WELCOMING FEAR

MOAB, UTAH • OCTOBER 2-6, 2025

Join Brett and Alexa in the Utah desert for a deep dive into your relationship with fear.
Sleep under the stars and play over the abyss as you cultivate intimacy with fear as a source of presence and vitality. Through individual, partner, and group work, you'll excavate and unpack the ways you relate to it in your everyday life. Then, bring your fear to the cliff’s edge and explore how your world changes as you welcome it.

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Apply now for one of 12 spaces in October 2025

What happens inside you as you approach the edge?

How many big moments in your life have you braced against, pushed through, or skipped over?

How often do you really stop to feel what's happening for you when you're scared?

This retreat is for people who:‍

  • Are ready for a visceral experience to illuminate the fear they're already feeling every day.
  • Want to explore their beliefs and values around fear and rediscover fear as a path to presence.
  • Are excited to meet fear as a friend and experience the freedom that happens when we don't avoid life by avoiding fear.

‍Schedule:
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Thursday: Intentions
Arrive in the afternoon and set up camp near Mineral Bottom Canyon, a breathtaking 900-foot-deep sandstone gorge that serves as a natural outdoor playground. We'll have dinner together and set intentions around the fire.

Friday: Excavation
Explore the rim of the canyon and your internal landscape of physical, social, and existential fears. Identify patterns and see how they relate to others in the group. Design personal experiments to bring to the highline and cliff jump Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday: Skywalk
Walk across the canyon on a 1-inch highline, supported by an optional hand rope. Build trust with your inner stability as you take each step with intention and presence.

Sunday: Cliff Jump
Approach the edge while paying detailed attention to what happens in your body. Take turns running experiments with yourself and the support of the group. Follow your body's wisdom over or away from the edge.

Monday: Closing Circle
Breakfast, closing circle, strike camp and depart.

CLIFF JUMP

The cliff jump is a close cousin to a bungee jump. A key difference is that you’re connected at the waist, so you’re not left dangling by your feet at the end. After a brief freefall, you swing safely away from the cliff, rather than bouncing as you would on a bungee. The rope system allows a lot of freedom in how you jump, and the catch is less forceful.

After jumping, you'll be lowered to the ground where you can hike 15 minutes back to the top.

It’s a great way to play with the resistance that comes up when you curl your toes over the edge of any scary commitment in your life.

SKY WALK

This is a unique system that allows anyone to walk a highline with no prior slacklining experience. With a state-of-the-art top-rope design, you will be able to walk a highline assisted by an overhead rope. Tethered in a full-body harness, you can focus entirely on the feeling of walking a highline hundreds of feet off the ground, safely, with a rope to hold onto in case you lose balance. In case of a fall, you’ll simply be pulled back to the cliff with a rope, where you can start again.

You’ll have the opportunity to sense in high-resolution the somatic distinction between managing and allowing.

CAMPING

We will be providing tents, sleeping bags, mats, chairs, shade, and common infrastructure (though you’re welcome to bring your own personal gear if you prefer).

Meals are provided along with drinks, coffee, and snacks starting with dinner on Thursday night through breakfast on Monday morning.

We will be away from cell service for the duration of the trip, though only an hour from town in case of emergency needs.

Pricing

Dates:
October 2-6, 2025
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Location:
Moab, Utah

Slots Available:
12

You will be responsible for your own airfare, renting or sharing a vehicle, and following driving instructions to a remote pin in the desert outside of cell range. The retreat happens rain or shine, no refunds for inclement weather.
Questions? Email us:
hello@artofaccomplishment.com

WELCOMING FEAR Retreat

Join us in the Utah desert for a deep dive into your relationship with fear.


$4,500

Per person
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GETTING THERE

There are daily flights in and out of Moab Regional Airport (with limited availability).
A less expensive option is to fly into Salt Lake City, pick up a rental car, and drive down (approx. four hours each way).

Whichever airport you fly into, we recommend carpooling with someone and renting a high-clearance vehicle to drive to the location (4WD is not required — any compact SUV or larger will do).

Our location will be a 1-hour drive from both the Moab airport and the town itself. We'll meet at camp by Friday evening and break down after breakfast on Monday.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

All participants must be able to hike relatively flat ground for 20-30 minutes.

No previous rope experience is required, and onsite instruction for participants will be provided. If you’ve ever had any major shoulder, arm, or back injuries, we recommend getting cleared by your doctor first.

‍Cliff Jump Weight Limit: 250 lb

OUR RIGGING & SAFETY TEAM

The Cliff Jump will be rigged and guided by Matt Blank. He and his team have specialized in this type of rigging since 2009 and have serviced roughly a thousand people in that time with no injuries requiring medical attention. They’ve done commercial projects with this setup for Discovery Channel, The North Face, and Sony along with smaller projects for German television and a number of private groups.

The Sky Walk will be rigged by Faith Dickey, a pioneering highliner and slackliner since 2008. She brings over 15 years of experience combining elite-level technical skills, certified climbing and rigging credentials, and a profound commitment to supporting others through guided experiences in climbing, canyoneering, and highlining.

FACILITATORS

Brett Kistler

Facilitator

Brett Kistler is an entrepreneur, coach, facilitator, and co-host of the Art of Accomplishment podcast.

In his heart, he’s an adventurer. He spent 15 years traveling the world full-time to pursue action sports like motorcycling, SCUBA, skydiving, paragliding, wingsuiting, and BASE Jumping. He’s completed over 3,000 injury-free parachute jumps in far-flung locations around the world including Iran, Turkey, China, and the Arctic.

The area in which we’ll be playing is one of deep importance in his own journey of self-exploration. The riggers who will be supporting us are long-time personal friends who have themselves been on decades-long journeys with risk and reward, and know this area and their craft inside and out. It is our deepest joy to have the opportunity to safely share these experiences with others.

Alexa Kistler

Co-Facilitator

Since childhood I have been exploring how and what it means to be human; I parlayed a study of anthropology into an early career in product strategy consulting that took me around the world to interview thousands of people across many different walks of life. My job was to understand both their expressed wants and those which might otherwise remain unseen. The work of excavating these hidden realities and revealing them to decision-makers gave me an understanding of the kinds of things that people and businesses tend not to see or understand about themselves, and how that influences the decision-making issues that crop up again and again.

Since then, I've transitioned from helping businesses understand people to helping people understand themselves. My joy is highest from being along for the ride with a person or a couple on a path to greater freedom and alignment. I seek clients who are ready and willing to deeply challenge their current understanding of self, and to show up fully to doing the work of transformation.

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