Ever wanted to create your own retreat?
Well now you can! We are hosting a live BEGINNER 1 hour Workshop for therapists, coaches & wellness professionals.
May 20, 2026 at 9 am to 10 am PST
Learn how to plan, structure, price, and launch a transformational retreat even if you’re starting from scratch.
You’ve dreamed about hosting a retreat… A meaningful space where people can connect, heal, grow, and experience transformation.
But maybe you’ve been wondering:
WHERE DO I BEGIN?
Learn the Basics for your First Retreat! This is a live, beginner-friendly training designed to help you stop overthinking and finally start bringing your retreat vision to life.
This is something I’ve been quietly building for a while—shaped by years of leading retreats and countless conversations with people who feel the pull to create something meaningful of their own.
And what I see over and over again is this:
The vision is there…
But the path to bring it to life feels unclear.
We focus on the science of transformation, group dynamics, and the psychological principles that actually create meaningful, lasting impact for participants.
- What Sets This Workshop Apart
Most retreat trainings focus only on logistics, marketing, or aesthetics.
But truly transformational retreats require more than beautiful locations and itineraries.
This workshop takes a therapist-informed approach to retreat creation by combining:
transformational experience design,
emotional safety,
nervous system awareness,
intentional facilitation,
and practical retreat strategy.
As a therapist and experienced retreat facilitator, Arilda brings a unique perspective that helps aspiring retreat hosts learn not only how to plan a retreat — but how to create meaningful experiences people genuinely remember.
This workshop is designed to help you create retreats that are:
intentional, impactful, emotionally safe, professionally structured, and transformational.
Unlike many retreat trainings, this workshop is specifically designed for beginners and helping professionals who want a clear, approachable starting point without feeling overwhelmed.
And just as importantly, we focus on you as the leader.
Not just what you’re creating, but who you are becoming as a facilitator.
How to Lead
How to Hold Space
In this 1 Hour Event, You'll Learn How to Create a Retreat Concept People Actually Want
A few months from now, you could be hosting your own retreat
You do not need years of experience, a luxury brand, or a massive following to begin. You simply need a roadmap and the confidence to take the first step.
Meet Your Host, Arilda Surridge
Arilda Surridge is a therapist and facilitator passionate about creating emotionally safe, transformational experiences that foster healing, connection, and growth.
Through her work supporting individuals and groups, she recognized that many therapists, coaches, and helping professionals dream of hosting retreats but feel overwhelmed by where to begin. She created this workshop to simplify the process while helping aspiring retreat hosts learn how to create intentional, meaningful, and professionally structured experiences.
- transformational facilitation,
- nervous system awareness,
- ethical space-holding,
- and practical retreat strategy.
Retreat Creator Mastermind
This means you’ll be learning how to lead and hold space in a way that is:
Grounded in research
Backed by psychology
And rooted in real-world experience
So you’re not just hosting a retreat…
You’re creating an experience that truly transforms people.
This is a 6-hour immersive, high-touch virtual mastermind designed to help you move from retreat idea to launch-ready experience with personalized guidance, live coaching, and strategic support throughout the day.
Through a blend of teaching, collaborative discussion, and mastermind-style coaching, you’ll receive both the structure and personalized support needed to bring your retreat vision to life.
Together, we’ll work step-by-step to:
• Design your retreat experience
• Clarify your audience and transformation
• Create a pricing structure that feels aligned and sustainable
• Map out your retreat flow and facilitation approach
• Develop messaging that connects with the right people
• Build a simple strategy to fill your retreat
• Leave with a clear launch plan for 2027
Here’s how our 6 hours together will flow:
Part 1: Vision + Retreat Foundations
Clarify your retreat concept, ideal audience, and the transformation you’re here to guide people through. Through guided mastermind discussion and live coaching, you’ll begin refining your retreat vision in real time.
Part 2: The Science of Transformation
Learn the psychology and neuroscience behind meaningful retreat experiences—and how to intentionally design for lasting impact using evidence-based principles.
Part 3: Designing the Experience
Create the structure, flow, and session design for a retreat that feels intentional, supportive, and transformative. You’ll workshop your ideas and receive collaborative feedback and support.
Part 4: Leadership + Facilitation
Step into grounded leadership and explore evidence-based practices for holding safe, impactful spaces. Includes live coaching and facilitation guidance to strengthen your confidence as a retreat leader.
Part 5: Pricing + Positioning
Align your pricing with the value of your work while creating an offer that feels sustainable, clear, and aligned. We’ll refine offers together through mastermind-style strategy and feedback.
Part 6: Marketing, Enrollment + Launch Planning
Craft messaging that resonates, create a simple enrollment strategy, and map out your next steps toward launch so you leave with clarity, momentum, and a plan you can immediately implement.
Participants will earn up to 3 NBCC Continuing Education (CE) credits through the educational portions focused on neuroscience, psychology, facilitation, leadership, and evidence-based retreat design.
The remaining portions of the experience are dedicated to live coaching, mastermind collaboration, retreat development, strategy, and implementation support.
By the end of this experience, you won’t just have an idea—you’ll have a fully mapped-out retreat concept, a launch strategy, and the confidence to bring it to life.
And you won’t be doing this alone.
This is an intimate mastermind experience with personalized guidance, collaborative discussion, real-time feedback, and hands-on support throughout the day.
You’ll have space to workshop ideas, receive coaching, refine your retreat in real time, and learn alongside other clinicians and leaders who are building meaningful experiences of their own.
If creating a retreat has been on your heart for a while…
this may be the moment to finally move from dreaming about it to actually building it.
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No. This workshop is specifically designed for beginners.
Not at all. This training is ideal for coaches, healers, wellness professionals, facilitators, and anyone interested in creating transformational retreats.
Yes. Replay access will be available for a limited time.
Yes — we’ll discuss emotional safety, intentional facilitation, and creating meaningful experiences in addition to retreat logistics and planning.