WINTER PARK
MEN’S THRESHOLD RETREAT
JUNE 26-28, 2026
Men! Welcome.
This is a trumpet call-out to men who are ready to shake things up.
Because something in your life is asking more of you.
Maybe it’s your relationship — your partner wants something of you that you can feel the shape of, but can’t quite live into. Or you’re at a crossroads, feeling the gravity of the moment, even as your old ways keep pulling you back in. For some men, there’s no single thing — just a quiet, persistent sense that the life they’re living is smaller than the one they’re here for.
Given that you’ve landed here and are reading this, I’m betting you’ve done some real work on yourself. Maybe a lot of it! Even so — like for so many of us — the same patterns keep hunting you down.
So, what to do?
Most men have some sense of what they could do. I say the problem isn’t usually a lack of information, or even insight. It’s the gap between knowing and actually engaging. It’s in the moments of real life pressure that the grooves of habit take over (again).
So what actually leverages change?
What I’ve come to see, through years of doing this work alongside other men, is that most major evolutionary work is relational in nature. It happens in contact. We reveal ourselves — our patterns, aspects of ourselves, whole structures we maybe didn’t even know we were running — and, something shifts. When other men are here for it, with us, the potency multiplies. Massively. For us, and for every man in the field.
I’ll go even further, and say: this relational work is revolutionary.
The medicine ceremony.
At the center of the three days is a guided medicine ceremony. It lands on day two, and it’s the heart of everything.
What medicine creates, when held in a container that’s intentional, grounded, and relational, is a softening. A way underneath the hardened defenses, and beneath the noise of how we’ve learned to manage ourselves. We find ourselves in… an unfolding. An unbinding. Lifelong patterns are seen — and relaxed. And, as I’ve seen countless times, new ways of being are revealed.
If it’s not stormy, we take the ceremony into the wilderness. If the mountains are wily and thunderous, we hold it inside, around a roaring hearth. Either way, we go it together. Like men have been doing for eons.
“The medicine experience was a breakthrough for me. My intentions were strong going in, and I came away with great energy that’s still with me. Your co-facilitation worked extremely well — great dynamic. I look forward to attending another with you guys.”
— W.G., retreat participant
Three Days.
We’ll gather Friday morning and close Sunday afternoon. No more than ten men, in a beautiful mountain home in the Rockies.
The days have structure, and — Reuvain and I will follow what’s actually alive in the room. Foundationally, we’ll have morning embodied work to open and ground us. We’ll have group circles that are grown from real-time presence — not just talking about your life, but living it, here, with other men witnessing and participating. Shared meals we cook together. And like a strong current running underneath all of it, the question of what it would actually mean to step into the life that’s asking for you.
“I came home much lighter in spirit, and more joyful — without the familiar heavy blanket of stress, fear and anxiety around the unknown. My mind is clear.”
— J.S., retreat participant
Your Guides.
Reuvain and I have been in one form or another of our own personal work — in collaborative spaces together — for almost twenty years. It’s in the past year that we’ve united to work together, co-leading groups of men. And while our aims run parallel, our approaches are distinct.
Bryce Widom
I’ve spent years helping people contact the parts of themselves they’ve been most afraid to meet. The tools vary — depth work, somatic practice, live music (most recently, handpan in ceremony) — but the orientation is the same: toward what’s actually here, rather than what we think should be here.
Reuvain Bacal
Reuvain brings precision, and a kind of direct challenge that doesn’t let you off the hook. He helps men see how they’re actually showing up under pressure — and shift it, in real-time.
The details.
June 26-28, 2026. Friday 11am through Sunday 2pm. Winter Park, Colorado.
$2,500 — private room (3 spots).
$2,150 — built-in bunk (4 spots).
$1,800 — floor or outdoor-sleeping.
Accommodation and food included. Men share in cooking.
Ten spots total.
If something in this is landing for you — reach out.
This starts with a conversation, a short call or coffee with me to talk about where you are and whether this is the right fit.
Contact me : 303.638.8052
