The Space Between Worlds:
Chile 2026
An 8-day leadership adventure in the Atacama Desert for people ready for clarity, courage, and what’s next.
August 1-8, 2026
Atacama Desert, Chile
8 Days / 7 Nights
Limited to 16
When the noise fades, what remains?
This is a small-group leadership adventure for founders, leaders, and growth-minded people who want space to think clearly, reconnect with what matters, and return home changed.
You can do a lot in your everyday life. You can perform. Produce. Lead. Push. Solve. But clarity rarely comes from staying busy.
This experience is designed for leaders, founders, creators, and growth-minded people who want to step out of the noise and into something more honest. More grounded. More real.
For 8 days in the Atacama Desert, you’ll hike, reflect, connect, and reset with a small group of high-level peers inside a guided experience designed to create real change, not just a temporary high. The retreat also includes a broader 4-month container with pre-retreat preparation and post-retreat integration, so what happens in Chile actually carries into real life.
Growth doesn’t happen when things are easy.
It happens when you step into the unknown, and stay long enough to see what emerges.
In business, in life, and in leadership, that’s the real edge.
This adventure gives you the tools and the trust to navigate it, No Matter What.
Container details
TRAVEL BRIEF
This is not just a trip.
It’s a structured leadership adventure for people who are ready to get clear, stretch themselves, and return home different.
The Atacama is one of the most stark and awe-inspiring places on earth.
It creates space.
Space to think.
Space to notice.
Space to hear what gets drowned out in normal life.
The setting matters, but the container matters just as much.
This experience blends physical challenge, reflection, conversation, cultural immersion, and shared experience. You won’t just see incredible places. You’ll use the week to reconnect with what matters and move toward your next chapter with more courage, trust, and clarity.
Overview
Container at a glance
PRE-ADVENTURE
Pre-Adventure | (3) 1-hour Zoom sessions to open the container, set intentions, and connect the group
DAY 1
Arrival in San Pedro de Atacama: Huayra cliff hike at sunset, welcome dinner & overnight at Explora Atacama
DAY 2
Rainbow Valley and Matancilla: petroglyphs, ancient caravan routes, and desert colors beyond imagination
DAY 3
Domeyko Canyon solitude hike, Puritama hot springs at night, starlit picnic and reflection circle
DAY 4
Blanco Volcano exploration: geysers, vicuñas, flamingos, and the vast silence of the altiplano
DAY 5
Sacred ascent of Lascar Volcano: Likan-Antay ceremony and private astronomy session under infinite stars
DAY 6
Rest and Cultural Day: teachings on the Likan-Antay cosmology, desert rituals of reciprocity, and group restoration
DAY 7
Summit of Sairecabur (“Mountain of the Rain”): closing circle and celebration dinner
DAY 8
Departure & travel home
POST-ADVENTURE
(2) 1-hour Zoom sessions to harvest insights and integrate the experience into daily life
Who is it for?
Leaders who feel the next chapter calling, and are ready to answer it
People craving real connection, not just conversation
High performers willing to trade comfort for growth, and impact for everyone around them
Inside your trip.
Duration: 8 Days / 7 Nights
Dates: August 1-8, 2026
Location: Atacama Desert, Chile
Investment: Inquire (Double occupancy)
Group Size: Limited to 16
Included:
• 7 nights at Explora Atacama
• Guided hikes
• Cultural immersions
• Leadership facilitation with Sterling & Haviland Hawkins
• Daily meals as outlined
• All in-country transfers
• Access to join any of our 14er Leadership Immersions
Not Included:
• International flights
• Travel insurance
• Personal expenses
WHAT YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH
You’ll leave with:
Clarity on what matters most right now
Trust in yourself when the path is uncertain
Stronger connection with a small group of high-level peers
A deeper ability to lead through discomfort and change
Practical integration support so the experience lasts beyond the trip
This is not about escaping your life. It’s about returning to it with more truth, more alignment, and more capacity.
What Makes This Experience Different
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Thresholds of Discovery
Move between worlds, desert and sky, stillness and motion, and notice what each crossing reveals. This journey is designed to create space for new awareness, fresh perspective, and a deeper relationship with what matters most.
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The Likan Way
Learn from the Likan-Antay, an ancient desert people whose lives were built on reciprocity, respect, and adaptation. Their traditions offer a living model for leadership, resilience, and growth.
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Sacred Ascent
Climb Lascar and Sairecabur, sacred volcanoes once used for offerings to the gods of rain and renewal. Each summit becomes a mirror of your own emergence.
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Silence as Teacher
In the world’s quietest desert, stillness becomes revelation. Without distraction, awareness sharpens. What’s left is what’s true.
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Awakening Through Connection
Shared meals, nightly circles, and guided rituals transform solitude into belonging. You’ll leave not just recharged but re-oriented.
This journey gave me clarity for the next chapter of my life and the courage to live it with authenticity and joy. - Sid
This transformed how I lead, how I show up, and how I see what’s possible - Keith
This wasn’t a typical retreat. It was a space that brought out connection, reflection, and growth. -Birame
Meet Your Guides
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Sterling Hawkins is an author, investor, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker who is globally
recognized as a thought leader in personal and organizational growth. Founder of the No Matter What Movement, he shows people how to achieve the performance, results and fulfillment they want regardless of obstacles.
Sterling developed his methodology to learn from the painful collapse of his multibillion dollar startup involvement. He's since combined his business background, research, study and practice to come back and launch, invest in and grow more than 100 companies. He's taken that experience to work with C-level teams and leaders and speak on stages around the world. He's been featured in magazines like Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times and Inc.
He believes that there is no growth without discomfort – and it requires courage, commitment, community and the cultivation of trust to move through the uncomfortable and uncertain and into breakthrough results. To inspire people to unlock their own inherent potential, he shares key practices that help us push beyond our perceived limits to make a difference for our companies, communities and families. When he's not at home in Colorado, he may be out skydiving, swimming with sharks or adventuring with the No Matter What Movement.
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Haviland Hawkins is an entrepreneur, strategist, and keynote collaborator who co-leads the No Matter What Movement alongside her brother, Sterling. Together, they design and lead immersive leadership retreats and adventures around the world (from the mountains of Peru to cultural immersions in Africa) each crafted to challenge limits, spark transformation, and inspire breakthrough results.
With a background in marketing strategy, operations, and transformational leadership, Haviland has worked with Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, and global organizations to drive both personal and organizational growth. Her expertise lies in translating bold ideas into actionable outcomes, ensuring that the No Matter What methodology extends beyond the keynote stage into lasting change for individuals, teams and companies.
She believes growth requires courage, commitment, and community. Through her work, she creates spaces where people can confront discomfort, unlock their potential, and discover what they’re truly capable of. Whether uniting executives across cultural barriers, supporting leaders in breaking free of limiting beliefs, or guiding participants step by step on the Inca Trail, Haviland blends clarity, compassion and challenge to deliver breakthrough results.
When she’s not home in Colorado, you’ll find her alongside Sterling, leading No Matter What adventures and retreats or exploring new frontiers that continue to push her own edges.
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The Inner Journey
of No Matter What Leadership
Our No Matter What Process
Where personal transformation becomes embodied leadership.
Every No Matter What Adventure follows a universal rhythm. The journey from the known into the unknown and back again. It’s a process that has guided heroes, leaders, and seekers for centuries: a crossing of thresholds, a shedding of what no longer serves, and a return with something new to give.
This isn’t just a travel experience. It’s a lived process of becoming the kind of leader who can navigate the unknown, within yourself, your team, and your organization, no matter what.
