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Five days · Two tracks · One ocean
Five days on the Atlantic where almost nothing is scheduled — on purpose. You bring the work. We hold the week.
Page 01 — The math
Here is the whole week as a hundred squares. Thirty we hold: a workshop each morning, a walk if you want one, a salon at night. The other seventy are yours, unprogrammed and unapologetic.
Go on. Click a blank square and take it.
Fig. 1 — one week, to scale
Page 02 — Two tracks
Three questions. Entirely unscientific. You pick properly on the application anyway, and nobody minds if you switch on day three.
Question 01 of 03
Question 02 of 03
Question 03 of 03
Verdict · entirely unscientific
Track One
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The manuscript stalled at 40,000 words. The album half-tracked. The business you keep describing at parties. The quilt in the closet. You have a project, and it has been waiting for a week exactly like this one.
Arrive with: the work, in whatever state it's in.No project. No plan. Maybe you made things once and stopped, or never started and always wondered. Open time, good materials and explicit permission turn out to be a startlingly powerful combination.
Arrive with: curiosity and one blank notebook.Page 03 — The what-on-earth-shall-I-make machine
Nobody is going to make you do this. That is, in fact, the entire proposition. Track Two — start here. Track One — you already know what you're making. Pull it anyway.
Page 04 — The shape of a day
Drawn to scale, down the side of the page. The yellow block is not a printing error — it really is that big, and it really does have nothing in it. Poke it if you don't believe us.
You will spend the first afternoon reorganising your bag and calling it work. Everybody does. Let it happen — the week hasn't started yet, and you are permitted to be completely useless on arrival.
The rhythm on the right is the same every single day. What changes is you.
Page 05 — The place
Endicott sits on the North Shore in Beverly, Massachusetts — about thirty minutes north of Boston, with the Atlantic at the bottom of the lawn.
⟵ drag the strip ⟶
Page 06 — Where you'll sleep
Both on campus, both a short walk from everything. You choose when you register.
Single occupancy. The door closes and the day is entirely yours to arrange.
Shared occupancy. Lower rate, and a built-in witness to the week.
Page 07 — How you get in
The cohort is kept small on purpose, so the application is a real conversation rather than a formality.
Two minutes, no commitment. Dates, pricing and the application land in your inbox the moment they exist.
Start here →Tell us what you're bringing or what you're after, and pick a track. Write it like a letter, not a CV.
We read every application and build a cohort that will be good for each other. You hear back either way.
Choose your room, pay, and the seat is yours. Packing list and arrival notes follow.
Page 08 — Packing list
Tick as you go — this page remembers on your own device. It does not tell us. Pack as badly as you like.
Page 09 — Questions
No. Your Radical Sabbatical is for anyone with something they want to make or work out — founders, researchers, cooks, coders, teachers, people between chapters. The only requirement is wanting the time badly enough to come and take it.
Anything with a next step. A book, a business, a thesis, a record, a garden plan, a career change, a hundred photographs you've never edited. If you can describe what moving it forward looks like, it counts.
That reaction is extremely common, and usually a sign you need this more than most people do. Three things make it work: the morning workshop gives you a running start, the walk resets you when you stall, and the salon means every day ends with other people.
The open time isn't enforced solitude, either. Some people work alone in their rooms all five days. Others colonise a table and work in companionable silence. Both are correct.
A deliberately small, deliberately mixed cohort — different disciplines, different stages, different ages. Mixing fields is the point: a novelist and a furniture maker have far more to say to each other than two novelists do.
Pricing goes out with the application, and the two accommodation options are priced separately — shared occupancy is the lower rate. Express interest and you'll have the full breakdown before anyone asks you for anything.
Beverly, Massachusetts, on the North Shore — roughly thirty minutes north of Boston by car. Commuter rail runs from Boston's North Station to Beverly, and Logan Airport is under an hour away. Detailed arrival notes come with registration.
Yes. Apply separately so we can read you both, and say in your application that you'd like to share a room. You can also request shared occupancy and be matched with someone from the cohort.
Then you had five days of real creative time, which is the thing almost nobody gets. Finishing is a lovely side effect, not the fee you pay for the week.
There's a space for it on the application, and we'd far rather hear early than politely late. Tell us what you need and we'll tell you honestly what we can do.
One person — who teaches the morning workshop, holds the salon, and reads every single application personally. The staff pass is clipped to the next page.
Page 10 — Who's holding this
Somebody teaches the workshop every morning, holds the salon every night, and reads every application that comes in. It is this one.
Eight years ago I left a nine-to-five to make things, and I haven't stopped since. What I do is spot an opportunity, walk through the threshold of creativity, surrender to the creation cycle, and let the thing come through.
What I never had was this — a container to do it inside, in company. So I'm running the week I kept wishing somebody else would.
Selected works TEDx program lead · The Silver Lining Summit · The Moon Productivity Journal · Everything Phases Me (book) · Soul Aligned Visibility · Moon Tide Malas · host of ETJ Retreats
What I'll be doing that week Teaching the morning workshop, holding the salon, and walking down to the water most afternoons. Find me there if you want to talk your project through — or if you'd much rather not talk at all.
Permission slip · tear along the dotted line
No justification required. No deliverable expected. Signature of a supervisor, spouse or inner critic explicitly not needed.
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