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Get Closer Couples Retreat

March 25 - 29, 2026

Parkano, Finland

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Hosted By

Tuulia Syvänen

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4 nights, 5 days

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12 person retreat

Highlights

  • Transform Your Relationship by Telling the Truth by a beautiful lake in Finland in a silence of a forest.

  • Create deeper connection and love via honest sharing and carefully designed couples exercises.

  • Walk on the ice and dip into the ice hole, enjoy the snow and admire the stary sky while sitting in warm jacuzzi.

  • Create deeper love, more intimacy and compassion in your relationship.

Details

Transform Your Relationship by Telling the Truth in cabins surrounded by lush forests and a lake at the Honesty Europe Couples Retreat in Finland! With our 11th Honesty Europe couples retreat in Finland, we’re excited to again support you in creating more honesty and deep connection, love, sex, and compassion in your relationship. We’ll spend five days and four nights together in our new Finnish retreat center, surrounded by a lush pine and birch forest by a lovely lake. The retreat will include daily workshop sessions, free time for walking in the forests and on the ice, admiring and rolling in the snow, enjoying the stary nights, spending time with your partner and others, relaxing and nightly Finnish saunas. This retreat will be limited to six couples. This workshop is for you if - You want deeper love, connection & intimacy in your relationship - You want to experience more freedom and happiness - You want to let go of shame, fear, and attachment to approval in your relationship - You want to get over anger, use conflict creatively, and go beyond blame - You desire to learn the art of asking for what you want - want to heal your relationship and find forgiveness The workshop is not for you if you - Don’t want to tell the truth - Want to stay in your comfort zone at all times - Don’t want to hear participants expressing themselves loudly or crying at times - Want to change your partner rather than yourself Workshop on How to Live, Love, Laugh & Be Happy & Completely Ruin Life as You Know It Honesty Europe's way of working is direct communication that leads to intimacy. Honesty is kind of scary fun that turns out better than you thought it would. Lying is work and a pain in the ass and makes you lonesome as hell and eventually kills the connection, love, and intimacy with your partner. We claim that lying is the major source of all human stress and makes relationships superficial, and many of us lonely in our relationships. It wears us out and eventually kills us. When people engage honestly, energy that was wasted maintaining a performance to make an impression is suddenly available for real creativity in playing together. When we admit our pretences, we can refresh our relationships and powerfully create new ways of living together.

Location

Parkano, Finland

Parkano, Finland, is a peaceful town in the Pirkanmaa region, surrounded by forests, lakes, and open countryside. Known for its strong connection to nature and outdoor living, it offers opportunities for hiking, fishing, and enjoying Finland’s seasonal beauty. With a close-knit community and a calm, unhurried pace, Parkano provides a quiet and authentic Nordic setting rooted in simplicity and natural balance.

Venue

SyVilla

4.6 9 Reviews

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SyVilla offers various accommodation options, with beds for 10 to 25 people depending on the time of year. The summer house and kitchen, gazebo and garden terrace, as well as the lean-to on Pikkusaari are free of charge for all those who rent accommodation.

Towels

Towels

Coffee / Tea

Coffee / Tea

Kitchen

Kitchen

Free Parking

Free Parking

Heating

Heating

Shower

Shower

Bathroom

Bathroom

Accommodation

Double Room

3 Rooms Left

Private room for 2

$955.50 USD / person

Double Room

3 Rooms Left

Private room for 1

$955.50 USD total

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Accommodation will be in 2 person rooms with your partner.

Meals

Meals provided

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Diets catered

Vegan · Vegetarian · Gluten-free · Dairy-free · Nut Allergy Friendly · Diabetic Friendly

Our cook prepares us healthy, delicious vegetarian and vegan meals such as oven vegetables with feta and hearty salad on the side, bean burritos, sweet potato soup, or vegetarian pasta. Each meal includes fresh salad and protein. Each day we will have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Salty and sweet snacks, nuts, fruits, coffee, and tea are available throughout the day.

Schedule

On each day, we’ll do some yoga or body movement, meditation, workshop sessions, couples exercises and group exercises. The sessions will include an introduction to Radical Honesty; a deeper dive into honesty; and learning through theory, discussions, sharing and exercises on how to be authentic and honest. We’ll do group and paired exercises designed for couples.

Testimonials

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“If you want to stop bypassing the hard and scary stuff with your partner and look straight at it in a safe and supportive environment, and with competent and compassionate people at your side coaching you through it, then the Couples Retreat with Pete & Tuulia is just right for you.”

Anastasia, Germany

“Behind every great relationship are difficult and uncomfortable conversations we rarely get to see. Great relationships don’t just fall on our laps. They require people to move through their fears and insecurities and do the hard work to move wounds into healing. I feel touched and inspired after witnessing what I judge to be great relationships having difficult conversations, getting over their shit and reaching places of forgiveness and love again. I super duper recommend Pete & Tuulia’s Couples Retreat to anyone who wants to deepen their ability to see and be seen by their partner, warts and all.”

Rose, United Kingdom

“We did the Couples Retreat as a preparation for our wedding without knowing what would come up. Both of us had attended workshops separately before but never one together. But it was for our relationship such a benefit. We strengthened our trust, vulnerability, appreciation and love towards each other even more, and I really feel good about getting married now. I highly recommended this retreat for everybody who wants to deepen their connections.”

Pia, Austria

“During the Couples Retreat led by Pete & Tuulia, I learned so much about myself in relation to not only my partner but to basically all the people around me. I greatly recommend this course for everyone who wants to express more frustration in order to spend less time feeling it.”

Katrien, Netherlands

“Pete & Tuulia have a lot of experience in communicating and relating successfully and they’re great at teaching it, too! If you want to learn how to create and maintain intimate relationships and have a good time doing it, join a Couples Retreat!”

Michael, Germany

“I judge Tuulia & Pete to be very talented workshop leaders. In the Couples Retreat I attended, they created a wonderful, personal space — also by showing themselves as the imperfect humans they are — in which sharing whatever feelings and thoughts was very easy and so welcomed! High recommendation!”

Taranee, Germany

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Host

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Tuulia Syvänen

39700 Parkano, Suomi

Tuulia Syvänen is a therapist and Radical Honesty trainer who has led the most Radical Honesty workshops in Europe. She works with her husband Pete Jordan under their organization Honesty Europe. She...

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English, Suomi, and Svenska

Teaching for 18 days

Joined Insight Timer in Jan 2026

What's Included

Three meals a day and snacks, coffee and tea

All program and integration call after the retreat

Daily wood burning sauna, ice hole (ice bath), and jacuzzi at all times

Snow shoes, sledges and many games & questions cards for your free time

Not Included

Travel to and from the retreat location

Sheets and towels (bring your own or rent a set from us for 20 euros)

FAQs

Guest requirements

  • The workshop is not for you if you: don’t want to tell the truth, want to stay in your comfort zone at all times, don’t want to hear participants expressing themselves loudly or crying at times or join to change your partner rather than working on yourself. We do ask everyone to agree to confidentiality.

Cancellation policy

The remaining balance for the retreat is due 60 days prior to the start date. If this balance is paid earlier than these 60 days, you are eligible to cancel and receive a full refund of this remaining balance, provided you do so at least 60 days before the retreat begins.