Retreats
What are the retreats?
Our retreats unfold over five transformative weekends, beginning with the King’s Initiation and continuing through the integration of Soul and Spirit, the Clever Magician, the Courageous Warrior, and the Connected Lover. Each stage deepens a man’s relationship with himself and others, empowering him to heal, grow, and step into his future with self-assurance, self-belief and a clear vision and purpose.
Dates for next Sovereign's Journey retreats starting May 2026
7th to 10th May 2026
25th to 28th June 2026
3rd to 6th September 2026
1st to 4th October 2026
21st to 24th January 2027
Dates for The Sovereign's Journey Starting
September 2026
10th to 13th September 2026
22nd to 25th October 2026
18th to 21st February 2027
22nd to 25th April 2027
10th to 13th June 2027
The total cost of the full series is £3,000 (equivalent to £600 per weekend). Because each weekend builds on the last, we ask all participants to commit to the complete journey from the outset.
A £600 deposit secures your place. The remaining balance can be paid in instalments before the first weekend.
The King's Initiation
The journey begins with the King’s initiation. Here you cross the threshold and awaken the king within. The King is that part of us who is ready to steward us to wholeness and wise maturity. He does this by bringing us home to our heart-centred, spiritually connected, generative soul essence. Within all of us is a King who is ready to lead us to a healthy, profoundly successful, dynamically joyful life.
The initiated King then leads your inner work. As your King gets to know who you are, he will have many opportunities to know and evolve the parts of you he finds. The initiated King then leads your inner work. He begins his sacred mission, to know, integrate and evolve every part of you and come into new relationships with them, so that they become constructive allies supporting the foundation of your sovereignty. Undertaking this process, your King will build himself up as the conductor of the orchestra of your inner being. This is the foundation of your sovereignty.
While you meet the noble presence of your King, you also get to meet and get to know his shadow side. Alongside your healthy King are two wounded Kings; your power-hungry inflated Tyrant King who thinks he knows best and must control, command and assert everything himself, and your powerless crumbling abdicating king who collapses with self-doubt and self-criticism.
Soil, Soul and Spirit
With your King awakened, he must be given roots and connect to his source. The Soil, Soul, Spirit weekend deepens your connection to the ground of your being. It grounds your King in the soil of your body and the earth beneath your feet. It also connects you to the presence of your ancestors, the wisdom of your Soul, and the vastness of Spirit.
Here, your King learns to hold all of who you are, including your most wounded parts, so that nothing within you is left outside the Kingdom. By aligning with these larger forces of creation, your King clarifies his Life’s Calling, preparing you to unfold your destiny with purpose, clarity, and generative joy.
Your King and his Clever Magician
From his rooted place the King turns to his clever magician. The Magician archetype offers wisdom, imagination, intuition and insight—but he can also distort, manipulate, and limit through fear and old conditioning.
On this weekend, your King meets the Magician in all his aspects: the healthy advisor, the Manipulator, Inner Critic, Safety Officer, and the Fool. You will uncover where your Magician holds you back, bringing hidden fears and patterns into the light.
Guided by your King, the Magician is re-aligned to serve wisdom, creativity, and transformation rather than fear, cynicism and overthinking. By evolving this archetype your magician becomes a trusted counsellor, offering the discernment and inner guidance your Sovereign needs to lead with clarity and authenticity.
Your King and his Courageous Warrior
In the fourth weekend, the courageous warrior steps forward. Our Warrior is the part of us who enforces boundaries and keeps our world balanced, grounded, honest and successful. Dreams and visions require action, courage, and discipline to become real. The Warrior archetype brings the strength, focus, determination and energy needed to manifest your King’s vision. The warrior brings action, discipline and vitality - yet in shadow he collapses into lethargy or erupts into aggression.
All Warriors need their King to know, love, direct and guide them. In this retreat, your King will support your Warrior to be truly capable and effective. He will get to know the parts of your Warrior that do not work well and do not support your Kingdom's success. He will love your Warrior to ensure that he becomes a powerful ally—setting healthy boundaries and ensuring your life, work, and relationships are rooted in integrity, effectiveness, and courageous responsibility.
The King and his Connected Lover
The Lover archetype opens the heart to love, intimacy, creativity, connection, and beauty, grief, sadness and feeling loss. Many men have been conditioned to suppress or distort their Lover, leaving them isolated, addicted, or emotionally numb. This weekend invites your King to restore the Lover to his rightful place: vibrant, joyful, and alive. You will reconnect with your capacity for deep intimacy, passion, and beauty, allowing your life to be infused with richness and vitality. Guided by the King, the Lover becomes a source of profound connection—to yourself, others, and the world—ensuring your sovereignty is grounded in love and compassion.
Why should I do the Sovereign’s Journey?
The Sovereign’s Journey offers a rare opportunity for men to pause, reflect, and reconnect with their deepest sense of self reconnect with their profound sense of self, catalyse change in their life, find the deeper meaning and purpose they seek, consciously work to overcome their difficulties, transform unhelpful patterns and behaviours, and grow into the personal qualities they aspire to become. To live the quality and richness of life they desire.
Across five powerful long weekends, you will cultivate inner sovereignty, balancing the energies of King, Warrior, Magician, and Lover. The benefits extend into every area of life—greater clarity of purpose, stronger relationships, emotional resilience, directness and effectiveness, and the ability to stand in integrity. You will not only learn about the archetypes but embody them, creating a foundation of love, strength, compassion, and wisdom. In the process you will gain profound self-awareness.
The primary transformation comes from fully reorienting yourself into your Sovereign—your higher self. This reorientation means you no longer drift from one part of yourself to another. Instead, you remain anchored in the presence, awareness, and leadership of your Sovereign. When an old, struggling part of yourself arises, you no longer identify with it and mistake it for who you are. Your Sovereign recognises it as just a part of you, and, guided by your established agreement, lovingly reminds it to step back, reclaiming leadership and authority. Over time, through practice and conscious attention, you cultivate the ability to live your life consistently from your heart with awareness, guided by your Sovereign.
The transformation is both inner and outer. Internally, you will develop a strong, compassionate, and heart-centred Sovereign who can hold all aspects of yourself—your wounds, your gifts, and your potential. Externally, you will notice profound shifts: deeper presence and connection in relationships, better relational and emotional skills, clarity around your purpose and work, renewed energy and vitality for life, and the ability to lead your life with personal authority, self confidence and authenticity. Transformation here is not about becoming someone else—it is about becoming fully yourself, grounded in wholeness and integrity.
The Sovereign's Journey will also help you recognise and embody your primal, instinctual energies and innate masculine strengths. By doing so, you will be able to show up in life as a more grounded, effective, decisive, courageous, resilient, self-assured and confident man who stands in his power, truth and integrity.
The benefits of the Sovereign’s Journey
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Discover why you are here—the purpose of your life.
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Recognise your destructive patterns and know how to stop them from affecting your life.
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Live with strong, calm self-confidence—authentic, assured, and at peace with yourself.
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Know how to manage your fear without being restricted by it.
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Settle your shame so it no longer oppresses you.
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Give your sadness and sorrow their rightful place so you can allow yourself to grieve and feel deeply when the moment calls for it.
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Be more present and open to genuine relationships with the people in your life.
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Embody your anger and place it in service to you.
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Take full responsibility for yourself and for every aspect of your life.
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Lead your life from your wise, soul-filled, Sovereign heart.
What problems does the Sovereign’s Journey resolve?
Many men find themselves caught in cycles of stress, disconnection, and unfulfilled potential. Some feel powerless, others overbearing. Old wounds, conditioning, and unbalanced archetypal energies can leave men isolated, angry, or emotionally shut down. The weekends address these struggles at their root. By working directly with your archetypal energies, you learn to meet shadow patterns with compassion and awareness, transforming them into strengths. Instead of being controlled by unconscious forces, your King learns to accept and guide them wisely.
There are no quick fixes. It requires repeated and sustained work over a long period of time to catalyse lasting and enduring change, which is why the Sovereigns Journey is nine months long, over five retreats, with 20 days of powerful and transformative work, with 22 different experiential processes to come to terms with all parts of yourself. It takes time and repeated practice to grow larger than one’s wounding, to come into new relationship with all parts of oneself, and to consolidate the Sovereign as the governing force and personal authority at the apex of one’s inner world.
The importance of group work
True change rarely happens in isolation. The group provides a container of safety, honesty, and shared humanity. In this circle of men, you will be witnessed, supported, and challenged. Each man teaches the others as he unearths himself.
When a man connects with and explores an archetypal part of himself, other men recognise themselves in him, and so grow in awareness. Men on this Journey see so deeply inside each other. This is a beautiful privilege, to know each other so well. Men experience that they can rely on and trust each other, and be relied on and trusted.