Honesty Europe Summer Retreat
Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth in Finland in the woods by a beautiful lake. During our 11th(!) annual Honesty Summer Retreat in Finland, we’ll spend five days and four nights together in Finnish lakeside cottages, surrounded by a lush pine forest beside a lake.
Vision
Our goals will be to live out loud, to be happy and to not give a shit! 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 experience more freedom in your life
you want to let go of shame, fear and attachment to approval
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 retreat 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 at times
participate to change others in your life rather than yourself
The retreat will include daily workshop sessions as well as free time for mushroom and berry picking, swimming, boating, soaking in the jacuzzi and nightly saunas in our large wood-burning sauna.
Workshop on How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It
Honesty Europe’s work is direct communication that leads to intimacy. It is the difference between making a performance and laughing and playing with friends. 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.
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.
What we do
On each day, we’ll do some guided movement, meditation and workshop sessions.’
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, 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 time
We will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, trying out our multiple questions card games, enjoying sauna, swimming and jacuzzi, walking in the forest and appreciating nature.
Practical Information
Time and place
The workshop will take place in retreat center Syvilla, Parkano Finland.
The retreat will begin on Wednesday 24 June at 17:00 and will conclude on Sunday 29 June by 12:30 (so that you can get the 13:14 train from Parkano after the retreat).
Price
The Early Bird price for the retreat is €470 (including 21% VAT).
(+ lodging, breakfast and sauna 4 x €80 per night = €320)
In total €790 when you stay in Syvilla.
The Early bird price is valid until 15 May 2026.
The regular price thereafter is €520 (including 21% VAT).
(+ lodging, breakfast and sauna 4 x €80 per night = €320)
In total €850 when you stay in Syvilla.
The retreat fee covers the workshop and healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks.
Lodging
Syvilla will bill the lodging separately.
The lodging in Syvilla costs 80 euros per night (240 euros in total), this includes breakfast, daily saunas, shared room accommodation in 2 person rooms or yurt.
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.
More Information
To receive more information, please write to info@HonestyEurope.com
Meet the facilitators
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Pete JordanPete Jordan is the only certified Radical Honesty trainer in the Benelux countries. He organizes and co-lead Radical Honesty workshops around Europe with his wife, Tuulia, as well as does 1:1 coaching.
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.
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Tuulia SyvänenTuulia Syvänen is the certified Radical Honesty trainer who has led the most RH workshops in Europe. She also does 1:1 and couples coaching. 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.
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Testimonials
“Tuulia & Pete are great facilitators for deep transformational processes. Again and again, I am amazed by how they hold space and coach people into experiences. They are direct, very attentive and fun. I love the mix of really deep work, friendship, silliness and warmness. They are both very good at holding space and guiding people with trauma reactions. I imagine they are doing a really great job. I am very grateful for the way they facilitate and how they are as just human beings. They are open, vulnerable and they don’t pretend to know everything or be all in control. I trust them. Thank you!”
–Michael, Germany
“Pete and Tuulia are great Radical Honesty facilitators. Experiencing them facilitate together is a gift. I judge they complete each other with their strengths. I felt accepted and loved and, at the same time, challenged and pushed out of my comfort zone. I’ve grown a lot by this experience. Thank you both.”
–Nathalie, Germany
“I trust more and more Tuulia and Pete’s facilitation and ability to deal with what arises in them in a way that I imagine I never really have experienced in a workshop, therapy or a situation where there is some kind of authority/leader.”
–Johanna, Finland
“I keep coming back to Radical Honesty events because I judge them to bring me alive. Tuulia and Pete expertly open a space where I can explore my inner world, share it with others, and become aware of my patterns.”
–Annie, Austria
Testimonials
“Tuulia & Pete are great facilitators for deep transformational processes. Again and again, I am amazed by how they hold space and coach people into experiences. They are direct, very attentive and fun. I love the mix of really deep work, friendship, silliness and warmness. They are both very good at holding space and guiding people with trauma reactions. I imagine they are doing a really great job. I am very grateful for the way they facilitate and how they are as just human beings. They are open, vulnerable and they don’t pretend to know everything or be all in control. I trust them. Thank you!”
–Michael, Germany
“Pete and Tuulia are great Radical Honesty facilitators. Experiencing them facilitate together is a gift. I judge they complete each other with their strengths. I felt accepted and loved and, at the same time, challenged and pushed out of my comfort zone. I’ve grown a lot by this experience. Thank you both.”
–Nathalie, Germany
“I trust more and more Tuulia and Pete’s facilitation and ability to deal with what arises in them in a way that I imagine I never really have experienced in a workshop, therapy or a situation where there is some kind of authority/leader.”
–Johanna, Finland
“I keep coming back to Radical Honesty events because I judge them to bring me alive. Tuulia and Pete expertly open a space where I can explore my inner world, share it with others, and become aware of my patterns.”
–Annie, Austria
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