Four weeks · Awera Island
The programme
Peer support, group education, one-to-one sessions, daily CBT practice and physical activity, in a structure that holds — not confines. Anyone with a physical dependency completes detox before arriving.
Can I still work? →Let the nervous system slow down. Routine comes in gently. The group starts to form. No pressure to go deep yet. The island, the ocean and the rhythm do the work.
With trust established, the depth increases. Group education begins. One-to-one work goes deeper. The week culminates in the Tribe Experience.
The deepest week. Sessions move into harder territory: trauma, inner child, shame, identity. Physical activity stays essential — as regulation, not as an add-on.
The work doesn’t end on the island — it begins here. Insight becomes tools. Tools become commitments. A closing reflection ends the month with intention.
We start with a screening call to understand where you're at. If you need a medical detox, that happens before the island. We can help arrange it in your home country or refer you to a supervised clinic on the mainland. Once you're medically cleared, you're ready to come.
Group and 1:1 education
Group sessions run for 60 to 75 minutes, four times a week, and the same threads carry into your one-to-one sessions every day. You get straight information about what's going on, and practical ways to use it.
A typical day
One hour a week on Zoom with your therapist, exactly as normal. No therapist? We connect you with ours.
Facilitated calls, kept focused. They only happen when they're likely to help.
Once or twice a week from week two.
Signature experiences
Three days. No phones. No internet. A completely different way of existing. During weeks two and three, you leave the resort entirely to stay with an off-grid Mentawai community.
This is not a gap in the programme. It is the programme. The contrast opens one question no session can replicate: what do I actually need?
You spend time at Ocean School, a local non-profit that teaches local kids English, swimming, surfing and lifesaving. It's ordinary, useful work.
A lot of high achievers spend years focused on themselves, often just to get by. Helping out with nothing in return is part of recovery.
Body and practice
Everything physical here is part of the programme. It's good for your body, and it helps steady your nervous system.
After the island
The first 60 days home are the hardest. You leave the container and re-enter the world that was there before.
Biweekly calls, group or individual, through the first stretch home.
The relationship was never handed over, so nothing has to be rebuilt.
In-person referral to AA, NA, SMART or a local therapist at home.
It starts once the first group finishes, so you stay in touch with people who've been through it with you.