Who this is for?

This is for the man who can hold a lot, but doesn’t want to hold it alone anymore.

You’ve learned how to be competent. You’ve learned how to keep going. You might even look “fine” from the outside. But something in you knows the cost: the quiet numbness, the private pressure, the sense that you’re living beside your own life instead of inside it.

This retreat is for you if you’re craving:

• Real brotherhood, not surface-level friendship.

• A way back into your body, not more thinking about your life.

• Space to feel what’s true without having to perform, explain, or fix it.

• Time in nature that resets you at the level of the nervous system.

• A clean break from the noise so you can hear what matters again.

It’s for men in transition, men under pressure, men who are tired of carrying everything in silence. It’s for men who want to become more trustworthy to their own hearts, and more present with the people they love.

You do not need prior wilderness skills.
You do need the ability to take responsibility for yourself.

What This Is (and What It Is Not)

This is:

• A land-based initiation into presence, responsibility, and belonging

• A return to masculine clarity through contact with the living world

• A temporary village where honesty is expected and distraction collapses

This is not:

• A self-help seminar

• A therapy circle

• A spiritual bypass

• A masculine branding exercise

You will not be told who to be.
You will be placed in conditions that make it impossible to lie to yourself.

What Happens Over the Weekend?

The structure is simple and deliberate.

• Time on the land

• Fire tending

• Movement Martial Arts and embodied practices

• Tracking and sensory awareness

• Shared work and shared silence

• Council and story

• Solo time in nature

The real work happens in the spaces between activities. When nervous systems downshift. When performative identity gets tired. When something older shows up.

What you’ll get out of it

You’ll leave with more than a memory. You’ll leave with a changed baseline.

Brotherhood you can feel
A circle of men where honesty is normal. Where you can be seen without being judged. Where you can be challenged without being shamed.

Embodied strength
Practices that bring you into your feet, your breath, your spine. You’ll learn how to meet intensity without armoring, and how to soften without collapsing.

Emotional range and nervous system repair
Less reactivity. More capacity. More access to grief, anger, joy, tenderness, and clarity. Not as a performance, but as a return to wholeness.

Clarity and direction
When the noise drops, the signal gets louder. Men often leave with a sharper sense of what they’re saying yes to, what they’re done with, and what they’re ready to build.

A living relationship with the land
Nature is not a backdrop here. It’s a teacher. A mirror. A steadying presence. You’ll remember belonging, not as an idea, but as something you can feel in your skin.

Tools you can bring home
Simple, repeatable practices you can use in real life. Not a peak experience that fades by Tuesday. Something you can return to when life gets heavy.

Logistics

• Duration: Thursday evening to Sunday Afternoon

• Location: 140 acre wilderness on the edge of a mountain lake 5 hours north of Vancouver

• Group size: 20

• Food: We will organize as a collective for shared dinners. Cooking is part of providing

• Accommodations: Camping, Sauna, Lake, Composting Toilets, Outdoor Kitchen

Exact details are shared upon acceptance.