By Invitation Only

The Great Work

A Private Retreat Experience

August 27–30, 2026 Sequoia National Park
A Private Retreat Property
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Every masterpiece begins in stillness.

Thursday afternoon you arrive on the mountain. The air smells of pine and woodsmoke. The noise of your life stays in the valley below. Somewhere in the first hours, without trying, your shoulders come down from your ears.

That's when the real questions
get quiet enough to hear.

The Invitation

What if your greatest work
is still ahead of you?

Not because you need another strategy. But because the founder who built your current life isn't the same man being called to create what comes next.

For four days, in the mountains, we'll sit with two questions:

What is your impossible goal?
What new world is trying to emerge through you?

Join us to find out.

The Experience

Designed for clarity

Every element is designed to create the conditions where clarity and possibility emerge on their own.

Why Nature

Why Men

Some conversations can only happen around a fire.
In the presence of the masculine.
Some questions can only be heard in silence.

Away from the demands of leadership — surrounded by wilderness and a carefully chosen room of accomplished men — something settles.

Vision returns.

The Shape of the Days

Four days in the mountains

Thursday, August 27
12 – 3 PM
Arrival at Sequoia Highland Camp
4 PM
Opening ceremony
5 PM
Dinner together
6 PM
First evening practice
Friday & Saturday
Sunrise to night
Full days of practice, connection, and adventure. The schedule is shared in person at the retreat.
Sunday, August 30
10 AM
Closing and departure
The Land

Sequoia Highland Camp

Cabin through the pines at sunset, Sequoia Highland Camp
Swing overlooking the valley at sunset
Sunset over the Sierra foothills from the ridge
A-frame cabin under the stars
The Rarest Room

At a certain level of success, nearly everyone around you needs something from you.

The mind that will not turn off. The wins that stopped landing. The weight of being the strong one for everyone.

In Our Room

Be surrounded by accomplished men with nothing to sell, nothing to prove, and nothing to gain from your decisions.

No networking. No pitching. No performance.

Only honest reflection, meaningful challenge, and the rare experience of being truly seen.

Sometimes the breakthrough isn't another strategy.
It's being seen clearly.

Who Holds the Room
Matthew Rose and Bentley Richards, founders of The Edge Journey

The Great Work is held by Matthew Rose and Bentley Richards, founders of The Edge Journey. Their work with men lives beneath strategy: the body, the breath, and honest conversation around a fire.

Fifteen men is the size of a room
they like to hold personally.

You'll Leave With
The decision you've been circling for months, made. Your impossible goal, embodied. How it feels in your body. How it feels to live it. Four days of full rest in a room that wants nothing from you. Five to ten men who will still pick up your call in five years. One clear next move, and the man to make it.
Your Commitment
$3,500

Includes private bungalow accommodations, chef-prepared meals, and every retreat experience.

Also included: a private pre-retreat vision session and a post-retreat integration conversation with Matthew and Bentley. Two hours of direct 1:1 work, before and after the mountain.

Four days. Fifteen men.
The next decade of your work.

Reserve Your Place

Deposit and payment plan available. Balance due by Friday, August 14.

By Invitation

Attendance begins
with a conversation

The room holds fifteen men, and more than half the places are already spoken for. Before opening the rest publicly, we're personally inviting a select group of men we believe will both shape and benefit from the room.

First conversations are happening now. We expect the room to be full well before the retreat.

If something in you knows it's time to create your next great work, we'd like to connect.

If you already know, reserve your place directly. If you have questions, book a call and we'll speak first.