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. A winter expedition, inward and outward, for people who hold wealth and the people who steward it for others.
Why midwinter
Nothing has bloomed yet. That is the point.
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 prepare what you will plant when spring comes.
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 week
Three days, from shadow into light.
Arrive early if you can. A slow evening and a shared dinner in the main house. Each participant receives a journal that will travel with them through the week.
Shadow
Unmasking and unpacking
A gentle start for people who have not met. The day turns toward what is blocking you: the parts of your relationship with wealth that rarely get said out loud.
- Optional morning movementYoga or a walk across the farm in the half-light.
- Empty the BackpackAuthentic 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 journeyLed by Maria, 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.
- 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 journal
Gifted on arrival. 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 land
Snow, forest and a working farm. Saunas in the evening. Time outdoors is part of the programme, not a break from it.
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.
Brings the Empty the Backpack methodology.
Owner of Østre Dal Gård. Shares the stewardship model behind the estate’s transition to foundation ownership.
Co-founder of the Wealth Hackers Initiative and StoryQuo.
Co-founder of Obran Capital Advisors and Chosen Family Office.
Producer of the bootcamp.
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. Its owner is moving the estate into foundation stewardship, so the place itself is working through the questions the week asks.
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.