What we’re about
RADICAL HONESTY LIVE: How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It
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.
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
Lectures, directed conversations, paired exercises, small group exercises, Radical Honesty hot seat work, meditation and more. All this is geared toward having you learn and practice the distinction between noticing and thinking; the difference between interpreting and thinking about reality, and actually noticing it, through direct experience. Then you learn to share what you notice about the reality of your own experience with others, as the basis for true intimacy—learning to love ourselves and love other beings by learning to love Being, itself.
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See all- Passion & Purpose Retreat in Syvilla, Parkano Finland | 15-18 January 2026SyVilla, Parkano
Honesty Europe is proud to present for the second time:
Find Your Passion & Purpose Retreat -Live authentically and passionately
in Syvilla Finland, 15-18 JanuaryDo you want to figure out what your purpose is in the world?
What do you want to contribute towards?
What are your guiding values?We’ll spend four days and three nights – together in our lakeside retreat center Syvilla near Parkano, surrounded by a lush pine forest.
This retreat will include daily workshop sessions as well as free time for walking on the frozen lake and in the forest, sliding on sledges, soaking in the jacuzzi, and enjoying our nightly saunas in our large, wood-burning sauna.In this Life Purpose retreat you will
* explore and let go of your limiting beliefs
* start to give up the blame towards someone or something for how your life has been and how it goes and start to take see your struggles and wounds as a gift
* establish or reconfirm & tweak your purpose and bring clarity to your direction in life
* Look into the learnings from past year and what you want to leave behind
* Feel where the energy and excitement lays for the coming year: what do you want to learn, experience and achieve?
* Look into your core values: what are the values you want to live by? And what are the possible themes for this year?Outcomes
This retreat can liberate you from the path ”expected” of you by your family, community or society and give you the space to explore your true calling and purpose.
You can gain clarity on your life’s work and contribution to your family, community, nature and, of course, to yourself.
You will also decide the steps you will take towards your life purpose.
You can live a life full of meaning, joy and fulfillment.This is what Brad Blanton writes about life purpose:
”The Difference Between Believers and Creators
Believers have explanations for what went wrong, and hope for salvation just ahead. Creators enjoy consciously going about the work of designing and bringing into being their vision of whatever they want to create.”What we do
On each day, we’ll do some guided movement, meditation and workshop sessions.
Our retreat center Syvilla
Our lovely retreat center Syvilla is located beside the clean Lake Kovesjärvi in a lovely location by a forest and vast grounds for roaming around. 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 & fire places by the shore, our own small island and a lot more.
Leisure activities include walking on the ice, enjoying the many fire places including one on the island, enjoying snow, and sauna & jacuzzi.
The property in Parkano about 11 kilometers from the city center and has 170 meters of shore line and is about 1.7 hectares in size.
Syvilla about 80 kilometers north of Tampere and about 260 kilometres north of Helsinki.
The railway is about 17 kilometers from the location.
Read more: https://syvilla.fi/gb/
Language
The training will be conducted in English.
Group size
This group is limited to 12 participants.
Leisure time
We will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, trying out our multiple questions card games, enjoying sauna and jacuzzi, walking in the forest and on ice 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 Thursday 15 January at 17:30 and will conclude on Sunday 18 January by 16:30.
Travel
Via air from outside Finland: fly to Helsinki airport and then take a two-hour and half train ride to Parkano. (There are also a limited number of flights that also fly in directly to Tampere airport.) From Tampere, we will direct you the rest of the way to the lake (probably via a local bus). We recommend travelling by land and if that is not possible compensating your CO2 emissions.
From within Finland, take a train to Parkano. From there, we will organize a shared taxi van for you.
If you drive to the retreat site, we will probably ask you to carpool with others.
You can purchase train tickets here: https://www.vr.fi/en/
When you buy your ticket earlier, the price will be cheaper.
Travel by train
We recommend taking the following direct train from Helsinki at 13:24 – arriving in Parkano at 15.44.
We recommend taking the following train from Tampere at 15:02 – arriving in Parkano at 15.44.
We can arrange a taxi van for a pick up, the cost will be split up between people (total cost of the van is around €45).
On Sunday, we recommend taking the train departing Parkano at 16.12 or 17:09 (the latter arriving in Tampere at 17:51, and arriving in Helsinki at 19:35 and arriving at Helsinki Aiport via a connecting train at 19:33).Arriving early or staying later – holiday by the lake!
You can arrive early or stay later for €80 per night (the price includes simple dinner and breakfast and heated sauna).
Get in touch with with us if you want to take up this option!
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 four days together. This is commonly done in Honesty Europe’s retreats (and to help get shit done).
Team
The workshop leaders will be certified Radical Honesty Trainers—and married couple—Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.
Price
The Early Bird price is €690 (including 21% VAT).
The Early bird price is valid until 15 December
The regular price thereafter is €740 (including 21% VAT).Sign up here
ttps://www.honestyeurope.com/product/passion-purpose-retreat-in-syvilla-finland-15-18-january/A breakdown of the fee:
The fee consist of €380 workshop fee and
€300 euros for lodging, food, sauna and jacuzzi.
The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 or three person room.
The price does not include travel to the location, however we can organize a 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.
We have a single room available for additional fee of €70. Email us in case you want to book it.We have two discounted spots for low income earners / students in exchange of some helping.
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.
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.com
Book your spot soon! Almost all our previous retreats have sold out.If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@honestyeurope.com.
You are warmly welcome to the exciting journey with Honesty Europe!
Sincerely,
Tuulia & Pete
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