A group of teenage boys sit around a room, guided through a breathwork and mediation session, followed by an ice bath plunge.
It's not a fancy wellness retreat, rather, a not-for-profit charity built to help disengaged youths get back on track.
Steve*, 19, is part of the cohort, currently halfway through a 10-week program.
He said he grew up in care, but by the time he reached his teenage years, he fell into the wrong crowds, doing the wrong things.
"I know to leave that life behind, there's nothing there," he said.
Steve has spent time behind bars and has completed other diversionary programs, which he said differed vastly from the wellness approach at Everything Suarve.
"Here, they treat us more like family than students who are here to learn, accepting us into their warm hearts and their arms, telling us everything's going to be alright, we're going to get through it," he said.
"The motivation they give us, the support, is crazy through the roof."
Everything Suarve wellbeing program
Joe Tepuni-Fromont started Everything Suarve three years ago and has guided more than 120 boys through the program in that time.
It has a strong focus on personal wellbeing, and all participants complete the program with a trade certificate.
"Most of these kids walk around like a shaken-up Coke bottle so as soon as that lid is taken off, they could explode," Mr Tepuni-Fromont said.
"We teach them to slowly release that lid, if that's a good way to explain it, by expressing themselves."
Mr Tepuni-Fromont said he overcame his own troubles as a teen with the help of strong role models, and aimed to do the same for the boys in his program.
"Some of these kids don't have families, they come from child safety," he said.
"We've taught them to be proud of where you come from and who you are. More importantly, we teach them to make conscious choices."
Mr Tepuni-Fromont said improving mental health was the starting point to dealing with youth crime.
"I've seen so many loopholes in the system and young people falling through the cracks," he said.
"You cannot expect to lock up a young person and think that they're going to come out and be someone different. They meet new friends, they learn how to network, they learn new skills.
"Don't get me wrong, some young people need to be locked up.
"[But] kids need to deal with the complexities of mental health, what's happening at home, if they have a home."
Ice bath to trigger fight or flight
Marcus Gaffney works in commercial property, but volunteers at the program, where he learns as much from the boys as he teaches them.
"I'm in that part of the world which is very insulated from some of the troubles that are going on so to get involved, I'm learning about what's actually going on," he said.
"They can teach, by the way they're getting through their troubles."
Mr Gaffney said he had seen significant changes in the boys, just halfway through the course.
"On that first day, you have boys walking in, looking towards the ground, not wanting to give any eye contact, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, unsure of themselves," he said.
"Now they walk in, there's eye contact, there's a smile. Confidence levels have just gone through the roof."
Part of the wellness journey includes ice baths.
Mr Gaffney said the baths equipped the boys with skills they could transfer to real-life situations.
"The ice bath is all about the fight and flight … to experience something that is a shocking experience, that is getting into the ice bath," he said.
"To sit in that and learn to control their response … so they can transport that skill they pick up in the ice, out into society."
'Meaningful, supportive members of our community'
Gold Coast superintendent Rhys Wildman has worked directly with Everything Suarve.
"Many of these young people come from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds, personal circumstances any one of us would find challenging," he said.
"Yet through all of that, they can turn their lives and become really meaningful, supportive members of our community."
Superintendent Wildman said giving participants an opportunity to complete a certificate in a trade set this program apart from the rest.
"These youth go through the program and learn all about respect, and that includes self-respect and respect for others," he said.
"But at the end of it, they actually come out with a certificate in a particular trade and generally they come out with an apprenticeship or a job."
Superintendent Wildman said "there are definitely certain offenders where incarceration is going to be an outcome", a "one-size-fits-all" approach wasn't effective.
*Name has been changed or withheld for legal reasons.
