Couples Retreat in Parkano Finland | 25-29 March 2026

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Transform Your Relationship by Telling the Truth in cabins surrounded by lush forests and lake at the Honesty Europe Couples Retreat in Finland

Radical Honesty couples retreat in Finland (25-29 March 2026)

With our 11th Honesty Europe couples retreat in Finland, we’re excited to again support you in creating more honesty and deep connection, love, sex and compassion in your relationship.

We’ll spend five days and four nights together in our new Finnish retreat center, surrounded by a lush pine and birch forest by a lovely lake. The retreat will include daily workshop sessions, free time for walking in the forests and on the ice, admiring and rolling in the snow, enjoying the stary nights, spending time with your partner and others, relaxing and nightly Finnish saunas.
This retreat will be limited to six couples.

This workshop is for you if

• you want deeper love, connection & intimacy in your relationship
• you want to experience more freedom and happiness
• you want to let go of shame, fear and attachment to approval in your relationship
• you want to get over anger, use conflict creatively and go beyond blame
• you desire to learn the art of asking for what you want
• want to heal your relationship and find forgiveness

The workshop 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 or crying at times
• want to change your partner rather than yourself

Workshop on How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It
Radical Honesty is direct communication that leads to intimacy. Honesty is kind of scary fun that turns out better than you thought it would. Lying is work and a pain in the ass and makes you lonesome as hell and eventually kills the connection, love and intimacy with your partner.

We claim that lying is the major source of all human stress and makes relationships superficial and many of us lonely in our relationships. It wears us out and eventually kills us. When people engage honestly, energy that was wasted maintaining a performance to make an impression is suddenly available for real creativity in playing together. When we admit our pretences, we can refresh our relationships and powerfully create new ways of living together.

What do others say about the Honesty Europe’s Couples Retreat?

“We did the Couples Retreat as a preparation for our wedding without knowing what would come up. Both of us had attended workshops separately before but never one together. But it was for our relationship such a benefit. We strengthened our trust, vulnerability, appreciation and love towards each other even more, and I really feel good about getting married now. I highly recommended this retreat for everybody who wants to deepen their connections.”
–Pia (Austria)

“If you want to stop bypassing the hard and scary stuff with your partner and look straight at it in a safe and supportive environment, and with competent and compassionate people at your side coaching you through it, then the Couples Retreat with Pete & Tuulia is just right for you.”
–Anastasia (Germany)

“Pete & Tuulia have a lot of experience in communicating and relating successfully and they’re great at teaching it, too! If you want to learn how to create and maintain intimate relationships and have a good time doing it, join a Couples Retreat!”
–Michael (Germany)

“Behind every great relationship are difficult and uncomfortable conversations we rarely get to see. Great relationships don’t just fall on our laps. They require people to move through their fears and insecurities and do the hard work to move wounds into healing. I feel touched and inspired after witnessing what I judge to be great relationships having difficult conversations, getting over their shit and reaching places of forgiveness and love again. I super duper recommend Pete & Tuulia’s Couples Retreat to anyone who wants to deepen their ability to see and be seen by their partner, warts and all.”
–Rose (U.K.)

“I judge Tuulia & Pete to be very talented workshop leaders. In the Couples Retreat I attended, they created a wonderful, personal space — also by showing themselves as the imperfect humans they are — in which sharing whatever feelings and thoughts was very easy and so welcomed! High recommendation!”
–Taranee (Germany)

“During the Couples Retreat led by Pete & Tuulia, I learned so much about myself in relation to not only my partner but to basically all the people around me. I greatly recommend this course for everyone who wants to express more frustration in order to spend less time feeling it.”
–Katrien, (The Netherlands)

What will we do?
On each day, we’ll do some yoga or body movement, meditation, workshop sessions, couples exercises and group exercises. The sessions will include an introduction to Radical Honesty; a deeper dive into RH; and learning through theory, discussions, sharing and exercises on how to be radically honest. We’ll do group and paired exercises as well as hot seat work.

Leisure time
We will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, saunaing, playing games, chatting, walking in the forest, and appreciating nature in the Finnish nature.

Language
The training will be conducted in English. Finnish speakers will have the opportunity to do paired exercises together in Finnish or in any of your joint language.

Schedule
The retreat will begin on Wednesday 25 March at 17:00 and will conclude on Sunday 29 March by 12:30.

Travel
Via air from outside Finland: fly to Helsinki airport and then take a two-hour and half train ride to Parkano.

From Helsinki airport, first take the commuter train to the Tikkurila
station and then from there take the train to Parkano.
There is also a bus connection from Helsinki to Parkano, which is cheaper though takes about 90 minutes longer than the train connection.

From Parkano, we will direct you the rest of the way to the lake.
You can also cycle or drive to the retreat site (and if you do drive, we will probably ask you to carpool with others).

Community
Participants will be asked to assist in the cooking, serving and cleaning up of meals/snacks as a way to help create a community during our five days together. This is commonly done in longer Radical Honesty workshops (and to help get shit done).

Team
The workshop leaders will be certified Radical Honesty Trainers—and married couple—Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.

Price
The Early Bird price is €840 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT) and €1680 per couple.

The Early bird price is valid until 15 February 2026.

The regular price thereafter is €890 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT) and 1780 per couple.

The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks, teaching, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 person rooms, sharing group (email group) and integration call after the retreat.

The price does not include travel to the location. However we can coordinate a taxi van for the participants to and from Parkano railways station.
Kindly bring your own sheets & towels. You can also rent sheets and towels at the location for 20 euros, paid in cash on arrival.

Support Available
If paying for this retreat is a financial challenge to you, then please be aware of the existence of the Honesty Europe Support Fund, which offers financial support to those who otherwise could not afford to attend Honesty Europe’s workshops and retreats. Read more about the Support fund here.

Support for BIPOC
If you are low income and are black, indigenous or a person of color (BIPOC), you can request a discount from us.
Message your request to us at: info@HonestyEurope.com
Note: we might take a few days to answer your request.

Is this workshop for me?
Honesty Europe’s workshop often have therapeutic impacts, however workshops are not therapy and are not meant to replace personal therapy.
This workshop is not for you if you have major untreated traumas.
Workshops and retreats can be physically and psychologically stressful.
If you have an acute mental health challenge, please first discuss with your therapist / doctor and then with us before registering.
You can reach us at: info@HonestyEurope.com

Workshop Agreements
(required for participation)

In this workshop, we will strive to create an environment and space where everyone feels safe to express their emotions, share their thoughts and experiment with each other. Therefore, we require all workshop participants and workshop leaders to agree to the below agreements.
On the first evening of the workshop, we will devote time to discussing each of the agreements and addressing any questions anyone has about them before we actually agree to them.

If you have questions or concerns about any of this, please contact us at: info@HonestyEurope.com.

1. I agree to tell my truth.
(You decide how much you want to share and we do invite you to explore going a bit outside your comfort zone in sharing.)

2. I agree to support others in telling their truth.
(Being willing to remain present and willing to hear others sharing.)

3. I agree to keep confidentiality.
(No sharing things about workshop participants to people outside the workshop without the participant’s consent.)

4. I agree to be on time and present.
(You’ll be on time for the workshop sessions and stay until the end of them. You’ll be physically present and do your best to also be mentally present (e.g. by leaving your phone outside the workshop space, etc.).)

5. I agree to ask for what I want.
(An invitation for you to voice and ask for everything you want. We do not guarantee, though, that you will get everything you ask for.)

6. I agree to take more than I give.
(Keep the focus on yourself rather than on others. You are allowed to speak, take time, take space and take care of yourself. We invite the others to do so as well.)

7. I agree to only consensual touch.
(No touching others without their permission; no physical violence.)

8. I agree to be led by the workshop leaders.
(Being willing to try out the proposed language in coaching situations and join the exercises during the workshop.)

Book your spot soon! Almost all our previous couples retreats have sold out.

If you have any questions about the Couples Retreat, please feel free to email us at info@honestyeurope.com.

You are warmly welcome to the exciting journey of honesty and deeper connection!

Sincerely,
Tuulia & Pete
www.HonestyEurope.com
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