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The Threshold Program is a six-day passage in the forests of Finland for young adults (roughly 18–28) ready to find more of their own direction. May 8–13, 2027 · Finland · a small group of four to ten — Founding Group 2027.
You've done what was asked of you, and probably more. A degree, a first job, a title, a promotion, a life that looks right from the outside. And underneath it, a question nobody actually asked out loud: is this actually yours? Not the version that fit the expectations around you — the one you'd choose again, alone, with no one watching.
You're not lacking ambition. You have too much external orientation — and not enough space to hear which parts of it are actually yours.
That's not a slogan here. It's what six days in Finland are built to practice — building a direction instead of scrolling past somebody else's.
There's a name for this place: the threshold. The old way of moving through the world doesn't carry you anymore, and the new one hasn't found its form. Six days won't make that discomfort disappear. They give it a shape you can work with — through a craft we call the generative dialogues, four movements that structure everything that happens in Finland.
When the noise falls away, something else becomes possible: you begin to notice the space between what happens and how you respond. That space is where choice begins.
Most programs pick one side: structure and evidence, or depth and presence. This one runs on both, because a real threshold asks for both.
Clarity isn't a mood. It's a practice — and like a language or a muscle, it's trainable.
The solo days are solo. Everything around them isn't. A small group of four to ten young adults holds the container together — people who see each other more clearly than the feed ever does.
The program starts before you arrive and continues after you leave. What happens in Finland is the center of it, not all of it.
This is the first Threshold group — the beginning of something new. Join now, and you become part of that beginning.
A deposit of 20 per cent falls due with the confirmation of registration, which reserves your place. The balance is due 30 days before the start. Payment in instalments is possible on request. Accommodation and meals on site, all materials and the six weeks of support after the programme are included. Travel and insurance are not. Our terms and right of withdrawal apply.
Fly into Helsinki; public transport covers the rest of the way. Exact routing follows once your place is confirmed.
Places aren't filled in the order applications arrive. Every application starts with a short, honest and non-binding conversation with David — to see whether this is the right threshold for you, and you for the group.
A limited number of scholarships and reduced places are available. If finances would otherwise prevent you from joining, simply raise it openly in the conversation.
Sometimes what has been no longer fits what lies ahead. Threshold gives you room to let go of the old and find out what is genuinely yours next.
Six days won't hand you a finished life plan. But they can change the place you take your next step from.
The forest doesn't perform. It doesn't compare itself with the next tree. Six days give that experience enough depth to become something you can remember when everyday life gets loud again.
Trust needs good reasons. Here are four of them.
We don't give young adults answers. We create the conditions in which they can discover and test their own.
You raised someone capable of asking their own questions. This is a place that takes that seriously.
David's professional path began in experiential nature education, where he led nature-based and survival groups before moving deeper into leadership development and coaching.
He has since spent 25 years in leadership development, working with more than 20,000 leaders across 25-plus countries, including research-based work with Gallup's strengths science. One of these programmes received the HR Excellence Award during his time as Client Director at SYNK GROUP. In parallel, he has spent 30 years in consciousness work: ontological coaching at the level of body, emotion and language, and his own vision quests in wild places.
The Threshold Program is where all of that meets — the structure and evidence of modern leadership development, the depth of old ways of finding clarity, and the nature-based roots he started from. He designed it after meeting the same edge again and again, in people twenty-three and fifty-three alike: a need to stop moving long enough to hear themselves.
He also brings a more personal vantage point: he's the father of two young adults in their mid-twenties, and has watched up close what it takes for young people to unfold more of who they already are and bring their potential into the world — not only through his own path, but through raising and mentoring young people through theirs.
The Threshold Program is new. The craft behind it isn't.
Viktor Szücs
Senior Director Leadership Development & Cultural Transformation, Lufthansa Group
Pa M.K. Sinyan
Regional Managing Partner EMEA, Gallup
Peter Koch
Deputy Head of Sales Digital Media EMEA, Felix Schoeller · translated from German
Martin Braun
Leadership Coach & Consultant · translated from German
Some places are funded by parents, others by foundations, education providers or employers. If that could be the case for you, pass this link on.
Not every enquiry is an application for May 2027. Take the route that matches your situation — each one leads to a different next step.
None of these four routes is a booking or a binding registration. All four open an email to mail@davidliebnau.com with the details David needs — write directly if your email app doesn't open. A place counts as reserved only once David confirms it in writing after the conversation. What taking part costs is set out above under The Investment. Our terms and right of withdrawal apply.
Send me a short email. We'll have a no-obligation application conversation and find out together whether Threshold is the right next step for you. Applications are open now for Founding Group 2027 — up to ten places, one conversation at a time.
Both buttons open an email to mail@davidliebnau.com — write directly if your email app doesn't open automatically.
No pressure, no upsell — just an honest conversation about whether this is your threshold.