Calling Conscious Founders, Builders & Creators
Stories×Systems×Soul
Three days in the ancient redwoods. Align your story, strengthen your systems, connect to your soul.
October 15–18, 2026
Camp Navarro · Mendocino, California
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The next generation of companies will not be built by force alone.
They will be built by founders whose Stories, Systems, and Soul are aligned.
A look at what happens beneath the trees.
You don't need
another conference.
Another ballroom.
Another lanyard.
Another panel about scaling.
Another room full of people asking, "So… what do you do?"
Camp Kaizen was created for something different. Three days to step outside the noise and remember what actually matters.
You might need a campfire.
Three dimensions of every conscious builder.
No. 01
The narratives shaping who we are, what we believe, and what we think success means. Most of us inherited ours — and some of them quietly run our lives and companies.
Founder stories · Identity · Failure · Reinvention · Legacy
No. 02
The structures we build and live inside — companies, teams, habits, communities, operating models. The practical mechanics of building something that works without grinding yourself down.
Business models · AI · Leadership · Health · Wealth · Impact
No. 03
The deeper alignment underneath it all — purpose, relationships, presence, intuition, and what actually matters when the metrics go quiet.
Meditation · Breathwork · Nature · Music · Ceremony · Creativity
Every life is shaped by the stories we believe, the systems we build, and the soul we bring to them. Camp Kaizen is where we bring all three back into alignment.
When all three align, something changes.
You stop building from force.
You start building from coherence.
Eight formats, from morning practice to after dark.
The Dome
A forty-foot dome in the heart of the camp grounds — home to sound journeys, ceremony and late-night sessions.
Gather
Meals prepared on site, eaten together. Some of the best conversations happen over food.
Each day builds on the one before it.
Land, settle into your accommodation, and meet the people you’ll spend the next three days with. Dinner under the trees, the opening fire, and the first stories of how everyone got here.
Morning breathwork beneath the redwoods, the tea lounge in full ceremony, and campfire conversations with founders who’ve built, broken and rebuilt things. The first full night of music.
The most hands-on day: Kaizen Labs on business models, AI, leadership, health and wealth. Turn everything you’ve heard into concrete plans for the thing you’re building next.
Closing ceremony, commitments made out loud, numbers exchanged. Leave with clearer plans, real relationships, and coherence between who you are and what you build.
Founder, NGT Academy, The Way of Kaizen · Co-Founder, KaizenOS · Entrepreneur · Author
Three years ago, I found myself at rock bottom.
I was $240,000 in the hole, staring at bankruptcy and wondering how I was going to make payroll.
I had just fired my CMO. My co-founder quit. And I was faced with a choice: close the company—or personally take on a $350,000 loan at 35% interest, with payments due every week, just to keep the doors open.
I took the loan.
For most of my life, I had been taught the entrepreneur's answer to everything:
Work harder. Push harder. Keep going.
So that's what I did.
Until I realized that force wasn't going to rebuild me.
What ultimately changed my life wasn't another growth strategy or productivity system. It was learning to ask different questions—not only about the company I was building, but about the stories I believed, the systems I created, and the soul underneath all of it.
That journey became The Way of Kaizen—a philosophy of continuous evolution rooted not in endless optimization, but in greater coherence between who we are, how we build, and what we're here to serve.
Today, the company I nearly lost has grown into a thriving nine-figure business.
But that isn't the part of the story that matters most to me.
The real transformation was internal.
I stopped building from force and started building from alignment.
And somewhere along that journey, a question began following me:
What would entrepreneurship look like if the people building the future were as committed to evolving themselves as they were to scaling their companies?
That question became Camp Kaizen.
I came to believe that every founder—and every company they build—lives at the intersection of three forces:
When these three fall out of alignment, we compensate with force.
When they return to coherence, something different becomes possible.
Camp Kaizen is a gathering of founders, builders, creators, and humans beneath the ancient redwoods—not to collect more tactics, chase another status symbol, or sit through another conference.
But to:
Because I believe the next generation of extraordinary companies won't simply be built by better entrepreneurs.
They'll be built by more conscious ones.
Camp Kaizen is the gathering I wish had existed when I needed it most.
See you in the forest. — TK
Three conversations taped in front of the whole camp — no edit, no safety net.
Episode I
Stories
Ian Lopatin — Founder, Spiritual Gangster
A former entertainment lawyer who built At One Yoga across Arizona, then grew Spiritual Gangster into a global brand before its acquisition.
Live with TK: building a brand as a movement — flow before force — and what it means to exit a company built on practice. Taped the week Ian launches The Way of a Spiritual Gangster.
Book launch — get your own signed copy
Episode II
Systems
Pavel & Justin — the panel
Justin Valentino, PhD spent fifteen years as an organizational scientist studying how things fall apart — fifty years of failures in high-consequence industries like nuclear power. Co-founder of the Kaizen Operating System.
Pavel Aeon co-founded Upper Aeon and built SYSTEM RESET™ — the science of what a founder's body runs on.
Together: the systems a founder actually runs on, in one conversation.
Episode III
Soul
Aubert Bastiat — Co-Founder, Sacred Sons
Built and led a global men's organization, then lost it while his marriage was collapsing — and rebuilt both by turning inward. He sits with founders navigating burnout, relational breakdown and the private weight high-capacity people rarely name.
One mic, nothing off the table.
Live sets, sound journeys and movement — on the main stage and around the fire.
Tomas Wischerath · Live Electronic · Main Stage
Natural field recordings, tribal percussion and bass-driven electronics. He has supported Bonobo, CloZee and Duke Dumont, and played Red Rocks and Envision. The mission: music that connects people with nature, one another and themselves.
Co-Founders, Upper Aeon · System Reset™
Together they lead the biohacking workshop for founders, SYSTEM RESET™ at first light — breathwork, dance and stillness on a hundred silent-disco headsets — and Sunday's 50 Shades of Movement.
Noah Knight · Experience Architect · Live Set
Producer, DJ and imagineer — music made from the heart to invigorate and uplift the spirit, driven by reconnection with nature and the hope that what's found on the dance floor gets carried into daily life. He's also the experience architect shaping the camp's flow.
Roni Yohanan · Live Performance
Handpan musician, breathwork facilitator and sound healer, with hundreds of thousands of streams of music made to regulate, reconnect and raise your vibration. By day her handpan threads the camp’s ceremonies; by night, a performance built to pull the whole camp onto its feet.
Sound Journeys · Founder, THE RITUAALI
Rooted in Himalayan Yog-Vedantic wisdom, she works through Kriya, breath, mantra and the body’s subtle energy channels to restore balance between body and mind. Founder of THE RITUAALI and co-founder of I AM TRIBE retreats, she guides three journeys across the weekend — stillness to arrive, activation to open, and a closing practice at dawn on the last morning.
Taekwondo · Welcome to the Dojo
Raised in her father’s studio — a grand master who handcrafted his students’ kimonos — and initiated in Eastern and Earth-based traditions through her Maya lineage, Paola weaves martial discipline with somatics, breathwork and ritual. She opens the dojo every morning: fire, water, then earth with the cacao ceremony. Board breaking included. Bare feet, all levels, beginner’s mind.
Founder, Realization Nation · Shamanic Sound Journey
Named Ronin Soi — “Beautiful Serpent” — by the Shipibo people of Peru, Fabian has walked fifteen years with the indigenous traditions that began as his own path of self-inquiry in the jungle and became a life of service. He brings his prayerful icaros, flute, harmonica and a field of instruments to a shamanic sound journey that liberates the heart.
Founder, Sacred Sons
Architect of a global men’s community and leadership training that has engaged more than 10,000 men. He brings the interpersonal competency frameworks he now teaches founders, organizations and teams — turning unearthed potential and energy into dynamic communication.
Singer-Songwriter · Song Circle
Pioneer yoga musician, singer-songwriter, somatic coach and author — thousands of shows worldwide, stages shared with Stephen Marley, Michael Franti, Trevor Hall, Xavier Rudd and Diplo, six independent albums and tens of millions of streams. He has played live music for more than 2,000 yoga classes and meditations; through sound, breath and song he invites the camp to re-member who we are beneath it all.
Founder & Visionary, Pacific Domes
Four decades turning Buckminster Fuller's vision into real structures — thousands of domes raised for festivals, immersive theaters and humanitarian relief worldwide, built where sacred geometry meets regenerative community.
Still Announcing
Every night ends in music, and every morning starts in the body.
For thousands of years, these forests have existed on a timeline radically different from ours. We spend our lives rushing. Building. Scaling. Optimizing. For three days, we gather somewhere that reminds us how small — and how extraordinary — our lives actually are.
Everything below is included.
The Gathering Bring Your Own Tent
$497
For Founders and Creators
Limited Time Special
The Gathering The Weekend Special
Now $697 regular price $997 Founding Year
For Founders and Creators
Founders Discount Week
The Gathering Founders Pass Edition
Now $997 regular price $1,997 50% off
For Founders and Creators
The Gathering Upgraded Founders Pass
Now $1,997 regular price $2,497 Founding Year
For Founders and Creators
The Founders' Table VIP Edition
Now $2,997 regular price $3,997 Founding Year
Camp Navarro sits on 200+ acres of ancient coastal redwood in Mendocino County, alongside the Navarro River and Neefus Creek.
No cell service. Wi-Fi across most of the property. Certified EMT on site. Service animals only.
About 2.5 to 3 hours north of the Bay Area — 155 miles. US-101 North, exit at Cloverdale, then CA-128 West through Anderson Valley to Masonite Industrial Road.
Sonoma County Airport (STS) is closest. SFO and OAK are both around 2.5 hours out.
Thursday, October 15 — Doors open 2pm for camp setup. Welcome dinner at 6pm, opening fire at 7:30pm.
Sunday, October 18 — Breakfast from 8am, closing circle at 4:30pm. Departures begin at 5:15pm.
Cabins & Adirondacks, glamping tents, and tent & RV areas across the property. Accommodation is included with every Camp Kaizen ticket — shared with the Founders and Weekend Special passes, a private glamping tent with the Upgraded Founders Pass, and a private cabin with VIP. On the Bring Your Own Tent pass, you pitch in the woodland camping area.
Before you leave: there's no cell service on the approach, so download your directions first. Uber and Lyft are almost nonexistent up here — we'll share a camp rideshare board so you can carpool from the Bay.
The Gathering
Yes. Builders take many forms — some arrive with companies, some with an idea, some between chapters. What you're building matters less than the fact that you're building. The questions at the center of the gathering belong to anyone making something with their life.
The forest doesn't do hierarchy, and neither do we. Founders sit beside artists, investors beside philosophers, first-timers beside people decades in. Nobody wears their track record on a lanyard — there are no lanyards. Wherever you are, someone around the fire has been exactly there.
There is no cell service on the property or the approach. Wi-Fi is available across most of the site, so you can get online if you need to. Phones stay away during practice and at the fire.
Tickets & Inclusions
Yes. Your nights at Camp Navarro are included in every ticket: shared accommodation with the Founders and Weekend Special passes, your own private glamping tent with the Upgraded Founders Pass, and a private cabin with VIP — or pitch your own tent in the woodland camping area on the Bring Your Own Tent pass. The property spans 200+ acres of coastal redwood — Camp Kaizen holds a reserved footprint with its own circle and gathering space. You don't need to book anything separately; accommodation details arrive by email before camp.
Meals are included for all three days, prepared on site. The menu is built around whole, seasonal ingredients with plant-based and gluten-free options, and select animal protein at some meals. A beverage station runs all day, and the tea lounge serves ancient pu-erh in ceremony throughout the gathering. Tell us about dietary requirements when you register and we'll take care of them.
October nights in the redwoods get cold, so pack to layer. The essentials:
Optional, but worth the space:
Travel & Logistics
Once you register you'll receive a full orientation guide with travel instructions and local recommendations. Doors open at 1pm on Thursday, October 15. The closing circle is at 4:30pm on Sunday, October 18, and departures begin at 5:15pm. Fly into Sonoma County Airport (STS) if you can — SFO and OAK are both about two and a half hours away. There's no cell service on the approach, so download directions first, and plan to carpool: a camp rideshare board goes out to everyone before the event.
Camp Navarro is an established retreat property, not a bare field. Facilities are proper buildings with running water, flushing toilets and hot showers, and a certified EMT is on site for the duration of the event.
Policies
All ticket sales are final. Tickets are non-refundable inside 30 days of the event — by then we've committed to the land, the food and the team. Cancelling with at least 30 days' notice? Write to team@kaizenos.ai and we'll refund you in full. If Camp Kaizen is ever cancelled due to weather or another act of God, your registration moves to the rescheduled date — and if you can't make the new dates, you'll receive a full refund.
Email team@kaizenos.ai and we'll answer you personally.
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