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Deepen

Disconnect from the everyday noise and reconnect with each other.


A weekend in the wild. Three hours from Cape Town, designed for couples ready to deepen intimacy and connection.

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You're not fighting. You're just... quiet.

[PLACEHOLDER copy โ€” refine as needed] No big blow-up, no crisis. Just two people who love each other, running parallel lives โ€” co-parents, co-managers, roommates. Somewhere in the noise of daily life, the connection went quiet. Deepen is a weekend built to disconnect from that noise, so you can reconnect with each other.

Disconnect to reconnect

[PLACEHOLDER copy โ€” pull from finalized weekend framework] No phones buzzing, no calendar pulling at you, no audience. Just nature, honest conversation, and each other. Across the weekend you'll move through a few honest anchor points โ€” slowing down together, real talk without a stage, time outdoors, and space to simply return to one another. By Sunday, the goal isn't a breakthrough moment. It's a deeper, steadier connection you carry home.

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Couple embracing in the forest at sunset
Couple by a fire at night

What's included

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  • Friday evening through Sunday, three hours from Cape Town
  • All accommodation and meals
  • Every guided session and anchor point of the weekend
  • Time built in for just the two of you โ€” to disconnect from everything else and reconnect with each other

Is Deepen right for you?

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This is for you ifโ€ฆ

  • You're a long-term couple who's drifted into routine, not crisis
  • You want real conversation, not another checklist
  • You're open to a weekend outdoors, without pressure to perform or disclose
  • You're a conservative or same-gender couple wondering if this is welcoming โ€” it is

This might not be the right fit ifโ€ฆ

  • You're navigating an active crisis or safety concern โ€” we'll help you find the right support instead
  • You're looking for individual therapy rather than a couples experience
  • You want a resort weekend rather than a guided retreat

Held by people who've done this work themselves

Gareth Pickering

Gareth Pickering

Founder, Fathers Sons Brothers

Gareth is a relationship coach, facilitator, international speaker, and founder of Fathers Sons Brothers, a global men's community and an acclaimed podcast.

He supports men, women and couples who want to improve their relationships so they can live, lead, and love more consciously.

He guides his clients to understand themselves more deeply and reconnect with their authentic truth. Through embodied practices, deep relational work, and nervous system regulation, he helps reprogram outdated patterns around power, sexuality, and identity.

At the core of his work is a simple belief: relationships and sexuality are gateways to healing and expanding consciousness. When a person integrates their inner world, their family, community, and the wider world feel the shift.

Rici Liliya

Rici Liliya

Relationship Specialist & Women's Coach

Rici Liliya is a relationship specialist and women's coach. She helps couples and women reconnect with intimacy, communication, and themselves, something she has experienced firsthand.

Her path includes significant relationship loss and a complete internal transformation before finding her way back to herself and the work she now defines as her soul's calling. Through somatic work and deep trauma healing, she rebuilt her own capacity for trust, presence, and embodied intimacy. This journey restored the parts of herself that had gone quiet and reclaimed her connection to her feminine energy, a transformation that touched all her other relationships.

She brings this wisdom to every woman and couple she works with, not as theory, but as an embodied truth.

Couples who came back to each other

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Elderly couple embracing outdoors

"[PLACEHOLDER quote] We'd forgotten how to just be together. This weekend gave that back to us."

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Couple embracing with mountain view

"[PLACEHOLDER quote] Nothing dramatic was wrong โ€” we were just quiet. Now we're not."

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Couple embracing on a mountain cliff

"[PLACEHOLDER quote] We came in nervous. We left holding hands the whole drive home."

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Deepen โ€” 6โ€“8 November

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Includes

  • All accommodation and meals
  • Every guided session
  • Time set aside just for the two of you
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Questions couples ask before saying yes

[PLACEHOLDER โ€” confirm capacity] Limited to a small number of couples ยท 6โ€“8 November

Deepen is intentionally small โ€” an intimate group, not a conference. Once spaces are filled, the next chance to disconnect and reconnect won't be until [PLACEHOLDER next date].

6โ€“8 November ยท Three hours from Cape Town

[PLACEHOLDER โ€” confirm pricing/CTA copy] Disconnect from everything else. Reconnect with each other. Spaces are limited.

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