FIND YOUR PURPOSE
Finding Your Purpose
Before anyone can return to what matters, they have to know what that is. This is where the work begins — not with answers, but with the right questions, asked somewhere quiet enough to actually hear them.
Two Days, Away From It All
Finding Your Purpose is a two-day workshop, held at quiet hotels across the UK — Chevin Lodge, Waterton Park, and similar places chosen for the same reason as everywhere else we work: enough space to think clearly, and enough distance from the desk to actually hear yourself.
Four threads run through the two days — Values, Ikigai, Flow States and Energy. Each brings a different kind of clarity, and together they move you from where you are now towards a working life built around what you actually value.
For many people, this is where it begins. The workshop often becomes the opening chapter of something longer — a Factory-Reset Expedition, a Time and Space retreat — but it stands entirely on its own.
The Four Threads
Values
Most people can describe their values in theory and struggle to recognise them in practice. This thread closes that gap — naming what actually matters to you, and the conditions under which you live by it rather than simply agree with it.
Ikigai
A Japanese framework for finding the overlap between what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. We use it not as a worksheet to complete, but as a lens — a way of seeing your working life as it actually is, and where it might yet go.
Flow States
The conditions under which you do your best thinking, your best leading and your best living — and how to recognise them, protect them, and return to them more often, rather than stumbling into flow by accident.
Energy
Most advice about time assumes every hour is worth the same. It rarely is. This thread is about learning to manage your energy rather than your time — noticing what genuinely restores you, what quietly empties you, and shaping your days around that difference rather than the clock. When the energy is good, deep and truly healing, time stops being the thing that matters.
A Two-Day Example: Chevin Lodge
To make the shape of the two days concrete, here’s how a course might run at Chevin Lodge in Yorkshire — one of the quiet hotels we use. Exact timings and content shift from cohort to cohort and venue to venue, but the rhythm holds: settle in, go deep, come back out with something to take with you.
Day One — Chevin Lodge
Arrival & Opening
Focus: settling in, and opening the first thread.
- 2:00pm — Arrival; settle in, no agenda, no rush.
- 3:00pm — Welcome & opening circle: why you’re here, what the two days hold.
- 3:30pm — Ikigai: the first full session.
- 5:30pm — Free time, or a walk in the Chevin Forest.
- 7:00pm — Dinner together.
- 8:15pm — Evening reflection: opening Values & Flow States.
Day Two — Chevin Lodge
Clarity & Direction
Focus: finishing the second thread, then mapping the route to the third.
- 7:30am — Optional morning movement or breath practice.
- 8:30am — Breakfast.
- 9:30am — Values & Flow States: the full session.
- 11:30am — Fresh air, short break.
- 11:45am — Now to Ideal: working out the pathway from where you are to your ideal situation.
- 1:00pm — Lunch.
- 2:00pm — Weaving it together: how the four threads connect, and what you’re taking back to Monday morning.
- 3:30pm — Closing circle & departure.
A note on Energy: for now it shows up here as movement and breath — the optional early session, the walk in the forest — rather than as a dedicated block of its own. Exactly how it threads through the two days is still being finalised alongside the rest of that content, and this timeline will be adjusted once it is.
Format
- Two days, hotel-based
- UK-wide — Chevin Lodge, Waterton Park, and similar venues
- A feeder into Factory-Reset Expeditions and Back to What Matters retreats, and a complete experience in its own right
For Individuals and Teams
This workshop works well as a complete experience for individuals, or as the opening chapter of something longer — a Factory-Reset Expedition, a Time and Space retreat, or a corporate wellbeing programme. Wherever you meet it, it’s designed to do one thing well: help you find your purpose, not perform it.
If you’re ready to start asking better questions, we’d love to help you ask them.
QUICK FACTS
FormatTwo days, hotel-based
VenuesUK-wide — Chevin Lodge, Waterton Park & similar
The Four ThreadsValues · Ikigai · Flow States · Energy
Also Feeds IntoFactory-Reset Expeditions · Back to What Matters Retreats
InvestmentAvailable on request