Survival to Self to Soul
Life beyond recovering.
The Second Ascent
A 12 Week Online Community Group Program
Your next chapter begins here.
You've worked hard to change. You've faced things you once thought you couldn't, let go of old patterns, and found your way forward. But perhaps you still find yourself questioning what's next.
You want more than simply staying on track. You want to feel confident in who you are, stop letting your past influence your future, build meaningful connections, and feel excited about what life has yet to offer.
Perhaps you know you've grown, but you also know you're not finished growing.
This is where Second Ascent begins.
Second Ascent is an opportunity to move beyond the identity of your past, challenge the beliefs that hold you back, and discover what you're truly capable of becoming.
Through meaningful connection, shared experiences, psychological insight and personal growth, you'll build greater confidence, deepen your relationships, and develop the courage to embrace life with greater freedom and purpose.
You don't have to keep defining yourself by where you've been.
It's time to stop living within the limits of your past and start expanding into the possibilities of your future.
You've made it this far. Your next ascent awaits.
The Ranch Retreat
Survival Self Soul
Applications Now Open for June 11, 12 & 13, 2027
Three days in nature. A different way of meeting yourself. Sometimes we need to step away from the familiar to see the life we're living more clearly.
There is something about being in nature that brings us back to ourselves. Away from the noise, expectations and demands of everyday life, we have room to slow down, listen and question some of the ways we've learned to live.
We all develop ways to survive. We learn to protect ourselves, adapt, keep the peace, stay in control and become who we think we need to be. Some of these strategies help us through difficult times. Others become patterns that quietly limit who we believe we can be.
The Ranch experience is an opportunity to explore what happens when we begin to live beyond those patterns.
Over three days, we'll step into experiences that invite us to challenge the familiar, take healthy risks, connect with others and discover ourselves in new ways. Not simply by talking about change, but by practising it — in how we communicate, how we listen, how we respond, how we give and receive, and how we show up in the world.
SURVIVAL — Understanding the Wilderness Within
Explore the patterns, beliefs and survival strategies that have shaped your life. Understand what they once did for you and consider what you're ready to leave behind.
SELF — Stepping Out of the Shadows
Discover who you are beyond the roles, expectations and identities you've carried. Challenge your familiar limits, find your voice and experience what becomes possible when you allow yourself to show up differently.
SOUL — Clearing the Path to What Matters
Create space to listen beneath the noise. Reconnect with what feels true, what gives your life meaning and what you want your future to hold.
This isn't about escaping your life for three days. It's about returning to it with a fresh perspective, a deeper understanding of yourself and the freedom to make different choices.
Because the real transformation isn't what happens at the Ranch.
It's what you take home.
The conversations you approach differently. The boundaries you begin to honour. The fears you no longer allow to make your decisions. The relationships you nurture. And the life you begin to create when you're no longer living simply from what you learned to survive.
You don't have to become someone else.
You get to discover what life looks like when you can finally live as yourself.
How to Fail at Relationships
The Art of Falling Forward
The beautifully imperfect parts of being human.
We've all had relationships that didn't go according to plan. We've inherited stories, learned survival strategies, chased perfection, lost our voices and occasionally made an absolute mess of things.
And then what?
Written and performed by Dawn King, How to Fail at Relationships is an intimate, irreverent and thought-provoking live theatrical experience exploring life before, during and after failures.
Through original poetry, personal vignettes, spoken word, vocal theatre and songs performed live, Dawn takes audiences on an unexpected and contemporary journey through childhood, addiction, codependency, perfectionism, heartbreak, awakening and the courage to begin again.
There is tenderness. There is humour. There are uncomfortable truths, unexpected revelations and moments that might feel a little too familiar.
But above all, there is an invitation:
And to keep falling forward.
Because the goal isn't to get through life without failing. It's to keep learning how to live, love and relate more courageously.
Come laugh. Come reflect. Come recognize a little of yourself.
You might just leave with a different relationship to failure — and to yourself.
Written and lived by Dawn King.
"We do not have to be afraid of our emotional pain, fear, imperfections, dreams and desires -
we have to decide what to do with them"
TRANSFORMING TRAUMA into your BRAVE and BEAUTIFUL LIFE
ROOT RISE ROAR
Root, Rise, Roar: Transforming Trauma into Your Brave and Beautiful Life is a study that rests on Dawn’s professional and personal life. Rooted in behavioral psychology and lived experience it offers an approach to life and recovery providing powerful tools for emotional healing and long term recovery. Root, Rise, Roar represents a collaborative mix of her insights and those of her clients, documenting the varied processes by which survival becomes revival.
Raised in generational cycles of addiction, abuse and abandonment, Dawn weaves the stories and the solutions which recognizes and changes the crazy making and chaos. Dawn acknowledges both the legacy of family patterns and the power available to everyone to break them: While genetics and predispositions are undeniably inherited, Dawn remains and continues to guide thousands of clients into long term recovery. “The learned behaviours of our parents or caregivers and environments as children have a constructive and destructive effect on us. We can also change them."