Workshop led by Certified Trainer, Christoph Fink with Trainer Candidate, Eivind Liland.
Radical Honesty Retreat in the ZEGG community in Bad Belzig, near Berlin, Germany!
Join us this summer in the beautiful and welcoming community ZEGG, the Center for Experimental Social Design. This 32-year old living experiment in Bad Belzig less than 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.
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.
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 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
Location and facilities
The workshop starts on Wednesday with dinner at 6.30 p.m., and ends on Sunday with lunch at 1.00 p.m.
On 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. You may use the pool to take an ice bath in the morning. We have booked the sauna for one evening, included in the price, with additional evenings available for booking as a group upon request.
Meals and Accommodations
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 ecological 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.
Prices and Booking
The retreat price is €690, with an early-bird price of €520 if you register before the 9th June 2025.
In addition, there are costs for meals and accommodation at around €274, depending on options for accommodation.
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
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
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."
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:
“Since my youth, 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. Just don't disappoint!
It was only through Radical Honesty that I was able to overcome paralyzing insecurity and guilt and finally experience all the adventures and relationships I had hoped for in vain through discipline, effort, strategies and different roles.”
“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 (Somatic Experiencing, emotion-focused therapy) with individuals and couples. In 2017, he was certified as a Radical Honesty Trainer by Dr. Brad Blanton.
Eivind Liland:
Eivind has made the switch from startup CEO in aerospace to explorer of human connection. As it turns out, he believes that feeling your body can take you to places even a rocket can't reach.
He lives in the living experiment and cultural laboratory of ZEGG near Berlin and has been on the trainer path since 2021. He has been assisting as a Trainer Candidate at workshops and retreats since 2023.
In his training as a sex and couples therapist and as an alternative practitioner for psychotherapy, he has a special focus on the dynamics of unconventional and non-monogamous relationships. He is particularly interested in the topics of attachment and cultural imprinting.
Eivind is an empathic and curious coach. He supports you in tracking your experiences moment by moment and exploring the edge of your conscious experience. In doing so, he helps you to integrate old hurts and inner conflicts.
Driven by deep curiosity and a love of experimentation, Eivind favors a constructive approach to life, true to the motto: “Love it, leave it or change it.”
Interested in a deeper exploration? Eivind invites you to experience the transformative possibilities that open up when we are vulnerable, connected and authentic. He looks forward to seeing you at ZEGG or elsewhere!