We don't run retreats. We don't host masterminds. We don't sell transformation — that word has been strip-mined and we'd rather let you keep yours.
What we do: we take things we're already doing — sourcing food in foreign markets, cooking with intention, thinking about systems, walking through cities that hum differently — and we open up a few seats.
Small groups. Real places. The kind of days you'd plan for yourself if you had six months to research and twenty years of knowing where to look.
An MF Experience is built around a place we're going to be anyway and things we'd want to do whether or not anyone else showed up. We're not performing a trip. We're inviting you into ours.
The format varies. Sometimes it's two days in a city with a market walk, a cooking session, and a workshop that goes somewhere unexpected. Sometimes it's a single evening built around a meal and a conversation that doesn't have a moderator.
What stays constant:
Not a wellness retreat. No yoga mats, no ceremonies, no detox protocols, no group shares.
Not a business retreat. No pitch practice, no networking bingo, no "accountability pods."
Not a tour. We don't have lanyards.
It's closer to: what if the people behind a store you trust invited you to spend a few days with them in a city they know, and the price included the meals and the thinking but not the flights?
People who are good at their work and curious about how other people design their lives. People who cook, or want to. People who read long articles and follow footnotes. People who've been to a conference and wished the best part hadn't been the accidental conversation in the hallway.
If you've read more than three things on this site and thought "I'd want to sit across from these people" — that's the signal.
July 15–16, 2026 | 6–10 participants
Two days in Barcelona's Eixample district. Market sourcing at La Boqueria with Maria. Cooking what we find. An afternoon workshop on building infrastructure that serves your life instead of consuming it. A dinner at the kind of place you find by asking the right local. A farewell lunch.
July 25–26, 2026 | 4–8 participants
A day and a half in Maria's city. A walking texture-read through Lipscani. A multi-course Romanian dinner where she orders. A morning workshop on processing weak signals in complex environments — applicable to business, creative work, and the system you call your life. Coffee, pastries, and a curated list of what we'd do next.
All experiences include programmed activities, workshop(s), and specified group meals. Flights, accommodation, travel insurance, and meals not listed are your own.
Experiences are announced first to newsletter subscribers. If there's one that's right for you, you'll hear about it before it's public.
We also write about the thinking behind experiences — how we design them, what we learn, what surprised us — in the Experiences & Stories journal.
MF Experiences are produced by MF General Store. All workshops, content, and programming designed by Randy and Maria Mountainfjord.
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