Creed

Vision

High-Concept Retreats is the vision of Liviu Tipurita, a BAFTA-nominated film director and scriptwriter turned hypnotherapist. Drawing from 25 years in film & television and 12 years of clinical practice in London & Crete, Liviu has created a unique transformative approach. He sees art and therapy as complementary forces that awaken creativity and self-discovery.

Filmmaking is strategic, evocative, immersive, precise, and oriented towards a purpose. So is good hypnotherapy. And so are the high-concept retreats, offering participants the chance to uncover deeper meanings and potentials within themselves in a creative, spontaneous, and entertaining way.

The Artist's Approach

As both filmmaker and therapist, Liviu crafts each retreat with the same careful attention to structure, pacing and purpose that shapes powerful films. Every element is thoughtfully planned —from the selection of natural settings to the growing sense of curiosity for what happens next in the sequence of therapeutic experiences — shaping a journey that engages both heart and mind. Like a well-made film, each retreat reveals its transformative power through carefully orchestrated moments of discovery.

Crafting Change

High-Concept Retreats combine advanced Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP with immersive experiences drawn from the world of film and theatre. Participants engage in carefully designed improvisational exercises, metaphorical journeys, and psychological games that surprise, illuminate and entertain. These experiences are woven together with therapeutic techniques to catalyse profound personal change in an engaging, often playful way.

Concept

Each retreat is built around a central concept—a transformative idea that generates an exceptional experience. You might get to know yourself a little better by accessing archetypes through visualisation games in an ancient Cretan olive grove, discovering new perspectives through role-playing the opposite of who you are at a themed party in the Transylvanian mountains, or accessing deeper self-awareness through psychological experiments on a beautiful, secluded beach.

Working with intimate groups in stunning locations, Liviu creates an environment where artistic vision, therapeutic expertise, and natural beauty converge to facilitate lasting change.

Philosophy

In our thoughtfully selected natural settings, the connection between art and therapy comes alive. Both create spaces where individuals discover their own insights through creative engagement. These moments of realisation become powerful anchors for deeper understanding.

The role of the artist, like that of the therapist or retreat facilitator, isn't to present conclusions, but to craft experiences that give each person the chance to uncover their own meaning. When therapy is purely factual, it becomes didactic; when it's conceptual and experiential, it becomes transformative.

People are changed not by information, but by experience. At High-Concept Retreats, our role is to create inspiring conditions for transformation, allowing each individual to connect their own dots and discover their own path forward.

— Liviu Tipurita —