C.Lab is the people who show up. About 150 so far, counting everyone who's sat a Sunday circle or done 1-on-1 journey work. Fifty of them have been through a retreat. Circles are forming in three countries. A growing network of people practicing, in their own lives, what gets pointed at in our retreats.
We're not trying to scale. We're trying to stay known to each other. Every person stays a person. The globe on the homepage will eventually show this as a map. Not yet. For now, it's a list of people we can name by first name. We hope that stays true even as the numbers move.
These are drafts.
Some came out of long conversations. Some are video interviews still being edited — fifteen are in the pipeline. Some came in as emails people sent months after their retreat, when something had finally settled enough to put into words.
A few written ones will live here first. We publish them when they feel true enough to the person who lived them. Sometimes that takes a year.
Maya came to Costa Rica pretty sure the problem was her husband. She left less sure. Six months on, she's talking to him instead of about him. Some of what she'd been calling his avoidance turned out to have been hers.
Read the storyMaya · Therapist, Oregon
Daniel almost didn't come. Twenty years in his head, suspicious of anything described as embodied. One morning between his coffee and the meeting tent, something quietly gave. He still can't name what it was. He knows he moves through his days differently now.
Read the storyDaniel · Educator, Quebec
Amira is forty-two. She'd left her inner life somewhere in her mid-twenties and went to build a career. She came expecting a reset. What she got was a long, slow conversation with the parts of herself she'd told to wait.
Read the storyAmira · Coach, Berlin
The facilitator path is forming.
A first small group of alumni is beginning the training. It's a spiral of its own, layered onto their retreat experience and the 1-on-1 work they've done with Forest. When they're ready, their names, their towns, and their circles live here. Not sooner. We'd rather show you nothing than fake a directory.
First cohort · in training
First cohort · in training
First cohort · in training
Our shape is a monthly circle, a few retreats a year, occasional seasonal events as they arise.
The rhythm is deliberate. We don't fill a calendar for its own sake. The next three dates are below. If you're on the letters list, you'll hear about the rest first.
The monthly online circle. A short teaching, a practice, small-group time, a question we pass around. Open to anyone. Bring tea.
For anyone who's been through a retreat. A longer sit, a slower check-in, a chance to hear how the work has kept working on people. Closed group.
Six days on the Pacific coast. Group of ten. By application. A few scholarship seats are open. Write us if cost is the thing keeping you out.
For most people, the first thing is a Sunday circle. A lot of paths into C.Lab start there. No commitment, no money, no application. Show up once. See who's in the room. See if it moves anything.