25 places. Held in English and Spanish. Accommodation booked separately.

WHEN

March 1 to 8, 2027

WHERE

San Marcos La Laguna, Lake Atitlán

FROM

$1,799 — October 1–31
$1,999 — from November 1
KC Practitioners: $1,599 / $1,799

FOR WHO

People who love cacao.
People who want to serve cacao.
Practitioners who want to deepen.

you are invited to the porch

Keith Wilson spent his life learning what cacao does when you meet it honestly. He met it in San Marcos, on the shore of Lake Atitlán, and that is where our cacao is still made, by the same families, in the same taller, by hand.

Homecoming is the one week a year we open that place to the people who drink it.

Nine days of ceremony, walking, listening, cooking, dancing, sitting with strangers who stop being strangers around day three. Most people arrive because they love the cacao. They leave knowing what to do with that love.

Our online course teaches you what to do. This is the only place we can teach you how it feels when you're doing it right.

Reserve Your Space
Samantha, in a white tank top, stands in prayer the cacao forest in Guatemala at Homecoming, holding a white ceramic mug filled with warm Keith's Ceremonial Grade cacao, while another person on the left holds a terracotta mug. You can see dry leaves and trees in the background.

FOR PRACTITIONERS

Most people serving ceremonial cacao learned it secondhand. A weekend somewhere, a course online, a teacher who learned from a teacher who learned from Keith. There's nothing wrong with that. But there's one place this started, and one week a year it's taught there.

Your clients can see where you trained. So can you.

  • Source Certification
  • The insignia, which isn't for sale to anyone
  • You'll know dose, timing, and how to keep a room safe
  • Want to become a practitioner? Add Power of Cacao and finish as a Keith's Cacao Practitioner
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YOU CAN ONLY DO THIS HERE

PLANT A CACAO TREE

PLANT A CACAO TREE

You'll plant a tree in the forest our cacao comes from. A whole day up in the plantations above Santiago with the people who look after them. Yours goes in the ground and stays there.

LEARN FROM THE SOURCE

LEARN FROM THE SOURCE

You'll learn it from the people Keith taught. Rick, Nicole and Carlos learned this from him directly, right here. There's no online version of this and there won't be.

HANDS ON CACAO MAKING

HANDS ON CACAO MAKING

You'll make cacao with the women who make ours. Your hands on the molcajete, and someone who's done it every day for fifteen years moving your wrist.

LEARN TO SERVE

LEARN TO SERVE

Dose, timing, how to open a room and how to keep it safe when someone goes deeper than they meant to. People can tell the difference.

ADVANCED CERTIFICATION

ADVANCED CERTIFICATION

You'll leave certified, from the source. An Advanced Certificate of Completion from Keith's Cacao, plus the insignia, which isn't for sale to anyone.

Keith Wilson, with his long white beard and glasses, stands on stone steps outside his famous porch in San Marcos, Lake Atitlán, holding a turquoise enamel pot filled with ceremonial cacao. He wears a tan hat, glasses, a beige graphic T-shirt that reads 'save the Earth it is the only planet with chocolate', and a black backpack.

keith is still teaching

Keith passed. His teachings did not. Every day of Homecoming includes Keith on film, teaching the way he always did — unhurried, direct, a little mischievous. He talks about where ceremony really comes from, and what it means to meet the cacao spirit rather than simply drink it. He leads the meditation he taught for years, the one so many of us still return to on our own. And he leaves you with the same three rules he gave anyone who wanted to hold space with cacao:

YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE. LET GO OF THE OUTCOME. NO SEXUAL ENERGY.

Simple lines. Years of practice behind them.

Reserve Your Place

RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW FOR JUST

$1,799

$1,599, IF YOU ARE A KEITH'S CACAO PRACTITIONER

PRICE GOES UP ON NOVEMBER 1

Seven days and seven nights. All programming, ceremonies, the forest, the workshop where our cacao is made, daily breakfast, 3 shared meals, and your certificate. Accommodation booked separately.

Reserve Your Place

Cancellations submitted in writing to info@keithscacao.com before December 31, 2026, will be refunded 100%, less a $100 per-ticket processing fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations made after this date.

what's included

• Seven full days and nights of programming, March 1 to 7

• Daily cacao ceremony

• Breakfast every morning at La Paz

• Three shared dinners including the closing celebration

• Dinner on the last night with the forty people who make our cacao

• The full day trip to the cacao forest, transport included

• The Keith's Cacao workshop experience and the San Juan factory visit

• Optional daily yoga and meditation

• Source Certification, and the insignia

• Translation between English and Spanish

What’s not included

• Accommodation. Not included, so you can choose where to stay. We'll send you a list of places we like, including Eco Hotel La Paz, where we gather each morning.

• Flights and ground transport to San Marcos

• Lunches and most dinners

• Travel insurance, which we require

• The Power of Cacao course add-on

THE PEOPLE AND THE PLACE

Person with a cacao pod in a natural setting

THE FOREST

The trees our cacao comes from. A full day there, and you leave a tree in the ground.

Three workers wearing hairnets and aprons pour thick cacao liquor from wooden spoons into small cups over a metal pot filled with ceremonial cacao liquor at Keith's Cacao workshop in San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala.

THE TALLER

The workshop where every bean is roasted, peeled and ground by hand.

Keith's Cacao tostadoras and one of their children standing together, wearing traditional clothing and carrying cacao beans on their heads that they will take home to lightly toast and hand-peel..

THE TOSTADORAS

The women who do that work. On the last night you eat with all forty of them.

SAN MARCOS

SAN MARCOS

A village on the water, reachable only by boat or a long road.

Avi in a striped hoodie and teal bandana drinking ceremonial cacao from a mug inside the Palapa, a thatched-roof outdoor setting, in La Paz during Keith's Cacao Homecoming with other people blurred in the background.

DAILY CEREMONY

A ceremonial dose most days, prepared properly, held by the people Keith taught.

Nicole and other Keith's Cacao Homecoming participants, standing in line, eyes closed, ready to eat their ceremonial cacao blissballs at Eagle's Nest, Guatemala

THE FAMILY

Twenty five people who stop being strangers around day three.

who comes to homecoming?

people who love cacao

You drink it most mornings. You've never held a ceremony for anyone and you may never want to. That's completely fine. Plenty of people come simply to be here.

people who WANT TO SERVE cacao

You want to lead ceremonies, or you've started and you want to stop guessing. You'll practice on real people, get honest feedback, and leave certified.

Cacao practitioners who want to deepen

Then the question isn't whether to train at the source. It's why you haven't yet.

what others have said

"This was not called Homecoming by accident. I immediately felt like I was coming home to a community of friends, family, and partnership. Arriving here felt so welcoming, invigorating, and exciting, but at the same time, it felt familiar and friendly, as though I’d been here my whole life and able to reunite with people I had never met."


Kortnee W.

"I always had a deep connection with Cacao, but after this Homecoming experience, I now feel at one with it, 100% connected to the Spirit of Cacao..."


Jenny T.

“This experience has been unique. I have had shifts I had not anticipated. It’s also an amazing group of people, participants and organisers. I have been to similar retreats before, and they were all fantastic, but this is really, really good! The sincerity from everybody has been incredible. And sincerity goes so deep and means so much.” 


Sarah C.

THE FLOW

This schedule is a gentle guide and may shift to honor the natural rhythm of the group.

DAY 1

Arrive, settle in, and open the week with the first ceremony and intentions in the iconic La Paz palapa. Buffet dinner as a family.

DAY 2

Make cacao together. Recorded message from Keith on where ceremony comes from. Learn about the science and nutrition in the afternoon.

DAY 3

Boat ride before sunrise to the Cacao Forest. Harvest, fermentation, drying. Ceremony in the forest and a delicious Guatemalan lunch.

DAY 4

Visit the Keith's Cacao workshop. Roasting, "metate", packing... the whole process! Then, on to the Magic Porch and Keith's three rules for holding space with cacao.

DAY 5

Cacao's spiritual benefits, inner work, and integration — group process. Afternoon at a modern chocolate factory in San Juan La Laguna.

DAY 6

Build an altar together. How to hold space, and the part nobody teaches: how to keep people safe.

day 7

Closing ceremony. Receive your Certificate. Then celebrate with dinner and dance at Eagle's Nest.

day 8

Departure day. Say goodbye to the Lake — unless you want to hang out a little longer!

MEET YOUR FACILITATORS

RICK WESSELS

RICK WESSELS

Rick is the CEO of Keith's Cacao. He met Keith in 2016, worked alongside him until his passing in 2024, and has been teaching from his work ever since — equal parts business mind and porch philosopher. At Homecoming, he opens the week, unpacks Keith's three rules at the Magic Porch, and holds the morning session on the business of cacao.

NICOLE GNUTZMAN

NICOLE GNUTZMAN

Nicole is a Cacao Medicine Practitioner, Shamanic Guide, and Reiki Master who has guided cacao ceremonies since 2014. She leads the guided conversations that run throughout the week, the participant introductions, and the group work where a circle of strangers starts to feel like one group.

CARLOS MARCUS

CARLOS MARCUS

Born in Mallorca on International Chocolate Day, Carlos spent years as a sound engineer on stages in London, and somehow ended up on Keith Wilson's porch in Guatemala instead. He leads the ceremony out in the cacao forest, where sound and ceremony meet — bring your own rhythm, he'll bring the rest.

NAN GERALDINA VALLADARES

NAN GERALDINA VALLADARES

Gera, is a Nan Ajq'ij (Mayan spiritual guide) and ceremonialist who has lived and worked as a healer by Lake Atitlán for over seven years. As Events Manager at Keith's Cacao, she leads sacred circles and designs retreats, guiding people toward self-understanding through cacao and ceremony.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I get to San Marcos?

Fly into Guatemala City (GUA). From there it's a shuttle or private transfer to Panajachel, then a 20 minute boat to San Marcos. About four hours from the airport. We send a full travel sheet when you book, with shuttle contacts we trust.

Where do I stay?

Accommodation isn't included, which keeps the ticket price down and lets you stay where you actually want to.


San Marcos has everything from simple rooms with cold showers to somewhere genuinely lovely. A few we like:

  • Lush Atitlán
  • Kula Maya
  • El Dragón
  • Posada del Bosque Encantado
  • Eco Hotel La Paz

La Paz is the most affordable and it's where we gather for breakfast every morning, so it's the easiest place to be.


One thing to check before you book. Make sure it says San Marcos La Laguna. Not San Pedro, not Tzununá. The villages look close together on a map and they are a long way apart by boat.

When should I arrive?

Between 9am and 2pm on March 3. Check in runs 11am to 3pm and we open the week that afternoon. Coming a day early is a good idea and lots of people do.

Do I need to be a practitioner to come?

No. Most people who come aren't. About a quarter of the room will be, and you'll learn from them.

Can I pay over time?

Yes. Choose Shop Pay at checkout and split it into four payments. Available for customers in the US, Canada and the UK.

Questions about Homecoming?

Feel free to reach out to our support team.

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