What Happens at Our Retreats

No two retreats are the same but they all follow the arc of reflection, connection, and finding a pragmatic path forward. Days start with meditation and yoga followed by workshops exploring identity, purpose, or creative reinvention. Afternoons open into adventure experiences designed to reconnect you to your body and senses. Evenings are slow and social with long meals, fireside chats, music, and meaningful conversations. It's less a schedule, more a rhythm designed for slowing down so you can catch up to yourself.

Who Attends Second Harvest

Second Harvest attracts people who have already made it by conventional standards and are asking 'Now what?' Executives, entrepreneurs, investors, artists, founders, athletes, leaders, makers, and seekers. People with rich resumes and restless hearts united by curiosity and a desire to live the next chapter with more courage, creativity, and connection. Many come solo, some come as couples. They arrive successful and leave significant.

What Makes Second Harvest Different

Second Harvest is a quiet rebellion against noise and quick-fix enlightenment weekends. Everything is rebelliously analog: long walks, handwritten notes, slow meals, real conversations. No screens, no PowerPoints, no apps. Phones go away and presence returns. Each retreat is a curated adventure blending art, nature, philosophy, and design. It's equal parts creative residency, leadership lab, and spiritual sabbatical crafted for people who don't need another program but crave a place to pause, breathe, and step back into their lives fully awake.

You'll return home with a close-knit community of people who speak your new language of courage and curiosity, and a clarity that makes decision-making simple again.

The 72-Hour Reset

Our Spring Summit 2026 is now open for registration. Early bird pricing until January 31st 2026.

The 72-Hour Reset™

Change your story in 72 hours—without burning your life down

Reinventing myself made me fall in love with my life, and my work.

I’d like to help you change yours.

At 51, after the loss of my wife to cancer and having to close my business, I was searching for the meaning in all the chaos.

Using my experience as a designer, I realized I had the tools to redesign my world. I realized that if I could change my identity, my old story, I could change my life.

I rewrote my “story,” set up a few experiments to test my new identity, and accidentally created a new business in the process. Since then, I’ve used this technique to reinvent myself again and taught it to hundreds of others.

I believe I can teach you to do the same.

Is this you?

You’ve outgrown your old story, but life is still built around it

You’ve checked the boxes. Career, family, house, maybe even the dream title.

But lately, your inner monologue sounds like this:

“I should be happy. Why does this feel so flat?”
“I’ve outgrown the story that got me here. Now what?”
“I know something needs to change, but I can’t just blow up my life.”

The 72-Hour Reset™ is designed for exactly this tension.

You probably don’t need a sabbatical, a camper van, or a divorce.

You need a structured, low-risk way to begin living differently—while still honoring the responsibilities you have.

How the 72-Hour Reset™ works

The 72-Hour Reset™ runs over three days. Expect about 20–30 minutes a day of focused work, plus one live call at the beginning and one at the end.

Before We Begin

Prep (15–20 minutes)

Quick intake: Where are you now? What feels “off”?

A short video from Richard on what to expect.
A simple reflection exercise: “What’s the story I’ve been living?”

Day 1

See Your Stories

Theme: Understanding the infinite and the finite; waking up to your stories.

1 hour kick-off live call (or video if you can’t make the start time) with Richard
Guided exercise: Identify your “domestic propaganda” stories
Develop a set of “lived questions”
Short practice: Observing thoughts vs. being thoughts
Homework (20 minutes): Rewrite one old story and explore how it has shaped your choices

Day 2

Live it, notice it, keep it

Theme: Presence, embodiment, and integration.

Short video: Awareness of body and senses; how to live your question, not chase the answer
Exercise during your experiment: Micro check-ins on how you feel, what you notice
Integration prompt: How will you repeat this process over the next 30 days?

Day 3

Design your thin-slice experiment

Theme: Small experiments that change your immediate and long-term experience.

Short video: Why “being right” keeps you stuck, and why cheap mistakes change everything
Exercise: Define your emotional GPS (how you want to feel, not just what you want to have)
Design your 72-hour thin-slice experiment (tiny, real-world test of a new identity or behavior)
Optional partner / small group accountability check-in
Closing live call: Share learnings, normalize “failed” experiments, lock in next steps

Ready to run your first thin-slice experiment?

Reserve your spot

What you'll have after 72 hours

By the end of the 72-Hour Reset™, you’ll have:

A rewritten
core story

You’ll identify your “domestic propaganda”—the old narratives that keep you small—and replace them with a story that actually reflects who you are now.

A personal
‍emotional GPS

You’ll define the feeling-state you actually want your life to produce (calm, creative, adventurous, spacious… whatever is true for you) and learn how to use it to make decisions.

One completed
‍thin-slice experiment

Not a plan. Not a journal entry. A real-world, 72-hour experiment that shows you how quickly reality starts to shift when you change how you show up.

A simple,
‍repeatable framework

You’ll leave with a practical process you can reuse any time you feel stuck, restless, or on the edge of a new chapter.

What you'll get inside the 72-Hour Reset™

3 days of guided curriculum
Short, focused lessons designed to fit into a full life.

Two live calls with Richard
A kickoff session and a closing integration session (both recorded).
Daily reflection prompts & worksheets
Simple, printable or digital prompts to help you see and shift your stories.
Thin-Slice Experiment Planner
‍A one-page template to design and run your 72-hour experiment.‍
Optional peer accountability
Light-touch partner or small pod matching so you’re not doing this alone.‍
Invitation into the Second Harvest ecosystem
First access to future 100-Day Make It Stick cohorts and upcoming retreats.

Meet Your Facilitator

Richard Banfield

I’ve spent more than two decades helping teams and leaders design high-stakes products, brands, and experiences. As the former CEO of a product design studio and the author of books like Product Leadership and Design Leadership, I’ve led hundreds of workshops and transformations for organizations around the world.

After losing my wife to cancer, burning out, and rebuilding his life from the ground up, I co-founded Second Harvest to help others navigate their own second chapters with more courage, creativity, and humanity.

The 72-Hour Reset™ is his most distilled, practical version of what I’ve learned—from boardrooms, retreats, and the messy middle of real life—about how change really happens.

What participants have experienced

"You couldn’t ask for a better guide to reinvention than Richard. He’s brilliant, curious, empathetic, and a great friend. He constantly challenges himself and those around him to do better, to be better, and anyone lucky enough to attend this retreat will leave renewed."

— Martin

"I just wanted to say thank you — these last few days at Second Harvest were some of the most meaningful I’ve had in a long time. I came in feeling raw and unsure, hoping to find what’s next, and I’m leaving with not just tools, but a community of people I can lean on as I work through a lot of transition, hurt, and healing."

— Nehal Patel

"I can not express how grateful I am for that weekend. Wow I am totally blown away. I really was soooo stuck and it’s helped me see a bit of a way out. It was incredible - you really were not kidding when you said it was going to be magic. Thank you thank you!!"

— Colleen Zulich

"Thank you so much for having me on this trip. It was such an honor to be part of this journey with you. Would love to connect when you’re back and continue this journey together!"

— Mary Grace Levin

“The retreat gave me emotional clarity I didn’t know I needed. I came looking for quiet and reflection, but what I found was connection. I left with friendships and a renewed sense of courage for what comes next.”

— Suzanne Balassone

“There is something rare about being truly seen, and that’s what happened at Second Harvest. It wasn’t about performance, but presence. I left with more than memories — I left with allies.”

— Jennifer Linehan

“The biggest surprise was how much laughter and lightness accompanied the depth. I came expecting something serious and got that, but also joy, play, and the power of pausing. It was exactly what I didn’t know I needed.”

— Brad Stanton

“The retreat was a reminder that slowing down is not the same as stepping back. It’s actually moving forward with more intention. I found space to breathe, and in that space, new ideas emerged.”

— Natalie Fernandez

“We often spend our lives talking, but rarely do we spend them listening. In Austria, I was reminded that silence can be the most generous gift. Second Harvest taught me how to be present again.”

— Wouter Oudemans

“I thought I was coming for inspiration. What I received was transformation. A rare gift, not because it was flashy, but because it was simple, human, and true.”

— Nino Maisuradze

“What struck us was the intimacy of it all. Fireside chats, shared meals, quiet walks in the forest — these were not just activities, they were containers for courage and creativity to emerge. It reminded us why human proximity is the real luxury.”

— Bernhard & Kathrin

Join the Next 72-Hour Reset™

We keep each cohort intentionally small so you’re not just another name in a chat window.

Standard
enrollment

339

Full 3-day program

Live calls

Worksheets

Access to recordings for 30 days

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Reset + make it stick
bundle

1,250

Everything from standard enrollment

100-Day Make It Stick Program to deepen the changes over 100 days with structured support

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No subscriptions. No upsell funnel of doom. Just a focused container tohelp you change how you live and feel.

FAQs

How much time do I need each day?

Around 20–30 minutes for lessons and reflection, plus the live calls at the beginning and end, which are each about an hour.

Do I need to share personal details with the group?

Sharing is encouraged but never forced. You can do the work privately and still get full value.

Is this therapy or coaching?

No. The 72-Hour Reset™ is a structured learning experience. We’re not therapists, and this isn’t a replacement for mental health care. It’s a practical framework for people who are ready to take ownership of their next chapter.

What if I can’t attend the live calls?

All calls are recorded and available for replay. You’ll still be able to follow the program at your own pace within the 72-hour window.

Do I need to have attended a Second Harvest retreat?

No. This course stands alone. For retreat alumni, it’s a powerful integration tool. For new folks, it’s a great first step into Second Harvest.