Wealth Holder Bootcamp · Østre Dal Gård, Slattum, Norway · 1–5 February 2027
The year turns in the dark.
Five days at Imbolc, the old midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox. An inner and outer expedition for people who hold wealth and the people who steward it for others. Built on ancient wisdom traditions and modern facilitation methods, at a farm being regenerated from the ground up.
Why midwinter
What grows in spring first begins underground.
Early February is the darkest stretch of the northern year, and also the moment it starts to change. The old calendars marked it as Imbolc: the first stirring under the snow, ewes coming into milk, the light coming back a few minutes at a time.
We hold the bootcamp here on purpose. Wealth tends to be discussed in the language of strategy and allocation. The questions that actually stop people are usually heavier: inheritance and what came with it, responsibility, guilt, family, the gap between what the money does and what you want it to do.
This week makes room for that weight. We treat the dark season as a working condition: a time to clear ground and make ready for what comes next.
The thesis behind regenerative leadership is simple. The culture most of us lead from is built on separation: from ourselves, from each other, from nature. That separation is what keeps wealth working against life. Winter is where the separation is easiest to feel, and easiest to begin undoing.
Shadow is manure for the new season. The darker and heavier it is, the more it can feed, if it is properly held.
Who it is for
For people who carry wealth, and those who carry it for others.
- Wealth holdersIndividuals, families and investors who want their capital to match what they now understand about the world, and about themselves.
- StewardsFamily office teams, foundation leaders, advisors and trustees who manage wealth on someone else’s behalf and feel the weight of that role.
- Both, togetherThe week works because both sides are in the same circle, unmasked, for long enough to speak plainly.
The method
First, we empty the backpack.
Most of us already carry many of the answers for what could come next. What we lack is clarity, time, a place, and partners to sort and grow them. That is what “Empty the Backpack” is for, a method Snorre has refined across many programmes like this one.
First we take everything out. Then we clean the bag and look closely at what was in it: what you are proud of, what you least want to touch, what is already changing. Only then do we pack it again, consciously, with what you actually want to carry forward.
The wealth hacking comes last, on purpose. Once the backpack is clear there is room for the practical work: the structures, vehicles and practitioners that can move your wealth towards life. Thursday is built for that, and we hold the space open for it until you get there.
The week
Five days. Three movements: shadow, curiosity, light.
Why three full days? Most of this work is getting out of your head and listening to what the rest of you already knows. That takes longer than a meeting. Every session is an invitation, not an obligation, and what you take home matches what you bring to it.
Arrivals through the afternoon. Find your room, warm up with tea or in the sauna, then gather for a slow evening and shared dinner in the main house. A small winter welcome will be waiting for you, with everything you need for the days ahead.
Shadow
Unmasking and unpacking
A gentle start for people who have not met. The day turns toward what feels stuck: the parts of our relationship with wealth that rarely get said out loud.
- Optional morning movementYoga or a walk across the farm in the half-light.
- “Empty the Backpack”Authentic relating in groups of three, about eight minutes each. Three rounds: something you are proud of, the topic you least want to touch, and the change you feel opening up.
- JournalingTime alone with what surfaced, in writing or drawing.
Curiosity
Integration and inquiry
The day goes outside and goes quiet. What was unpacked on Tuesday gets looked at with fresh eyes, and with the help of people who think about land, time and kinship very differently.
- Morning practice and sound journeyHosted by Maria, somatic guide and trainer, for settling and integration.
- Silent snowshoe expeditionInto the forest without talking, toward the fire.
- Fireside wisdom councilFour Indigenous elders, including leaders from Sápmi, form the inner circle. Participants sit around them. A sharing stick passes from hand to hand.
- Group drawingLarge sheets of paper; you start a drawing and someone else finishes it. A way to reach intuition before the analytical mind takes over.
Light
The roadmap
The work turns practical. Each participant leaves with a plan written in their own hand.
- Personal sessionsTwo or three facilitators with you alone, working through your specific situation: holdings, family, structures, next moves.
- Wealth hacksThe practitioners, vehicles and organisations worth bringing in, matched to what you are working on. Some join us virtually this day.
- Your roadmapCaptured in the journal you have carried since Monday, alongside everything that led to it.
- Commitment ceremonyEach person places a log on the fire and says one commitment aloud.
Breakfast, goodbyes, departure. Nearly twenty minutes more daylight than the day you arrived.
How we work
Practices, not presentations.
The premise: the most important work happens within. Impact on people and on resources only opens when we gather ourselves and befriend what we carry. Everything below serves that.
The journal
Gifted on arrival as part of your winter welcome. It holds the shadow work, the integration and, on the last day, your roadmap. Drawing is as welcome as writing.
Indigenous guidance
Elders join as guides throughout, not as a session on the schedule. Their council by the fire is the centre of the week.
The body
Breathwork, bodywork, yoga and sound. Everything is offered and nothing is required; there is always a comfortable way to step out.
The cold, on purpose
Snow, forest and a working farm in deep winter. We keep you warm, and when you are cold there is a reason for it, with a sauna waiting after. For those who want it: an ice bath beside the sauna, or a night outside in sleeping bags rated to −30°C. For those who don’t: a hotel bed nearby.
The fire
Most of what matters this week happens around one: the council, the stories, and the commitments on the final night.
Confidentiality
Ideas can leave the room. Personal details and stories stay in it.
Guides
Who holds the week.
Leadership developer, group facilitator and community builder. Fifteen years supporting leaders and changemakers on sustainability and growth, and numerous programmes facilitated with the Empty the Backpack method, which he brings to this week. Named Årets ledestjerne (leading star of the year) by Samfunnsviterne, the Norwegian association of social scientists, for his work in leadership facilitation. Lives and guides from Østre Dal Gård.
Somatic guide and trainer; holds the morning practice. Grew up in an old-money family with an ambitious finance father and has spent her life understanding what true wealth means.
Founder of Katapult Group and grandson of Olav Selvaag. Shares the stewardship model behind the estate’s move from family ownership to foundation stewardship.
Co-founder of the Wealth Hackers Initiative, Armillaria, Zebras Unite and StoryQuo.
Co-founder of the Wealth Hackers Initiative, Obran Capital Advisors and Chosen Family Office.
Indigenous leaders who guide the week and sit at the centre of the wisdom council.
The place
A farm in its own transition.
Østre Dal Gård sits in Slattum, north of Oslo. A working farm with fourteen historic buildings gathered from 1300 to 1800. Tharald Nustad owns it. It is stewarded under a long-term lease by the foundation O, led by Snorre Vikingsen and Maria Heiberg, who live here with their family and are building it into a regenerative retreat destination and community village. The farm is in its own transition, which means the place itself is working through the questions the week asks.
The main house was built by Olav Selvaag, the housebuilder behind much of Norway’s post-war housing and the origin of the family wealth behind the farm. During the apartheid years the family opened the farm to Desmond Tutu for his strategic retreats. The place has held hard questions about wealth and courage before.
A word from the hosts
I have hosted many gatherings like this, in mountains and on this farm, and the pattern holds: the people who carry the most resources also carry the most weight, and have almost nowhere to put it down. This week is that place. We will walk into the forest without speaking, sit with elders by a fire, and look at the parts of our relationship with wealth that rarely get said aloud. Then we will do the practical work, with clear heads. It is intimate and it is demanding. Maria and I live here with our daughters. We will keep the fire going.
Rest, reflection and taking time out from our routines are powerful mechanisms for creating the inner and outer space for contemplating change. Whether it’s the change we already know we want to make, or change that we know is coming, our hearts and minds benefit from being in nature, in stillness, and in convivial company with fellow travelers. I look forward to meeting you all on this journey, and to walking with you.
Register
Come in the dark. Leave with a plan.
Register your interest on Luma. Because the group is small, the team will get in touch personally to talk it through before confirming your place.
Why wealth hacking?
The first in a series.
This is the first in a series of inner and outer expeditions from the Wealth Hackers Initiative, part of our commitment to brave conversation among people who see that the ways wealth is accumulated and guarded are deeply at odds with these times.
Each bootcamp is co-hosted with wealth holders in a place that matters to them, on their own path toward liberating their wealth and moving it towards life. For this one that place is Østre Dal Gård, a farm already on the path through this transition.