When?
May 23rd to 31st 2024
We start on May 23rd at 5PM
We will end on May 31st at 1PM
Your arrival day at the location is the 23rd of May around 1PM.
Please do not plan to come earlier as our team will not be ready to welcome you.
About the Advanced 8-Day
This Advanced 8-Day Intensive is facilitated by Radical Honesty Trainers Marvin Schulz and Michael Alan Kolb (Mak). It is open for people with previous Radical Honesty experience, at the very minimum one weekend workshop or longer online course and some practice in the real world.
A journey into the depths of your being
In these intensive 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.
Investment
Super Early Bird: 1.970 Euros (First 2 spots) SOLD OUT
Early Bird: 2.490 Euros (next 4 spots) SOLD OUT
Regular Price: 2.790 Euros
The price includes food, lodging, and workshop!
Accommodation will be in shared rooms with one other person.
Showers and toilets are shared (no en-suite bathrooms).
What’s included in this?
9-days and 8-nights of Radical Honesty
Healthy vegetarian breakfast buffet, snacks, lunch and dinner
Beautiful hikes, stunning landscapes, lake, and waterfalls
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.
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 really honest about your moment-to-moment experience
Letting go of shame and attachment for 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
Repairing 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
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.
Our Schedule
Movement & Meditation: 8.15
Breakfast: 9.00 - 9.45
Morning Session: 10.00 - 12.30
Lunch: 12.30 - 13.15
Break: 13.15 - 15.30
Afternoon Session: 15.30 - 17.30
Life Stories: 17.45 - 19.30
Dinner: 19.30 - 21.00
Voluntary Evening Space: 21.00 - Open (time for play, dance, practice, relaxation, etc)
Life Stories
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. Bathrooms are shared. There might be options to get a private room at a surcharge upon request, this depends on the centre’s availability.
Who can participate?
This workshop is for people with previous Radical Honesty experience.
It’s not suitable for complete beginners, without exceptions.
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 in advance.
How can I join?
Send us a message at hello(at)marvinschulz.com
Timing and Travel
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
Marvin: hello(at)marvinschulz.com