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Founding field — November 2026

You won’t know what time it is

You won’t know what time it is

Everything about modern life has been designed, at every level, to ask less of you. Less physical effort. Less direct consequence. Less reliance on the people around you.

Artificial intelligence is the most powerful extension of that direction yet. The things that once required your full presence, your judgement, your hands, your attention - increasingly, they don’t.

That trajectory is not stopping.

Humans are wired for a different set of conditions. Conditions shaped over hundreds of thousands of years - movement, consequence, making, providing, navigating, belonging, enduring, repairing. Not as lifestyle choices, but as operating inputs, and the system still expects them.

LINEAGE is designed to put you back in front of those condtions for long enough that the system remembers them.

What four days here actually feels like

What four days here actually feels like

From the moment you arrive, the conditions change.

Your phone goes away. The clock disappears. Titles, roles and professional explanations stay outside. What enters the field is simpler than that: a person, not a position.

Days begin early. You move through terrain, weather and uncertainty without the usual instructions loaded in advance. No constant checking. No immediate answer. No screen quietly deciding the next step for you. The attention this asks for is different. It is physical, present and difficult to fake.

The days are structured, but not fully explained upfront. You will be asked to use your body, think practically, carry weight, solve problems, and work things out alone and with the group. Not as performance. Not as theatre. Simply because the day requires it.

Something returns quickly when the answer cannot be outsourced.

Conversation runs through the field, walking, working, eating, around a fire. Some of it is structured, but much of it is not. With a group this small, and with the usual status signals removed, conversation starts to carry a different weight. Less transaction, less positioning, more truth.

Evenings move to a unique cadence each night, each one asking something different of the group.

You leave with a clearer sense of what modern life has stopped asking of you, and two specific ways to put some of it back into ordinary life.

Not a retreat. Not a leadership programme. Not an adventure weekend.

Harder to describe than any of those. More interesting than all of them.

From the moment you arrive, something changes.

The phone goes into a lockbox. The clock disappears. Your job title, and everyone else’s, stays outside for the duration. What walks through the door is you, not your role.

Days begin before sunrise. You are moving in terrain, in whatever the weather is doing, before the world has asked anything of you yet. There is no route loaded, no destination confirmed in advance. The attention this demands is different to anything a screen has asked of you recently. It is fully, physically present.

The days are structured, but not explained in advance. Things will be required of you: physical effort, practical thinking, carrying real weight, working things out with the group without outsourcing the answer. The satisfaction of hand-to-world competence, largely absent from most professional lives, returns quickly and without announcement.

Conversations happen throughout, moving, working, eating, around a fire. Some are structured and designed. Most are not. They carry more depth than most people are used to day to day. The group is small enough that honest exchange becomes not just possible but inevitable.

Evenings move differently each night and provide challenge of a different kind.

You will leave knowing what conditions make you feel most alive, and with two specific ways to keep more of them inside ordinary life. Not a philosophy, a change in how the week feels, from the moment you return.

Not a retreat. Not a leadership programme. Not an adventure weekend.

Harder to describe than any of those. More interesting than all of them.

From the moment you arrive, something changes.

The phone goes into a lockbox. The clock disappears. Your job title, and everyone else’s, stays outside for the duration. What walks through the door is you, not your role.

Days begin before sunrise. You are moving in terrain, in whatever the weather is doing, before the world has asked anything of you yet. There is no route loaded, no destination confirmed in advance. The attention this demands is different to anything a screen has asked of you recently. It is fully, physically present.

The days are structured, but not explained in advance. Things will be required of you: physical effort, practical thinking, carrying real weight, working things out with the group without outsourcing the answer. The satisfaction of hand-to-world competence, largely absent from most professional lives, returns quickly and without announcement.

Conversations happen throughout, moving, working, eating, around a fire. Some are structured and designed. Most are not. They carry more depth than most people are used to day to day. The group is small enough that honest exchange becomes not just possible but inevitable.

Evenings move differently each night and provide challenge of a different kind.

You will leave knowing what conditions make you feel most alive, and with two specific ways to keep more of them inside ordinary life. Not a philosophy, a change in how the week feels, from the moment you return.

Not a retreat. Not a leadership programme. Not an adventure weekend.

Harder to describe than any of those. More interesting than all of them.

Why Nick built it

Why Nick built it

"I stood in front of the team and announced that the company had delivered the best quarter in its 15-year history. I then left the office, drove ninety minutes out into the mountains and hiked alone to a summit above the valley floor. Three hours of effort, a simple meal at the top, a sunset, and then back down in the dark with only a headtorch for company.

Both parts of the day had asked something of me, but not the same thing. The business performance had required strategy, endurance and years of committed leadership. The mountain had required physical effort, self-reliance and direct contact with the world in front of me. Both had delivered, but the difference between what each produced pointed to something I couldn't easily leave alone.

I started paying close attention to that distinction in conversations with people who also had genuinely full and successful lives. What I kept hearing was not complaint, it was the observation of people quietly noticing that a successful life and a fully satisfying one, had started somewhere along the way, to require different things. And that fact paved the way for me spendding a year designing the experience that is now called Lineage."

LINEAGE is not built around a teacher, a framework or a pre-packaged outcome. It is built around conditions - designed to put back, for four days, what modern life is quietly , and increasingly, making optional.

"I stood in front of the team and announced that the company had delivered the best quarter in its 15-year history. I then left the office, drove ninety minutes out into the mountains and hiked alone to a summit above the valley floor. Three hours of effort, a simple meal at the top, a sunset, and then back down in the dark with only a headtorch for company.

Both parts of the day had asked something of me, but not the same thing. The business performance had required strategy, endurance and years of committed leadership. The mountain had required physical effort, self-reliance and direct contact with the world in front of me. Both had delivered, but the difference between what each produced pointed to something I couldn't easily leave alone.

I started paying close attention to that distinction in conversations with people who also had genuinely full and successful lives. What I kept hearing was not complaint, it was the observation of people quietly noticing that a successful life and a fully satisfying one, had started somewhere along the way, to require different things. And that fact paved the way for me spendding a year designing the experience that is now called Lineage."

LINEAGE is not built around a teacher, a framework or a pre-packaged outcome. It is built around conditions - designed to put back, for four days, what modern life is quietly , and increasingly, making optional.

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Eight Changed Conditions

Each one is a deliberate design decision, not a scheduled activity. None can be outsourced - the conditions do the work.

01

PHYSICAL EFFORT

PHYSICAL EFFORT

Movement with consequence. The body back in contact with the world.

02

REAL NAVIGATION

REAL NAVIGATION

Finding your way by observation and judgement, without outsourcing the answer.

03

MAKING THINGS

MAKING THINGS

Hands on the world. Things built, improved and used.

04

CHOSEN FRICTION

CHOSEN FRICTION

Discomfort met and stayed with. Cold mornings, physical work, the absence of instant relief.

05

PEOPLE WITHOUT ROLES

PEOPLE WITHOUT ROLES

Human connection without names, titles, seniority or biography arriving before the person does.

06

STILLNESS

STILLNESS

No input. No filling the gap. The attention that returns when the noise stops.

07

REAL CONTRIBUTION

REAL CONTRIBUTION

Weight with immediate consequence. Usefulness that is visible, not abstracted.

08

DIRECT CONVERSATION

DIRECT CONVERSATION

Words that reach something true, without performance or positioning getting there first.

The Place

A beautiful setting. Not the point.

LINEAGE is held at a private rural property in the Pyrenean foothills - stone buildings, a wooded valley, open land and snow-capped mountain views.

Private room. Private bathroom. Open land.

The standard is premium. Comfortable enough to settle, beautiful enough to feel genuinely removed. But this is not comfort as consumption.

Practical Details.

LOCATION

LOCATION

Pyrenees, southern France.

NEXT FIELD DATE(S)

NEXT FIELD DATE(S)

November 2026 and Febraury 2027

DURATION

DURATION

Four nights.

PLACES

PLACES

Six.

GROUP

GROUP

The next two fields are for men only.

ACCOMMODATION

ACCOMMODATION

Private room. Private bathroom. Premium rural standard.

PHYSICAL LEVEL

PHYSICAL LEVEL

Moderate. Walking, outdoor time and practical effort. Not extreme.

PHONE AND TECH

PHONE AND TECH

Surrendered on arrival. A genuine emergency contact route remains available throughout.

FOUNDING FIELD PRICE

£3,000 — all-inclusive.

Flights from major hubs, four nights’ private accommodation, all meals, local transfers and the full designed experience.

Right for

Right for

Those with full lives who want four days of effort, attention, usefulness and direct conversation.

Not for

Not for

Those seeking therapy, networking or a luxury escape.

Six places. One conversation first.

This is not open booking.

The first step is a short private conversation with Nick to explain what the experience involves, what is expected, and whether it is the right fit on both sides.

Not a sales call. A fit conversation.

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Founding field — November 2026

The conditions do not get easier to find.