Workshop led by Certified Trainers, Marvin Schulz, John Rosania and Gudrun Graichen.
Reclaim your aliveness and empower yourself to create the life that you want.
*This workshop is fully booked - email Marvin to join the waitlist here.
Join Radical Honesty Senior Trainers Marvin Schulz and John Rosania with Trainer Gudrun Graichen for an immersive, transformative, and life-changing Radical Honesty 8-Day Intensive workshop in Greece.
When?
August 19th - 27th, 2023
Workshop starts on Saturday, August 19th around 5 pm.
Your arrival day is August 19th and you can arrive around 1 pm.
The workshop ends on Sunday, August 27th after lunch.
Where?
A private sea-view house close to Agios Ioannis, Pelion (40km from Volos)
You can find the exact location right here. It's easy to get there.
For detailed information, read further down.
Investment?
2700 Euros (incl. VAT)
Early Bird: 2.500 Euros (First 5 tickets - SOLD OUT)
An incredible 8-Day journey into the depths of your being
Join a group of courageous truth-seekers on an incredible journey to grow into the most authentic version of yourself. Radical Honesty is a straightforward way to getting real and connected in ways you did not think were possible.
In these intense and transformative 8 days you get to be completely honest about your true thoughts and feelings. With the support of the group, you can open up, come out of hiding and free yourself from constant thinking and control. You get to be seen, heard and understood, and to connect to other people who tell the truth about their lives.
As the days progress, you get to know yourself better and you can reconnect with lost parts of yourself. You can gently soften the armor you have created based on past hurt and shame. Then, instead of protecting yourself, you can experience full presence, aliveness, and genuine connection. Telling the truth in a supportive environment can help you outgrow habits that don’t serve you anymore and reclaim the power to lead a life of choice.
The 8-Day Intensive is a work of genuine love and care during which you set your energy free and unleash your potential to create the life and relationships that work for you.
What’s included in this?
8-days and 8-nights of Radical Honesty with 3 experienced facilitators
Healthy vegetarian breakfast buffet, snacks, lunch and dinner
Beautiful hikes, stunning landscapes, lake, waterfalls, and a swimming pool
Conscious movement, yoga & meditation every morning
2 post-workshop Zoom sessions to help you integrate the practice
During our 3-hour-long afternoon break you can relax by the beach, explore nearby waterfalls, or just continue practicing Radical Honesty with newly made friends.
Note: If you’re interested in participating in a future Radical Honesty Trainer’s Training (TT), attendance at the 8-day intensive workshop is a prerequisite for attending the TT.
The Deep Dive into the World of Radical Honesty
This 8-Day Intensive Residential Workshop is the complete Radical Honesty immersion – the only format including naked work and life stories. For eight full days, you’ll get to experience yourself in a raw and vulnerable way, learn to create real connections, make true friends, enhance your aliveness, and work on letting go of the past and design your future.
The trainers will support you in:
Being completely and compassionately honest
Letting go of shame, fear and attachment to approval
Feeling your own body and expanding bodily awareness
Staying comfortable with the uncomfortable - expanding your comfort zone
Asking for what you want - increasing your capacity to give & receive
Getting over anger, guilt and obsessive thinking
Healing personal relationships and experiencing whole-body forgiveness
Living out loud - laughing, crying, yelling, smiling and completely changing your life as you know it
Pelion, Greece.
The workshop will take place in the beautiful, green Pelion area. According to Greek mythology, this is where the gods came for their vacation. We can see why. You will wake up to an amazing sunrise over the sea, surrounded by lush green mountains. The water is crystal clear and perfect for snorkeling. The place vibrates with aliveness in summer.
Our house is an old traditional mountain house with its own fig trees, olive trees, grapes, and berries. You will share a room with one other participant. Every room is equipped with its own shower and toilet.
The Schedule
We will begin each day with conscious movement 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.
Life Stories
After dinner, one by one, each person will spend about 45 minutes telling the whole story of their life. This will be video recorded. 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 their Life Story video recording. They can later watch the video with their parents, (ex-)partners, siblings, lovers and friends with whom they have unfinished business in life and use the video-watching as a way to start honest conversations and create connection.
The Naked Work
On the fifth or sixth day, we’ll all get naked. This work will be video recorded. 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, how and with whom we like to have sex, how many sexual partners we’ve had, our favorite and least favorite sexual experiences, and so on.
Though we’ll probably get embarrassed, with good coaching and complete sharing of the truth and support from the group we will face our shame/fears/taboos—and get over them.
People often presume that Naked Work is 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 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 their video while receiving feedback about it. For some people, the process of watching oneself on a screen, naked, while talking about their 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.
Falling in Love with Everyone
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 to be someone we’re not in hopes that others will love us for our performance, when actually what we needed all along was to drop the act and tell the truth—and be ourselves!
Brad Blanton—Radical Honesty founder—on the 8-Day Intensive Workshop:
“The 8-Day workshop is an experiential course in living out loud, increasing your capacity for intimacy and creativity, and living your life on purpose, instead of residing in the jail of your mind and reacting to life’s circumstances while believing you’re in control.
“In our workshops, we get together to make some agreements about what we will do together for the next nine days. One of the most important agreements is that we will tell the truth to each other completely for the next nine days. If that was all that occurred, and there were no other agenda whatsoever, the course would be powerful because the power of that agreement alone is incredible.”
Here’s what former workshop participants say about the leaders:
“I attended a weekend Radical Honesty workshop in Berlin, where Marvin was the facilitator. I imagine his style of leading the workshops and guiding participants in the exercises is similar and loyal to the founder Brad Blanton's approach, and I appreciate him for that. If you're interested in attending a workshop led by Marvin, I suggest that you don't hesitate and overthink and just do it. I recommend his work and commitment to practicing Radical Honesty. I have also become his friend since meeting him through workshops.” Morgana from New York
“Over the course of my life as a counselor, coach and hypnotherapist, I’ve attended at least a hundred workshops. The Radical Honesty weeklong-workshop with Marvin in Greece is definitely in the top drawer of all my workshop experiences. Some of the techniques that I saw practised in this workshop will be useful additions to my repertoire of communication skills. For example, “I appreciate you for…”, “I resent you for…”, “I imagine that you…”. These techniques really enhance the honesty in human interactions. When it comes to my own radical honesty I am now a confirmed “RadHon”. Richard from Ottawa
“I’ve been to multiple workshops run by Dr. Brad Blanton and others. From each one I’ve become more direct, awake and connected with the people in the workshops and people in my home life. The workshop led by Marvin was the best weekend workshop I’ve been to and I’ll be going back for more with him in 2019. If you’re thinking to go to a workshop to see what the Radical Honesty fuss is all about, Marvin Schulz embodies and teaches with clarity, passion, vigor and humour, and you’ll be lead through your own ways of being unusually honest by a leader with great skill, who fuses compassion and real power.” Alex from Bristol
Frequent Questions
Weather
We will be in Greece during August. Expect perfect summer weather and warm temperatures. You have the afternoons off to walk to the beach (12 mins) or explore the nearby waterfalls, taverns, forests, or caves. At night it sometimes thunderstorms, which is amazing to watch from the plateau we are living on.
Lodging
You will stay at a beautiful Greek mountain house, nestled between lush green hills and surrounded by olive trees. We are 15 walking minutes away from the beach. You will be served three delicious, vegetarian locals meals every day. You will stay with one other participant in a room. There are limited options for discounted tent spots and single rooms in a nearby guest house.
How does one get there?
All ways will lead you Volos. Volos is one hour away and has an airport (with limited international flights). You can also fly into Athens or Thessaloniki and take a 3-4 hour bus from there to Volos. This is what most people do. From Volos, you can either share a taxi directly to the house (about 55 Euros) or take a 3-5 Euro local bus that will take you to Agios Ioannis. We will support you with your travels by creating an arrival sheet two months before the workshop. This way you can connect with your fellow participants before the workshop.
When exactly does the workshop start and end?
You will arrive at the venue on the 19th of August and we will get together in the evening. We will end the workshop after lunch on of the 27th. Please plan your trip to be present the whole entire time.
Who can participate?
No prior experience in Radical Honesty is necessary. We do recommend that you read Radical Honesty or Practicing Radical Honesty before arriving.
You will have to agree to the workshop agreements: 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. We understand that such agreements, Radical Honesty and/or the 8-day intensive program can bring up feelings of doubt and fear, therefore, we recommend you reading Brad Blanton’s books Radical Honesty and/or contact us and have a chat about the things that might be getting in the way for you to make a decision.
Travel
Transport to the venue will be organised from Volos, Greece.
Commitment
Please plan your travels in a way that you can be present at each session. To make this workshop work for you and everyone else, we will all agree to take part in every session, including the naked work, body movement, meditation and telling of life stories.
If you have any concerns with any part of the program, let us know.
Continuous Support
After the retreat, you will receive continuous support from the trainers. You can join an ongoing community and get access to the network of Radical Honesty graduates - a fantastic resource for co-hearted living amongst friends.
How much does this cost?
The total price for the workshop, food, and housing is €2,700 (incl. VAT). To secure your spot, you can pay a non-refundable deposit of €600 now and the balance before the workshop starts. We can negotiate a flexible payment plan according to your needs, and the whole amount has to be paid in full before the start of the workshop.
(Early Bird: 2.500 Euros First 5 tickets - SOLD OUT)
How can I join?
The group is strictly limited to 16 participants. In order to join, fill out the application here. You will have to pay a deposit of 600 Euros to reserve your spot. We expect this workshop to be fully booked. So, if you want to attend, we suggest that you book your spot sooner rather than later.
Cancellation Policy
We understand that sometimes life intervenes and that you may need to withdrawal from the workshop. We also want you to keep your commitments and do what you can to organize your life so that you will show up. We will give you a refund (minus credit card fees and nonrefundable 600 euro deposit) if you cancel before July 1st, 2023. After July 1st, we will not be giving refunds.
More Info
Contact Marvin (hello@marvinschulz.com) or John (John@honesty-lab.com) with any questions.
Watch Marvin and other trainers discuss the Radical Honesty 8-Day Intensive in Costa Rica:
About the Trainers
Marvin Schulz, M.Sc., is one of the most experienced Radical Honesty Trainers and organizes workshops in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. As a former auditor for investment banks in New York and Executive Assistant for a multi-billion dollar company on Broadway, Marvin experienced the detrimental effects of lying and withholding first hand: at age 26, he was depressed and burned out.
“I had a promising career in front of me. However, I felt horrible and empty. None of the money I made could compensate for my inner yearning for love, connection and a happy life. After deciding not to kill myself, I opted for a Radical Honesty Workshop. After that, I still killed myself, but in a very different way: I killed my self-image and completed my past.”
He left the corporate rat wheel and embarked on his journey towards a more authentic, joyous, and connected life. He moved back to Germany and healed his own wounds by having honest conversations with important people. He cleaned up his past using Radical Honesty. Dr. Blanton invited Marvin to live at his place in Virginia for one season and certified him as a Radical Honesty trainer three years later.
Marvin has the ability to bring humor into seemingly serious processes while staying compassionate and curious. He is comfortable going into discomfort and can guide participants in re-experiencing hurt and pain while holding them in the here and now. His style is inquisitive, simple, and direct – often with a wink and never without compassion. Marvin has lived in China, Mexico, South Africa and the United States and studied cross-cultural communication. He currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic, where he produces music, drinks coffee and enjoys what he often calls the most beautiful city in the world. If you want to learn more, visit his website:
John Rosania, M.S.
"Honesty practice changed me at the core of my being. Learning the honesty skills improved (most of) my relationships and taught me how to live with more freedom, aliveness, and love."
John is the former CEO of Radical Honesty Enterprises and a trauma-informed, socially-culturally attuned, certified Radical Honesty trainer. He leads online courses, Weekend and 8-Day workshops around the United States, and offers individual and couples coaching.
Since 2013, he has been a part of the Radical Honesty community attending numerous 8-Day and Weekend workshops as a participant. He led the Radical Honesty Los Angeles meetup from 2013-2018. In 2017, he was certified as a Radical Honesty Trainer by Brad Blanton and Taber Shadburne.
John is deeply committed to supporting people develop their capacities to notice their experience, share themselves honestly, get over past hurts, and develop a compelling life purpose.
Before Radical Honesty, John was a wellness coach and the Director of Content at the Clean Program where he developed educational modules and coached VIP clients. He has led live trainings and workshops at companies such as Manduka, Google, and Martha Stewart Living.
He has a B.A. in Philosophy, conservatory-training as an actor, and is a contributing author to two New York Times bestselling books, Clean Gut and Clean Eats.
John has an M.S. in Counseling from California State University.
Gudrun Graichen is a certified Radical Honesty Trainer from Hamburg and co-founder of the Radical Honesty Institute. She leads Radical Honesty workshops in German and English.
Since 2008, she runs her own coaching practice for business and personal coaching. In her first career, she worked as an executive consultant for an American consultancy and as Head of Marketing in fashion industry. Gudrun is also a mom of three grown-up kids - two sons and a daughter.
Today, she supports people in showing up for themselves and their purposes, expressing what’s deeply theirs.
“I want to support the ability to stay present with uncomfortable sensations and feelings and share them. I believe that we can create great things together if we learn to get over the stress we create around each other. That's my idea of a better world that I want to contribute to!”
Apart from Radical Honesty, Gudrun has a wide range of methods and tools at her disposal, namely generative coaching (Stephen Gilligan), hypno-systemic approaches (Gunther Schmidt) and transformational coaching (Claire Zammit). She is also approved for psychotherapy according to German Heilpraktikergesetz.