Private Retreat in Syvilla, Parkano Finland | 21-23 March 2025

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Note! We will keep this one for sale until end of January 2025.
You can message us to inquire about other possible dates.

Honesty Europe Private Retreat in Finland by lakeside with sauna & jacuzzi
Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth in Syvilla Finland, 21-23 March 2025

You will spend a weekend – three days and two nights – in our retreat center Syvilla in Parkano, surrounded by a lush pine forest beside a lake.

The retreat will include daily sessions designed for your needs and wishes, as well as free time for walking in forest, enjoying the icy lake and jacuzzi, dipping into ice hole, and nightly saunas in our wood-burning sauna.

Will will offer you three meals daily, catered to your diet (vegan, vegetarian, pescaterian and gluten-free available) and you will have healthy snacks, coffee (also decaf) and tea available at all times.

You will have your own room or if you join with a partner you can share a room with a double bed.
This retreat is for one to two people, you can add more people to your group up to 10 for additional 300 euros each.
This price includes support from two trainers and coaches – Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.

Honesty is a way to create connections and to stay present to our experience and bodily sensations.

This retreat is for you if:

• you want to focus on the topics important to you in a intimate environment
• you want private coaching and support
• you want to work with your partner / friend or family member
• you prefer a focused and intensive approach rather than bigger group setting
• you want to experience more freedom in your life
• you are looking for using conflict creatively and want to go beyond blame
• you desire to learn the art of asking for what you want
• want to heal your relationships and find forgiveness
• you yearn deeper love, connection & intimacy

The Private retreat is not for you if you:

• don’t want to tell the truth
• want to stay in your comfort zone at all times
• want to change others in your life rather than yourself

Workshop on How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It
Honesty Europe’s work is based on direct communication and vulnerable sharing that leads to intimacy.
For many of us 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 often lonesome and miserable as hell.

We claim that lying is the major source of all human stress. 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 pretenses we can refresh our relationships and powerfully create new ways of living together.

Our retreat center Syvilla
Our lovely retreat center Syvilla is located beside the clean Lake Kovesjärvi in a lovely location by a forest and vast grounds for roaming around.  It has many buildings including fully renovated yet historically important main red building, an old barn turned into lodging spaces and a kitchen & big space for gatherings and parties, a large terrace which can be covered for rain, an old smoke sauna turned into lodging, a sandy beach, a wood-burning sauna and a smoke sauna by a lake, a wood-burning hot tub and jacuzzi and big hangout areas & fire places by the shore, our own small island and a lot more.

Leisure activities include walking on the ice, enjoying the many fire places including one on the island,  enjoying snow, games such as board games, golf frisbee, and basketball hoop.

The property in Parkano about 11 kilometers from the city center and has 170 meters of shore line and is about 1.7 hectares in size.

Syvilla about 80 kilometers north of Tampere and about 260 kilometres north of Helsinki.
The railway is about 17 kilometers from the location.
Read more:  https://syvilla.fi/gb/

Language
The language will be English. Also Finnish and Dutch is available with prior agreement.
You can do your paired assigments together in your common language.

Leisure time
You will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, trying out our multiple questions card games, enjoying sauna and jacuzzi, walking in the forest and on ice and appreciating Finnish nature.
We can also add a trip to a wonderful nature protection are nearby and breakfast / lunch by bonfire with traditional vegetarian or meat sausages, vegetable and coffee/tea.

Schedule
The retreat will begin on Friday 21 March at 17:30 and will conclude on Sunday 23 February by 16:15.
These are can be also changed as needed.

Travel
Via air from outside Finland: fly to Helsinki airport and then take a two-hour and half train ride to Parkano. (There are also a limited number of flights that also fly in directly to Tampere airport.) From Tampere, we will direct you the rest of the way to the lake (probably via a local bus). We recommend travelling by land and if that is not possible compensating your CO2 emissions.

From within Finland, take a train to Parkano. From there, we will  organize a shared taxi van for you.

If you drive to the retreat site, we will probably ask you to carpool with others.

You can buy the train tickets via this website https://www.vr.fi/en/
When you a week before you will get the ticket about 5-6 euros cheaper.

Travel by train
We recommend taking the following direct train from Helsinki 13:24 – arriving in Parkano 15.44.
We recommend taking the following train from Tampere 15:02 – arriving in Parkano 15.44.
We can arrange a taxi van for a pick up, the cost will be split up between people (total cost of the van is around 45 euros).
On Sunday we recommend taking the 17:09 train arriving 17:51 to Tampere and 19:35 to Helsinki (direct to Helsinki).

From Seinäjoki there are direct trains which take around 30 minutes.

Arriving early or staying later – holiday by the lake!
You can arrive early or stay later for €80 per night (the price includes simple dinner and breakfast and self heated sauna). Get in touch with with us in case you want to take up this option!

Team
Your facilitators  will be certified Radical Honesty Trainers—and married couple—Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.

Price
The Early Bird price is  €1600 (including 21% VAT).
The Early bird price is valid until 15 January 2025.

The regular price thereafter is €1670 (including 21% VAT).

The fee covers agreed session up to 7 hours,
three healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks daily starting with welcome coffee / tea and snacks on arrival and finished with lunch on Sunday,
daily saunas, and single room accommodation, bed linen and towels.

The price does not include travel to the location, however we can organize a  taxi van from the railway station.
Email us in case you want to book the Private retreat for more than two people.

Cancellation terms
Please note that we do not offer refunds. However you can transfer your ticket to another person. Let us know via email in case someone else will take your spot

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.

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

Warmly welcome!

Sincerely,
Tuulia & Pete
www.HonestyEurope.com
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Who are your facilitators?
Tuulia Syvänen is the certified Radical Honesty trainer who has led the most RH workshops in Europe. She also does 1:1 and couples coaching. For two decades, she held leadership positions at international, non-profit organizations that are concerned with social and environmental justice issues. A native of Finland, she has lived in Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Canada.

Having grown up in a dysfunctional family—where difficulties and negative feelings were often swept under the rug—Tuulia became passionate about self-expression and self-awareness, and learned the importance of setting one’s boundaries. Most important, she learned the power of honesty. Her life’s mission is to help create more love and connection between people through honest sharing.

Tuulia participated in her first Radical Honesty training in 2012 with the founder of Radical Honesty Dr. Brad Blanton and continued her training under the guidance of Dr. Blanton. She has led more than 100 RH workshops in various European countries. She has also attained a four-year certification in the Human-to-Human Coaching and Therapy Program in Finland and is a certified leader of Dr. Fischer’s Rebuilding Divorce Seminars. She earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Tampere and has an adult son.

Pete Jordan is the only certified Radical Honesty trainer in the Benelux countries. He organizes and co-leads Radical Honesty workshops around Europe with his wife, Tuulia, as well as does 1:1 coaching. As a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, he also offers 1:1 S.E. sessions with clients to support them in healing from trauma.

Pete has changed his life for the better by committing to live honestly, expressing his resentments and appreciations in the moment and by asking for what he wants. A major breakthrough for him was to have honest talks with his ex-wife and four siblings. He has broken the traditions of his childhood’s family and began to talk about things he was afraid of and embarrassed about and what he didn’t like in his childhood.

Pete has great listening skills and he is keen on developing and learning every day. His vision is to support others to live happier, freer lives. Born and raised in San Francisco, Pete has lived in Amsterdam for almost two decades and still makes himself happy each day he wakes up in that city. A writer by profession, Pete has a passion for cycling and has contributed his writing and photographs to several Dutch cycling publications for more than a decade. When he is not organizing or attending Radical Honesty workshops or spending time with his teenaged son, he can be found meandering around Amsterdam on his bike. (And he feels some tightness in his stomach now as he writes this stuff about himself in the third person.)