Women’s Further Becoming Retreat

 If you’re a woman over 50 facing the wilderness of your “what now?”

this Retreat is for you!

Explore what you’re done with.

Create new possibilities.

Tap the group’s feedback and Sue’s coaching.

 Join a tribe of like-minded women as you move into the “next now” of your life.

Artfully designed for Zoom.
Thoughtfully paced thoughtfully over 9 days.
Minimum 4, maximum 6 women.
 Next date to be shaped by waitlisted women!

 

Fall is about letting the old die away and “letting come” what is newly emerging.

The stir in the air at this time of year is especially reflective of the stir we often feel in our lives. 

Especially where I live in Colorado, things stop blooming, the temperature shifts, and entirely different colors emerge. I feel invited to not just forge ahead with life as usual, but to refresh the life I’m living.

The forced pause of the pandemic in 2020 introduced unexpected changes. More time with ourselves. Closer to home. The cancellation or pivoting of plans. Some women have had to change retirement timetables, others the launch of businesses. Some expected their high school graduates to be off to college and now find them still at home. Travel and gatherings, speeches to be given, books to be launched ~ all of these things have shifted.

Many of us have been liberated to think more deeply about what we want as a result of the pandemic. Who we are. Who we want to be. What the WORK is that we want to do, especially with the world’s needs. We’re thinking differently about our “one wild and precious life.” 

What better time to explore the big “what now” in a circle of conscious women who are leaning in to the same questions?

With Sue’s guidance, you will be invited to tap the inner knowing you already have. You’ll be thoughtfully guided to think about your purpose and how to shape it in service to yourself and others. You’ll be guided through Sue’s three-step process of mapping your career timeline, creating specific Possibility ScenariosTM that you’ll share with the group, and crafting your intentions to align with what you want next.

Our Retreat time will be intimate, engaging, and purposeful with a mix of:

* Group sessions led by Sue
* Reflection and planning exercises done independently
* Three times you will be at the center of the circle sharing the outcomes of your thinking
* Small group coffee chats
* Brief writing assignments
* Paired virtual walks with fellow group members
* Days off for journaling, exercise, and other worklife activities
*  Optional yoga sessions with a highly-acclaimed instructor.

You’ll receive a surprise package at your doorstep one week before the Retreat.

For 12 months following, we’ll meet monthly for group check-ins and support. Your Retreat tribe will be intimately familiar with the intentions you’re putting into place and can provide a listening ear, feedback, and cheering. And I’ll be there to coach the group.

 

 Join us to explore your “what now?” and compose your next steps!

It’s a perfect time: mid-pandemic when women’s leadership is being called forth
and tribes of sisterhood are needed for strength and sustenance.

 

Encouragement from Sue

I asked my photographer to take this picture near the rapids of the Colorado wilderness at the Retreat site where I loved hosting in-person Retreats before the pandemic.

Author William Bridges calls the territory between “what has been” and “what’s to be” the wilderness. For many of us, the Wilderness of a life transition can feel unsettling and disorienting, but it holds tremendous wisdom and gifts when we’re willing to slow down, listen, and consciously plan the path ahead. It also helps to have a guide!

Human nature often causes us to make an “end run” around the Wilderness period, but the cost of doing that can be high. This Retreat celebrates the transition we, as women over 50, are traversing in our individual lives — which is also a time of evolutionary change for the role of women in the world. It is a privilege for me to help women safely explore this transition period — using all I’ve learned and applied through decades of coaching and leadership development, but even moreso from my research about women over 50. The 100 interviews I metabolized and share in my book A Call to Further Becoming are a bedrock of wisdom I’ve embodied, and want to use for your benefit and life. 

I encourage you to give yourself this Retreat time to identify what you’re done with and to let come the new beginning, whatever you want it to be. You are needed — to be who you uniquely are, and do what is uniquely yours to do.

Why give yourself the gift of this Women’s Further Becoming Retreat?

Because no one can caretake your life and your future better than you.

Because no one can hear your inner voice more clearly than you.

Because no one knows what you are done with more profoundly than you.

And because no one can hear the deserving celebration of the life you’ve lived so far, the call of this moment, and the need for sisterhood for the road ahead the way you do, right now.

Join us.