- Honesty Europe Practitioner And Advanced Retreat, Finland | 28 May – 1 June 2024SyVilla, Parkano
An Intensive Retreat in Finland in our new amazing retreat center
Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth in Finland, 28 May – 1 June 2024
We’ll spend five days and four nights together in Finnish lakeside retreat center, surrounded by a lush pine forest beside a lake. We will have a jacuzzi – and of course Finnish sauna by the lake!This retreat is for Honesty Europe current and past Practitioner program members and also open for Advanced Radical Honesty Practitioners.
The retreat will include daily workshop sessions as well as free time for hanging out by the fire places, enjoying the snow, walking on the ice, walking in the forest, and nightly saunas in our wood-burning sauna.
Our goals will be to live out loud, to be happy and to not give a shit! Radical Honesty is a way to create connections and to stay present to our experience and bodily sensations.Our retreat center Syvilla
Read about our center here: https://syvilla.fi/gb/Group size
This group is limited to 16 participants.Schedule
The retreat will begin on Tuesday 28 May at 17:00 and will conclude on Saturday 1 June by 13:00.Travel
You can find the travel directions in the detailed description of this workshop: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-europe-practitioner-and-advanced-retreat-parkano-finland-28-may-1-june-2024/Arriving early or staying later – holiday by the lake!
You can arrive a day early or stay a day or two later in this lovely retreat center for €70 per night.READ MORE AND REGISTER: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-europe-practitioner-and-advanced-retreat-parkano-finland-28-may-1-june-2024/
Community
Participants will be asked to assist in the cooking, serving and cleaning up of meals/snacks as a way to help create a community during our five days together. This is commonly done in longer Radical Honesty workshops (and to help get shit done).Price
The Early Bird Price is €760-830 depending on the room.
The regular is €800 in bunk bed rooms.
The regular price for a single room €900.
The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, use of the jacuzzi, shared room accommodation, usage of many games and ongoing support of the group to live out loud.
The price does not include travel to the location. However we can coordinate a taxi van for the participants to and from Parkano railways station.
Kindly bring your own sheets & towels. You can also rent sheets and towels at the location for 20 euros, paid in cash on arrival.Cancellation terms
Please note that we do not offer refunds. However you can transfer your ticket to another person qualified to join this retreat. Let us know via email in case someone else will take your spot.Support Available
If paying for this retreat is a financial challenge to you, then please be aware of the existence of the Honesty Europe Support Fund, which offers financial support to those who otherwise could not afford to attend Honesty Europe’s workshops and retreats. Read more about the Support fund here.Support for BIPOC
If you are low income and are black, indigenous or a person of color (BIPOC), you can request a discount from us.
Message your request to us at: info@HonestyEurope.com
Note: we might take a few days to answer your request.Is this workshop for me?
Honesty Europe’s workshop often have therapeutic impacts, however workshops are not therapy and are not meant to replace personal therapy.
This workshop is not for you if you have major untreated traumas.
Our workshops and retreats can be physically and psychologically stressful.
If you have an acute mental health challenge, please first discuss with your therapist / doctor and then with us before registering.
You can reach us at: info@HonestyEurope.comWorkshop Agreements
(required for participation)
In this workshop, we will strive to create an environment and space where everyone feels safe to express their emotions, share their thoughts and experiment with each other. Therefore, we require all workshop participants and workshop leaders to agree to the below agreements.Read the agreements in the detailed description of this workshop HERE.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@honestyeurope.com.
- Radical Honesty 8-Day Intensive Retreat in Parkano, Finland | 4-12 June 2024SyVilla, Parkano
There are so few places where you can be your FULL self. Use this supportive environment to discover who you really are in the moment and emerge a changed person.
What is the program?
We will begin each day with about 20 minutes of conscious movement and 20 minutes of 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. At around 20:00, we’ll eat dinner.After dinner, one by one, each person will spend about 45 minutes telling the whole story of his or her 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 the video recording of them telling their story. They can later watch their video with their parents, (ex-)spouses, siblings, lovers and friends with whom they have unfinished business in life and use the video-watching as a way to start honest conversations.
On about the fifth 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 of each gender we’ve had sex with, our favorite and least favorite sexual experiences, and so on.
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People often presume this will be 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 often 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 his/her video while receiving feedback about it. For some people, the process of watching oneself on a television screen, naked, while talking about his/her 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 others in his or her life. (And the original files of those recordings will then 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 who we are in hopes that others would love us for our performance, when actually what we needed all along was to drop the act and tell the truth—and be ourselves!
READ MORE: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/radical-honesty-8-day-intensive-retreat-in-parkano-finland-4-12-june-2024/
Who can participate?
Anyone! No prior experience with Radical Honesty is required. You will, though, have to agree to the workshop’s commitments: 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.Commitment
Everyone at the workshop will be expected to commit to participate in every session, including the naked work, body movement, meditation and telling of life stories. If you have any concerns with any of the program, we are happy to discuss those concerns with you.
To sign up or to receive more information, please write to info@HonestyEurope.com.Workshop Agreements
In this workshop, we will strive to create an environment and space where everyone feels safe to express their emotions, share their thoughts and experiment with each other. Therefore, we require all workshop participants and workshop leaders to agree to the below agreements. Read the agreements in the detailed description of this workshop HERE. - Honesty Europe Summer Retreat in Finland | 9-14 July 2024SyVilla, Parkano
An intensive Radical Honesty Summer Retreat in Finland surrounded by pine forests and lakeside cabins!
Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth in Finland, 9-14 July 2024
During our ninth(!) annual Radical Honesty Summer Retreat in Finland, we’ll spend five days and four nights together in Finnish lakeside cottages, surrounded by a lush pine forest beside a lake. The retreat will include daily workshop sessions as well as free time for mushroom and berry picking, swimming, boating and nightly saunas in our wood-burning sauna.
Our goals will be to live out loud, to be happy and to not give a shit! Radical Honesty is a way to create connections and to stay present to our experience and bodily sensations.
This workshop is for you if:
- you want to experience more freedom in your life
- you want to let go of shame, fear and attachment to approval
- you are looking for using conflict creatively and want to go beyond blame
- you desire to learn the art of asking for what you want
- want to heal your relationships and find forgiveness
- you yearn deeper love, connection & intimacy
The workshop is not for you if you:
- don’t want to tell the truth
- want to stay in your comfort zone at all times
- don’t want to hear participants expressing themselves loudly at times
- participate to change others in your life rather than yourself
Radical Honesty is direct communication that leads to intimacy. It is the difference between making a performance and laughing and playing with friends. Honesty is kind of scary fun that turns out better than you thought it would. Lying is work and a pain in the ass and makes you lonesome as hell.
We claim that lying is the major source of all human stress. It wears us out and eventually kills us. When people engage honestly, energy that was wasted maintaining a performance to make an impression is suddenly available for real creativity in playing together. When we admit our pretenses we can refresh our relationships and powerfully create new ways of living together. That is the not so secret of Radical Honesty.
What we do
On each day, we’ll do some yoga, meditation and workshop sessions. The sessions will include an introduction to Radical Honesty; a deeper dive into RH; and learning through theory, discussions, sharing and exercises on how to be radically honest. We’ll do group and paired exercises as well as hot seat work.Leisure time
We will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, swimming, walking in the forest, berry and mushroom picking, rowing a boat, hammock lounging, fishing and appreciating nature in the Finnish summer.Language
The training will be conducted in English. Finnish speakers will have the opportunity to do paired exercises together in Finnish.Schedule
The retreat will begin on Tuesday 9 July at 17:00 and will conclude on Sunday 14 July by 13:00.REGISTER HERE: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-summer-retreat-in-finland-9-14-july-2024/
Community
Participants will be asked to assist in the cooking, serving and cleaning up of meals/snacks as a way to help create a community during our five days together. This is commonly done in longer Radical Honesty workshops (and to help get shit done).Workshop Agreements
In this workshop, we will strive to create an environment and space where everyone feels safe to express their emotions, share their thoughts and experiment with each other. Therefore, we require all workshop participants and workshop leaders to agree to the below agreements. Read the agreements in the detailed description of this workshop HERE.
Team
The workshop leaders will be certified Radical Honesty Trainers—and married couple—Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.Price
The Early Bird price is €890 (including 21% VAT).
The Early bird price is valid until 15 May 2023.
The regular price thereafter is €940 (including 21% VAT).Note! This retreat is a day longer than most of our retreats 🙂
The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 person room or yurt and ongoing support of the group to live out loud.Cancellation terms
Please note that we do not offer refunds. However you can transfer your ticket to another person. Let us know via email in case someone else will take your spot.REGISTER HERE: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-summer-retreat-in-finland-9-14-july-2024/
If you have any questions about the RH Summer Retreat, please feel free to email us at info@honestyeurope.com.
You are warmly welcome to the exciting journey of Radical Honesty! - Weeklong Couples Retreat in Parkano, Finland | 7-13 August 2024SyVilla, Parkano
For the second time we are organizing a week-long Couples retreat in lovely retreat center Syvilla by a beautiful lake with lots of green space and activities! last year this was our most popular retreat – sold out by January 🙂
We’ll spend seven days and six nights together in our new Finnish retreat center, surrounded by a lush pine and birch forest by a lovely lake. The retreat will include daily workshop sessions, free time for walking in the forests and on the ice, admiring and rolling in the snow, enjoying the jacuzzi, spending time with your partner and others, relaxing and nightly Finnish saunas.
This retreat will be limited to eight couples.
Read more and register:
https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-couples-retreat-in-parkano-finland-7-13-august-2024/This workshop is for you if
- you want deeper love, connection & intimacy in your relationship
- you want to experience more freedom and happiness
- you want to let go of shame, fear and attachment to approval in your relationship
- you want to get over anger, use conflict creatively and go beyond blame
- you desire to learn the art of asking for what you want
- want to heal your relationship and find forgiveness
The workshop is not for you if you
- don’t want to tell the truth
- want to stay in your comfort zone at all times
- don’t want to hear participants expressing themselves loudly or crying at times
- want to change your partner rather than yourself
Workshop on How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It
Radical Honesty is direct communication that leads to intimacy. Honesty is kind of scary fun that turns out better than you thought it would. Lying is work and a pain in the ass and makes you lonesome as hell and eventually kills the connection, love and intimacy with your partner.
We claim that lying is the major source of all human stress and makes relationships superficial and many of us lonely in our relationships. It wears us out and eventually kills us. When people engage honestly, energy that was wasted maintaining a performance to make an impression is suddenly available for real creativity in playing together. When we admit our pretences, we can refresh our relationships and powerfully create new ways of living together. That is the not so secret of Radical Honesty.
What will we do?
On each day, we’ll do some yoga or body movement, meditation, workshop sessions, couples exercises and group exercises. The sessions will include an introduction to Radical Honesty; a deeper dive into RH; and learning through theory, discussions, sharing and exercises on how to be radically honest. We’ll do group and paired exercises as well as hot seat work.Leisure time
We will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, saunaing, playing games, chatting, walking in the forest, and appreciating nature in the Finnish nature.Language
The training will be conducted in English. Finnish speakers will have the opportunity to do paired exercises together in Finnish or in any of your joint language.Schedule
The retreat will begin on Wednesday 7 August at 17:00 and will conclude on Tuesday 13 August by 13:00.
Price
The Early Bird price is €980 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT) and €1940 per couple.
The Early bird price is valid until 15 March 2024.
The regular price thereafter is €1020 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT) and 2040 eur per couple.
The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks (breakfast, lunch ands dinner, snack coffee and tea available throughout the day), teaching, daily saunas, 2 person rooms or 2 person yurt and ongoing support of the group to live out loud. The fee also covers use of the jacuzzi, hot tub, bicycles, rowing boats, sup boards and all other activities on site.Cancellation terms
Please note that we do not offer refunds. However you can transfer your ticket to another person qualified to join this retreat. Let us know via email in case someone else will take your spot.Support Available
If paying for this retreat is a financial challenge to you, then please be aware of the existence of the Honesty Europe Support Fund, which offers financial support to those who otherwise could not afford to attend Honesty Europe’s workshops and retreats. Read more about the Support fund here.Support for BIPOC
If you are low income and are black, indigenous or a person of color (BIPOC), you can request a discount from us.
Message your request to us at: info@HonestyEurope.com
Note: we might take a few days to answer your request.Read more and register: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-couples-retreat-in-parkano-finland-7-13-august-2024/
- Family & Friends Retreat in Finland | 28 August - 1 September 2024SyVilla, Parkano
This retreat is open to a parent and an adult child, two siblings, aunt/uncle & niece/nephew, two cousins, romantic partners, two friends, etc.
The retreat will include daily workshop sessions as well as free time for walking in the forests, mushroom and berry picking, swimming, boating, canoeing, sup-boarding and nightly saunas in our wood-burning sauna. We have created specific exercises for parents and adult children to do together.
This workshop is for you if:
- you want to improve your relationship with your parent / child / the person joining with you
- you want to find new ways and tools to express in the moment whatever is alive in you – for example sadness, appreciation, anger, anxiousness, joy or love
- you are looking for ways to use conflicts creatively, go beyond blame and find more understanding and compassion
- want to heal your relationship and find forgiveness
- you yearn deeper love and connection with your loved one you are joining with
The workshop is not for you if you:
- don’t want to tell the truth
- want to stay in your comfort zone at all times
- don’t want to hear other participants expressing themselves loudly at times
- participate to change your parent/child rather than working on yourself and your part in the relationship
Radical Honesty is direct communication that leads to intimacy. It is the difference between making a performance and laughing and playing with friends. Honesty is kind of scary fun that turns out better than you thought it would. Lying is work and a pain in the ass and makes you lonesome as hell.
We claim that lying is the major source of all human stress. It wears us out and eventually kills us. When people engage honestly, energy that was wasted maintaining a performance to make an impression is suddenly available for real creativity in playing together. When we admit our pretenses we can refresh our relationships and powerfully create new ways of living together. That is the not so secret of Radical Honesty.
What will we do?
On each day, we’ll do some yoga, meditation and workshop sessions. The sessions will include an introduction to Radical Honesty; a deeper dive into RH; and learning through theory, discussions, sharing and exercises on how to be radically honest. We’ll do group and paired exercises as well as hot seat work focused on parent and child.Our retreat center Syvilla
Our lovely retreat center Syvilla is located beside the clean Lake Kovesjärvi in a lovely spot of lawn, flowers and forest. It has many buildings including fully renovated yet historically important main red building, an old barn turned into lodging spaces and a kitchen & big space for gatherings and parties, a large terrace which can be covered for rain, an old smoke sauna turned into lodging, a sandy beach, a wood-burning sauna and a smoke sauna by a lake, a wood-burning hot tub and jacuzzi and big hangout areas by the shore, our own small island and a lot more.
Read more: https://syvilla.fi/gb/Language
The training will be conducted in English. You can do the parent & child exercises in your common language. Translations from Finnish to English and English to Finnish are possible in the group sessions. You are welcome to join even if you have limited English language skills as the main work will happen with your parent / child.Schedule
The retreat will begin on Wednesday 28 August at 17:00 and will conclude on Sunday 1 September by 13:00.Community
Participants will be asked to assist in the cooking, serving and cleaning up of meals/snacks as a way to help create a community during our five days together. This is commonly done in longer Radical Honesty workshops (and to help get shit done).Arriving early
You can arrive early or stay later in this lovely location for €70 per night. Get in touch with with us in case you want to take up this option!Team
The workshop leaders will be certified Radical Honesty Trainers—and married couple—Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.Price
The Early Bird price is €820 (including 21% VAT).
The Early bird price is valid until 30 June 2024.
The regular price thereafter is €860 (including 21% VAT).
The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 person room or 2-3 person yurt and ongoing support of the group to live out loud.Cancellation terms
Please note that we do not offer refunds. However you can transfer your ticket to another person. Let us know via email in case someone else will take your spot.REGISTER HERE: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/family-friends-retreat-in-finland-28-august-1-september-2024/
You are warmly welcome to the exciting journey of Radical Honesty!
Sincerely,
Tuulia & Pete - Honesty & Conscious Touch Retreat in Finland | 4-8 September 2024SyVilla, Parkano
This residential retreat is suitable for both beginners to Radical Honesty and/or conscious touch as well for experienced practitioners of either. The workshop is suitable for both singles and couples and for all genders and sexual orientations.
Workshop led by Certified Radical Honesty Trainers, Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan, with Tantra sessions led by Certified RH Trainer and intimacy & conscious touch teacher Michael Kreuzwieser.
We’ll spend five days and four nights together in traditional Finnish-style cabins beside a beautiful lake and surrounded by a lush forest. Each evening we will relax and bathe in the lakeside wood-burning, log-cabin sauna. This is the same location where we have run Radical Honesty retreats for the past seven years, including three fully booked Honesty & Tantra Retreats.
Content of the training:
The Radical Honesty part of the workshop will include lectures, directed conversations, paired exercises, small group exercises, hot seat work, meditation and much more to help you learn how to relax into intimacy based on being open and honest. All this is geared toward having you learn and practice the distinction between thinking and noticing; the difference between interpreting reality and actually noticing it through direct experience. Then you learn to share what we notice about the reality of our own experience with others, and have it be the basis for true intimacy—learning to love being and love other beings. In this workshop, you can express yourself by laughing, shouting, crying, smiling, sharing and by asking for what you want.Conscious Touch will support you in being more in your body, feeling, and just being – through simple embodied practices of relating to meet others openly and creating deep intimacy that
nourishes you.Through the practices, you will playfully explore how to connect in an effortless way. To experience the power of slowing down in intimate & sensual moments.
In different exercises & rituals you will find new ways and qualities of touch and relating that also help you to connect more with your senses and deep body wisdom. That supports you in being more in your natural flow and create to empowering experiences that you enjoy.
Emotional release practices will help you to move old withheld emotions and sensations to let go and to become more aware of the actual moment-to-moment experience, as well as to become more aware of your subtle energies flowing.Conscious Touch and practicing clear communication leads to feeling and expressing your desires and boundaries more clearly.
This workshop is for you if you want to:
・experience deeper love, connection & intimacy beyond personal stories
・relax with yourself in contact with others
・enrich your life by healing touch and conscious sensuality
・learn the art of asking for what you want
・be more playful, light, and deeply touched at the same timeLanguage
The training will be conducted in English. Finnish speakers will have the opportunity to do paired exercises together in Finnish.Schedule
The retreat will begin on Wednesday 4 September at 17:00 and will conclude on Sunday 8 September by 13:00.Price
The Early Bird price is €890 (including 21% VAT).
The Early bird price is valid until 15 July 2023.
The regular price thereafter is €940 (including 21% VAT).
For low income earners and students we offer a discount for staying in your own tent, camper or a wood hammock (provided by us). You can also pay in installments.
We have one single room available for additional fee of €80. Email us in case you want to book one of them.
The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 person room or yurt and ongoing support of the group to live out loud.
The price does not include travel to the location, however we can organize a shared taxi van from the railway station.
Kindly bring your own sheets & towels.
You can rent sheet and towels at the location for 20 euros, paid in cash on arrival.Cancellation terms
Please note that we do not offer refunds. However you can transfer your ticket to another person. Let us know via email in case someone else will take your spot.REGISTER HERE: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-conscious-touch-retreat-in-finland-4-8-september-2024/
You can reach us at: info@HonestyEurope.com