Honesty Europe meets Circling in Parkano, Finland | 17-21 April 2025

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We are excited to present for the first time this exciting five day laboratory of presence and connecting!

Honesty Europe meets Circling & Surrendered Leadership
Easter retreat in Parkano Finland 17-21 April 2025

Connect with yourself and others in the woods of Finland
When Peter Munthe-Kaas came to a workshop Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan hosted in Copenhagen in December we talked a bit about the similarities and differences between Radical Honesty and Circling & Surrendered Leadership and now we have gotten excited about leading a retreat together. 

What to expect
We wish for this retreat to be an opportunity for you to explore your inner landscapes, meeting yourself with more kindness and compassion and for trying out new ways for showing up courageously with honesty and presence.

You can expect a journey inwards. We will work with the stories that keep us at distance from others (about ourselves and others), get in touch with what it is actually like for us to be in connection and explore what happens when we stay present to our experience and relate from there.

Where Radical Honesty typically ask the question “what is something about yourself that you are not honest with other people about?” (“I am addicted to pornography”, “I am angry at my mother”, “I am ashamed of this part of my body”) which can involve your present moment experience (“I am angry with you”), Circling & Surrendered Leadership asks “what is it like to be you right now?” with an emphasis on the connections in the room (“I feel tense and uncomfortable when I hear you say that”, “I feel very touched hearing about your struggle”), which can involve stories from the past if they show up in presence (“this reminds me of an experience I had with my mother”).
We are curious to invite you into an exploration of how the practices can complement and support us in showing up more.

Exploring the “real”. Practicing unfilteredness.
Sharing what is true for you in relation to others (with compassion).

Exploring awareness. Sharing your present moment experience of yourself, others and the group.

Exploring embodiment.
Moving with your aliveness, trusting your experience and allowing it to be a guide for navigating in your life.

We will alternate between practices from Radical Honesty and Circling & Surrendered Leadership. You will get the best from both worlds and we will be practicing: 
– Being in presence and connection.
– Speaking from your truth and setting boundaries.
– Experimenting with new ways of sharing and going beyond your comfort zone if that is calling you 
– Improving your capacity for active listening. 
– Embodiment and touch.

The scheduled programme is from 10-18 every day.
In the evenings we will have time to sauna, socialize or do some bodywork.

Testimonials:
“Radical Honesty gives you the keys to real intimacy with other people. I feel more alive when I have attended Radical Honesty workshops. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to find true love and happiness!  “  –Riina

“Radical Honesty practically changed my life. After seeing through my projections and all the shoulds life is more and more authentic. Tuulia and Pete are fabulous facilitators of honesty. I highly recommend attending Radical Honesty events to everyone interested in taking their own responsibility in their lives!”  –Julle

“Peter leads with an evident deep knowledge of and skill in both practices and an uncanny knack for spotting the underlying layers of what people are bringing helping them to bring deeper layers of their experience in a way that continues to impress me.” – Morten

“I’ve been at two Weekends of Circling with Peter and found them to be perfectly challenging and wonderfully inspiring. Peter combines a sensitive empathy with a direct honesty that opens a safe and exciting space for exploring. I’m very grateful for my experiences and would recommend Peter and his approach to Circling to anyone who is interested in exploring themselves and how they show up with others.” – Ernest

Venue: Our retreat center Syvilla
Our lovely retreat center Syvilla is located beside the clean Lake Kovesjärvi in a lovely spot of lawn, flowers and forest.  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 by the shore, our own small island and a lot more.

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/

Get to know our retreat center SyVilla, watch this video
Honesty Europe Syvilla

Leisure time
We will also have free time for connecting, relaxing, walking in the forest and on the ice, playing games, enjoying snow,   connecting with many decks of question cards, enjoying the many fire places including one on the island,  and appreciating nature in the Finnish nature.

Language
The training will be conducted in English.

Group size
This group is limited to 16 participants.

Language
The training will be conducted in English. You can do paired exercises together in your joint language.

Schedule
The retreat will begin on Thursday 17 April at 17:00 and will conclude on Monday 21 April  by 12:30.

Arriving early or staying later – holiday by the lake!
You can arrive a day early or stay a day or two later in this lovely retreat center for €80 per night per person.
The fee includes simple food.
You can relax and enjoy the peaceful nature, walks on the lake and sauna.  If you have a car, you can visit the national parks and amazing old forests in the region.
Get in touch with us in case you want to take up this option!

Travel
Via air from outside Finland: fly to Helsinki airport and then take a two-hour and half train ride to Parkano.

From Helsinki airport, first take the commuter train to the Tikkurila
station and then from there take the train to Parkano.
There is also a bus connection from Helsinki to Parkano, which is cheaper though takes about 90 minutes longer than the train connection.

From Parkano, we will direct you the rest of the way to the lake. (We will either pick you up at the train station or organize a large taxi van.)
You can also cycle or drive to the retreat site (and if you do drive, we will probably ask you to carpool with others).

Community
Participants will be asked to assist in cleaning up of meals/snacks as a way to help create a community during our five days together. This is commonly done in our longer retreats (and to help get shit done).

Team
The workshop leaders will be Circling & Surrendered Leadership senior trainer Peter Munthe-Kaas and certified Radical Honesty Trainers—and married couple—Tuulia Syvänen and Pete Jordan.

Price
The Early Bird price is €860 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT).
The Early bird price is valid until 15 March 2025.

The regular price thereafter is €890 per person (includes 21% Dutch VAT).

The fee covers the workshop, healthy vegetarian / vegan meals and snacks (breakfast, lunch ands dinner, snack coffee and tea available throughout the day), teaching, daily saunas, 2 person rooms and ongoing support of the group to live out loud.

In case you low income earner or a student you can join with a discounted price against some helping such as setting up the breakfast or vacuuming the rooms after the retreat. Get in touch with us to learn more!

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

We advice you to have an insurance covering the fee in case of a cancellation due to sickness.

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.

Book your spot soon! 

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

You are warmly welcome to the exciting journey of Honesty!

Sincerely,
Peter, Tuulia & Pete
www.HonestyEurope.com
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Who are the trainers?
Peter Munthe-Kaas is based in Copenhagen and has been leading Circling & Surrendered Leadership workshops since 2015. He has a background in academia, has practiced Tai Chi and Qigong for the last 20 years and is educated as a Body Therapist from the Manuvision school in Denmark.

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 150 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 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.)