What is Honesty Europe?
Honesty Europe’s mission is to help people create more connection and love in their lives through honest sharing.
We offer retreats and workshops across Europe, focused on how to live, love, laugh, and be happy.
Our invitation is simple yet profound: step outside your comfort zone and dive into being real, being you.
In our retreats and workshops, all parts of you are welcome. You don’t need to show only the shiny, happy, successful sides of yourself. Your fearful, angry, sad, or shameful sides are just as embraced. We celebrate vulnerability and the courage to be authentic.
This is a space where you can allow others to truly see you—and give them the chance to like (or dislike) you exactly as you are. You’re invited to be messy, laugh, cry tears of sadness, tears of being touched and even tears of joy.
At Honesty Europe, we aim to create spaces and community where you can be fully human among other humans.
Who Are the Workshops For?
Honesty Europe’s workshops are for you if:
- You want to experience more freedom in your life.
- You’re ready to let go of shame, fear, and the need for approval.
- You want to use conflict creatively and move beyond blame.
- You desire to master the art of asking for what you want.
- You’re seeking to heal relationships and find forgiveness.
- You yearn for deeper love, connection, and intimacy.
Our workshops and retreats are not for you if you want to continue relying on white lies, avoid facing yourself, or continue sugarcoating issues in your relationships (and by doing so hindering connection).
We encourage you to address any unfinished emotional business from your past between you and your loved ones and live fully in the here and now as you create the future you truly desire.
What Happens in the Workshops?
In Honesty Europe workshops, no subject is off-limits. We might talk about money, sexuality, or what makes us proud—or explore taboos we’ve long avoided.
We often delve into how we sabotage our happiness, make ourselves miserable by comparing ourselves to others, and hold ourselves back. Just as importantly, we celebrate what is beautiful and unique about you.
Our workshops are experiential and experimental. We explore new ways of expressing ourselves and distinguish between thoughts and reality—learning to notice what is truly happening in the moment. This includes noticing what we see, hear, and feel physically, and recognizing our thoughts as just that: thoughts.
You’ll have the freedom to express yourself through laughter, crying, sharing, shouting, or asking for what you want—and the opportunity to receive without feeling obligated to give back.
A common question we ask is:
“What do you notice happening in your body right now?”
This practice of tuning into physical sensations in any given moment can be crucial in helping us to become more aware of our experience – and what emotions we feel.
At Honesty Europe, we trust the wisdom of the body over the chatter of the thinking mind.
What You’ll Experience
Workshops and retreats include:
- Teaching and group sharing.
- Facilitated conversations and paired exercises.
- Small group exercises and hot-seat work.
- Meditation and other practices to integrate honesty and authenticity into daily life.
Learning to listen without fixing
In some exercises, one person shares while the other listens without interrupting, advising, or trying to “fix” anything. By doing so, you can experience being heard without interruptions or advice. This creates space for deep listening and genuine connection.
After each event, we encourage participants to join sharing groups to integrate their experiences into daily life and support one another in their journey toward truth-telling.
Our approach is informed by a range of methodologies, including:
- Radical Honesty
- Gestalt Therapy
- Somatic Experiencing
- Authentic Relating
- Hakomi Somatic Mindful Psychotherapy
- Transformational Chairwork and Voice Dialogue
- Forest Mind
Find out what workshops’ participants said about their experience
Our Little Family Business
Honesty Europe was founded by trainers, workshop leaders, therapists, and married couple Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.
Since 2015, we’ve led over 150 multi-day retreats and workshops across Europe. We are the main trainers and we often work with assistants who are learning from us how to facilitate others, making us a strong team to support you in your journey.
What motivates and fascinates us endlessly is the power of honest sharing. When we sit together in a circle and truly listen to each other, a certain kind of magic tends to happen.
People get to experience being seen, being heard, being witnessed and even being understood—sometimes for the first time. The struggles and secrets we carry are often shared by others, and revealing them can make our lives much lighter.