Couples Retreat in Parkano, Finland | 2-6 April 2025

Transform Your Relationship by Telling the Truth in cabins surrounded by lush forests and lake in Finland

Radical Honesty couples retreat in Finland (2-6 April 2025)

With our eighth Radical Honesty couples retreat in Finland, we’re excited to again support you in creating more honesty and deep connection, love, sex and compassion in your relationship.
We’ll spend five days and four 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 stary nights, spending time with your partner and others, relaxing and nightly Finnish saunas.
This retreat will be limited to six couples.

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 do others say about the retreat?
“We did the Couples Retreat as a preparation for our wedding without knowing what would come up. Both of us had attended workshops separately before but never one together. But it was for our relationship such a benefit. We strengthened our trust, vulnerability, appreciation and love towards each other even more, and I really feel good about getting married now. I highly recommended this retreat for everybody who wants to deepen their connections.”
–Pia (Austria)

“If you want to stop bypassing the hard and scary stuff with your partner and look straight at it in a safe and supportive environment, and with competent and compassionate people at your side coaching you through it, then the Couples Retreat with Pete and Tuulia is just right for you.”
–Anastasia (Germany)

“I took a part in the Couples retreat in Finland. What a great idea! To have 8 couples staying together, sharing together, seeing how other people create their intimate relationships. Stunning location in the middle of nowhere in Finland, in the forest, with a wood-fired sauna by the lake. Sessions in the morning to explore and deepen my relationship, lazy afternoons to enjoy berries, mushrooms and rowing boat! Great facilitation from Pete and Tuulia as always. I want more of this quality time in my life. Highly recommended.”
–Daniel (U.K.)

“Pete & Tuulia have a lot of experience in communicating and relating successfully and they’re great at teaching it, too! If you want to learn how to create and maintain intimate relationships and have a good time doing it, join a Couples Retreat!”
–Michael (Germany)

“Behind every great relationship are difficult and uncomfortable conversations we rarely get to see. Great relationships don’t just fall on our laps. They require people to move through their fears and insecurities and do the hard work to move wounds into healing. I feel touched and inspired after witnessing what I judge to be great relationships having difficult conversations, getting over their shit and reaching places of forgiveness and love again. I super duper recommend Pete & Tuulia’s Couples Retreat to anyone who wants to deepen their ability to see and be seen by their partner, warts and all.”
–Rose (U.K.)

“I judge Tuulia & Pete to be very talented workshop leaders. In the Couples Retreat I attended, they created a wonderful, personal space — also by showing themselves as the imperfect humans they are — in which sharing whatever feelings and thoughts was very easy and so welcomed! High recommendation!”
–Taranee (Germany)

“During the Couples Retreat led by Pete and Tuulia, I learned so much about myself in relation to not only my partner but to basically all the people around me. I greatly recommend this course for everyone who wants to express more frustration in order to spend less time feeling it.”
–Katrien, (The Netherlands)

“The Couples Retreat was highly transformative for me (and I imagine my wife as well). I was transfixed on Tuulia and Pete’s ability to put into practice games and exercises that brought Radical Honesty to life. I was equally amazed by how vulnerable everyone was willing to be with one another so quickly after meeting for the first time.

“When all was said and done – and much was said and done – I was deeply moved and impressed with the personal connections I made with everyone involved with the work and the workshop. I left the experience having seen attendees make huge leaps forward in their own personal work – myself included. I believe my wife and I built a toolbox of communication techniques we could use after leaving Finland. I understood that observing and reporting are key foundations to RH. I understood that with subtle and important language changes, I could change the way I communicate (dare I say improve the way I communicate?). The experience was simply profound for me, and I imagine also for my wife and everyone else who was there. I was hooked: I knew I wanted more RH workshops in my life.”
–Jesse (United States)

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 on the lake and in the forest, enjoying snow, 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 2 April at 17:00 and will conclude on Sunday 6 April 2025 by 12:30.

Travel
Via air from outside Finland: fly to Helsinki airport and then take a two-hour and half train ride to Parkano.
From Helsinki airport, first take the commuter train to the Tikkurila
station and then from there take the train to Parkano.
There is also a bus connection from Helsinki to Parkano, which is cheaper though takes about 90 minutes longer than the train connection.
From Parkano, we will direct you the rest of the way to the lake.
You can also cycle or drive to the retreat site (and if you do drive, we will probably ask you to carpool with others).

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).

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 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT) and €1620 per couple.
The Early bird price is valid until 28 February 2025.
The regular price thereafter is €870 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT) and 1720 per couple.

The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 person rooms 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.

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](mailto:info@HonestyEurope.com)
Note: we might take a few days to answer your request.

Is this workshop for me?
Radical Honesty 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.
Radical Honesty 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](mailto:Info@HonestyEurope.com)

Read more and register: https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/honesty-couples-retreat-in-parkano-finland-7-13-august-2024/

Warm welcome!
Tuulia & Pete