You know there's more to life.
So do we.

Sleepawake Immersive is a crash course in being human
Santa Cruz, February 21 - March 2
41% of attendees reported Sleepawake Camp
the single most transformative experience of their lives

You know there's more to life.
So do we.

Sleepawake Immersive is a crash course in being human
Santa Cruz, February 21 - March 2
41% of attendees reported Sleepawake Camp
the single most transformative experience of their lives

Find out what's possible

Real growth in real relationships.
Develop lifelong emotional skills through immersive, in-person experiences with peers.

"This was the most astounding experience of my life"

This was the most astounding experience of my life...I feel like a different person. I’m so much more confident and powerful. I feel capable of taking care of myself, being fully responsible for my emotions and energy, and having deep, fulfilling connections with others from a grounded place.

- Sleepawake Camper, 2023

What you'll learn

Sleepawake Immersive is a crash course in skills that are essential to fostering a sense of happiness and wellbeing -- not just on retreat, but for the rest of your life.

We'll cover relational skills like boundary setting, caretaking, and showing up authentically, because the quality of our relationships is foundational to our lifelong wellbeing. We'll explore our relationships to self expression and power. We'll uncover limiting beliefs and find a deeper understanding of what we really want. We'll dance, move, cry, sing, laugh, play -- we'll open up more deeply to what it feels like to be human.

Our methodology

We think that relational skills are best learned experientially, and are rarely addressed through meditation or 1:1 therapy alone. Although there will be concepts and tools to anchor to, this will be an immersion in feeling your power and learning how to come back into connection in moments of withdrawal, collapse, or resentment. This program is not designed to be a peak experience; it's designed to help you build lifelong skills and resilience.

To support this experiential model of learning, attendance to Sleepawake Immersive is capped to maintain a 5:1 attendee to facilitator ratio. Tuition also includes a series of integration calls after the retreat to support you in bringing these learnings into your life.

"Every one of your emotions is intelligent. Your body is sending a vast set of signals about your experience and what you want. Your superpower is learning how to read and respond to them."

- Cat Tweedie, CEO & Lead Facilitator

What past campers have to say



"I’ve never experienced such safety to feel all of what I am feeling."

"I have never felt so free in my humanness and self expression. Any way that I wanted to show up was perfect and accepted. I was so deeply met, seen and held in my pain. I cannot rave and thank the facilitators enough for the gift that they gave. My life is only enhanced and more rich after attending camp."

"This was the most astounding experience of my life. It’s the kind of thing where you measure your life as “Before Sleepawake” and “After Sleepawake”. Before Sleepawake, I spent my life running away from difficult emotions...After Sleepawake, I feel like a different person. I’m so much more confident and powerful. I feel capable of taking care of myself, being fully responsible for my emotions and energy, and having deep, fulfilling connections with others from a grounded place."

"Sleepawake was the most incredible gift I've ever received. Every day, I felt invited to embrace and love the full breadth and depth of my experience. With this invitation, I started a new relationship with many parts of myself."

"I will be harvesting the seeds that were planted and watered at Sleepawake for years to come...If you have the opportunity to go to this camp.....it's like winning the lottery!"

"I have never felt so encouraged, loved, and held through all of my messiness and most raw version of self."

"Sleepawake was the most incredible gift I've ever received. Every day, I felt invited to embrace and love the full breadth and depth of my experience. With this invitation, I started a new relationship with many parts of myself."

- Sleepawake camper, 2023

Sleepawake Immersive details

Sleepawake Immersive will be hosted near Santa Cruz, CA from February 21 - March 2, 2025.

Tuition for Sleepawake Immersive is $3,595 and includes:
- 9 full days packed with programming from the Sleepawake facilitation team
- A series of integration calls after the initial 9 days
- Accommodations for 9 nights in the middle of a serene redwood forest
- Professional catering for 3 meals per day

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41% of Sleepawake Campers reported it
the single most transformative experience
of their lives.

Meet the facilitators

Cat and Jeff have been exploring and experimenting with group process together since 2018 and are the lead facilitators of Sleepawake Camp. They will be joined by two other facilitators at Sleepawake Immersive.

Catherine Tweedie, PHD

Cofounder & Lead Facilitator, energetic teacher

Danjo Paluska

Problem solver, connector, holder of absolute wonder

Jeff Lieberman, MSx2

Cofounder & Lead Facilitator, emotional artist, physicist

Sarah Cruse

Musician, healer, and truth teller

Book a call to speak with Jeff & Cat.

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What's the application process like?

It's important to us that we make sure each person who comes to the program is a good fit -- meaning that they are set up well to be able to receive the gifts this program has to offer. Because of that, we do have an application process for this intensive. It consists of a few short answer questions, followed by a 30 minute interview. In total we expect the process to take under an hour, spread over a few weeks.

How can I request financial aid?

Send an email to us at info@sleepawake.camp and we'll take it from there.

How do you determine how much Sleepawake Immersive costs?

We work backwards to set tuition and food & accommodations pricing to reflect the actual cost that we are investing to make this program happen. Food & accommodations are a direct reflection of the cost of the venue and food alone. Tuition covers part of the costs of keeping Sleepawake's lights on for the months it takes us to run operations to make this event happen, as well as modest facilitator wages and a very small marketing budget (<5%).

What modality does Sleepawake use?

Sleepawake doesn't use a specific program, modality, or theory of practice. Instead, it uses many! The combined experience of our team allows us to embrace all sorts of practices and use them in tandem.

Some of our team's experience includes Byron Katie’s The Work, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetics, Integral Theory, as well as a deep appreciation of the evolution of consciousness and the sources of human suffering and joy.