Founders Oasis - Black Forest

Natural Vision Accelerator Nature Retreat

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    2-Month Transformative Group Coaching for Founders and Leaders

    September-November, 2025

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    4-Day Nature Immersion in the Black Forest Nature Preserve, Germany

    Sunday 26th October - Wednesday 29th October 2025

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Timeline and Logistics:

1:1 and Group Coaching Sept-Nov, 2025*

Black Forest Retreat: 26-29 Oct

Deadline to register: July 31, 2025

Location: We will be staying at The Bruderhof in comfort and style - at an exclusive, eco friendly 1679 farm house remodeled as a modern retreat center the magical Black Forest in Southern Germany. Surrounded by nature, we will spend many hours outside wandering the endless trails and enjoying the local culture.

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What is transformational coaching?

Together with an exceptional group of leaders, you will examine your personal experience of life and explore the edges of what you know. Through immersion in nature with experienced guides of human nature, we will discover new insights about who we are as human beings, and what we are capable of as leaders and creators. Transformational coaching, especially in a group, can help you with emotional fluidity, self-understanding, resilience, shifting your way of being and tuning your ego towards health. Emphasis is on unearthing the root cause of problems, creativity, and making a wholistic shift in your life and business.

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Coaching experience overview:

Together with a small group of other amazing Founders, entrepreneurs, visionaries and leaders with a wide variety of backgrounds, we will dive deep into the art of leadership through the mirrors and metaphors of nature. Working with two master coaches, we’ll tie together the best of ancient wisdom with modern performance psychology, neuroscience, and leadership.

“This is not just a fun and relaxing experience - it’s also a gateway to awakening one of your most critical powers as a human being and leader - your innate powers of noticing and awareness.”

— Justin Perkins, Founder New Edge Coaching

Meet your Guides

Yanush Cherkis (left) is a deep listener and executive coach specializing in the art of connection and creating intimacy. Having navigated an incredible personal journey of transforming himself, he now shares his intuitive gifts in helping dozens of leaders all over the world to reconnect with their hearts and true power. Yanush has a 20+ year career spanning banking, venture capital, entrepreneurship and startup advising.  He helped start 6 businesses. He was an early investor and then a CFO of a multi-million-dollar software company with a successful M&A exit. Most recently, Yanush spent 7 years as a General Partner at Enjoy The Work that specializes in helping Founders of early stage companies become great CEOs.

Justin Perkins (right) helps founders win more, suffer less and lead better. He helps leaders around the world tune their egos and develop intuition so they can lead with more love, enjoyment, creativity and connection. Justin is an accomplished social impact entrepreneur, athlete, musician and transformational executive coach with 20+ years spanning multiple industries. Justin draws on multiple coaching modalities and wisdom traditions to help founders and teams relax in high pressure situations and create high-performing, resilient, innovative cultures. Through New Edge Coaching, creates bespoke and life-changing “vision quest” coaching immersions in nature for his clients in the Black Forest in Germany or on location in beautiful wilderness areas.

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Program and schedule:

Through a mix of short teachings, exploration of the mind, group exercises, hikes, somatic experiments, cold dips, hot saunas, and ceremonies, you’ll walk away refreshed with new insights - and lifelong connections with an extraordinary group of humans.

We will spend most of the time outdoors exploring the beautiful Black Forest of Southern Germany, but we’ll stay in a beautiful old farm house that has been remodeled as a state of the art retreat center.

Come ready to fully engage in the retreat and unplug from the world!

Bring a business challenge you’d like to solve, or a new project or chapter of your life and work you’d like to design.

  • Sunday 26th of October:

    check-in to the Bruderhof retreat center begins after 2:00 PM.

    Sunday evening - program starts promptly at 5:00 pm

    Monday program from 9:00-21:00

    Tuesday program from 9:00 -21:00

    Wednesday program from 8:00-12:30

  • Menzenschwand, Germany near St. Blasien, about an hour from Zurich and Freiburg. We will be staying in the marvelous historic Bruderhof retreat center.

  • 6250 € Includes 2 month coaching program + food and lodging and tax/ VAT. Travel not included.

  • All attendees will be sleeping in the Bruderhof retreat center. Each room has a private shower and toilet. There is also a sauna on the property, and a spa in the village with a pool and sauna.

    Bring comfortable shoes and appropriate outdoor gear for day hiking on trails - including sunscreen, tick repellant, rain jacket, etc. Fall days are cool and nights can be cold in the Black Forest. You may want to bring a swimsuit in case we do a cold dip in the local river or you want to swim at the village spa.

  • Closest airports are Zurich and Basel in Switzerland - about 1:20 min drive. Rental car, Taxi or Uber is recommended.

    Closest major train stations are Freiburg and Waldshut-Tiengen.

    More specific travel details here.

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