Transformative Journeys
Two guided journeys in a small circle of thirteen people, held in our sanctuary in the Jordaan. Not a workshop, not a course. Eight evenings, together, long enough for something to actually shift.
Most of us have tried the one off version. A weekend workshop. A retreat that cracked something open. A session where you cried and felt clean afterwards. They are real, and about ten days later you are usually back to answering messages at midnight and saying yes when you mean no.
That is not a personal failure. The patterns you are trying to change were built over decades, and they do not dissolve in an afternoon because you had an insight. Insight is the easy part. What is hard is doing something different on a Tuesday when you are tired and the old way is right there.
That takes repetition, and it takes witnesses.
Which is why our journeys run for eight weeks, and why the circle is capped at thirteen. Small enough that you cannot hide. Large enough that you are not exposed.
Both run for eight weeks, both are held in the same room with the same thirteen people. They begin from different places.
You are the reliable one, and quietly exhausted by it. You people please, you struggle to receive, and no achievement ever settles the question of whether you are enough. This journey goes to where that began, and ends in something practical: self love you can actually live by.
Read moreA relationship ended. The children left. The career stopped fitting. Or nothing dramatic happened at all and you simply woke up one day knowing the life you built no longer reflects who you are becoming. This journey is about what you do with that space.
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On paper, everything is fine.
The work, the home, the people who call you the strong one. So why lie awake replaying conversations? Why does saying no feel dangerous? Why sabotage the good things exactly when they arrive?
Together, over eight evenings, you slow down enough to meet yourself again. To see the stories you started believing, the masks that protected you, and the person underneath who was there all along.
This is not therapy, and it is not a course. It is a journey home.
You cannot change what you have never truly seen. Who are you today, and which parts have quietly disappeared?
I am too much. I am not enough. I have to be strong. This week uncovers them.
Not confidence, not ego. How to stop abandoning yourself and become your own safe place.
The Pleaser, the Achiever, the Invisible One. Survival strategies, not personality. Which one is exhausting you now?
Why we attract who we attract, and how saying no can be an act of love.
Money magnifies identity. What were you taught about success, receiving and abundance?
A guest experience. Your gifts, your themes, your unique way of loving.
Everything comes together, and then we close with the ceremony.
A porcelain heart is broken, then restored with gold. Inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, it becomes a symbol that what has been broken can become even more meaningful.
Nothing is disguised. The repair is the point.
Some endings do not feel like endings. They feel like the quiet beginning of a life you have not met yet.
Perhaps your children have left home. Your relationship has ended. Your career no longer feels aligned. Your business has outgrown you. Or maybe nothing dramatic happened at all.
And then one ordinary day you catch yourself thinking:
That realisation is not failure. It is an invitation.
The question is what you do with it. Most of us rush to fill the silence. A new relationship. Another job. Another project. Another distraction. Anything is easier than sitting in the gap and admitting we do not yet know what comes next.
But this chapter is not asking you to do more. It is asking you to choose more deliberately. To pause. To reflect. To reconnect. And then to build something that actually fits.
Not reinvention because you were lost. Reinvention because you have grown. Over eight evenings you let go of the identities that no longer fit, rediscover what lights you up, and write the next chapter consciously rather than by default.
You will not leave with all the answers. You will leave knowing how to choose.
It is the question almost everyone asks, usually in a lowered voice, as though it were an embarrassing thing to want.
No. Nobody arrives here starting from nothing. You arrive with decades of knowing precisely what matters, what does not, and what you will never tolerate again. That is not a disadvantage to work around. It is the whole advantage, and most people waste it by assuming the rest of the story has already been written for them.
You are not too late. You are finally properly informed.
Before anything new begins, we honour what has been. What did this life give you, what did it cost you, and what are you still carrying from it?
The roles, obligations and patterns you have outgrown. We close with the Releasing Ritual. Every new beginning starts with making space.
Not someone's partner. Not someone's parent. Not your job title. Not your achievements. Just you.
Your values have quietly changed, and most people never update them. This week you do.
Desire, curiosity and play. Permission to want things again, and to say them out loud without justifying them to anyone.
A guest expert evening on financial independence and the practical foundations of choice. Because a new chapter needs more than courage. It needs room to breathe.
Through vision work, creativity and practical exercises, you begin shaping a life that reflects who you are today, not who you were ten years ago.
Not with all the answers, but with trust, clarity and courage. We close with the Sealing Ceremony.
In week two you write down what you are leaving behind. The role, the story, the obligation, the version of yourself that served you once and does not anymore. Then, together and by firelight, we burn it. You set it down in front of witnesses, which is the part that makes it real.
On the final evening you write a personal Letter from My Future Self. The promises you are making, the dreams you said out loud, and the person you have chosen to become. By candlelight you seal it yourself with wax.
The autumn circles begin on Wednesday 9 September in our sanctuary in the Jordaan.
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