Date: 16-19 September 2022
Location: Quinta da Mizarela, Portugal
Price: 420 EUR with Room / 350 EUR with Tent

Delicious vegetarian food prepared by our experienced kitchen team will be provided for breakfast, lunch and dinner on all days of the retreat.

Guided by founder and leader Peter Bampton and some of the senior men, this Retreat will be a 3 day immersion into some key aspects of men's development and an opportunity to taste the transformational power of the Awakened Life Men's Collective.

The Retreat will begin on Friday at 9pm after dinner with introductions followed by the premiere showing of our new documentary A New Men's Liberation.

Day 1 - Saturday

The radical immediacy and context of Spiritual Awakening, through which we intuit our essential Freedom and Prior Unity, is the foundation of the Men's Collective. This potential will be communicated through teachings, silent meditation and some physical activities. Then, in the evening some major themes of men's development will be introduced which will be explored further over the weekend.

Day 2 - Sunday

If we are to truly awaken and come together in deep brotherhood in the 21^st century we clearly cannot return to the patriarchal rigidities of traditional masculine culture and we also want to transcend the materialistic bias of the modern male rational mind. But that is not all, because most of us spiritually inspired, progressive men also have to confront and unravel the distorting and depolarising impacts of our immersion in a postmodern "alternative" culture in which we usually tend to morph into "sensitive new age guys", insidiously denying and suppressing the grit, spunk and pure passion of a healthily embodied masculine.

Sunday will be devoted to thoroughly inhabiting this warrior spirit of our innate strength and courage. This exploration and full-bodied actualisation will include teachings and Q&A sessions with Peter and senior men of the Collective, some physical activities, and a firewalk and sweat lodge during the night, which is always a profound and celebratory event infused with tribal, shamanic passion.


Day 3 – Monday

Once we have authentically begun to discover a source of profound spiritual strength grounded in humility then we can dare to lean into the raw vulnerability of exposing our shadows and allowing our hearts to be broken and blown open by a wholehearted willingness to feel. On Monday Peter and senior men of the Collective will share their experience of how to access and practice a vulnerability that not only enriches us with greater sensitivity and compassion, but also empowers us to risk everything by transcending our personal identity and the apparent limitations of conditional existence.

It is our intention and hope that by the end this Retreat every man will be:

• Infused with spiritual depth and brightness
• Fortified with a deep understanding of key aspects of male conditioning
• Inspired to manifest his unique purpose
• Melted by the revelation of profound love between men
• Opened to the Divine Power of the Collective
  
  If this description of a shared adventure lights you up then we hope to see you there!