We create spaces where healing happens - together.
Human Work was founded to offer somatic trauma processing, transformational group work, and facilitator training that honors depth, integrity, and real human connection
Our story
The Human Work Experience is a 5-day immersive retreat that will challenge you to grow, heal, and find your own sense of belonging. We’re not here to fix you. We’ve created a space that empowers you to lead your own growth journey - through connection, community, and somatic healing. This is a chance to reconnect with yourself and do the real, raw work of becoming more resilient, more regulated, and more fully you. You’ll connect deeply with your emotions. Limiting beliefs will shift and you’ll learn tools to navigate your life more effectively. And you’ll do it all with others, side by side - held in integrity, safety, and compassion. Because growth and healing don’t happen in isolation. And you were never meant to do this alone.
You’ll experience a variety of modalities designed to support your personal growth - shadow work, relational practices, emotional release and integration, physical embodiment, ceremony, breath work, vocal activations, and more. And although we’ll be diving deep, it won’t be heavy all the time. There’ll be space for joy, play, music, and expression. This is your chance to ignite a fire in your life and do the work that makes you more human.
Are you ready?
Meet Jack Villiers
Jack is a Father, Leadership Coach, Master Facilitator, TEDX Speaker and Ceremonialist. He focuses on enabling people to develop a deeper understanding of self so that they can heal past trauma, lead authentically and transform the way they relate to others.
Jack is a trained coach and master facilitator with over 12 years experience in the personal development and corporate spaces. Over the last decade he led leadership development, people and culture at some of the worlds fastest growing tech companies like Monzo, Just Eat and MoonPay. Prior to founding Human Work, he was a leader in the worlds largest mens work movement and worked with hundreds of men to support them stepping into healthy masculinity. Jack founded Human Work to bring men and women together to do deep healing and embodiment work. He is passionate about creating a culture that honours the remembrance of real human connection.
What We Believe
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Most trauma is relational - so it heals in relationship.
We don't believe in fixing yourself alone. Healing happens when you're witnessed, held, and supported by others who understand.
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Your body holds what your mind can't reach.
We work with somatic trauma processing - releasing what's stuck in your nervous system, not just talking about it.
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Depth and joy aren't opposites.
The deepest work happens alongside celebration, play, and real human connection. Healing doesn't have to be all heavy.
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This work requires integrity.
We train facilitators rigorously, hold high standards, and believe that quality matters more than quantity.
The Human Work Team
⨳ Facilitators
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Holiday Phillips
Co-Founder & Lead Facilitator
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
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Ashley Velvet Forst
Facilitator
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
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David Patrick Farrell
Facilitator
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
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Blaise Penny-Kirkwood
Facilitator
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
⨳ Musicians
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Lewis (Cheetahram)
Musicians
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
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Chantelle
Musicians
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
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Paz Shanti
Musicians
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
The Human Work Team
⨳ Facilitators
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Eleni
Chefs
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.
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Jesus
Chefs
Holiday is a mother, business consultant, organisational culture and leadership expert, coach, speaker.