IntimacyFest is a small retreat-style festival (35-45 people) — it's function is all about helping you to develop your people skills and flex your intimacy muscles. It was founded by Dave Booda and has run in California 5 times, and this year we are bringing Dave and the event across the pacific to Aotearoa (New Zealand)!!!

What To Expect:

• Gain real, applicable tools to deepen the connection in all your relationships.

• Safely lean into your edges of self-expression, vulnerability and honesty.

• Experience being seen, felt, and known and witness others as they receive that gift from you.

• Experience three full days of well-facilitated practices, connection games and workshops.

• Meet new friends who share your values of openness and authenticity.

• Get feedback about your blind spots by receiving caring and honest reflections from other people.

• Get plenty of personal time to recharge and enjoy the beautiful land & surrounding nature.

• Slow down enough to listen to your body and feel your feelings.

• Allow yourself to drop your armour, walls and masks so you can experience being fully yourself.

• Get the chance to express yourself and be seen in your creative greatness at our Talent Show.

• Allow yourself to feel good in your own skin, and learn to trust your body’s wisdom and your authentic desires.

• Become a part of a pop-up community of dear friends, chosen family, and allies who support who you want to be.

• Have a lot of fun!

  Past Participant Testimonials:

  I frequently have friends ask me where to get started on their journey thru emotional/sexual/intimacy development & self-growth. This festival is so powerful, thoughtful, and created by people with intentions and heart in the right place. I’ll be there again this year. Can’t recommend it enough!

  — Christina M. Host, T&A Talk Sex Podcast

  I accessed superpowers I didn’t know I had. I healed wounds I didn’t know I had. I fell in love with so many of you. I am grateful for it all.

  — Kenny B., San Diego, California

  I am humbled by the incredible courage, generosity and capacity for love in our IntimacyFest Family. Thank you for seeing me, thank you for your radiant smiles, your kind words, your passion and incredible role modeling of authenticity and responsible clear communication.

  — Melanie B.

  I feel full of love and life. Meeting you so totally in the raw is changing the direction of my entire life. An amazing life. Thank you for guiding me closer to myself. I look forward being in your radiance and presence soon.

  — Buster R., Gothenburg, Sweden

  I’m still smiling. Thank you all for making my world such a beautiful place.

  — Sarah W.

  My heart got stretched, twisted and expanded in one amazing weekend. After leaving the last festival disillusioned and disappointed at the lack of true human connection… this tiny event was exactly what head wanted and my heart needed.

  Each day there were only two hours where you weren’t testing yourself and others to be as brutally honest and loving as humanly possible. At times it was uncomfortable, awkward and downright scary for a man like myself, but at the end I emerged a much better person.

  35 people attended. I made 34 friends I’ll recognize by name next year from all over the world. The level of love, honesty, consideration, negotiation and consent was unprecedented. Even Burning Man needs to see this level of radical inclusion.

  The people were from all ages and walks of life. Incredible people who had so many amazing things to share. From the organizers, the teachers and each and every individual… each person contributed greatly. Seriously amazing.

  — Adam C.

  FOR FULL INFO ON RETREAT HEAD TO THE INTIMACYFEST WEBSITE. Tickets are priced between $650-$1000 on a sliding scale appropriate to your current financial situation.