Love · Happiness · Freedom

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02The Concept

The world's hardest problems get solved from the inside out.

Burnout, disconnection, lost purpose, broken leadership. We work where they actually start: inside the people living through them. Ancient wisdom, modern psychology, somatic practice, and leadership development, woven together so you can come back to who you are and lead from there.

Love Happiness Freedom Foundation · Est. 2023 · Cape Town

The Foundation. The Retreat. The App. The Platform. Four parts of one body of work.

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Ceremonies per retreat
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Days at the villa
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Pillars in the curriculum
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Guests per cohort
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Love

Reconnection to self, to others, and to the natural world. The starting point of every other pillar.

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Happiness

Sustainable wellbeing rooted in presence, not performance. Built through practice, not pursued as outcome.

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Freedom

Liberation from the patterns, fears, and conditioning that keep people stuck. The work, and the result of the work.

04The Villa

Our Camps Bay, Cape Town retreats

A private villa set against the Twelve Apostles, opening onto the ocean. Mountain views, communal spaces, private rooms, outdoor decks. The villa itself is part of the medicine.

Camps Bay · Twelve Apostles · Atlantic seaboard Cape Town established · Mozambique in development
Pillar 01 / The Environment

Conservation as love for humanity.

The environment and conservation are vital to the survival of our planet and every living creature on it. Love and respect for nature go hand in hand with love for humanity. By protecting the environment, we fight for human rights and a better world for all.

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01 / 03 Marine conservation · Mozambican coast
Pillar 02 / The School

A school built around the spirit of the work.

The Foundation's school carries the work into the next generation. A campus the children walk through every day, anchored by a centerpiece sculpture and the Love Happiness Freedom mural. The seven pillars taught not as a curriculum on a wall, but as a living environment.

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02 / 03 The campus · Mozambique
The Love Happiness Freedom school: rainbow-painted fountain sculpture with the Foundation mural and wordmark behind it, daylight.
The campus, by day Centerpiece sculpture · Foundation wordmark · the mural in the background
A built environment

Every detail teaches.

The fountain is the first thing the children walk past. A painted figure in the Foundation's seven colours, hands in prayer, water falling. The mural that started everything sits on the wall behind. Love, Happiness, and Freedom written above it in colour.

The architecture of the school carries the message before anyone says it. The work the children do inside the classrooms is shaped by the world they walk through to get there.

The 322 & Rainbow Concept

The digits of 322 sum to seven. Seven is the spiritual number of growth, of completion, of arrival. Our mission is to spread this message within seven years. The rainbow stands for diversity, inclusivity, and the shared sky we all live under.

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Year of the mission
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Continents active
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HQs · Cape Town & Maputo
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Year mission
06The Programs

Programs that move people

Four active program lines across schools, corporates, and community. Each is built to be adopted, not just attended. Every program is bookended by the My Purpose pre and post curriculum.

08The App

A companion in your pocket

Most retreats fade within weeks. People come home, the calendar swallows them, the work slips. We built the app so it doesn't. A private, beautifully designed home for the practice, the curriculum, daily check-ins, and the cohort, every day after you leave the villa.

Calm. Warm. Sacred. Built to be used daily, not just opened once.

iOS Android Members only

LHFF App · Home screen

Home
Course
Calendar
Practice
Journal
09What's Next

The Foundation is the heart. The retreat is the doorway. The platform is the future.

Version one was built for our retreat guests. Version two opens the work to the wider world. A public wellbeing platform, more retreat formats, a trained facilitator network, corporate programmes, scholarship places for people who could not otherwise access the work, and a long-term home for everyone who has walked through it. The same practice, scaled.

A new frontier

We are leaning into artificial intelligence as the next chapter of the work.

NAVID is live. EduAI is in build. The Foundation, with Divergence, is using AI to scale practice, teach the teachers, and reach the people we could not reach otherwise. Not as a replacement for the work. As a way to widen the door.

09Built for the Foundation

Innovation in service of mission.

The key parts of what the Foundation is building. Physical locations, digital products, and the partner that ships everything alongside us.

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NAVID

Artificial Intelligence · Live

A custom AI companion trained on the Foundation's curriculum and years of retreat work. Public, member, and practitioner tiers with full continuity. The Foundation's voice, available around the clock.

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LHFF App

Mobile · iOS & Android

A native iOS and Android app for members and retreat graduates. Daily practice, curriculum library, NAVID, cohort messaging. Built so the work continues every day after the retreat ends.

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EduAI

In development · Education

A platform we are building to empower young African teachers through AI. The idea is simple: train the teacher, the teacher trains the kids. Many of the libraries and schools we work with are running on outdated information, with limited connectivity. EduAI brings modern teaching tools, AI-assisted lesson planning, and Starlink-powered Wi-Fi into the same package.

Still early. Pilots planned with partner schools across Mozambique and South Africa.

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The Villa

Physical · Camps Bay, Cape Town

The Foundation's established retreat home. A private villa set against the Twelve Apostles, opening onto the ocean. Communal spaces, private rooms, outdoor decks, and a fully briefed environment so guests can drop in without friction.

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Studio One

Physical · Cape Town

The Foundation's working creative studio. Cyc, professional lighting, lounge, and an edit suite. Open to retreat alumni, models, podcasters, filmmakers, and the Creative Studios programme.

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Divergence

Strategic Partner · AI agency

A cutting-edge agency building artificial intelligence for marketing. Smart agents, bots, AI-native apps and platforms. The Foundation's equal partner on every digital product it ships.

10The Strategic Partnership

Built with Divergence.

Divergence is a cutting-edge agency building artificial intelligence for marketing. Smart agents, conversational bots, AI-native apps, websites, and platforms. Agency work, made different by the systems we use to ship it.

The Foundation runs as an equal partnership with Divergence. NAVID, the app, this website, and everything else digital are designed, built, and operated together in Cape Town. Not outsourced. Not templated. Built in the same room.

11Studio One

Facilities to empower young creatives

Studio One is the Foundation's working space for young creators, photographers, filmmakers, podcasters, models, and the brand work that comes out of the retreats. A real production studio with cyc, lighting, lounge, and the equipment to make work that travels.

Cyc · Profoto & Godox lighting · Lounge · Edit suite Open to retreat alumni, models, and the Creative Studios programme
12The Fashion Perspective

When we say fashion, we mean culture.

Not clothes. A whole culture that shapes how young people see themselves and the world they inherit. The Foundation uses fashion as a tool, never as a product. The shoots happen at Studio One. The story carries through the retreats, the curriculum, and the platform.

Foundation editorial Patchwork series

Fashion, the way we mean it.

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A tool, not a product.

We use fashion to shape culture, not to sell it. The shoots, the styling, and the editorial all serve the mission. Revenue is not the metric.

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Models as collaborators.

We work alongside young models from a human rights perspective. Fashion as education, culture, and work. Never exploitation. Protections in writing.

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Made at Studio One.

Every shoot, film, and editorial is produced in-house at the Foundation's Cape Town studio. Same team, same standards, same care, every time.

In his own words

We are not using fashion to sell things. We are using it to move things. Starting with how young women see themselves.

Cheney Founder & CEO · Love Happiness Freedom Foundation

Things we keep coming back to

Some of the conversations the Foundation cares about. Questions we want more people sitting with, ideas we think deserve more attention, and the parts of the world we keep returning to.

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Food, sovereignty, and the school garden as civic infrastructure

Sustainability
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What a healthier alternative to social credit could look like

Social systems
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Legal dignity for young women working in fashion

Advocacy
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Regenerative medicine and what it could mean for southern Africa

Science
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10Step in

Four ways to join the mission