Healing Father-Son Relationships Retreat: Finding Peace & Understanding
At this retreat, you’ll be seen and supported by other sons who understand the complexities of father-son dynamics. We’ll hold space for the entire range of emotions, from anger and grief to love and appreciation. Nature will be our companion throughout this journey, providing an unjudgmental backdrop for your healing process.
Schedule an informal 30 minute videocall to get to know us and find out if this is for you!
Why this could be important
The relationship with the father is likely among the ones that hold the most emotions, energy, blockages, and potential. If things are unresolved, tensed, pushed away, iced up, and built up there, they can have a big impact on our lives. Sometimes we know about that, and often it is not known or remains invisible until it suddenly causes so much trouble that we have no other choice than to address it.
Sadly, often unresolved issues with our father are things we are inclined to pass directly on to our offspring too. Without wanting it, we continue with the same behavior – some call it also ‘mistakes’ towards our children. Common themes in the relationship with the father can be:
- Trying to live up to (past) expectations
- Having masked or fake relationships
- Being stuck in youth, in a rebellion
- Feelings or themes of regrets, anger, frustration, injustice, experienced violence, abandonment, grief, etc.
Partnership and course location
We offer this course in collaboration with Manuel Sturm, our partner in Norway. www.wildernessvision.no.
For this course, we will meet in the Norwegian Mountains, the Fjells. Other course participants have described these rolling mountains here as ‘soft-powerfulness’, so they provide a great setting and intention for this type of course.
The property offers privacy, a cold stream with waterfalls, a fireplace, and a group shelter.
How we will work
We will invite you to follow a process designed to find peace with the past, appreciate what was, and what is, and set new intentions for the future, all focused on the relationship with your father. The guiding principle of the week will be to explore the relationship with the intention of being ‘radically honest’.
You will not need to take any action with, communicate to, or have the approval for from your father for this process.
Elements of the process are: Sharing circles with intentional listening, guided meditations, bodywork exercises, solo times in nature, writing, drawing, and sweat lodge. The course includes an intake and one follow-up Zoom call.
Prerequisites
Other than having the intention to work with the father relationship, you do not need to have any prerequisites to join. Nothing will be forced on you, all is an invitation. If you meet resistance or skepticism, we invite you to express it – we welcome it too. You take the step(s) you want to, and need to take – and they are unique to you.