The Retreat

Re-invent Your Life and Career!

An intensive four and one half day retreat combining a rich group experience with individual attention to find a vision for your life and work.

Purpose

The Retreat’s focus is renewal. It is designed to help you gain a new perspective, uncover what gives your life purpose, unblock what gets you stuck, and create a clear, compelling vision for the future. Allowing yourself the time away to give complete attention to your career and life questions produces more clarity, action and results than months of individual counseling…and at less expense. The Retreat includes over 50 hours of professional coaching in small group meetings (a maximum of 6 to 12 participants), personal consultations, and an optional follow-up group session.

Who Should Attend

• If you really want to create a satisfying, meaningful life and career.
• If you learn best by taking yourself out of your day-to-day routine to thoroughly explore big questions like “Who am I” and “Where am I going?”
• If you feel like you are drifting or want to find a fresh vision for your life or work.
• If you are experiencing any major transition in your life, including career, relationship, family and/or personal issues.
• If you feel like you haven’t been reaching your potential.

You Will Learn…

• Our unique view of the change process and what you can expect at each phase.
• To define effective next steps for working with change instead of against it.
• Your sources of energy and what makes you come alive.
• To break old patterns and make new choices that fit you.
• To unify seemingly conflicting needs.
• To communicate your situation to friends, family and potential employers.
• To create an enthusiastic life/work vision for your future.

Retreat Outline

Each Retreat includes a core of activities similar to LifeWork Renewal, Passion Search, and Getting Unstuck. Adapted to the needs of the participants, these activities give structure to the learning process. Group sharing and support is a key element of The Retreat experience. In addition to the structured activities, there is time for individual reflection in a beautiful, natural setting.

Participants

Our participants come from a variety of professions. They encompass a broad range of ages. They are single, in committed relationships, engaged, married, separated or divorced. Often, participants are accompanied by their spouses or significant others who find that they get as much out of the Retreat as their partner! Here’s a comment from one spouse:

…the format for the workshop made it so I took a journey myself. The exercises we went through started me thinking about my own career and the use I make of my time. My own journey caused my husband surprises just as his journey surprised me. What was surprising was how much alike our feelings were. It has given us something to talk about and it has helped me understand where he is coming from.

Time Schedule

Each Retreat begins on the first day at 1:00 PM and runs until about 3:30 PM on the final day. The schedule for The Retreat includes full group and small coaching groups, as well as couple and individual time. There is some unstructured free time including opportunities for enjoying the outdoors and one-on-one consultations with one of the facilitators.

In general, the sessions begin after breakfast at 9:00 AM and continue until early afternoon when we break for lunch. There is some free time available after which we reorganize back into groups until dinner. We conclude the day with a 2-hour full group session lasting until about 9:30 PM.

Accomodations

The Seattle retreat is held at the Talaris World Campus Lodge on 18 peaceful acres of wooded grounds, landscaped lawns and wildlife ponds. The campus is in the Laurelhurst neighborhood northeast of the University of Washington. There is the popular Burke-Gilman bike trail nearby and a wildlife refuge within easy walking distance.

No Cost Consultation

Please contact us to set up a $35, 30-minute planning session with the facilitator to evaluate how The Retreat might meet your specific needs. If you decide to register for The Retreat, the $35 will be credited towards your tuition. 

Details

Tuition: $1350 (payment plans available)
Room and Board: $645 double occupancy ($820 for a single room)
Includes: Associate Membership and one-time group follow-up session.
Capacity: Up to 6 participants per facilitator (Up to 12 total)
Instructor: Centerpoint Core Faculty

Register

The Fine Print

Payment in full is preferred upon registering. Payment plans are always available and can be arranged through the Centerpoint Front Office or directly through the payment screen via the Register link above. We do not want finances to be an obstacle to attending for anyone who could benefit. Please contact us for more details.

Refund Policy

Please note that the Refund Policy for The Retreat is different from the Policy for other workshops. Your deposit is refundable (minus a $35 service fee) until 30 days prior to The Retreat. After this date, any balance paid is refundable only if we are able to fill your place from our waiting list or if you find a replacement. If we don’t reach the minimum number of participants by two weeks prior to The Retreat and have to cancel The Retreat, you can transfer your registration to the next Retreat or receive a full refund.