BEYOND REASON
A curated CONVERGENCE
A 5-day, hand-curated gathering for mission-driven Ceremonial CEOs and culture & capital stewards shaping the next era of what it means to be human
Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2026 · MEXICO
There are moments in history when leadership must evolve beyond intellect alone.
When strategy, analysis, and precedent are no longer sufficient.
When the future asks us to lead from coherence, activated capacity and aligned interdependence.
Beyond Reason is a five-day, invite-only gathering for mission-driven leaders, wealth stewards, and Ceremonial CEOs shaping the next era of culture and capital - and who know that this moment is too pivotal to be led from anything less than their fully activated self.
This convergence is a field activation and an Alliance-forming container where the right humans find each other, and the new paradigm gains real allies: people who can support you, your mission, and the ecosystems that want to emerge.
This is more than a “come to Mexico and have a lovely beach week” kind of invitation.
This is an IMMERSIVE PORTAL where you will…
Expand your leadership capacity in one of humanity’s most consequential moments
Upgrade your energetic and executive intelligence
Step into the version of you who can mobilize capital, culture, and community at scale
Activate the field where purpose, power, and prosperity converge
BEYOND REASON | February 25 - March 1
The THEMES guiding our journey…
SYSTEMS CHANGE & IMPACT
Transforming the structures beneath our economies, communities, and ecosystems so impact is regenerative, scaleable and inevitable
WEALTH STEWARDSHIP
From accumulation to contribution, from fear-based control to generative flow
THE CEREMONIAL CEO: IDENTITY UPGRADES
Refine your frequency and embody the highly-magnetic version of you that your mission is calling for
REGENERATIVE REAL ESTATE & LAND STEWARDSHIP
How we build places and cultures that can hold the communities and alliances actively uniting
STORYTELLING & PROTOPIAN AI
Using narrative and conscious AI as potent tools to catalyze and create the more beautiful world
These themes will COME ALIVE through…
Wisdom and tools to align vision with movement.
Spacious containers for resonance and emergent magic.
Daily live music, DJ sets under the stars, candlelit dinners that make the journey unforgettable.
Sacred ceremony (no medicine) to anchor our intentions and ripen the field.
A taste of speakers and facilitators
Tenzin Seldon
Venture Capitalist, Climate Leader & Humanitarian
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Tenzin is a venture capitalist and globally recognized climate leader with nearly two decades of experience advancing climate tech. She is the founder and managing partner of Pulse Fund, investing in high-growth climate companies, and serves as an advisor and board member to leading public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Her work spans the United Nations, global policy, and venture investing, earning recognition from Forbes, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations.
Melissa JUN Rowley
Global Columnist, Entrepreneur, Author & Filmmaker
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Melissa is a global journalist, entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker working at the intersection of media, climate, and justice. A former journalist with CNN, the Associated Press, and BBC News, she is the founder of Climate Mic Drop, a groundbreaking platform and summit harnessing the power of storytelling to accelerate climate justice and amplify frontline voices. Her work bridges culture, policy, and narrative change, drawing together activists, artists, and innovators across sectors. Melissa is the author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Mic Drop: How Our Stories Can Shift Culture, Power & Policy and is based between Los Angeles and New York City.
Robin Ganser
Partner | Coen & Partners
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Robin is an urbanist at heart and continually finds inspiration in the messy, beautiful complications of building cities. For over 15 years, his work has been rooted in creating urban places that allow people to live sustainably, engage in civic life, and find healing respite within their everyday lives. He lives every day observing his surroundings in search of the essence of a place, the disfunction of human intervention, and the infinite opportunity that lies between.
Robin’s career began in neighborhood master planning through interactive design charrettes and dynamic community engagement. The active listening and consensus-building skills developed through these early experiences have fueled his success in navigating public-private partnerships and complex, multi-disciplinary urban design processes at various scales nationally and internationally.
Dr. Reham Garash
Founder & CEO of Dr. Reham's Holistic Academy - MD. MSc. DipIBLM. FAAMFM. ABAARM.
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Dr. Garash is one of Saudi Arabia’s leading voices in holistic and integrative medicine, and a pioneer in reshaping the region’s approach to wellbeing. She is the co-founder of Bauh, the Middle East’s largest non-medical wellness coaching platform, and the founder of the first Arabic Holistic Wellness Coaching Academy. Blending science, soul, and cultural wisdom, her work bridges ancient healing traditions with modern clinical insight to advance root-cause, mind-body-spirit healing. Dr. Garash is also the author of Return to Wholeness, a groundbreaking book reimagining health and healing in the Arab world.
Tara Medina
Co-Founder & CEO at MUSA Mexico
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Tara Medina is a visionary real estate developer and community builder with over 15 years of experience leading projects at the intersection of land, culture, community and regenerative living. As CEO and Co-Founder of MUSA, a 250-acre regenerative village on Mexico’s Pacific coast, she has transformed a $400K seed investment into $93M in assets, crafting a globally recognised model for sustainable development rooted in place, people, and purpose.
Tara’s leadership is grounded in both strategic clarity and emotional intelligence. She navigates complex land and capital structures with fluency while building authentic relationships with local communities, investors, and partners. Under her guidance, MUSA has become a living blueprint for scalable, soulful placemaking.
A former high performance national team athlete and coach, Tara brings discipline, vision, and heart to everything she builds, proving that regenerative living is not just viable, but vital.
McKenzie Wilhelm
Partner | Coen & Partners
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McKenzie leads from a lens of regenerative land stewardship and place-based strategy at the intersection of ecology, culture, and development. Her work spans UNESCO World Heritage sites, major urban and infrastructure transformations, and wellness-centered retreat environments for a global portfolio. Known for deep listening to land, people, and the unseen narratives carried through place, McKenzie brings a rare blend of intuition, rigor, and systems thinking to projects where vision must become built reality.
She is also the founder of Terra/former, an emerging platform dedicated to evolving how land is developed and stewarded, and exploring leadership as an embodied discipline rooted in coherence and responsibility. McKenzie lives close to the land in Northern Michigan, in a landscape of pine forests, glacial sand, and crystal-clear spring-fed water—where nature continually sharpens her sense of meaning, beauty, and impact.
A current Advisory Council member for the ASLA Fund, she speaks nationally on climate adaptation, cultural resilience, and the future of landscape architecture as a systems-level discipline.
astrid brinck
Institute & Culture Steward, KAVANÀ
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Astrid is an architect of transformation dedicated to igniting, crafting, and implementing lasting impact across diverse cultures and systems. Positioned at the intersection of personal growth, conscious leadership, and impactful entrepreneurship, she acts as a bridge to these domains.
As the founder of the Inner Freedom Institute and creator of the Inner Freedom Methodology, Astrid brings over 30 years of extensive experience in human development. Her deep expertise includes decades of facilitating groups, consulting organizations, and training trainers. Her work has revealed impactful insights into human nature that serve as pathways to transformative change when applied in our daily lives, whether for individuals, communities, or organizations
Iliana Oris Valiente
AI & Tech Executive, Futurist
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Iliana is a corporate executive, innovation leader, startup investor, board member, author, and global speaker. As Managing Director and Head of North America Innovation Centers at Accenture, she advises senior executives and boards on strategic transformation across AI, emerging tech, and cross-industry innovation. A Certified Bitcoin Professional, she is a recognized blockchain pioneer and trusted bridge between Web2 and Web3. She is also an active mentor and investor in the early-stage ecosystem and a champion of flexible, globally connected work.
Jennifer Koster
Founder and CEO & Co-Founder, WerkWell / Founder, LivWell
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Jennifer Koster is a systems-based thinker and serial entrepreneur known for translating complex, multi-disciplinary ideas into clear, financeable strategies that deliver high-performance outcomes. As Founder and CEO and Co-Founder of WerkWell group of companies and Founder of LivWell, she brings together regenerative agriculture, resilient infrastructure, and wellness-driven design to create next-generation communities inspired by Blue Zone principles.
Nicolas Canon
Founder, Yantra Foundation & Creator, FORGED AI
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Nicolas Canon is an international bestselling author, speaker, and founder of the Yantra Foundation: an organization devoted to bridging ancestral wisdom with practical modern tools.
He supports impact-driven leaders in cultivating grounded spirituality - helping them align integrity, clarity, and purpose with high-level leadership.
Nicolas created ‘Forged’ a CustomGPT with over 25,000+ active chats. Forged is a unique AI copilot that prioritizes truth over agreeableness. It has become an essential tool for entrepreneurs seeking honest feedback and individuals seeking to break free from destructive patterns.
Adina Popesc
Founder & CEO, ÆRTH
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Adina Popescu is the Founder & CEO of ÆRTH, building the AI infrastructure needed for ecological intelligence, to understand Earth as a dynamic, interconnected living system.
ÆRTH brings together Earth scientists from NASA/JPL ocean researchers, and AI engineers to develop distributed ocean & coastal health data infrastructure and next-generation biodiversity models. Through Ecological Twins; continuously learning digital models of large biospheres, ÆRTH is creating a new layer of nature based AI grounded in biological data.
She is trained as a philosopher in Germany, working in emerging technologies and systems design. Her work focuses on building the ethical, technical, and governance foundations for global collaboration on ecological data and the scaling of scientific research.
She has advised Media Arts Lab/Apple & Conservation International, Paramount Studios, and McKinsey on immersive technologies and long-range technological trajectories. In parallel, she speaks internationally on AI ethics, shared intelligence architectures, and privacy-preserving data frameworks for distributed systems.
AZRYA BEQUER
Co-Founding Steward, KAVANÀ
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Co-Founding Steward at KAVANÂ | Based in Malibu & Mexico
Azrya Bequer facilitates irresistibly magnetic, immersive experiences for bold, self-led leaders to get tapped-in and transformed—making their impact inevitable.She is the Co-Founding Steward of KAVANÂ, an immersive ecosystem of transformation with four core pillars: Locations, Institute, Media, and Impact. Its 30-acre flagship retreat center on the South Pacific coast of Mexico is currently under construction. She also serves as Co-Steward of MUSA, a 500+ acre regenerative beachfront development.
Over the past decade, Azrya has honed her unique gift for facilitating deep, identity-level transformation. Her clients are visionary leaders seeking to integrate ambition with soul, and structure with surrender. Through intuitive guidance, ceremonial containers, and her signature identity invocation process, she curates custom journeys that unlock creative power and embodied purpose—romantically, financially, creatively, and spiritually.
She is the co-author of BEQOMING and co-creator of a methodology that blends identity engineering, indigenous wisdom traditions and embodiment practices to catalyze lasting transformation.
Since 2019, Azrya and her husband Benjamin have stewarded over $20M in capital toward purpose-driven, regenerative ventures. Azrya’s work is deeply rooted in feminine wealth stewardship, and she actively curates strategic partnerships and storytelling to catalyze the next evolution of conscious investing.
Azrya’s presence, both online and in person, has reached millions and activates deep remembering in those ready to lead from essence. Her work ripples into movements, models, and mythologies for a more beautiful, integrated world.
From deep-dive councils to sacred space…
from visionary discourse to catalytic storytelling…
From barefoot beach ceremonies to lighting up the dance floor under the stars…
Every layer is curated to ignite your next level of clarity, connection, and embodiment.
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You won’t just attend this gathering.
You will leave ignited to shape the future we all know is possible with even more fire in your belly.
Our Diverse Community
We’re united by a reverence for the sacred, a commitment to transformation, and a relentless devotion to co-create a more beautiful world.
When the right connection meets the ripe moment,
extraordinary things can happen.
BEYOND REASON is designed to multiply those moments by curating a community of exceptional humans who span the spectrum from impossible to inevitable.
For this one-of-a-kind moment, we gather as a living practice to co-amplifying our collective intention — through weaving presence, play, and purpose.
Accommodation at MUSA
All participants will stay at MUSA, our sister property at KAVANÂ Mexico.
Whether you are coming solo or with a group, there is a space to fit your needs —
tucked in the jungle and steps from the beach.
accommodation and BEYOND REASON access booked separately
CASA MUSA
A 5-guest-room sanctuary designed for stillness, sunsets, and soul-soothing swims — a secluded escape for solo journeys or intimate retreats by the sea.
1 - 2 people | Starting at $396 $222 / night
HOTELITO
At the heart of MUSA, an oceanfront escape with 13 guest rooms — crafted on untouched Pacific shores, where design meets nature.
1 - 2 people | Starting at $616 $333 / night
HIDEAWAYS
Eight standalone casitas with a tranquil freshwater pool — from studios to two-bedroom retreats, all designed for privacy, seclusion, and a deep connection to nature.
1 - 6 people | Starting at $768 $666 / night
PRIVATE RESIDENCIES
Three design-forward homes with gathering spaces, private pools, and kitchens. Sleeping 8–12 guests, this coastal sanctuaries are are perfect for groups.
8 - 12 people | Starting at $2,730 $1,666/ night
Unveiling KAVANÂ Mexico · The Prologue
Located 45 minutes south of Zihuatanejo International Airport, on the South Pacific coast.
Together, we weave alliances that expand our ripple of impact far beyond what we could create alone.
KAVANÂ Guiding Principles
These 5 principals ground our community and shape how we live, lead, and create together.
We face life’s challenges and opportunities together, leaning into each other's gifts, and allowing our diversity to fuel our potential.
We show up with the courage to genuinely care, and do what needs to be done, with whole-hearted commitment and love.
We practice seeing and honoring the sacred within the full spectrum of life, with all of its highs and lows, from birth to death.
We face life’s challenges and opportunities together, leaning into each other's gifts, and allowing our diversity to fuel our potential.
We use our privilege responsibly, and make conscious decisions that positively impact the world around us.
What is possible when we explore beyond the confines of reason alone?
WHAT WE SEE IS…
Courage beyond reason.
Trust beyond reason.
Play beyond reason.
Some of you are already living beyond the limits of logic and reason.
Some will dare to ignite that spark for the first time.
Wherever you are, together we will tap into the extraordinary field of limitless potential - so you leave recharged and reignited in your undiluted KNOWING.
COURAGE BEYOND REASON · TRUST BEYOND REASON · RIPPLES BEYOND REASON
TICKET OPTIONS
» BEYOND REASON | February 25 - March 1
A curated convergence of leaders, artists, and visionaries — five days of exploring the edges beyond reason, sparking catalytic conversation, and celebrations under the stars.
▸ Opening: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 4:30 pm
▸ Closing: Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 11 am
▸ Closest Airport: Zihuatanejo International Airport · ZIH
▸ Investment: $3.333 for BEYOND REASON
▸ Accommodation: All attendees will stay at MUSA, our sister property.
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We believe that the deepest change begins within and THIS is the fuel for the systems we are reimagining.
We are here to collaborate, activate, and prototype the world we long for.
Let’s co-create the unforgettable.
KAVANÂ
—a place and a path to transform, co-amplify, and ignite ripples of impact.
An ecosystem for transformation, KAVANÂ is a 30-acre oceanfront retreat center in Mexico and a Learning Institute. We offer programs and gatherings for purpose-driven pioneers and trust-led leaders to align their inner transformation with the impact they’re here to make in the world.
KAVANÂ Mexico will open November 2025