Honesty Europe Private Retreat in Finland | 5-8 November

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Honesty Europe Private Retreat in Finland by lakeside with sauna & jacuzzi
Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth in Syvilla Finland, 5-8 October 2026

You will spend a long weekend – four days and three nights – in our retreat center Syvilla in Parkano, surrounded by a lush pine forest beside a lake.
(Note! also a two night option and weekday options are available!)

The retreat will include daily sessions designed for your needs and wishes, as well as free time for walking in forest, enjoying the icy lake and jacuzzi, dipping into ice hole, and nightly saunas in our wood-burning sauna.
Will will offer you daily meals daily, catered to your diet (vegan, vegetarian, pescaterian and gluten-free available) and you will have healthy snacks, coffee (also decaf) and tea available at all times.
You will have your own room or if you join with a partner you can share a room with a double bed.
This retreat is for one to two people, you can add more people to your group up to 10 for additional 300 euros each.
This price includes support from two trainers and coaches – Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.
Honesty is a way to create connections and to stay present to our experience and bodily sensations.

This retreat is for you if:

• you want to focus on the topics important to you in a intimate environment
• you want private coaching and support
• you want to work with your partner / friend or family member
• you prefer a focused and intensive approach rather than bigger group setting
• you want to experience more freedom in your life
• 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 Private retreat is not for you if you:

• don’t want to tell the truth
• want to stay in your comfort zone at all times
• want to change others in your life rather than yourself

Workshop on How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It
Honesty Europe’s work is based on direct communication and vulnerable sharing that leads to intimacy.
For many of us 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 often lonesome and miserable 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.

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, games such as board games, golf frisbee, and basketball hoop.
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.
Read more: https://syvilla.fi/gb/

Language
The language will be English. Also Finnish and Dutch is available with prior agreement.
You can do your paired assigments together in your common language.

Leisure time
You 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 Finnish nature.
We can also add a trip to a wonderful nature protection are nearby and breakfast / lunch by bonfire with traditional vegetarian or meat sausages, vegetable and coffee/tea.

Schedule
Your retreat will begin on Thursday 5 November at 17:30 and will conclude on Sunday 8 November by 16:15.
Timing can be also changed as needed.

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.) We recommend travelling by land and if that is not possible compensating your CO2 emissions.
From within Finland, take a train to Parkano.
You can buy the train tickets via this website https://www.vr.fi/en/

Travel by train
We recommend taking the following direct train from Helsinki 13:24 – arriving in Parkano 15.44.
We recommend taking the following train from Tampere 15:02 – arriving in Parkano 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 euros).
On Sunday we recommend taking the 17:09 train arriving 17:51 to Tampere and 19:35 to Helsinki (direct to Helsinki).
From Seinäjoki there are direct trains which take around 30 minutes.
Arriving early or staying later – holiday by the lake!
You can arrive early or stay later for €80 per night per person (the price includes simple dinner and breakfast and self heated sauna).
Get in touch with with us in case you want to take up this option!
Syvilla will bill this separately or you can pay on arrival.

Price
The Early Bird price is €1420 (including 21% VAT).
(+ the lodging, breakfast & sauna 80 eur per night 6 x €80 = €480 if you stay in Syvilla.
The total price is €1900.

The Early bird price is valid until 31 August 2026.
The regular price thereafter is €1510 (including 21% VAT).
(+ the lodging, breakfast & sauna 80 eur per night 6 x €80 = €480 if you stay in Syvilla.
The total price €1990.

The fee covers agreed session time up to 10 hours, exercises and sharing topic between sessions, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks daily starting with welcome coffee / tea and snacks on arrival and finished with lunch on Sunday.
Email us in case you want to book the Private retreat for more than two people.

Lodging
The lodging in Syvilla costs 80 euros per night (640 euros in total for two people), this includes breakfast, daily saunas, jacuzzi and shared or single room accommodation.
Kindly bring your own sheets & towels.
Syvilla will bill the lodging separately with due date of start of the retreat.

Register via this link
https://www.honestyeurope.com/product/private-retreat-in-syvilla-parkano-5-8-november/

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.

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](mailto:Info@HonestyEurope.com)

Warm welcome!