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Announcement for a 4-day applied rationality retreat at CEEALAR in Blackpool, UK in April 2025, featuring CFAR-style workshops and participant-organized activities for 15 attendees at £120 including accommodation and meals. The event builds on previous successful iterations and is aimed at individuals seeking to apply rationality techniques to personal challenges.

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•4-day retreat hosted at CEEALAR in Blackpool, UK during April 2025, capacity limited to 15 attendees
•Features workshops based on Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) methods alongside participant-organized unconference sessions
•Cost is £120 per person, inclusive of accommodation and meals, with applications closing February 22nd, 2025
•Builds on previous successful iterations with high attendee satisfaction ratings
•Targeted at individuals interested in using rationality techniques to address personal challenges

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# Blackpool Applied Rationality Unconference 2025
By Henry Prowbell, emily.fan
Published: 2025-02-01
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**TL;DR Join us for 4 days of applied rationality workshops and activities at the EA Hotel this April. Apply **[**here**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddCaDZSM-oyw0KXId20BjA1_MSz6fxfrcHJjTrDoB7nx3mKw/viewform?usp=header) **by  22nd February.**

In April we’re hosting an intimate 4-day applied rationality unconference/retreat hosted at [CEEALAR](http://ceealar.org/) (aka the EA Hotel). Come along and make new friends while dedicating time to working through your life’s biggest challenges using [CFAR](https://rationality.org/) and CFAR-adjacent techniques. 

Previous years’ schedules have included fun rationalist-themed things like…

| * Hamming Circles * Paired Gendlin Focusing * Circling * Double Cruxing on the beach * Using Rationalist Role Models as Shoulder Advisors * Telos & Failures of Rationality * CFAR techniques tutoring wheel * Lightning Talks * Nature Walks | * Systemizing Mindset * Goal Factoring * Quests versus Goals * Building a Bulletproof Post-Retreat Implementation Plan * Is Rapid Psychological Growth Possible? * Debugging Your Trigger Action Plans * Shadow Work and Masks * Awareness & Embodiment * Meta-Strategic Brainstorming |
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Essential Information
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### **When: **Thursday evening to Sunday evening on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd week of April 2025 (vote for your preference on the application form)

### **Where:** [CEEALAR](http://ceealar.org/) in Blackpool, UK. 

### **Price:** £120 per person, which includes accommodation and food (but if cost is the only thing stopping you applying, let us know).

### **Who should join: **Anyone who is excited about using applied rationality to tackle problems in their lives and would enjoy spending a weekend with ~20 other similarly excited people. Prior knowledge of [CFAR](https://rationality.org/) techniques is helpful but not required.

### **Apply Here:** [Fill in this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddCaDZSM-oyw0KXId20BjA1_MSz6fxfrcHJjTrDoB7nx3mKw/viewform?usp=header) by 23:59 UTC+0 on 22nd February. The sooner the better as we will be accepting people on a rolling basis and space is limited to 15 attendees only.

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+++ **Give me some background about the retreat**

The Applied Rationality Unconference started in 2023 as a small unconference-style weekend retreat for [CFAR](https://rationality.org/) (Center for Applied Rationality) alumni. We had fun, talked a lot about CFAR-style applied rationality and helped each other make genuine progress on some of the most important bottlenecks in our lives. 100% of attendees rated the experience 8/10 or higher, and it was one of my favourite weekends of that year.

In November 2024 we ran a second retreat, this time opening

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