Life is too short for autopilot.
Any kind of success is great… until it isn't.
We're not even talking about the dramatic collapses or burnouts some of us went through, just the quiet, creeping drift, a blur of competent autopilot.
The constant push to stay strong, reliable, and efficient starts to take its toll; life feels too predictable.
Productive, but not present. Successful, but not alive. Numb. Uninspired.
Same restaurants. Same trips. Same conversations. Same weekends.
Bigger life questions start to whisper - about meaning, purpose, and living intentionally:
What’s happening to me?
What am I really doing with my short time here?
Themes like burnout and mental health are now mainstream. Maybe even cool.
What are we describing? There isn't really a word for it.
It's the quiet, disorienting realization that beneath the daily repeat - we're missing something: experience.
Not more coping. More contrast. Not more control. More awe.
If this resonates, you're home. We call ourselves The Catalysts.
Final note. What you’ll find here isn’t another retreat.
It’s not adventure tourism.
And it’s definitely not another promise to heal everything that’s wrong with your life.
It's curiosity, about this short experience we call life.
More of what the early Steve Jobs went searching for on his trip to India, and less of what the new “wellness” culture wraps in aesthetic perfection and sells as transformation.
It might include walks, silence, sea, laughter, sweat, art - a blend of adventure and reflection.
But what everyone says each experience truly has is a unique narrative arc - designed to shake you awake.
You might be able to book the place.
You can never buy what happens here.
Each experience below is designed to create contrast. Real contrast.
The kind that snaps you back to presence reminding you what it feels like to be engaged about life.
Curious. Fully human. Maybe even a little like a kid.
Not another workshop. Not another networking event. Not another pampered retreat.
These are defining memories.
On/Off - BUCKET LIST MOMENTS
The Catalyst of contrast. Where opposites collide and something rewires.
Five days minimum. No two the same.
ON: Unscripted outer adventure - sailing into the unknown, trekking new trails, pushing you into awe.
OFF: Deep stillness - sound journeys that move through you, forest saunas, conversations that crack you open.
For those who need their days in a different reality.
Who crave storylines where courage meets surrender - alongside people who want nothing from you except living moments with high contrast, with stories they tell forever.
Uncommon /Year - THE FUTURE YOU
The gap year moment for adults.
Three months to a year. A designed season to burn down autopilot and build what comes next.
It starts with a 360º life review - everything on the table. Then: experiments you'd never give yourself permission to try. Experiences that rewrite your defaults. Learning that actually lands.
Permission to prioritize yourself. To explore what lights you up again.
By year's end: not a blur of productivity, but living moments with high contrast - and a next stage in life that feels like yours.
Fear/Less - THE FUTURE YOU
Catalyzed by fear. Defined by awe.
Research shows dopamine sensitivity drops 10% per decade. The older we get, the more we avoid risk - the very thing that once made us feel most alive.
Fear/Less is five days of high-adrenaline experiences designed to flood your system with what's been missing.
It rewires the parts of your brain that went quiet. Reminds your nervous system what fully alive actually feels like.
Science says these moments improve, immune function increases, and life expectancy can rise up to 10 years.
But the main reason people come?
To live a storyline that trades safety and routine for moments with so much overcome and inner wins, that people don't find words to describe it.
(And yes - about 80% are women.)
Nervous-system recalibration. Renewed appetite for risk, wonder, and life.
The experiences take place in Portugal and Indonesia.
They include a structured post-experience integration - 30 days of reflection prompts, small-group calls, and optional guided practices -to make sure the momentum and insights don’t fade once you’re back in everyday life.
The Catalysts
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