A 7-Day Embodied Retreat in Southern Spain
UNION
Explore the patterns shaping how you love, relate and express yourself. Through archetypal and embodied practices, discover more freedom to feel, connect and live as your whole self.
May 2027 · Hidden Paradise, Spain
Book Your Place ↗With Laura Deva & Robbie Griffin
There are parts of you the world knows.
The strong one. The sensitive one. The lover. The protector. The child. The wild one.
Some qualities come naturally. Others you learned to hide to feel safe, loved or accepted.
Beneath the familiar version of yourself, there may be a much wider range of who you are.
Seven days to explore the full spectrum of being human.
UNION is a seven-day residential journey, guided by Laura Deva and Robbie Griffin.
Set in the mountains of Southern Spain, it offers the space to step away from everyday routines and explore the deeper layers of your being.
Through embodied practice, archetypal exploration, ritual and authentic connection, we will explore the energies that shape how we live, love and relate.
There will be depth and intensity.
There will be tenderness, play, beauty and laughter.
And space to meet what emerges with curiosity, honesty and care.
A week dedicated to discovering a deeper relationship with the whole of who you are.
What once protected you may still be shaping your life.
We develop ways to belong, stay safe and find our place in the world. Sometimes those same patterns continue long after the circumstances that created them have changed.
When anger feels unsafe
You may become agreeable, even when something inside you wants to say no.
When vulnerability feels dangerous
You may learn to remain strong, independent and in control.
When desire meets shame
You may become skilled at holding yourself back, even when you long for more expression.
Four forces.
One human experience.
Within each of us lives a landscape of different qualities, energies and possibilities. Explore the light and dark masculine and feminine archetypes through embodied experience.
Light Masculine
Explore grounded presence, integrity, conscious direction and the ability to stand for what matters.
Discover how these qualities can support your relationship with yourself and others.
Dark Masculine
Explore your relationship with authority, desire, anger and personal power.
Meet your instinctive nature and discover how these forces can be expressed with greater consciousness and responsibility.
Light Feminine
Explore your capacity to receive, feel, nurture and open to deeper connection.
Discover what becomes available when tenderness and vulnerability can exist alongside strength and clear boundaries.
Dark Feminine
Enter the territories of intuition, emotional depth, primal expression and the unknown.
Explore your relationship with mystery, surrender and the parts of yourself that may have remained unfamiliar.
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Each archetypal territory carries its own gifts, shadows and possibilities.
UNION invites us to bring these different qualities into relationship, expanding the range of how we experience and express ourselves.
A deeper relationship with the whole of who we are.
Select an archetype to explore its qualities, or choose UNION to bring all four into relationship. These archetypal forces are explored as human possibilities, independent of gender identity.
Before we emerge,
we descend.
Our history matters. Our wounds matter. Our bodies matter.
Many of us learned early which parts of ourselves were welcome and which needed to be hidden.
Our boundaries may have been ignored. Our instincts overridden. Our expression shaped by shame or the need to belong.
Through shadow exploration, inner child work and embodied practices, UNION creates space to meet these places with curiosity and care.
To honour the ways we learned to protect ourselves, while exploring what may now be ready to change.
This work is meant to be lived.
The body, our relationships and the group become places of exploration. Through direct experience, we begin to discover what lies beyond our familiar ways of being.
Archetypal Embodiment
Explore masculine and feminine energies through movement, awareness and authentic expression.
Shadow & Shame Exploration
Meet emotions, beliefs and aspects of yourself that may have been hidden, suppressed or rejected.
Inner Child Work
Explore early experiences and protective patterns that continue to shape the way you relate to yourself and others.
Relational Practices
Discover how you respond to connection, vulnerability, boundaries, desire and the dynamics that emerge between people.
Circle, Ritual & Ceremony
Experience honest expression, deep listening and the power of being witnessed within a group.
Temple Experiences
Enter guided experiential spaces that invite deeper encounters with yourself, others and the archetypal forces within you.
The Journey
Seven days.
A deeper encounter with yourself.
The experience unfolds in layers, allowing time to arrive, explore, go deeper and begin integrating what you discover.
Finding your ground.
Step away from the pace of everyday life. Arrive in your body, connect with the group and begin creating the conditions for honesty, curiosity and presence.
Meeting your many sides.
Explore the light and dark masculine and feminine archetypal energies. Notice which qualities feel familiar, which feel distant and what becomes possible through embodied expression.
Turning towards what was hidden.
Make space to explore protective patterns, shame, vulnerable emotions and the younger parts of yourself that still influence how you move through life.
Discovering new ways to relate.
Through guided relational practices, explore connection, boundaries, expression and the experience of being seen by others.
Bringing the experience home.
Begin making sense of what you have encountered. Reflect on the qualities you want to carry forward and how they might find expression in your relationships and everyday life.
The journey continues in the way you meet yourself, others and life after you leave.
Union is for you if
there is more of yourself waiting to be expressed.
UNION may speak to you if you recognise yourself in any of these experiences.
✳︎ You hold back what you really feel.
✳︎ You feel disconnected from your body or instincts.
✳︎ You want to explore masculine and feminine qualities.
✳︎ You want to turn self-awareness into embodied experience.
What might become possible?
✳︎ Setting boundaries brings guilt or fear.
✳︎ Familiar emotional patterns repeat in relationships.
✳︎ You long to be witnessed beyond your usual roles.
✳︎ You feel called to explore your shadow and your power.
Greater freedom to express yourself. A more conscious relationship with your needs and boundaries. More capacity for strength and tenderness. A deeper awareness of your patterns, instincts and relationships.
Every person's experience will be different. The invitation is to explore what becomes available when you can meet more of yourself.
And then you return to life.
A profound experience may change how we see ourselves. The deeper question is how that experience becomes part of the way we live.
How do you express your needs more clearly? Recognise familiar patterns before they take over? Access tenderness when you would normally close down? Stand in your power when you would normally make yourself smaller?
Your relationships. Your work. Your family. Your creativity. Your sexuality. Your leadership. Even an ordinary Tuesday morning.
The intention of UNION is to bring what you discover into your actual life, returning to the world with a deeper relationship to your humanity.
Meet Your Guides
Robbie has spent more than a decade exploring embodied transformational work, somatic traditions and approaches to human development.
As a founding member and facilitator of Emergence Brotherhood and faculty member at the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA), he has guided retreats, workshops and transformational group experiences internationally.
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His work explores authentic expression, emotional honesty, shadow, power, intimacy and the capacity to meet ourselves and one another with greater openness.
Robbie brings warmth, directness, humour and a grounded presence to the spaces he facilitates.
He has a particular gift for inviting people beyond familiar roles and into genuine contact with what is alive within them.
Robbie Griffin
Facilitator · Mentor · Founding Member of Emergence Brotherhood
Laura has facilitated international workshops and trainings for many years, bringing experience across embodiment, relational awareness, tantric traditions and personal exploration.
Her background includes academic training and professional experience in psychology, alongside extensive involvement in international experiential and spiritual communities.
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Her work explores the relationship between conditioning and freedom, intimacy and authentic expression, the sacred dark and the emergence of the soul through the human experience.
Laura brings a direct, deeply perceptive and exploratory approach to the spaces she holds.
Her presence invites people into contact with mystery, the body and the less familiar dimensions of themselves.
Laura Deva
Facilitator · Mystic · Embodiment Practitioner
Voices from the work.
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“If you are serious about facilitation work and want to truly feel and understand what it takes to become a great facilitator, go for TFT. It will transform and elevate how you see yourself, others, and your work.”
Roman
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“We observed immediate efficiency improvements after the implementation plan was executed precisely as outlined.”
Recent Client
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“Clear communication and rigorous analysis distinguished the team from prior vendors we engaged.”
Recent Client
Voices from the work.
Experiences from people who have journeyed with Robbie and Laura in previous retreats and trainings.
Previous Facilitator Training
“I feel I have a lot more tools. I also see how important framing is. It's essential. Along with the buy in. And then a general attunement to a field and reading where they are at and tweaking the sessions accordingly.
Adnan Malik - The Mentorship 2024
“(I've gained) tools, structure, the opportunity to put things in practice, and most of all, increased self-confidence. This is something I can and want to do more of... [Now] holding men's circles in leadership rather than just supporting.”
Bobby Smith - The Mentorship 2024
Voices from the 2026 TFT Cohort
“It's my personal slow awakening of believing in my capacity to hold those group spaces. Like a previously dormant snake, who is slowly tickled to wake up.”
Jen | TFT 2026
“I could apply a lot already in my coaching and in one 4 day retreat I could apply the things we learned so far. It gives my work more depth. It feels very good.”
Marc Weichenthal | TFT 2026
“This course is rich. It has so much information and content as well as so many practice opportunities. There are so many examples of situations that come up during live sessions and you really get to understand and grow from this. The tools and techniques taught also really give so much more understanding about yourself and the way you facilitate. You will meet your edges. There is a lot of growth available and there is a lot of love and care and you will be supported on your journey.”.
Arpita Karania | TFT 2026
“If you are serious about facilitation work and want to truly feel and understand what it takes to become a great facilitator, go for TFT. It will transform and elevate how you see yourself, others, and your work.”
Roman | TFT 2026
The Journey Begins Soon
The world needs skilled facilitators who can hold space for transformation.
People who can guide others through profound change while continuing their own growth.
✳︎ Proven tools & clear frameworks to confidently structure & hold transformational spaces
✳︎ Progressive content in bite-sized videos to transmit key concepts and skills, building week by week
✳︎ Comprehensive PDFs and resources for deep learning
✳︎ Interactive group calls with transmissions & teachings from Robbie throughout the nine-month training
✳︎ Structured practicum sessions in the calls & pods to develop your facilitation skills
✳︎ 2 in-person immersions in Spain to practise facilitating in the room, work with live group dynamics and deepen your embodied leadership
✳︎ Direct feedback and mentorship from Robbie to support your development as a facilitator
✳︎ Regular opportunities to integrate theory and practice throughout, with supervision and reflection on your facilitation
✳︎ Ongoing support through WhatsApp group messaging & community engagement
APPLICATION PROCESS
Join the Waiting List below for the 2027 cohort and be the first to know when applications are open.
Check your inbox for a follow-up email from transformationalft@gmail.com
Attend a selection interview to ensure alignment for the training.
If accepted, complete your enrolment and prepare for the training.
You can fill out the form and be the first to know when applications are open next year:
Why This Training Is Worth the Investment
We recognise that this is a significant commitment, financially and energetically. This training is designed to meet that level of commitment with real depth, real structure, and real return.
This is not simply about learning new techniques.
It is about refining your authority, strengthening your capacity to hold complex relational fields, and building facilitation work that is both heart centred and financially sustainable.
You will leave with more than insight.
You will leave with:
~ Embodied leadership
~ Clear facilitation frameworks
~ Greater confidence holding intensity and projection
~ A commercially viable offer structure
~ The foundation to build work that sustains you long-term
This training supports you not only to deepen your craft, but to build a life and livelihood aligned with who you truly are.
Practical Information
TFT 2027
The in-person immersions are an integral part of the TFT experience, offering opportunities for embodied practice, connection and direct feedback.
FAQ’s
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This training is designed for coaches, facilitators, mentors, space holders, and emerging leaders who are already working with people and are ready to deepen their authority, shadow literacy, and facilitation mastery.
It is for those who feel the edge of their next level, professionally and personally.
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This is not for those seeking a personal development journey for self-exploration alone.
It is for those who feel the weight and privilege of guiding others, and who are ready to grow into the level of leader their work now demands.
For those who want their facilitation to become unmistakably theirs. Clear. Coherent. Resonant. Capable of touching more lives without diluting truth.
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No.
This is not an entry-level program. Participants should have prior experience in personal development work and some experience holding space in group or 1:1 settings.
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No.
This is a professional facilitation training. While we work with shadow, somatic awareness, and depth psychology principles, this is not psychotherapy or trauma treatment.
As a facilitator, we strongly recommend that you have a therapist or, at the very least, a supervisor with whom you can reflect and unpack what arises while holding transformational spaces. This work continually brings material to the surface, and having support allows for deeper integration and clarity. The journey of facilitation is ongoing as you continue along this evolutionary path.
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“Trauma-informed” means we work with nervous-system awareness, consent, pacing, and integration.
We prioritise safety, agency, and capacity. We do not force catharsis or push participants beyond what they can integrate.
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No formal certification is required.
What matters is maturity, integrity, lived experience, and readiness to work at depth.
All applicants complete an application process to ensure alignment.
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The training runs over nine months and combines live online teaching, video lessons, learning resources, peer practice and two in-person immersions.
You can expect two 2-hour group calls, approximately 2 hours of video lessons, and one smaller group practice session of around 90 minutes, per month
Allow some additional time for personal practice and integration between sessions.
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Participants will receive a certificate of completion.
This training emphasises embodied competency over credentials. Certification reflects participation and integration within the container.
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All live online sessions are recorded, allowing you to catch up on the teaching if you cannot attend, live participation is strongly encouraged.
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The two immersions are designed as integral parts of the nine-month training, allowing you to practise and integrate the skills developed throughout the programme.
Attendance to both immersions is not compulsory, exceptions are possible and would depend on what work you have done with Robbie previously.
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The two in-person immersions are booked and paid for separately from the online training. Accommodation and meals are included in the immersion price, while travel costs are separate.
Both immersions are planned to take place at Hidden Paradise in Spain.
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The nine-month training includes live online teaching, video lessons, learning resources, structured facilitation practice, peer learning, and direct teaching and mentorship with Robbie.
Each month, you'll have two 2-hour live group calls, approximately 2 hours of video lessons, and smaller group practice sessions of around 90 minutes.
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Yes, payment plans are available. Full investment details and payment options will be shared when applications open.
Step into a space where truth, courage, and embodiment become the foundation of your leadership.
A nine-month journey into the craft of facilitation, the embodiment of leadership and the development of work you can sustain.