Houses

Fools Valley, Portugal

Next chapter: Fools Valley, Portugal

4th July – 2nd August 2026

Past chapter: El Salvador

February 2025

More chapters coming soon — apply here to register interest

The rituals & the rhythms

Enough structure to hold you, enough spaciousness to surprise you.

The opening ceremony: a mystery school for connection

Our first weekend together is a mystery school for connection. Everyone must arrive by 12pm on July 4th. It’s super important we open the experience together.

The whiteboard

A whiteboard that each of you is encouraged to fill with your ideas and offerings.

Daily rituals

Sunrise tea ceremonies, morning intention settings, movement, lunch & learns… we get to create them, together.

Deep work

Opportunities created to get into deep focus with supportive accountability and collaboration if useful. Some people find it their most productive month. Others find it’s the month they finally stop producing.

Peer workshops

Everyone in this house knows something the others don’t. We make structured space for that exchange. The teaching goes in every direction. Often from the person you’d least expect.

Giving back

Opportunities to give back to the local community. Being of service.

Community & hosting

Some days the valley belongs only to us — intimate, held, sacred. Other days we open the gates and invite our wider European community in.

Fools Valley

4th July – 2nd August 2026

Deep in Portugal, there is a place called Fools Valley.

Down a road that feels like it's keeping a secret. Past the olive groves. Into a private valley that somehow manages to be thirty minutes from Lisbon and twenty from the Atlantic and feel like neither. Like something older. Something that was waiting.

This is your home for the month: with a pool, a pond, a sauna, a dance hall, a co-working space where ideas arrive easily, and a private chef who conjures three nourishing meals a day from things that grew nearby.

Everything here is designed, quietly and carefully, to invite us a little closer to ourselves. Our circadian rhythms, which we've slowly drifted from, return. We sleep deeply. Think clearly. Feel more like ourselves, or perhaps like the persons we always suspected we could be.

Private bedrooms·Co-working space·Sauna & pool·Private pond·Dance hall·Private chef·3 meals daily·Workshop spaces·30 min from Lisbon·20 min from the Ocean·Alcohol & Cigarette free
Fools Valley — the estate
Fools Valley — the gardens
Fools Valley — the valley
Fools Valley — overview
Fools Valley — evening light

And then: a French castle

A French castleFor those who wish to continue the story, an invitation awaits. The week immediately after Portugal, a curated festival in a stunning château in France. The same spirit. A grander stage. Completely optional.


Dream Dues

Choose what
you can give

Most people spend €4–6k on a single transformational week. Dream House is a whole month, not-for-profit by design. Everything is included from the moment you arrive — your private room, meals, and every community experience.

We offer a sliding scale: those who pay more help cover the true cost of running the residency and fund financial aid making this genuinely available to everyone who's meant to be here.

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5,000

covering true costs of 1 person

Financial aid available — send Caro a message.


If you're interested, apply here.

Fools Valley — parting glimpse
Fools Valley — the valley at rest