Most retreats follow a familiar script: a few days away, bonding through shared experiences, maybe some insightful conversations, and the feeling of connection that fades as quickly as you return to everyday life. It’s a powerful experience in the moment, but often it leaves you wondering, What’s next? You leave with memories, but not always with the tools for real, lasting change.

What’s often missing is the depth needed to create true transformation. Most retreats focus on the experience of connection, but what about what comes after? The key to deep, lasting growth lies in developing practical skills—skills rooted in understanding how our emotions and bodies work together. It’s about more than just feeling good for a weekend; it’s about learning tools that reshape your relationships, your self-awareness, and your ability to navigate life.

True change requires more than just insight—it requires embodiment. It’s one thing to understand an idea in your mind, but another to fully integrate it into how you live. This type of change doesn’t happen by accident, and it can’t be achieved in a vacuum. It needs to be structured, intentional, and based on proven methods that allow for real personal evolution.

That’s why some men are now seeking something different, something more. They’re looking for retreats that don’t just provide a temporary escape, but offer lasting, actionable skills to transform their lives. This approach is what makes the difference between returning to the same old patterns or stepping into something new.

If this resonates with you, there is a retreat that goes beyond the surface—a program that equips you with the tools for lasting transformation. At MELD Prime, you’ll not only experience connection, but also gain the skills to create sustainable change in every area of your life.

Prime grew out of Owen Marcus’s work, evolving from men’s groups then into a new model of groups and men’s work based on the science of emotional physiology when started the Sandpoint Men’s Group in 2005. That group and the three businesses that housed his work led to Owen developing the MELD Method, a distilled process of transformational change.

Through his four-plus decades of work and study with the leaders in the somatic therapy field, this method was born. His copyrighted process is only available at MELD – a process where each man gives and receives each step of the MELD Method to other men. Men leave transformed and embodying a system they get to adapt and apply in all realms of their lives.

If this interests you, we suggest you check out our Prime retreat. If you have any questions, we encourage you to sign up for a call to answer them. We would love to have you return home transformed and empowered to impact change.