Workshop led by Certified Trainer, Christoph Fink with Trainer Candidate, Eivind Liland.
Radical Honesty Retreat in the beautiful and welcoming community ZEGG in Bad Belzig, near Berlin, Germany!
Join us this winter in ZEGG, the Center for Experimental Cultural Design. This more than 30-year old living experiment, an hour from Berlin, has 120 people living and exploring the personal and cultural conditions for trust, connection and cooperation on a daily basis, with a particular focus on community, ecology, love and sexuality.
We will spend much of five days and four nights together, coming together as an honest community of our own. As in other Radical Honesty events, we will form a pact of truth-telling, agreeing to tell our truths for the duration of the stay.
In the breaks, you may explore the community grounds and go for walks in the surrounding nature. Visit ZEGG’s village pub with delicious drinks and a cozy cuddle space, take a morning ice bath in the pool, and warm up in the sauna in the evening.
This workshop is for you if you want to:
experience more aliveness and freedom in your life
let go of shame, fear and attachment to approval
overcome your fear of rejection
use conflict creatively and go beyond blame
learn the art of asking for what you want
heal your relationships and find forgiveness
experience deeper love, connection & intimacy
It 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 at times
participate to change others in your life rather than yourself
Do you want to let go of your shit and experience a hands-on way of having real relationships?
If so, this Radical Honesty Winter Retreat is for you!
Radical Honesty is about Living Out Loud, in the Here and Now
It is a workshop format, a practice and a lifestyle that leads you to connect more deeply with yourself and with others by expressing fear, anger, appreciation and whatever else is arising in the moment.
This retreat is open to anyone curious about Radical Honesty. It is for people who want to experience a hands-on way of having real relationships.
Dates: 24th to 28th January 2024
The workshop starts on Wednesday with dinner at 6.30 p.m., and ends on Sunday with lunch at 1.00 p.m.
Contents
We will spend much of five days and four nights together, coming together as an honest community of our own. As in other Radical Honesty events, we will form a pact of truth-telling, agreeing to tell our truths for the duration of the retreat.
The retreat includes talks, directed conversations, paired exercises, small group exercises, hot seat work, meditation and much more to help you learn how to relax into intimacy based on being open and honest.
The retreat leaders are trained in facilitating Radically Honest conversations, and can assist you by:
Slowing down and placing the focus on one person’s experience at a time
Moving your attention to the here and to your body
Empathic reflection and exploration, offering suggestions to help discover what you feel and what you need, and finding the right words and ways to express yourself
Things you might learn in the workshop include:
What’s at the root of your fear and dysfunctional beliefs and why you have ignored it until now
how to create trust and a deep connection by using your senses and describing your reality
why your lying, concealing and dissimulating makes you ill, stands in the way of your desires and how you can stop it
how to find the necessary courage in your body
how to use your learned skills to make more money, say "no" more effectively and have better sex
Location and Facilities
The workshop takes place in the San Diego building, centrally located on the ZEGG community grounds.
In the breaks, you may explore the community area and go for walks in the surrounding nature. We are invited to spend breaks in ZEGG’s village pub with delicious warm and cold drinks and a cozy cuddle space. We have booked the sauna for one evening, included in the price, with additional evenings available for booking as a group upon request.
Read more about the ZEGG community here (in German), and check out their festivals and events.
Meals and Accommodation
We will be served breakfast and two warm meals per day (vegetarian with vegan options), prepared from the community’s own permaculture acres and local organic sources.
The guest house has cozy single- and double rooms, as well as shared rooms if you like communal sleeping. You may also choose a tent or cabin, or to camp in your own tent.
Still not sure?
Radical Honesty is for you if…
You think other people can't handle your truth
You want to please everyone and contact with other people often exhausts you
You’re tense at family gatherings for fear of conflict
You’re often frustrated with your children, partner, co-workers and the rest of the "incompetent" people around you
You stress yourself out on dates and flirting and make an effort to do “the right thing”
Your sex life is boring and you’re holding back impulses, desires and fantasies
You’re afraid to be honest with your partner for fear of disappointing them
Your repressed anger has already turned into resignation, tiredness, compulsions and fantasies about quitting and breaking up
Prices and Terms
The retreat price is €690, with an early-bird price of €520 if you order before the 27th December 2023.
In addition, there are costs for meals and accommodation at around €274, depending on options. For detailed prices and cancellation policies, click here and here (in German).
Concession rates may be available upon request for those with lower incomes. To request this, contact Christoph directly with a good reason:
christoph@radikaleehrlichkeit.de
0176 420 907 52
Reserve your spot!
In the Words of our Participants
Patrick Räuber, yoga teacher from Munich
“I avoided my brother for 21 years. I had horrible fantasies about meeting him and avoided certain places to avoid meeting him. After one of Christoph's Radical Honesty groups, I just called him. We're talking to each other again now and we went to my parents' wedding together.
In the past I often couldn't stand talking on the phone for five minutes with my father and now we're going on vacation together and I was home for four days at Christmas.
Otherwise, I used to expect others to anticipate my wishes and was often secretly angry and disappointed. Since Radical Honesty, I've had the confidence to just ask what I want.
Thank you Chris!”
Karen Koppitz
"I've changed my language and I'm benefiting so much from it! I am more aware of what I want and listen to my needs. I feel more. Hugs are different.”
Nicole Winter, psychotherapist from Schwabach
“The knot burst for me. I can express my needs better and am no longer afraid of hurting others. Even if my body gets nervous - I know I can do it!"
Lars Jacobs Berlin (and I would be honored if you quote me)
“I always thought of others first, then myself. Pressured to please everyone. A typical "yes man".
Now I feel into myself when I speak. I found my lightness again. And my "no-saying" does me good.
The course with Selina and Christoph was one of the most intense and insightful experiences I have ever had. It showed me that any anger, any fear, any uncomfortable feeling can go away if I let myself feel it."
Raffael Krikkel, musician from Munich
“I learned a lot about body image. Now I want to confront a lot more. Direct experience instead of my fantasies.”
There will be intense sensations and uncomfortable realizations in this course.
If you want to avoid them, this event is not for you.
This is neither therapy nor curative treatment. If you have concerns about existing illnesses, please talk to your doctor or therapist first.
About the Trainers:
Christoph Fink
“Ever since I was young, I have tried to earn affection through success. Whether with women, in martial arts, meditating or later as a father, it was always about doing everything right. Don't disappoint!
It was only through Radical Honesty that I was able to overcome insecurity and guilt and finally experience all the adventures and relationships that discipline, effort, strategy, and roleplaying had vainly hoped for.
"I want to show how easy deep relationships can be when you stop bending and pretending"
Christoph Fink works as a gestalt and trauma therapist with individuals and couples. In 2017 he was certified by Dr. Brad Blanton as a Radical Honesty Trainer.
Eivind Liland:
Eivind moved from building propellant pumps for spaceships as a startup CEO to exploring human connection. Turns out, he believes feeling your body can take you to places even a rocket can't.
Based in the living experiment and cultural laboratory ZEGG close to Berlin, he's on the Trainer path since 2021, assisting workshops as a Trainer Candidate since 2023.
Training as a sex- and relationship therapist and a Heilpraktiker (non-medical practitioner) for psychotherapy, he has a particular focus on the dynamics of unconventional and non-monogamous relationships and is especially interested in the topics of attachment and cultural conditioning.
Eivind is an empathetic and curious coach. He supports you in tracking your experiences from moment to moment, exploring the edge of your conscious awareness, helping you to explore and integrate old wounds and inner conflicts.
Fueled by deep curiosity and a love for experimentation, Eivind prefers a constructive attitude to life, with the motto “love it, leave it or change it.”
Interested in diving deeper? Eivind invites you to explore the transformative possibilities that open up when we are vulnerable, connected, and true to ourselves. He looks forward to seeing you at ZEGG or somewhere else!