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This two-day, one-night gathering offers an alternative to the traditional stag night, one rooted in depth, reflection, and honour.
Drawing on ancient rites of passage, men are invited to pause at the threshold of commitment and be witnessed as they step out of boyhood and into mature partnership. Through fire, ritual, storytelling, and honest conversation, this retreat creates a held space to reflect on love, responsibility, fear, and readiness.
This is not a night of excess or distraction, but a conscious initiation. A time to let go of old patterns, receive the wisdom and challenge of other men, and mark the courage it takes to love faithfully and wholeheartedly.
For men preparing for marriage or long-term commitment, this gathering honours the moment with integrity, presence, and purpose, a true rite of passage into conscious manhood.
This two-day, one-night gathering offers a soulful alternative to the traditional hen night, one rooted in connection, reflection, and celebration.
Drawing on ancient traditions where women gathered to bless one another at life’s thresholds, this retreat creates a circle of sisterhood to honour the transition into committed partnership.
Through sharing, ritual, and simple ceremony, the bride-to-be is held, witnessed, and supported as she releases what has been and prepares to step into love with intention and grace.
Together, women explore what partnership, trust, and feminine strength mean to them, receive wisdom from those who have walked this path before, and celebrate the courage and joy of choosing love consciously.
This is not a night of escape, but a rite of passage, a beautiful pause to mark a profound turning point and to cross into partnership feeling grounded, blessed, and deeply supported.
a one-day Defining Moments experience
In a world that often pulls us away from ourselves, this one-day retreat offers a gentle yet powerful return to what is most natural and nourishing.
Held in wild landscape, Rekindling Our Kinship with Nature invites you to slow down, step out of modern busyness, and rediscover your living relationship with the land. Through guided practices, solo time, shared reflection, and simple ceremony, you will come into contact with nature not as background scenery, but as ally, teacher, and mirror.
The day weaves together sensory awareness, stillness, creative expression, and meditative walking to help you reconnect with presence, clarity, and your own ‘first nature’. You will be supported to listen deeply, receive insight from the natural world, and remember your place within the wider web of life.
This experience is ideal for those seeking grounding, renewal, or a meaningful reconnection with nature. It also serves as a powerful introduction to our longer, immersive retreats.
Come as you are.
Leave with the land woven back into you.
a 24-hour embodied experience of the gift of getting lost
Lost for a Day is a one-day and one-night immersion into the ancient, unsettling, and ultimately liberating experience of being lost.
Across twenty-four hours in wild landscape, this retreat invites you to step out of certainty, control, and habitual ways of orienting, and to explore what becomes possible when you allow yourself to not know. Through carefully held, nature-based practices — including solo wandering, sensory exploration, night walking, fire-side reflection, and time in solitude — you will encounter lostness not as a problem to fix, but as a doorway to insight, presence, and deeper knowing.
Guided by experienced facilitators, you will be supported to let go of maps and plans, listen more fully with your senses, and discover how the land itself can become a teacher and guide.
This experience stands alone as a powerful rite of passage, and also forms the first step in a wider journey exploring lostness, finding, and being found.
Come prepared to let go.
Come prepared to wander.
Come prepared to meet the gift that only lostness can offer.
awakening to one’s own wisdom
A three-day retreat for men and women
At a time when true elders are rarely named or supported, Elder Invocation offers a held and meaningful space to awaken the wisdom shaped by a life fully lived.
Across three days and three nights, this retreat invites you to pause, reflect, and turn towards the deeper calling that often emerges in the later chapters of life. Through guided reflection, shared dialogue, ritual, and time in nature, you will reconnect with your life story, distil its lessons, and explore what it means to step into elderhood with integrity, presence, and care.
This is a threshold experience, a movement from simply growing older to consciously becoming an Elder: someone who embodies grounded authority, compassion, and service, and who offers steadiness and blessing to others.
Elder Invocation is for those who sense that something new is being asked of them a ripening into wisdom, responsibility, and contribution and who feel ready to step forward as a gift to their community and to the generations that follow.
the elder embodied
A three-day retreat (Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon)
The Elder in Action builds on the foundations of Elder Invocation, supporting you to move from awakening inner wisdom to living it in the world. Over three days and three nights, you will explore what true eldership looks like as a daily practice — grounded, relational, and expressed through presence, compassion, discernment, and service.
Through story, dialogue, movement, time in nature, and ceremony, you will clarify what ‘elder in action’ means for you, release what keeps you small or silent, and reclaim the courage to show up with integrity when your presence is needed. The retreat culminates in a ceremonial blessing — a moment of recognition and commitment as you step more fully into purpose-led elderhood.
This is a threshold from reflection to embodiment: a grounded, life-facing retreat for those ready to act, bless, and serve with heart and truth.
crossing the threshold into eldership
A three-day retreat (Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon)
Elder Initiation marks the sacred passage from living as an elder to being formally initiated as one.
Over three days and three nights, you are invited to look deeply at the life you have lived — the choices made, the losses endured, the wisdom earned. Through guided reflection, storytelling, and ceremony, this retreat supports the release, forgiveness, and integration required to stand fully and authentically in the role of elder in a culture that has largely forgotten how to honour this threshold.
This is not about claiming a title, but about being witnessed. The retreat culminates in a powerful initiation ceremony a communal acknowledgement of your readiness to live as an elder of integrity, service, and blessing.
Elder Initiation is for those who know that something essential is being asked of them, and who are ready to take their place with humility, courage, and clear seeing in service to life, community, and the generations that follow.
a father and son adventure (ages 7–14)
Every boy carries the spark of the man he will one day become.
Boy to Man – The Early Journey is a two-day, two-night adventure in nature for fathers and sons to step away from everyday life and spend meaningful time together. Through shared exploration, play, storytelling, and simple rituals, this retreat gently marks an important stage in a boy’s growing-up journey.
Across the weekend, fathers and sons will build fires and shelters, explore the land, share stories around the fire, and take part in activities that strengthen trust, courage, and connection. Nature becomes the classroom, and time together becomes the gift.
For boys, this is a chance to feel seen, celebrated, and encouraged as they begin to step beyond early childhood.
For fathers, it offers time to slow down, listen, and enjoy the adventure of guiding a son toward the wider world.
This is not about pushing boys to grow up too fast, but about honouring where they are and beginning the journey toward manhood side by side.
You will return home with muddy boots, full hearts, and memories that will last a lifetime.
for a young man accompanied by his father (for ages 14-18)
Boy to Man is a three-day, three-night rite of passage for young men on the threshold between childhood and early adulthood, and for the fathers who wish to walk that crossing with them.
Rooted in ancient initiatory traditions and shaped for modern life, this immersive retreat takes fathers and sons out of everyday routines and into a purposeful journey of challenge, reflection, and connection. Through time in nature, fire-based living, physical adventure, guided ceremony, and honest conversation, boys are invited to explore who they are becoming and what kind of man they wish to be.
Across the weekend, fathers and sons share experiences and also spend time apart, allowing each generation to reflect on its own journey. Boys are supported to recognise their strengths, name their aspirations, and step forward with greater self-belief and direction. Fathers are invited to witness this transition, explore the changing nature of their role, and offer acknowledgement and blessing.
This is a defining moment for both generations, a rare opportunity for a boy to be seen and recognised by men, and for a father to stand beside his son as he crosses an important threshold.
For families who sense that something essential is missing in modern adolescence, Boy to Man offers a true rite of passage: one that meets boys with challenge, care, and meaning, and supports them to step into young manhood feeling grounded, capable, and supported.
a rite of passage for men (18+)
At some point, every man is called to pause and ask: Who am I now, and who am I becoming?
Manhood – The Inner Journey is a three-day, three-night retreat in nature that invites men to step beyond the roles, expectations, and masks of everyday life and reconnect with their deeper truth. This is not a bootcamp or a test of toughness. It is a held, honest space for reflection, courage, and self-discovery.
Through guided ritual, time in nature, fire-side council, and shared brotherhood, men explore the stories they have inherited and the choices they are ready to make. You will be supported to examine relationships, heal old patterns, integrate strength and vulnerability, and clarify what mature masculinity means for you.
This is a rite of passage from reaction to responsibility, from living by habit to living by choice. You will leave with greater clarity, grounded confidence, and a renewed sense of purpose ready to stand more fully in the man you are becoming.
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