You hold the room for everyone. Who holds it for you?
Two days in Zurich, in a small hand-picked circle, where you are not the strong one, not the one with the answer, and not the one everybody else is watching.
- 20 and 21 February 2027
- Zurich
- Maximum 14 participants
- By application only
- EUR 3,700
Dr. Petra Frese reads every application herself.
Stin tells the part he had never told publicly
He flew in as the organizer. He came back as a participant. In German, with English subtitles.
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You are the one they call when something breaks
When it burns, they call you. When a hard decision has to be made, everyone looks in your direction.
You are the anchor for your business, the steady one for your clients, the unshakeable force at home. You learned to function. You learned that your own needs can wait while the work gets built.
So here is the uncomfortable question. Do you feel that quiet, deep exhaustion that sleep no longer fixes? The kind that comes from years of giving, holding and filling the room for other people while your own well runs dry?
Your own subject has been waiting for years, because it is never urgent. It waits. And you know exactly which one it is. It occurred to you while you were reading this paragraph.
You have pulled that flower before
With knowledge, with discipline, with self-reflection. You are a professional at this. And it grows back anyway.
Nobody is holding the room for you
Not your clients, not your team, not your family. Everyone assumes you have it handled, because you always have.
The performance never stops
You are observed, assessed and measured every working day. There is no room in your week where the role comes off.
What happened to Stin in March
This is the part of the page where the founder of a hypnosis school tells you something that does not make him look good.
He flew to Zurich as the organizer. The plan was simple: hold the room, make sure everyone has what they need, let Petra do the work. Shortly before it started, Petra looked at him and said the puppy protection was over. It was not a question.
So he sat there. Not as an instructor, not as a therapist, not as the guy from YouTube. As a participant with his own material.
What he understood that weekend was how long he had been wearing a mask. Always the strong one, always upbeat, always the sunshine everyone expected of him. He had never counted what that cost. Then he cried in front of the group, including people who knew him as their own instructor.
None of the things he had spent his life protecting himself from happened. Nobody thought less of him. He lost nothing.
I flew in as the person holding the room and came back as a participant. And you are probably thinking right now: crying in front of people who barely know me, never going to happen. That is exactly what I thought. My whole life. Stin-Niels Musche
Two days, and no program booklet
This is not a seminar. There is no stage, no slides, and nothing to write down.
The end of performing
You hand your role in at the door. For two days you are not the strong one. That alone is the thing most participants say they had not experienced in years.
One on one with Petra
Because the circle is capped at fourteen people, Petra works with each person individually: energy healing, shamanic techniques, and individual card readings for your work and your private life.
From doing to being
We are conditioned to define our worth through output. Two days without anything to produce does something to the constant noise in your head.
Petra Frese works at the intersection of science and spirit: dual PhDs in psychology, a master's in engineering, years as a firefighter, and a practice that goes well beyond any of that. More about Petra →
Fourteen people who all hold the room for someone else
Therapists, physicians, coaches, business owners. On the Saturday morning most of them were still the person everyone else leans on. By Sunday they were not.
In February 2027 we open this room for the third time.
"Wait. Card readings? On this website?"
Fair. Stin spends his working life taking hypnosis myths apart, and he is the one putting this page online.
He is not going to give you a scientific explanation of why a card reading moves something. He does not have one. He walked in with a solid portion of skepticism himself.
What he can tell you is what he saw, and what participants said afterwards. One of them wrote that she would never have expected her block to come loose during a card reading of all things, and that it has held since. That word, of all things, is the point. She is not a woman who believes everything. She is a woman who was surprised.
Another wrote that she drove there with the feeling of coming back a different person, and that is how it turned out.
Draw your own conclusion. Individual experiences differ, nobody here promises you a result, and anyone who does is selling something else.
Who this is not for
Do not apply if
you are looking for a seminar where you learn techniques and take notes. There is nothing to write down here. We have other offers for that.
And do not apply if you want to observe from a safe distance to see whether this is all legitimate. That will not work, and you would be taking the seat of someone who actually wants it.
Apply if
- you are a therapist, physician, coach or you run a business, and you are the one others lean on.
- there is a subject you have been carrying for years that never becomes urgent.
- you are willing to hand over control for two days.
As one participant put it: no fear of missing out, no toolkit, ego and intellect on the shelf, gut feeling at the lectern.
How to get in
Participation cannot simply be booked. The circle is limited to fourteen people. Because this works with deep personal processes, we choose those fourteen by hand, so that every person in the room is genuinely good for the group.
- Date20 and 21 February 2027
- LocationZurich
- Groupmaximum 14 participants
- Meals during the retreatincluded
- Selectionby application
Petra reads every application personally and decides whether you fit the group and the group fits you. If it does, you receive a personal invitation with all the details. The circle stays small. That is not a sales tactic, it is how the work functions.
This retreat is a personal development experience. It is not medical treatment, psychotherapy or a diagnosis, and it does not replace either.
Questions people ask
Why can I not just book a seat?
Because the group is the method. Two days of this kind of work only function if everyone in the circle belongs there. Petra reads every application and decides on both directions of fit.
How many people will be there?
Fourteen at most. That number is not a marketing device, it is what makes one-on-one work with Petra possible across two days. When the fourteen seats are taken, the date is closed.
Do I need to know hypnosis?
No. This is not a hypnosis event and not a training. Participants come from therapy, medicine, coaching and business.
What language is it in?
The retreat takes place in Zurich. Tell us in your application which language you are comfortable working in and we will let you know what is possible for this date.
Will my subject be resolved that weekend?
Nobody can promise you that, and anyone who does is not being straight with you. What we can say is what the format is built for: two days in which your own material is finally the thing that gets attention.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
No. Whoever comes in should come in deliberately. Cancellation terms are in the invitation you receive if your application is accepted.