Investment
Price: 2.590 Euros (incl. VAT)
Includes food, lodging, and workshop!
Accommodation will be in shared rooms with one or two more people. There are no private rooms as part of the work :).
When?
April 22nd to April 30th
We start on April 22nd at 5PM
We will end on April 30th at 1PM
Your arrival day at the location is the 22nd of April 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.
Facilitators
This 8-Day Intensive is facilitated by Radical Honesty Trainers Marvin Schulz & Michael Alan Kolb
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?
9-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 pool, go on stunning nature walks, explore Italian culture in the nearby villages, or keep 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.
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.
Our beautiful retreat center in Italy
The Centro d’Ompio is located by Lake Orta in northern Italy - a magical place with transparent blue waters, subtropical climate, lush forests and incredible waterfall hikes. The location is a perfect spot for a rejuvenating holiday and we recommend you arrive earlier and stay longer after the workshop in the nearby villages to explore the area and decompress.
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.
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!
FAQ about this 8-Day Intensive Retreat
Lodging
You will stay in shared rooms with one other person.
Who can participate?
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.
How can I join?
Please use the signup form to apply for the workshop:https://forms.gle/c6smKiMbnhcFfC6w9
You’ll also find the payment details there.
The group is strictly limited to 16 participants. We expect this workshop to be fully booked. Please make your reservation earlier than later.
Sean is handling registrations. If you have questions regarding booking, payment or the venue, contact him: me@seanspeak.net
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.
Timing and Travel
The retreat starts on Saturday, April 22th at 5pm and finishes on Sunday, April 30 at 1pm with a goodbye lunch. Please arrange your travel so that you can be present for the entire 8 days. In case of changes, inform us in advance. Upon registration, you will receive detailed instructions on how to arrive at the venue.
Questions?
If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions, don’t hesitate to contact Marvin, Jura or Sean.
Sean (for booking, payment + venue): me(at)seanspeak.net
Marvin: hello(at)marvinschulz.com