Workshop led by Certified Trainers Michael Kolb and Jura Glo.
Reclaim your aliveness and empower yourself to create the life that you want.
Join us on this transformative Radical Honesty 8-Day Intensive Workshop in the Highlands of Scotland!
About this event
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 armour 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 Workshop 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?
Accommodation for 9-days and 8-nights
Radical Honesty 8 day workshop with 2 experienced facilitators & 2 trainer candidates
Healthy vegetarian breakfast buffet, snacks, lunch & dinner
Beautiful country walks and stunning landscapes
Conscious movement, yoga & meditation every morning
Post-workshop online group to help you integrate the practice & stay in touch with your fellow workshop participants
During our 3-hour-long afternoon break you can go on stunning nature walks to the local loch, go wild swimming, enjoy the hot tub, relax in the sauna, explore the local Scottish culture in the nearby village, or keep practising 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.
Where?
The House at Bridge Lochay
Aberfeldy Road Killin Stirling Killin FK21 8TS United Kingdom
When?
Wednesday 21st June - Thursday 29th June 2023
Workshop starts on June 21st around 5pm.
Your arrival day is June 21st and you can arrive around 1pm.
The workshop ends on Thursday 29th June after lunch around 12pm.
Investment
£2400 Early bird (Until 21st April 2023)
£2650 Full price (from 21st April 2023)
£200 off available for BIPOC / LGBTQ / Disabled discount*
*This ticket is to recognise the historical underrepresentation of black, brown, LGBTQ, and disabled humans in these spaces and to show our active value and respect. This is not a concession ticket. If you identify with any of the above and are in financial abundance, please consider choosing another ticket type and/or donating to the BIPOC fund that massively supports us and others. Thank you.
Note: If any of these prices restrict you from attending and you want to attend, please reach out by emailing honestyaberdeen@gmail.com. We are willing to discuss options for you to attend such as payment plans or direct bank transfers to avoid booking fees.
Authentic Living for the 21st Century
The 8-Day Intensive is an immersive, full-time, communal experience designed to give you the opportunity to learn and practice Radical Honesty within a supportive environment.
Q: Who is this workshop for?
A: For those who want to…
Be completely and compassionately honest
Let go of shame, fear, and attachment to approval
Relieve stress caused by constant thinking and worrying
Get over past hurts and experience full-body forgiveness
Use anger and conflict creatively
Repair broken relationships
Learn the art of asking for what you want
Deepen and enliven intimate relationships
Create deeper love, connection, and intimacy
Be fully yourself in a supportive environment
Get support in expressing yourself
Create a vision for your future that is compelling
The workshop is not for you if you:
Are not willing to tell the truth
Are unwilling to step out of your comfort zone
Don’t want to hear others expressing themselves loudly
Insist on changing people rather than changing the way you relate
What happens during the 8-Day Intensive?
This 8-Day Intensive Residential Workshop is the complete Radical Honesty immersion – the only format including naked work and life stories. For 8 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.
We will begin each day with conscious movement and 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 break. After the break, we will continue with a late afternoon session consisting of “hot seat” work, teaching, coaching, and more paired and small group exercises. Then we’ll break for dinner. Please note that each participant will be helping out in a couple of cleaning and cooking shifts throughout the retreat - a very important part of the workshop.
Life Stories
After dinner, one by one, each person will spend about 45-50 minutes telling the whole story of their life in front of the group, and 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 to later watch with their parents, 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 connections.
Naked Work
On about the fifth day, we’ll all get naked. This work is also 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 will 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 favourite and least favourite 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.
Then, together, we’ll review the videos of our naked work. For some people, the process of watching oneself on a television 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. The video recording of your naked work will be deleted after the review.
People often presume this will be some sort of “sexy” experience. Usually, the experience is not all that sexy. Mostly it’s about embarrassment and shame and suffering—and about how our avoidance of those aspects of ourselves often controls our lives. Quite often, the participants who scare themselves the most about doing this exercise are the very ones who benefit the most from it and the ones we have to tell, “put your damn clothes back on!” for the remainder of the workshop.
Life Purpose Work
At the end of the workshop, we’ll spend some time focusing on how we’d like to integrate what we’ve learned in our day-to-day lives, and begin the process of creating a life of meaning for ourselves, by breaking the reactive patterns that are driving our choices (and therefore our lives) at an unconscious level. What we’re after is a life of co-creative connection, informed by our wants and desires, rather than lives of relative oppression, driven by reactivity from unfinished business with important people in our lives.
Falling in Love
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!
Who can participate?
No prior experience with Radical Honesty is required. 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.
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.
How can I join?
Step 1: Go ahead and pay through this webpage or you can send a direct bank transfer and avoid booking fees by emailing honestyaberdeen@gmail.com.
Step 2: Please fill in this signup form so we can get a better understanding of what you want from the workshop and if it is a suitable fit for you:
About the Venue
The retreat will take place at The House at Bridge of Lochay
Located on the outskirts of the village of Killin in Highland Perthshire, 'The House' sits at the foot of Glen Lochay, looking up to Sron a Clachain, one of the most beautiful spots in Scotland.
The house has a large dining room for us to eat meals together, a lounge area with a pool table, a hot tub and a sauna.
Please note: bedrooms will be shared.
In addition, The House is just a 10 minute walk from the ruins Finlarig Castle (below), an ancient defensive fort which has since been engulfed by Mother Nature. A wee bit further away, a 20 minute walk through the charming village will plenty of pubs and small shops, you will find the stunning Falls of Dochart. This location really is one of the most special in Scotland. So get yourself booked in and live out your very own ‘Outlander’ fantasies!
Travel
Closest Bus Station: Killin Village, Manse Road (20 min walk away)
Closest train station: Stirling Train Station (1hr drive away)
Closest Airports: Edinburgh (EDI) and Glasgow (GLA) Airports are both aprox 1.5 hours away by car.
Organise your travel to Killin Village, in the weeks preceding the workshop we will get in touch to arrange shared taxis/pick ups to the venue.
Team
The workshop will be led by one of our most experienced Radical Honesty Trainers, Michael Alan Kolb, with Radical Honesty Trainer Jura Glo, founder of TransformWork and Honest Dating in Berlin.
Who is leading the workshop?
About the Trainers: Michael Alan Kolb, Radical Honesty Trainer, USA / Costa Rica
“Radical Honesty has been profoundly instrumental in helping me reshape my view of the world, how I see myself in it and how I choose to move through it, especially in relationship to another human being. This experiential practice of self-exploration while in contact with another person has helped me confront my Self in a way that I had been avoiding for many years by attempting to ’go it alone’ with meditation and self-study.”
Mak has a BA in Psychology, is a Radical Honesty Trainer and is the Director of the Radical Honesty Institute. He is committed to helping people develop the skills needed to live life out loud, to mend and build (and sometimes end) meaningful relationships, and to ground themselves in experiential reality. He is particularly interested in the problems of existentialism, couples work and non-traditional relationships, and dealing creatively with anger and conflict. He lives and works in Costa Rica where he is co-founder of Cascada Elysiana Eco Retreat Center.
“It is difficult to transition into adulthood in a world full of adolescents. This practice of Radical Honesty has been the most important work I've done in my personal journey of growing up and I'm hungry to surround myself with others who want to embark on this journey with me. There's a whole lot of road left for us to travel.” - Mak
About the Trainers: Jura Glo, Radical Honesty Trainer, Berlin / Lithuania
Jūra Glo is a trauma-informed Radical Honesty trainer and a somatic coach in relationship repair. She has led Radical Honesty practice groups since 2014 and found the largest Radical Honesty community in Europe. She has currently completed 4 years of developmental and attachment trauma (NARM) training, therefore, her work is sharp in precision and gentle in nature.
Jūra is trained in somatic psychotherapy, individual & couples coaching, Tantra yoga, conscious sensuality, and therapeutic bodywork. The wide range of professional backgrounds provides an accepting and playful environment to experiment and experience diverse expressions and ways of being together.
Revolutionary at heart, she founded a visionary organisation TransformWork that aims to create spaces of transformative nature for people to establish and export a new culture for living & relating.
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