Western Australia · Est. 2026

A haus
in the grove.
A gathering
of women
who lead.

A private membership for high-achieving young women founders and CEOs — and a place to return to the self that exists before the title.

You are more than
what you carry.

Join a founding circle of women who refuse to choose between ambition and depth. Applications are reviewed personally.

Not a network.
Not a retreat.
Something older.

The grove was always the threshold — the place where the known self dissolves and something truer walks out the other side. Selva Haus borrows this from a long tradition and makes it contemporary, rigorous, and real.

We are a private membership, a curated retreat programme, and a platform for women who lead — and who know that leading well requires a deep interior life.

Based in Western Australia. Gathering in wild and beautiful places.

"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself within a dark forest where the straight way was lost."
Dante Alighieri · The Selva in Western Literature

What we believe

The convictions that determine who belongs here, what we make together, and how we treat the places we gather.

01

The wild interior

The inner landscape and the literal landscape are not separate. We return to both — karri forest, coastline, body, page — because the connection between them is where something real lives.

02

Radical softness

Power is not the opposite of tenderness. Selva Haus is where those things are set down — not abandoned, but rested. What rises in their place is worth protecting.

03

Editorial rigour

Everything here is chosen. The members, the artists, the venues, the conversations. There is a point of view, and it is uncompromising. This is not a marketplace.

Three ways to enter

All membership is by application. We are selective not out of exclusivity for its own sake, but because the quality of the room depends on it.

Selva

$2,400
per year
  • Private member platform and directory
  • Priority application to all retreats
  • Monthly digital gathering
  • Quarterly editorial dispatch
Apply

Founding

$7,200
one-time + $2,400/yr · 20 places only
  • All Selva Haus benefits
  • Name in the founding record
  • Input into inaugural retreat design
  • Direct founding circle access
Apply

The Grove

Five days in the southwest of Western Australia — karri forests, wild coast, long winter light. Ten to twelve women. One visiting artist. No phones in the studio.

We will make things with our hands and find out what we know when we stop pretending we already know everything.

Day 01
Arrive / Unroot
Sunset welcome, fire, a letter written to the self being left behind for the week
Day 02
The Body Knows
Forest walk, somatic session, first studio time — open medium, no outcome required
Day 03
The Making
Full day in studio with visiting artist. Evening: each woman reads aloud something that shaped her
Day 04
The Conversation
Morning studio, afternoon roundtable on leadership and cost, celebration dinner
Day 05
Carry It Out
Morning reflection — one thing made, one thing learned, one thing chosen

Southwest Western Australia · July 2026

Karri forest country. Ancient trees, wild coast, long light.

Duration5 days / 4 nights
Guests10–12 women
Investmentfrom $3,500
LocationMargaret River / Pemberton
IncludedAll meals, accommodation, materials
Apply for a place

You are more than
what you carry.

Join a founding circle of women who refuse to choose between ambition and depth. Applications are reviewed personally. We are not for everyone — and that is the point.