I DON’T DO CLICHÉ RETREATS
I bring fascinating people together in extraordinary places and create the conditions for a little magic to unfold.
As featured in:
Intimate Gatherings of Extraordinary People.
Some of life’s most extraordinary experiences begin with the people you find yourself surrounded by.
Every few months, I bring together a carefully chosen group of fascinating people, somewhere beautiful in the world, for something a little outside the ordinary.
Think incredible places, extraordinary company, conversations that go somewhere, experiences that challenge you, and more than a little fun, pleasure and mischief along the way.
We’ll explore what makes us tick, question the ways we limit ourselves, and perhaps discover a few things we didn’t know we were looking for.
And sometimes, we’ll simply have the most ridiculous amount of fun together.
Because the point isn’t to escape your life. It’s to remember just how extraordinary it can be.
Where We’re Going Next
I’m always dreaming up the next adventure. Finding somewhere extraordinary, imagining the people I’d love to bring together and thinking about what we might experience while we’re there.
Each gathering takes on a character of its own, shaped as much by the people who join us as the place we find ourselves in.
And these are a few of the adventures currently taking shape.
Bali
November 19th – 22nd, 2026.
Four days on a beautiful little island, exploring what happens when we give ourselves permission to go a little further.
There’ll be adventure, movement, beautiful food, deep conversations, intimacy, play, pleasure, a little mischief and plenty I’m deliberately not putting on the website.
We’ll go deep. We’ll have a lot of fun. And we’ll see what happens in between.
Ireland
January 7th – 10th, 2027.
A winter gathering in the place that made me.
Wild landscapes, cold water, roaring fires, incredible food, unexpected adventures and long conversations with a small group of brilliant people.
This one feels particularly personal. A little raw, a little wild, deeply Irish and full of the places, people and experiences I love most about home.
Burning Man
August 29th – September 6th, 2027.
A week living together in one of the strangest places on earth.
We’ll build our own little family inside Black Rock City and throw ourselves into everything the Burn has to offer. The art, music, dancing, exploration, ridiculousness, connection and whatever else finds us out there.
Come ready for an adventure. It’ll be dusty, intense, uncomfortable, wildly fun and occasionally completely surreal.
What makes these adventures so special?
I've given this a lot of thought over the years, and I've come to realise it's never just one thing. It's how everything comes together.
The People
Who’s in the room changes everything
I bring together people who are already doing interesting things with their lives.
Founders, creatives, leaders, people from completely different worlds, each with their own experience, perspective and something worth sharing.
I’m careful about the mix. I don’t want a room full of people who agree with each other. I want people who are curious, open and willing to get involved.
Nobody comes to sit at the back.
The Environment
If I’m going to ask a lot of you, I want everything around you to take care of you.
The places are exceptional. The food is incredible.
The details are handled properly.
There’s space to disappear when you need it and plenty happening when you don’t.
The luxury isn’t there for show. It allows you to drop your guard, stop managing the practical things and give yourself fully to what’s happening.
The environment does more of the work than people realise.
The Co-Creation
I don’t want to stand at the front of a room for four days.
Everyone who comes brings something.
A skill, a story, a practice, a question. Something they’ve lived through or become unusually good at.
I create the structure, bring the people together and hold the experience. But what happens inside it belongs to everyone.
The group doesn’t simply attend the adventure. The group makes it.
The Edge
We go into the things people are usually very good at avoiding.
Relationships, Pleasure, Boundaries, Communication, Desire, Ambition, Fear. The ways you protect yourself and the parts of you that rarely get much room.
The work can include relational practice, challenging conversations, immersive experiences and carefully held psychedelic psychotherapy.
It can be uncomfortable.
It can be incredibly freeing.
I’m not interested in pushing anyone for the sake of it. But I am interested in what becomes possible when we stop circling around the thing and finally go towards it.
If you’re looking for easy, comfortable or predictable, this isn’t for you.
But if you feel the pull for something deeper, more honest and a little bit unknown… you’ll feel right at home.
It’s One Thing to Read About It.
It’s another to hear it from those who’ve been through it.
1:18 | Marc Laws
1:46 | Bali, 2025.
1:11 | Jaro Cabla
If This Feels Right, Trust It.
Most people who come on these adventures can’t completely explain what pulled them towards one.
They simply know there’s something here they don’t want to ignore.
These experiences are intentionally small, and I care deeply about who’s in the room. Not because everyone needs to be alike, but because the mix of people shapes everything that follows.
The application is simply a chance for me to understand a little more about you. Who you are. Where you are in your life. What’s drawing you towards this, and what you might bring to the experience yourself.
You don’t need to have it all figured out.
Just tell me what’s true.
If it feels right from both sides, we’ll have a conversation and take it from there.