The Question

Discover the Question that is Shaping Your Legacy, Leadership and Life. May 15 – 19, 2025 Bowen Island, BC

What if powerful guidance doesn’t come from answers, but rather the questions? Ones that call you deeper into yourself, your purpose, and your place in the world.

The Question is a five-day immersive self-discovery and leadership experience that includes a 24 hour fast and personal vigil, inspired by the ancient practice of initiation and the vision quest. And while this adventure retreat includes all the comforts you need to feel safe, supported and nourished; with delicious food, a warm bed, inspired space and a fire to gather around, make no mistake, this five day experience is designed to make you comfortably uncomfortable.

This is the work of initiation.

This is self-discovery.

This is about your legacy and your leadership.

Based on the soul initiation work of Bill Plotkin, the storytelling wisdom of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and land-based teachings from the heat, wet and pine of the North American wilderness, this five day escape asks: What if your question is the very quest you are on?

Set on 200 private acres of forested land on Bowen Island, with a swimming lake, a gathering fire pit and an expansive trail network with access to Mt. Gardiner, this retreat is an invitation to leaders, creatives, and seekers ready to embark on an inner and outer journey unlike any other.

The program includes three epic days of self-discovery incorporating outdoor adventuring, the arts, circle practices and storytelling. In the middle of the program is a twenty four hour fast, and deep listening vigil, which we call The Question where you are encouraged to be in silence as you sink into your question and be in relationship with the land.

Meet Your Guides

(r) Tom Lancaster

Tom Lancaster is a transformational coach and wilderness guide with over 25 years of adventure and 15 years of leadership experience. He is building a movement of Soul Initiated Transformational Leaders who are consciously evolving the systems that humanity has unconsciously created. As the creator of Adventure Consciousness, Tom leads high-achieving individuals beyond the boundaries of conventional success, guiding them through wilderness-based experiences that challenge their inner and outer worlds. His work pushes leaders to reconnect with their authentic selves, igniting profound personal transformation and balance. Tom’s approach is heavily influenced by the work of Bill Plotkin, Martin Meade, and Dr. Joe Dispenza among others. He is a lifelong globetrotter with a well-developed taste for adrenaline, who has sailed in the Indian Ocean, climbed in the Himalayas and trekked the depths of the Amazon Rainforest. In 2011 he set a Guinness World Record for climbing the height of Everest (8,848M) on an artificial wall.

(m) Tina Overbury

Tina Overbury is an expressive arts therapist (in training), storyteller, and group facilitator, offers over 30 years of experience in story work, ceremony, space-holding and facilitation. Her approach is rooted in myth, mysticism, and ceremony, and she works with the healing power of the arts, using narrative as a way to explore human connection. Her work in land-based rituals and embodied listening provides a deep container for participants to uncover their authentic selves and heal through story and myth. ​Her individual and group facilitation work is heavily influenced by the principles of circle work, and Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Tina’s approach to story is influenced by the words of Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr. Martin Shaw and the work of Expressive Arts. She is currently writing her first book, Story from The Core based on her development of twelve core stories rooted in creation stories from around the world, and her last decade of individual care and support of artists and writers.

(l) Adam Tutor

Adam Tutor is a Spiritual Adventure Guide, a nature-based coach, and a leader of men. His mission is to heal the hearts of humanity by bringing people back to the earth. He realizes his mission through sacred circles for men, meditation and mindfulness retreats in the heart of nature, and one on one connections through heart centred connection. He is at his best when music, spirit and imagination is flowing. His leadership and entrepreneurial endeavors aim to help people express their true heart, see value in their creative body and connect with community and Spirit on a deeper level. It is a rare gift to follow the mysterious whisper that comes from the silence of nature. To walk with great awareness into the shadow of the forest and listen for the answers to the questions yet revealed.

What Awaits You in These Five Days?

Over the course of 5 days we will wander into the wild equipped with the tools of storytelling, creative expression, deep listening, yogic meditation, conscious connection, wilderness-based wisdom, and backcountry boldness.

We will challenge each other. We will encourage each other. We will watch over each other.

We will bring our questions and stories to the fire every night.

AGENDA

Day 1 – 3:30pm arrival on Bowen Island and an introduction to the land, each other and your journey.

Day 2 – A day with Tina exploring expressive arts with a focus on ‘What is unsaid?’ Expect to work with paint, pastels, light and easy movement, voice, and the land itself. This day is about landing fully in your experience of inquiry, listening, and trusting. We will be using the arts as a playful and powerful way to leave behind what is been distracting you from your own wisdom. We will be moving through the assumptions and narratives holding you in the patterns you’ve come here to shift. This day is about equipping you with ways to ‘be with’ yourself during day 3’s – 24 hour fast and Question Vigil.

Day 3 – An outdoor adventure with Tom. Natural environments provide surroundings where the rules of work and obligation no longer apply. It’s where you are free to be, and that in itself will bring forward a level of vulnerability. Expect hiking, climbing, being exposed to the elements and being in relationship with yourself and the land. This is an opportunity to connect with your edge in a gentle way, and learn from what you discover there. You will have an opportunity to choose where on the land you feel called to sit in ‘vigil’ with your question. This day is about creating agency and safety within yourself for your deeply personal descent into deep listening while being out in the elements.

Day 4 – The Question. This day is spent outside in a place of your choosing. A light snack will be offered the night before and then you will take to the woods to the place you have chosen to sit in vigil with your question. You are invited to bring what you need to feel safe on this 200 acre private property which has been used by campers for decades. You are encouraged to find a place where you can be within reach of your guides, but alone in your experience. This is a day for being with your question, in silence to others, while in communication with yourself and the land. We will break our fast for a late night meal as the sun begins to go down around 8:30 pm.

Day 5 – The Integration – a day with Adam in circle, sharing stories, unpacking your experience, and being in ceremony to support the movement of what has revealed itself to you, for you and from you. This is a threshold experience to support you as you integrate what has emerged. It is a transformational day that allows for you to be in the centre of your story while at the same time, in practice of sharing what has called you forward. This is a day of being in your heart, and recommitting to the vision of your life, but this time, from the inside. Expect laughter, stories, possibly tears, and a deep sense of connection to yourself.

Who Is This For?

This retreat is for leaders, visionaries and seekers who are ready to:


✔ Engage in a profound exploration of your life’s purpose.

✔ Step beyond traditional leadership paradigms and into soul-rooted guidance.

✔ Use storytelling, movement and silence to access deeper wisdom.

✔ Cultivate a relationship with the land as teacher and initiator.

✔ Leave the distractions behind for a different kind of a ‘long weekend’.

✔ Want to find some rest inside the bigger questions within you.

This is not a passive retreat. This is an active, immersive journey into the heart of your purpose.

DETAILS

  • Five days, four nights
  • 3 Facilitators
  • Shared accommodation
  • All meals (healthy and locally sourced) provided
  • Pick-up from the Snug Cove is available
  • All art supplies provided
  • For your 24 hour vigil, bring what you need (let’s discuss)
  • Cost $3000 by April 1st, after it is $3500
  • Bring a friend, $3000 each

For more information, please join us for our next Tuesday afternoon information session here.

Info sessions: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm PDT

We’ve put aside an hour each week to connect with you to answer your questions personally.

You can also book a call with me directly.

I’m curious and I want to chat with Tina