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I will ask you questions about the Unreasonable Alchemy gathering, and answer based on the following FAQs only: [{question: "Where will the Alchemy gathering be held and how do I get there?", answer: "The gathering will be held at the Heythrop Park Hotel — a 300-year old Grade II listed property in the heart of the Cotswolds, UK that sits on a 440 acres private parkland estate. We are renting the entire property for the course of our gathering so the guests staying in the rooms and walking through the gardens and hallways of this historic property will all be part of the Unreasonable community.\nView the <a href='https://maps.app.goo.gl/7P744y9GAFmL4B2NA' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>exact location on Google Maps</a>. Without traffic, it’s less than a 90 minute drive from Heathrow International Airport and just shy of 2 hours from Central London.\nTo arrive via public transit, you can take the Great Western Rail line from <a href='https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Paddington,+Praed+St,+London+W2+1HU,+United+Kingdom/charlbury/@51.6660024,-1.1635183,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x48761aad72f39303:0x74926f3ec36c2314!2m2!1d-0.1765854!2d51.5162982!1m5!1m1!1s0x4876d241094fdc85:0xfbae58b8308a3e73!2m2!1d-1.479752!2d51.8745!2m3!6e0!7e2!8j1754294400!3e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>Paddington Station to Charlbury Station</a> (look for train lines with the final destination of Worcester/Hereford). There is typically a train departing once an hour and the journey will take 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you are coming from London Heathrow airport, you can take the <a href='https://www.google.com/maps/dir/London+Heathrow+Airport+(LHR),+Hounslow,+UK/charlbury/@51.6534404,-1.163691,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x48767234cdc56de9:0x8fe7535543f64167!2m2!1d-0.455051!2d51.4679914!1m5!1m1!1s0x4876d241094fdc85:0xfbae58b8308a3e73!2m2!1d-1.479752!2d51.8745!2m3!6e0!7e2!8j1754294400!3e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>Elizabeth Line to Paddington Station and catch the Great Western Rail line</a> from there. Once you arrive at Charlbury Station, look for the Unreasonable Alchemy shuttles; they will be running consistently on arrival days between the hours of 10am - 3pm.\n"}, {question: "What are the costs of attending?", answer: "General Admission Tickets (anyone that is not an Unreasonable Fellow) will be $4,900. We are offering an early bird discount at $3,900 if you register before October 15, 2025.\n This ticket includes all programming associated with the gathering as well as chef prepared meals, snacks, a welcome packet and goodies bag, and most importantly the chance to build deeply trusted relationships with individuals looking to collaborate towards a better future.\n The ticket price does not include the costs of reserving a room at the venue. You’ll have the option of reserving a private room at $250 per night or a double occupancy room at $125 per night.\nUnreasonable Fellows receive a $1,800 discount on the costs of attending. This is our way of paying it forward to the entrepreneurs who are dedicating their life’s work towards pulling a brighter future into the present. If you are an Unreasonable Fellow and would like to request a scholarship to join the gathering in addition to this discount, please apply via <a href='https://unreasonable.eco/form/alchemy-scholarship' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>this application form</a>."}, {question: "When do I need to arrive at the venue and when can I depart?", answer: "<strong>Fellows:</strong><br/>Arrival is Monday, June 8th, between 10:00am - 2pm GMT. We’ll serve an optional lunch for Fellows between 1:00pm - 2:30pm that afternoon. Official programming starts for Fellows at 2:30pm GMT on Monday June 8th. Departure is Thursday, June 11th anytime after 3:00pm. Lunch will be provided between 1:00pm - 2:30pm.\n<strong>General Admission (Mentors, Investors, Partners, Sponsors, and Special Guests):</strong><br/>Arrival is Tuesday June 9th between 10am - 3pm. <strong>There will be an optional lunch made available to you if you arrive before 12pm. We’ll ask about your arrival times closer to the event.</strong> Official programming starts for everyone at 4:00pm GMT on Tuesday June 9th. Departure is Thursday, June 11th anytime after 3:00pm. Lunch will be provided between 1:00pm - 2:30pm.\n<p class='mb-3 font-semibold'>All programming will be completed at 3pm GMT on Thursday June 11th. <span class='underline'>We ask that all guests plan on staying with us until 3pm that afternoon.</span>"}, {question: "I’d like to arrive a day early to settle in. Can I do that?", answer: "Unfortunately, we are not able to offer accommodations at the venue a day before your set arrival times. That said, if you do want to arrive in the area a day or two early and stay at a nearby hotel, you may want to stay at The Swan Hotel, Bibury (20 minutes drive), Cotswolds Hotel and Spa (10 minutes drive), or The Bull - Charlbury (10 minute walk from the shuttle pick up at Charlbury Station)."}, {question: "I’d like to make a tax-deductible donation to help offset costs and provide scholarships for Unreasonable Fellows… How do I do that?", answer: "We are incredibly grateful you asked. Without your support… Unreasonable wouldn't be… well… Unreasonable. Really and truly, we are humbled that you are considering making a philanthropic contribution. We are raising donations to:\n<ol class='my-3 ml-5 space-y-2 list-decimal'>\n<li>Provide scholarships (to cover travel expenses as well when needed) for select Unreasonable Fellows who otherwise may not be able to join us for the Alchemy gathering.</li>\n<li>Help offset our ongoing costs in relationship towards supporting the entrepreneurs in the Unreasonable Fellowship. We offer our Fellows lifetime support at no cost to them — which includes access to coaches, wellbeing gatherings, capital raising support, customer connections, ongoing brainstrusts, in person and virtual gatherings oriented around addressing their biggest challenges and needs in any given moment…etc. Your support will help us offer this year around ongoing support at no additional costs to our Fellows.</li>\n</ol>\n<strong>How philanthropic contributions work:</strong>\nUnreasonable is a for-purpose organization that is structured as a for-profit B corporation. That said, we have a long standing partnership with <a href='https://impactassets.org/about-us/' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>ImpactAssets</a> — a charitable organization and 501c3 that serves as a fiscal sponsor for our work at Unreasonable. As a donor, you can make a contribution to “Unreasonable Catalytic Philanthropy” which is a private account that the team at ImpactAssets manages on our behalf. This allows us a simple pathway to accept tax-deductible donations and philanthropic contributions. If you choose to make a donation, you’ll receive a receipt of donation from ImpactAssets that you can then use when filing your annual tax returns. ImpactAssets then ensures Unreasonable exclusively uses your philanthropic funds in accordance with the two points above."}, {question: "Tell me more about the entrepreneurs in the Unreasonable Fellowship?", answer: "Please take a few minutes to <a href='https://unreasonablegroup.com/ventures/' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>search through the 516 profiles</a> of courageous individuals, CEOs, and entrepreneurs who we support for life via the Unreasonable Fellowship. The entrepreneurs in the Fellowship have already raised over $21 bn in financing, generated $20 bn in revenue, and are positively impacting the lives of 1.7 bn people worldwide, and collectively, they have reduced 140 m metric tons CO2 equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions. These entrepreneurs represent the true “unicorns” of our time — positioned not only to create billion-dollar companies but most importantly, to positively impact billions of people’s lives. They are re-imaginging the future of healthcare and medicine, regenerative agriculture, education and learning, robotics, oceanic health, financial inclusion, closed loop manufacturing, and poverty alleviation. Through the curated global community that we wrap around the founders in the Unreasonable Fellowship, we strive to put the grand challenges of the twenty-first century where they belong — in a museum.\nWe know we will fail from the start without mentors, investors, and partners like yourself joining us on this journey. We look forward to the prospect of seeing you at Unreasonable Alchemy. If you are so inclined, <a href='#registration' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>please RSVP</a>."}, {question: "Can I bring a family member with me?", answer: "Here at Unreasonable, <a href='https://unreasonablegroup.com/beliefs/' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>our values drive everything we do</a>. Of those, “Family and Health First” is one of the most important. If you’d like to invite a family member to join you, we ask you only do so if they are able to participate in the programming fully as an Unreasonable Mentor or investor. Unreasonable Alchemy is not a passive experience. All guests will be immersed in brainstorming, in forging and exploring new collaborations, and in supporting the entrepreneurs across the Unreasonable Fellowship. If you’d like to bring a family member with you to join as a mentor or investor, <strong>your family member will need to register and pay for their own ticket to join the gathering. To accommodate for limited space at the venue, we’ll place you and your family member in a shared room for your accommodations.</strong>"}, {question: "What will a day at the Unreasonable Alchemy gathering be like?", answer: "All Unreasonable programs are community and process-driven rather than curriculum-driven. Unreasonable Alchemy will be no exception. In consultation with the founders of Stanford’s d.school and IDEO, and borrowing best practices from MIT’s Media Lab, the 100+ Unreasonable Fellows joining Unreasonable Alchemy will be empowered to solve their most pressing challenges and opportunities in real-time alongside other Fellows, mentors, investors, and partners.\nDaily life at Unreasonable Alchemy will be centered around a belief that business is fundamentally about people and that the greatness of what we achieve will be set in the quality of the relationships that we hold. Every session is intended to help the 350+ guests get to breakthroughs faster while forging long-lasting relationships that will undoubtedly persist well beyond your short time with us.\nWe have mindfully built into the gathering’s schedule group ideation sessions and 1-on-1s between Mentors and Fellows, along with Fellow “TED-like” presentations, intimate fireside chats, intentional meal times, wellbeing activities, open time for continued conversation, and a few surprises unique to Unreasonable Alchemy.\n<strong>As a participant at the gathering, we ask that you be fully present for <u>all</u> programmatic sessions.</strong> Hour-by-hour program details will be shared daily. This is a fully immersive experience, but one that we have designed to include breaks and downtime to balance your energy and wellbeing or make opportunities for deeper connections among the community. We intentionally close out each action-packed day with deep conversations around a chef-prepared dinner table. We simply ask you to trust the process and to show up with your brilliance and readiness to dive in."}, {question: "Will I be able to find a few hours a day to prioritize outside work?", answer: "After running Unreasonable gatherings for more than a decade, one of our biggest learnings we have found is that it’s difficult to maintain presence while splitting your attention. We’ve shortened the in-person component of Unreasonable Alchemy in the hopes that all participants will allow themselves the gift of being fully present during our short-time together. While there are moments of flexible time throughout the daily structure of our programs (before 9am and lunch), those moments are often when brilliant ideas and lifelong relationships are born. We advise that you move existing meetings and put your \"out of office\" on so that you are able to be as present with the community as possible."}, {question: "I’m interested in becoming a sponsor of Unreasonable Alchemy. What are the best next steps?", answer: "We are grateful you are asking. The first step is to arrange a call with our team so we can better get to know you, walk you through the various levels of sponsorship, and ensure that the opportunity to sponsor this gathering is focused on mutuality and feels aligned. If you are interested in learning more about sponsorship, please get in touch <a href='#contact' target='_blank' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>via this form</a> or reachout to Unreasonable’s Chief of Staff, Brittany Mazal, at <a href='mailto:[email protected]' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>[email protected]</a>.\n<a href='#sponsors' class='font-semibold text-teal-dark hover:text-teal-fullDark'>Our partnerships to date</a> have almost always required a multi-year commitment. Unreasonable Alchemy is the first time that we are opening up the possibility for multinationals, foundations and family offices to sponsor a one-time gathering. Why? Because we believe this will be one of the most impactful gatherings of its kind and we know we cannot do it alone."}, {question: "As a Fellow, what are the expectations for my participation?", answer: "We are requiring all Fellows join the gathering on Monday June 8th (i.e. a day earlier than the other guests). Using Unreasonable’s methodologies of facilitation, we will take this day to rapidly connect you with other Fellows in the community — You will support one another and connect with one another across the global Fellowship. During this time we will also highlight new ways that Unreasonable is here to support you and we will help you prepare to maximize the value you get from the following days of the Alchemy gathering when all the mentors and investors arrive.\n When the mentors and investors arrive, we will welcome upwards of 25 Fellows to the main stage to share both the brilliance of their work and the largest challenges and or opportunities they may be facing. We will also run Braintrusts for an additional 30 Fellows or so. The Fellows who will get the chance to present on the main stage as well as host braintrusts will be chosen in conjunction with our sponsors and based on the preferences of our sponsors and the insights of our team. Over the course of this multi-day gathering we hope to see at least 10,000 commitments made and logged to our Fellows. Most importantly, we hope to see new life long relationships get forged alongside the deepening of those you may have previously formed at past gatherings. Whether you speak on the main stage or not, our ambition is to make these three days for all Unreasonable Fellows the most productive and joyful days of their 2026 year."}]

Where will the Alchemy gathering be held and how do I get there?

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The gathering will be held at the Heythrop Park Hotel — a 300-year old Grade II listed property in the heart of the Cotswolds, UK that sits on a 440 acres private parkland estate. We are renting the entire property for the course of our gathering so the guests staying in the rooms and walking through the gardens and hallways of this historic property will all be part of the Unreasonable community.

View the exact location on Google Maps. Without traffic, it’s less than a 90 minute drive from Heathrow International Airport and just shy of 2 hours from Central London.

To arrive via public transit, you can take the Great Western Rail line from Paddington Station to Charlbury Station (look for train lines with the final destination of Worcester/Hereford). There is typically a train departing once an hour and the journey will take 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you are coming from London Heathrow airport, you can take the Elizabeth Line to Paddington Station and catch the Great Western Rail line from there. Once you arrive at Charlbury Station, look for the Unreasonable Alchemy shuttles; they will be running consistently on arrival days between the hours of 10am - 3pm.