A few days away. Space for a fresh perspective.

Prepare, immerse, integrate

Most retreats end when you leave. Ours is built around what happens before and after, and the part at home is light.

1. Weeks 1 to 4 · Online, at your own pace

   Prepare

   One to two hours a week, at the times that suit you. A 1:1 intake call with a facilitator, group calls with the people you will spend the week with, and guided practices in the Beckley app. Join late and we catch you up.

2. Week 5 · Four or five nights on retreat

   Immerse

   A private venue and a group of up to 18. Meditation, breathwork, time in nature, and a digital detox if you want one. At the centre of the retreat, two guided sessions on separate days, each followed by a day to make sense of it. All meals, accommodation and airport transfers included.

3. The six weeks after · Online, at your own pace

   Integrate

   Again one to two hours a week, from home. Weekly group calls with your cohort, short daily practices, and tools that turn the experience into habits that hold. Optional 1:1 coaching with a facilitator. Then an alumni community that stays open.

Nature, sessions, connection, integration, nourishment and rest

The days on site sit inside a full program of preparation and integration.

Nature

Mountain vistas in Trelawny, woodland and heath in the Netherlands. Time outside and a digital detox are part of the structure, not a break from it.

Guided sessions

Two guided sessions on separate days, in one room with your group and the full team. Music, and silence, in a space prepared for it.

Connection

Facilitated group circles across the days, with each cohort composed with care. Most people arrive for themselves and leave talking about the others.

Integration

Six weeks of support after you fly home, online and at your own pace: group calls, guided practices and a short daily practice.

Nourishment

All meals and snacks included and made on site. Long tables, unhurried, and nothing to think about.

Rest

A private room, or a shared room at the lower price, depending on the property. Personal time is written into the days.

Eight things that are true of every Beckley program

Retreats in this field vary enormously. These are the standards we hold on every date, in both countries.

1. Before you are accepted

   Screening, by people qualified to do it

   Applying takes about seven minutes, and our team replies within three to five business days. Every applicant has a suitability call with our team before being invited. It is not optional: it is where we go through your history together, answer your questions and make sure the program is a fit. Some conditions and some medications, including SSRIs and SNRIs, may mean the program is not the right fit, or not yet. Apply anyway and tell us; when the answer is no, we say so plainly.

2. Before you arrive

   Four weeks of preparation

   Preparation is digital and at your own pace, one to two hours a week: group calls with your cohort, a 1:1 intake call, and guided practices in the Beckley app, all fitted around a full working life. You meet the people you will spend the week with and your lead facilitator before you travel.

3. The people in the room

   Never more than four guests to a facilitator

   During sessions there is at least one facilitator for every four guests, usually one for every three, so someone is always within reach and no one is ever managing a room alone. Our teams include practitioners with backgrounds as psychotherapists, psychologists and physicians. On retreat they are not acting in their licensed capacity, because Beckley does not provide medical treatment, but that training is in the room with you.

4. The place

   Legal, private, and prepared for anything

   Jamaica and the Netherlands are the only two countries where this work is fully legal. It is federally illegal in the United States, which is why our programs run abroad. In Jamaica a nurse is on site throughout every session with a doctor on call; in the Netherlands public emergency services are minutes away. Our safety plan covers physical, emotional and psychological safety and is shared with every venue partner and team before a retreat begins.

5. During a session

   What actually happens, hour by hour

   A guided session lasts around six hours, in one room, with your group and the full team. Every guest receives a custom amount within a predefined range, around what you would see in a clinical trial in the US, though this is not medical treatment. Music guides the arc. A facilitator is within reach the whole time. You can drink water, step outside, ask for support, or ask to be left alone.

6. If it gets hard

   Difficult passages are expected, and the team is trained for them

   Physical effects can include nausea or a headache. The main psychological risk is a period of overwhelming distress, and, rarely, effects that last longer. We do not pretend otherwise. The preparation weeks, the ratio in the room, the experience of the team and the on-site care exist for exactly these moments, and the following day is built for working through what came up.

7. After you go home

   Six weeks of integration, then a community that stays open

   Weekly group calls, short daily practices and science-backed tools turn what happened on retreat into habits that hold. Optional 1:1 coaching is available. Then the alumni community, which many guests say is where the change settles in.

8. Underneath all of it

   Twenty-five years of research, and a research team of our own

   Beckley Retreats grew out of the Beckley Foundation, established in 1998 by our co-founder Amanda Feilding. Our program is shaped by peer-reviewed research and ongoing collaboration with researchers from Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins, Yale and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Two formats, two countries

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Prices are per guest, by room type; shared rooms are the lower price. Included: four weeks of preparation and six weeks of integration, your 1:1 intake call and the Beckley app, accommodation, all meals and snacks, both guided sessions and every group practice, yoga, meditation and breathwork, private airport transfers. Not included: flights, massage, optional 1:1 coaching. Financial aid is available for guests with need.

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