Properties across 30+ countries worldwide
The path to what
comes after work.
AI will displace 300 million knowledge workers within a decade. Governments will respond with UBI. But no policy can answer the question that follows: who are you when work no longer defines you? Away is the global infrastructure for that answer — land, silence, community, and the deepest human wisdom traditions, across 30+ countries.
This is happening to everyone
Work as we know it is ending.
What replaces it is up to us.
This is not about individual burnout. It is about a civilisational shift. AI is making knowledge work obsolete faster than any government can retrain for it. UBI will keep people fed and housed. But it will not answer the question that every displaced professional — in every country, every industry, every culture — will eventually face: if I am not what I do, then who am I?
Away exists because that question deserves a real answer — not a motivational poster, not a webinar, not a government form. A real answer, found through physical work on real land, held in the silence and spiritual traditions that human beings have used for thousands of years to navigate exactly this kind of threshold. Available in 30+ countries. For every faith. For no faith. For anyone ready to discover what comes next.
"When work no longer defines you, there is Away."
Get Away
Simple. Low-friction. Real.
How Away works
No farming experience needed. No pressure to commit to anything after.
Featured Properties
Working land across the world — right now.
There is Away
Where are you, and what calls to you?
Tell us where you're based, then tap what feels interesting. We'll match you with working stays nearby — no farming experience needed, just curiosity.
Worldwide
A global programme for a global transition
The next stage of humanity
needs somewhere to begin.
Every civilisation is defined by how it handles its great transitions. The shift from agricultural to industrial. From industrial to knowledge. And now — from knowledge work to whatever comes after. The people going through this transition are not failures. They are the first generation to face a question that will eventually touch everyone: what does a meaningful life look like when work is no longer required?
Away is where that question gets a real, embodied, evidence-based answer. On working land, in genuine silence, guided by the spiritual traditions of every culture on Earth. In 30+ countries. For everyone.
"When work no longer defines you, there is Away."
The Away Programme
Start with a stay.
See what opens up.
The Working Stay is the easiest first step. The Deeper Programme is simply there if you want to continue — it's never where you need to start.
A premium immersive experience. Stay on a working property, eat well, sleep well, and spend your days working alongside practitioners in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
- Premium accommodation, meals and guided exposure included
- Real properties, real practitioners, small considered groups
- Designed to feel restorative, not demanding
- No farming experience needed — just curiosity
- No pressure to commit to anything after
For participants who complete the Working Stay and want to go further. Extended placements across our national network — matched to your region, your interests and your goals.
- Extended placements matched to your region and interests
- Mentorship from people already living this life
- A personal pathway framework — at your pace
- Connections to employment and land opportunities
- Fundable by employers, government programmes or yourself
What You'll Do
Three disciplines.
All rooted in land.
Each discipline is led by a practitioner who has chosen this life deliberately. You work alongside them — not as a tourist, but as someone genuinely trying something.
Away Newgrounds — New
Humanity has always
known how to do this.
Every civilisation, every faith, every indigenous tradition has practices for navigating the great thresholds of human life. Silence. Ceremony. Land. Community. Guided reflection. These are not new — they are the oldest technologies we have. Away Newgrounds brings them together across every spiritual tradition on Earth — nine doorways for the soul work that the coming transition demands.
Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Indigenous, secular, or none. Every path is honoured. Every path leads to the same ground.
vs +41% working stays
in life understanding
full arc vs status quo
Away Signal Intelligence
Away knows when you need it
before you do.
Away's biometric wellbeing engine monitors the signals that predict burnout — HRV, sleep quality, calendar density, resting pulse and daily mood — and interprets them using AI to recommend the right intervention at the right time.
Most people wait until they're exhausted to take a break. Away's signal engine identifies the inflection point earlier — and when your burnout propensity crosses a threshold, it surfaces a matched working stay proactively.
For Employers
Your people deserve more than a standard redundancy package.
Companies deploying AI-driven restructuring face real pressure to support departing staff in ways that matter. Away is a genuine alternative to conventional outplacement — more human, more memorable, and increasingly requested by employees directly.
per property per year
small by design
Relevant for AI disruption, redundancy support, burnout recovery and leadership reset pathways. When change needs care, there is Away.
From Past Participants
What it actually feels like.
"I'd been in financial services for eighteen years. I thought I needed another course. What I actually needed was a week with my hands in the soil. Away gave me that — and something shifted that no webinar ever could."
"My company offered this as part of my redundancy package. I went in sceptical. By day three I knew I was done with the office. By month six I was working on a regenerative farm. I'm not exaggerating."
"I went for the career guidance. I stayed for what happened to me in the silence. Three days with no phone, no email, no noise — and something I'd been carrying for years finally had space to surface and resolve. The career clarity came after. The spiritual shift came first."
Common questions
Things people wonder before they go Away.
2,000+ properties · every state & territory
The transition is inevitable.
How you meet it is not.
You can wait for the displacement to reach you, or you can step onto land and discover who you are beyond what you do for a living. Away operates in 30+ countries, across every spiritual tradition and none, for the people who are ready to meet the next stage of human life with dignity, purpose, and their hands in the soil.
There is Away.
Or reach us at hello@away.earth · No pressure. No obligation.