Retreats
Men’s Final Rock Retreat
When: July 25th-27th 2025
Where: The Rock Mt Byron QLD
Cost: $150pp includes all food accommodation & resources
‘Have you ever thought of your life as a journey? Are you flying along or have you hit a dead end? Are you a little lost or exactly in the right place?
Wherever you’re at, there is another type of journey, with a vastly different world to explore - The Inner Journey.
This retreat has been designed so you can better understand your internal journey. This weekend will be a space of journeying together through story, in a setting of immense natural beauty. It will be an opportunity to reset, pause and explore your internal landscape communally. We’ve found that nature and community provide the perfect ingredients for change and healing. If you want to sign up you can click on the button below. If you want to know more you can email wildhopecounselling@gmail.com.
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Your Facillitators
We have a team of men who will help facilitate your experience on these retreats. All of these men have done significant work in their own lives and can create a place of deep knowing and safety. The weekend is based in nature, which provides a great container for being with grief and will include:
Group processes
Solo time
Silence
Opportunity to create personal grief rituals
Plenty of time and space to simply be.
Benjamin Burns
Ben Burns works in private practice as a Counsellor, with a focus on Men and has worked for the last decade with various men’s organisations in the UK and Australia running retreats and facilitating men’s circles, as well as rites of passage programs.
Ben also runs the Suicide Prevention in Communities program on the Sunshine Coast and Hinterland for Caloundra Community Centre. Ben works alongside people who are keen to creatively explore ways to bring more awareness of Suicide and as a result reduce stigma and shame.
Ben is a husband, father, musician and poet and enjoys bringing this creativity into all areas of his life.
Wayne Stevens
Wayne Stevens is a Nurse and Counsellor. He has been involved in men’s retreats in Australia and the US and has had the privilege to journey with many men. Wayne currently works as a counsellor at Wild Hope Counselling and specialises in Men & First responders. I first floated the idea of this these retreats to give men a space to explore inner work in a safe community. The team and I work hard to create a space of authenticity and community.