Strength
Useful physical capacityLift, carry, climb, condition and recover. Strength is trained as a responsibility, not an aesthetic.
Bali founding experience · 25–30 January 2027 · Provisional
You built the career.Are you prepared everywhere else?
Five nights built around strength, skill, standards, brotherhood, self-command and sovereignty. Founded and hosted by Spencer Tarring.
25–30 Jan 20275 nights16 founding placesUS$10,000
The standard
Get capable.
Hold the standard.
STANDFAST is for men who can execute in business but know they have become underprepared somewhere else.
This is not a spa retreat, a boot camp or a motivational conference. It is a professionally run environment where men train, work under pressure, recover well, speak honestly and leave with a practical operating standard.
Six pillars. One operating standard.
Built to travel home with you.Skill
Calm under pressureMartial arts, awareness, first response and team problem-solving, taught by qualified specialists.
Standards
Rules you can seeAudit where your actions no longer match what you claim to value, then define the standard you will hold.
Brotherhood
Trust built through workTrain and solve problems beside men who have seen you perform when comfort is removed.
Self-command
Control before influenceDirect your attention, emotion, appetite and action through a clear 90-day personal protocol.
Sovereignty
Position yourself globallyOwn your direction and explore how international living, business structures, intelligent banking, tax awareness and capital positioning can create more options for your future and legacy.
Skill under pressure
Qualified instruction. Controlled intensity. Useful capability.
The founding experience
Six days with nowhere to hide from the work.
Every demanding block is followed by recovery, instruction and debrief. Pressure has a purpose, and the standard is never confused with humiliation.
Baseline
Readiness, movement screen, kit issue and team allocation.
Strength
Heavy training, carries, conditioning and personal standards.
Skill
Martial arts, awareness, first response and decision-making.
The ascent
Predawn Batur movement, team tasks, recovery and debrief.
Sovereignty
Global positioning, business ideas, tax awareness, international life, legacy and deliberate life design.
The trial
A combined physical test, commitments and closing dinner.
PererenanBali / Indonesia
The main host venue
The week has a home.
STANDFAST Bali will be anchored at Zeno Arete, Spencer's private villa in Pererenan.
The cohort returns here for training blocks, meals, recovery, founder sessions and the conversations that continue after the formal work ends.
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Final accommodation will be arranged around the confirmed cohort, with Zeno Arete remaining the central base.
Explore Zeno Arete03:40 / Mount Batur
The ascent is not the point. How you move together is.
Predawn movement, weighted team tasks and a shared objective expose communication, patience and leadership faster than another conversation in a conference room.
Founding cohort kit
Heavyweight STANDFAST gear for field work, training blocks and the ascent.
Brotherhood
Not networking. Shared evidence.
The table matters because of what happened before it. You have trained, carried, listened and solved problems beside the men sitting there.
Created, founded and hosted by
Spencer Tarring
A British founder, operator and author with more than 25 years building companies across the UK, China, the UAE and Indonesia.
Spencer founded Dedipower from university and built it into one of the UK's early managed-hosting and colocation businesses before a £23M exit. He later founded and exited Engagetech, then moved to Shanghai for a decade as Music Director of M1NT while building PYRO Music to more than 100,000 monthly users.
Today he chairs SIXA Group from Dubai, spanning applied AI, event technology, hospitality and property, and is the author of The Dominus Code. He has been sober since 2020 and treats strength, fasting and recovery as the infrastructure behind everything else he builds.
STANDFAST is Spencer's event: the result of building a life across countries, rebuilding himself without alcohol and deliberately pursuing the physical and mental skills that make a man more capable. Spencer leads the experience; appointed coaches carry technical authority in their specialist disciplines.
Follow Spencer on InstagramThe founder and field team
Technical authority where it matters.
STANDFAST is created and led by Spencer Tarring.
Nico joins as founding partner and field lead. The remaining profiles show the kind of specialists Spencer intends to appoint. Names, credentials and final responsibilities will be published before an accepted applicant pays a deposit.
Confirmed
Creator, Founder & HostSpencer Tarring
Owns the vision, selects the cohort, hosts the experience and leads standards, self-command and sovereignty.
Confirmed
Founding Partner & Field LeadNico
Supports Spencer in building the field programme, bringing an Army background, hard training and direct team leadership.
Proposed profile
Jiu-jitsu & ComposureDefensive Skills Coach
The brief: a proven jiu-jitsu coach who can teach controlled grappling, practical movement and calm decision-making to mixed experience levels.
Proposed profile
Strength & ConditioningPerformance Coach
The brief: a serious performance coach responsible for lifting, loaded movement, conditioning, readiness and intelligent scaling.
Proposed profile
Fuel & RecoveryNutrition Coach
The brief: a practical nutrition coach who can connect food, hydration and recovery to performance without turning the week into a lecture.
Proposed profile
Reflection & IntegrationMindset Facilitator
The brief: an experienced facilitator for honest reflection, difficult conversations and a credible 90-day plan that survives the flight home.
Next stage
The experience ends. The protocol continues.
STANDFAST Protocol prepares the cohort before Bali, runs the daily brief during the experience and holds each man to his chosen non-negotiables for the next 90 days.
- 30-day readiness preparation
- Live schedule, meeting points and kit requirements
- Private notes, readiness and food logging with AI review
- WhatsApp reminders with a clear human handover
- 90-day self-command protocol
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Today, hold the line.
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Future expedition concept · Norway
The same standard. A colder world.
A future Norway edition would take the six pillars into sub-zero wilderness: cold-weather movement, fire and shelter, navigation, emergency response, field nutrition and leadership when comfort disappears.
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Men who join early will help shape where the STANDFAST standard goes next.
Join the founding cohortConcept only. Location, season, team and dates are not confirmed.Bali founding cohort · Provisional 25–30 January 2027
Ready is a decision before it becomes a feeling.
Applications are private. Tell us where you are, what needs work and why this matters now. If the fit is right, the next step is a short conversation.
16 founding places5 nights in Bali$10k all-inclusive programmeJan 27 provisional dates