The founding live experience

You do not need another plan for becoming better. You may need a place to hear yourself again.

The Weekend Project is a guided return to your body, breath, and inner life—created for people who are functioning, carrying, helping, and getting things done, but no longer feel fully present inside their own lives.

Live July 24–26, 2026 at 11:00 AM Eastern
Integration Days July 27–28
The Weekend Project guided journal cover

Founding options begin at $47. Live attendance is limited to 50 participants. VIP is limited to five.

Recognition

You may not call it survival mode. You may call it being responsible.

You keep up. You figure it out. You handle what needs to be handled.

But slowing down feels uncomfortable. Rest becomes another task. Silence gets filled. Your own needs are difficult to hear until they become impossible to ignore.

Nothing has to be “bad enough” for you to want a different relationship with your life.

This may be for you when…

  • You are always doing, but rarely feel finished.
  • You reach for your phone, food, work, or noise when things get quiet.
  • You can explain what everyone else needs but struggle to name what you need.
  • You feel guilty when you rest.
  • You are not falling apart, but do not feel fully here.

Not another workbook for your downloads folder.

The Weekend Project combines a beautifully designed guided journal, five private videos, reflective writing, body awareness, optional breathwork, tapping, visualization, gentle movement, and practical integration.

The five-day journey

A return you can carry into real life.

NoticePause long enough to recognize what is happening beneath the noise.
ReleaseExplore optional tapping, breath, gentle movement, and writing practices.
ReturnReconnect with the version of you beneath roles, pressure, adaptation, and performance.
AnchorPractice catching the moment before an automatic reaction.
ContinueBuild a realistic return plan for ordinary life.

What is included

Every tier

  • Complete digital journal and welcome video
  • Five guided days: Notice through Continue
  • Lifetime journal and video access
  • 30–40 minute daily structure
  • Optional, adaptable practices
  • Immediate access

Live and VIP

  • Three 90-minute live Google Meet sessions
  • Private Facebook community
  • Two guided integration days
  • Replays for 30 days
  • Community for 30 days after the event

VIP also includes

  • 75-minute small-group integration call
  • Support around your primary Reality Check pattern
  • Personal post-weekend integration plan
  • Priority questions; five seats only

Past client + participant reflections

The Spaces We Create, In Their Words

“The Write It Out practice with Brittany and Jess was cathartic. The gentle breathwork helped me connect with my heart and body before writing, and the words flowed more freely than I expected—along with a few tears. Afterward, I felt some of the heaviness shift, bringing a wave of peace and uplifting energy. It was such a supportive way to connect and release.”

Crystal B. — Write It Out participant

“With gentle grounding breathwork leading into journaling, I was able to uncover some deep truths. Those truths continued gently simmering after the experience, guiding me toward deeper self-love and support. This was after years of therapy and decades of personal-growth work. I thought I had already conquered self-love, yet I found myself making room for even more in an easy, natural way. Brittany and Jess created a sacred, safe space for discovery.”

Lisa R. — Write It Out participant

“I’ve done some serious work on myself lately, and it shows. I stopped biting my nails after doing it for 39 years, and I recently received a work-from-home general manager job offer with higher pay and quarterly bonuses. I truly cannot thank Brittany enough for helping me take those first steps—and for continuing to be there.”

Christina H. — Past coaching client

Testimonials reflect experiences with Brittany, Jess, or previous Project Collective offerings—not The Weekend Project specifically. Individual experiences and results vary.

Founding live schedule

Three days together. Two days to integrate.

  • Friday, July 24: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM ET / 10:00–11:30 AM CT
  • Saturday, July 25: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM ET / 10:00–11:30 AM CT
  • Sunday, July 26: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM ET / 10:00–11:30 AM CT
  • July 27–28: Anchor + Continue
  • VIP Sunday, August 2: 3:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM CT

Meet links are sent privately 24 hours before each session.

Choose your experience

The same grounded work, with the level of support that fits.

Choose the amount of support that feels right for you.

Self-Guided

$47

For privacy and flexibility. Journal, five guided videos, lifetime access, immediate start.

Future evergreen price: $67.

VIP

$247

For deeper integration and more personalized attention. Only five seats.

Future VIP price: $297.

Your facilitators

We do not teach transformation as a performance.

Brittany Smith, co-founder of The Project Collective

Brittany Smith

Brittany Smith is a co-founder of The Project Collective, a writer, speaker, and certified Rapid Transformational Therapy practitioner whose work helps people understand the patterns keeping them in survival mode and reconnect with the parts of themselves that pressure, responsibility, and constant doing have pushed aside.

Drawing from psychology, education, breathwork, somatic practices, meditation, and guided self-reflection, Brittany creates experiences where people can slow down, listen inward, and move toward meaningful change without shame, pressure, or the belief that they must become someone entirely new.

Her work is rooted in a simple belief: transformation does not come from forcing, fixing, or performing. It becomes possible when people feel supported enough to tell the truth, notice what their bodies and lives have been communicating, and begin choosing from awareness rather than survival.

Jess Dawson, co-founder of The Project Collective

Jess Dawson

Jess Dawson is a co-founder of The Project Collective and the creator behind Apparently Yourself coaching and communities built on helping women reconnect with themselves through simple, sustainable change.

Over the years, she has guided women through coaching, workshops, retreats, and transformational experiences designed to create space for honest reflection, lasting growth, and meaningful change. What began as a passion for healthier habits evolved into a deeper mission: helping women understand why they think, feel, and respond the way they do.

Through her own journey of rebuilding, healing, and starting over, Jess discovered that many of the patterns women struggle with are not signs of weakness—they are signs of adaptation. The ways we protect ourselves often become the very things that keep us feeling stuck.

Today, her work centers on helping women make sense of their experiences with compassion instead of criticism, stop living on autopilot, reconnect with themselves, and discover that healing does not begin with becoming someone new. It begins with understanding who they have been all along.

Choice stays with you.

Every breath, movement, tapping sequence, visualization, writing invitation, and sharing opportunity is optional. You may keep your eyes open, change the language, pause, skip, step away, return later, or share nothing publicly.

Questions

A few things you may want to know.

Do I need to be good at journaling?

No. Honest fragments count.

Will I have to share?

No. Sharing is always optional.

What if I cannot attend live?

You retain lifetime journal and video access; available replays remain for 30 days.

Is this therapy?

No. It is educational and personal-development focused.

What is the refund policy?

Digital materials are delivered immediately, so all sales are final except where law requires otherwise.

Is there an age requirement?

Yes. The experience is for adults 18 and older.

Brittany Smith and Jess Dawson together at their first retreat in Sedona

Why we created this

A different kind of personal-growth experience.

“We created The Weekend Project because people do not need more pressure disguised as personal growth. They need honest space, thoughtful guidance, and practices they can actually use in real life.”

The work is structured, but never rigid. Guided, but never controlling. Reflective, but never demanding.

You can keep pushing. But you are allowed to choose something different before life forces the pause.