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Retreats & Workshops
Exciting nature-based life coaching, workshops, and retreats from Bali to Baja, build Empowerment, Strength, Confidence, Self-awareness, Understanding and Joy! This year’s theme is Resilience. Do you want the Courage and tools to live a resilient, authentic life, true to your values and heart’s desire, standing in your strength and confidence? Join us for any of the Coaching Programs, Workshops or Retreats to bring your most meaningful life into the world!
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2024 Calendar of Events
Empower yourself and those you love with specialized nature adventure camps, workshops and coaching programs!
March – September, 2024: CEREMONIAL ARTS TRAINING at The StarHouse in Boulder, CO with a Mountain Retreat in July in Eagle. The Ceremonial Arts open a doorway, impacting the world beyond our imagination. Learn to open this door and activate your gifts for personal and earth healing! It’s time to grow and live your highest purpose.
June 17-21: CATERPILLAR GIRLS Session 1 In Caterpillars Girls your rising second – fifth-grade daughter will discover her connection to the web of life through the elements Earth, Air, Water Fire, Spirit. Nature WONDER guides our activities, whether we’re listening to bird songs, playing in the creek, examining the spiral shells of tree snails, or making nature sculptures or faerie houses. She will build confidence and self-awareness in this unique and adventurous camp.
June 24- 29: CHRYSALIS CIRCLE, Support your Middle – High School girl to become an empowered woman! In Chrysalis Circle she will learn tools for her lifetime: strength, courage, confidence, and resilience, through exhilarating nature adventure activities like rock climbing, rafting, and hiking. She will learn life skills for confidence, communication, and self-awareness in this unique and adventurous camp.
July 8 – 12: CATERPILLAR GIRLS Session. See the description above.
July 29 – August 3: EARTH KEEPER WAY Boys Camp – supports boys’ passage to manhood through kayaking, rock climbing, hiking, and learning wilderness survival skills. Boys build their courage and confidence in nature, communication skills, and learn to balance strength, intuition, and connection to the entire web of life.
August 15-18: RIVER HEALING RETREAT – NAVIGATING GRIEF: Join us in Eagle, CO, and on the gentle Colorado River as we set down our burdens of grief. Learn to let it flow through you as you allow the river to gently transform your grief into self-healing, release, and Love! Find your personal rhythm again in this intimate, deeply compassionate 4-day retreat with the wisdom of the Great Mother River, support from a circle of women, and ceremony and ritual. Learn more below.
September 15: HEART 2 HEART – Mothers and daughters gather and explore this sacred relationship from Maiden through Wise Woman in Eagle, CO. Enjoy heart-to-heart connection, communication, exploration, learning lifetime skills, play in nature, ritual and ceremony that will deepen and strengthen your relationship. Learn more and REGISTER below.
Upcoming Retreats & Workshops
Ignite Your Authentic Life!
“What will you do with your one precious life?” Mary Oliver
Dates: Continual. Call to schedule your new start!
Everything you need is within you. Are you ready to start living authentically?
Step into your unique personal power through this coaching adventure! Experience the freedom and transformation of living authentically, as you discover and fortify your natural gifts and wisdom. Based on the four pillars of empowerment – strength, courage, confidence and resilience – you’ll grow your self-awareness, discover and transform your limiting beliefs and stories; make allies out of the parts of yourself that have created obstacles in the past; honor your boundaries and expand your possibilities. Learn specific tools for mindfulness, deep listening and self-care. Experience a profound connection to the natural world that makes living authentically an imperative. Re-pattern your brain so you can access more possibility and ignite your personal empowerment.
This is a customized individual, couple or family coaching program from ICF Certified Nature-connected Coach and Women’s Empowerment Workshop founder, Susie Kincade. Three month individual coaching program – 6 sessions
Starting at $1200.
For more information and to schedule a free consult contact Susie at susie@womenempower.us, or call 970-328-5472.
Girls Empowerment
Chrysalis Circle for Middle and High School girls
June 24-29, 9 am – 5 pm; one overnight
Vail Valley, CO
Chrysalis Circle supports Middle and High School girls explore and develop the woman blossoming within them through deep Earth connection. This six-day program guides young women, ages 11-16, on a journey to discover and connect to their core being, find their authentic voice, gain confidence, and explore their mind-body-spirit connection through exhilarating adventures in nature. Girls will leave this camp filled with Strength, Courage, Confidence and Resilience.
Each day integrates activities in nature, creative arts, personal awareness and earth connection, leadership and communication skills, and time for introspection. Rafting, journaling, rock climbing, hiking, outdoor skills, inner awareness, communication, and mindfulness are a few of the activities designed to give girls lifelong tools, help them embrace their passage into womanhood, and understand their power and connection to all of life on earth.
One overnight on the final day of camp gives the girls a chance to learn about creating Council and Ritual, and together they’ll create a celebratory ceremony.
Investment in your daughter’s empowerment:
Early bird offer: $495 through April 15, 2024. Then $525.
Mother-Daughter opportunities are included as a follow-up to Chrysalis Circle Camp. Moms play an important role in building the empowerment your daughter learns in Chrysalis. See the Heart2Heart retreat below to learn more.
Caterpillars Girls Nature Exploration for 2nd – 5th graders
Session 1: June 17-21, 9 am – 3 pm
Session 2: July 8-12, 9 am – 3 pm
Vail Valley, CO
This Girls Empowerment Camp is for rising 2nd – 5th graders, ages 7-10, and includes many of the foundations of Chrysalis Circle but focused on younger girls’ interests and abilities. We’ll discover how we are nature through the exploration of the elements of earth, air, water and fire. We’ll investigate ecosystems and introduce the idea of personal ecosystems and our connection to all of life.
Activities include:
- Explore Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit
- Learn Plant mysteries
- Find a “sit spot” in nature
- Expand the senses
- Listen to nature, self and others
- Hiking and discovering personal Resilience, Strength, Courage
- Nature games and art
Camp is held in Eagle with trails, tipis, places to roam and where imagination flourishes. Limited group size. Register today
Investment: $385
Boys Empowerment Camp
Earth Keeper Way for Boys
For Boys in Middle and High School, aged 11 -16 years.
July 29 – August 03, 9 am – 5 pm; one overnight
Vail Valley, CO
Earth Keeper Way supports boys’ passage to manhood through kayaking, rock climbing, hiking, and learning wilderness survival skills. With emphasis on the whole person in balance, this program guides young men on a journey to discover and connect with their authentic and resilient self while learning powerful inner life skills for navigating relationships and communication. Boys build their courage and confidence in nature, and learn to balance strength, intuition, and connection to the entire web of life.
Each day integrates nature adventure, personal awareness, earth connection, leadership and communication skills. Rafting, rock climbing, hiking, outdoor skills, inner reflection, communication, and an intro to Rugby are a few of the activities designed to give boys lifelong tools, help them embrace their passage into manhood, and understand their power and responsibility to others.
One overnight on the final day of camp gives the boys a chance to learn about creating Council and Ritual, and together they’ll cook, clean, and create a celebratory ceremony.
Investment in your son’s empowerment:
Early bird offer: $495 through April 15, 2024. Then $525.
Ongoing Retreats & Workshops
Sunday, September 15, Eagle CO 10 am – 4 pm
Learn, Heal, Play, Connect!
Are you longing to stay connected with your daughter through her teen years and beyond? Parenting a teen is difficult under the best circumstances, and even tougher in these uncertain times. Come learn and connect with other Mothers and Daughters!
- Feel the foundation of love in your relationship
- Open new lines of communication
- Deepen trust
- Build empathy and restore connection
- Grow new depth and understanding
- Discover the power of ritual in relationship
Retreat to a beautiful sanctuary in Eagle, CO, surrounded by nurturing Nature and tucked into protective mountains. Interact with other moms and daughters while learning powerful lifetime tools that will transform your Mother-Daughter relationship.
This retreat is geared to girls age 12 and older with their Mom or other guiding person.
Retreat Facilitator:
Susie Kincade, ICF nature-based coach, founder of Women’s Empowerment Workshop, and StarHouse minister, devotes her life to empowering women and girls by growing their strength, courage, confidence and resilience through nature connection, ceremony and adventure. She is mom and step-mom to four daughters.
Investment in your Mother-Daughter relationship:
$395 per mother/daughter pair for Chrysalis Circle participants and $495 for others.
Feel free to call with questions. Susie: 970-328-5472
Stepping Stones – Rites of Passage
Women’s Empowerment Workshop also conducts personal or group Rites of Passage retreats. Generally 1 to 3 days, these are customized retreats to the participants’ needs. Going off to college? A year of travel? At a profound crossroads in your life such as marriage, becoming a parent, or getting divorced? These transitions are smoother and more successful when done with great awareness and intention. Let us help you create the transition and passage you desire.
Call to reserve time and create your special retreat: 970-328-5472
Your Customized Retreat or Ceremony
Are you experiencing a particular transition in your life that you would like to support in a private, family, or semi-private setting? We will customize your nature adventure retreat to include outdoor adventure (rafting, hiking, rock climbing) to help you find the courage, confidence and resilience you desire. Make this transition be joyous, bold, and peacefully smooth.
Whatever your transition: weddings, divorces, births, deaths, or rites of passage, trained ceremonialist, WEW founder and Nature-based Life Coach, Susie Kincade will consult with you to co-create a transformational experience in nature that will heal, energize, and move you forward on your path.
River Healing Retreat: Navigating Grief and Loss
August 15-18, Eagle, CO. Thursday, 3 pm – Sunday, 11 a.m.
Do you feel the weight of all you’ve been carrying? It’s time to set it down…
Let the river gently transform your grief into self-healing, release, and Love in this intimate, deeply compassionate retreat.
Begin in a sacred and confidential circle with other women who are working through their loss. Facilitated by professional coaches, grief counselors and nature guides, you’ll discover the power of nature’s rhythms in helping accept and re-frame the losses in your life.
Friday’s full day on the river teaches you the art of navigating different currents, scouting obstacles and how to tend to your own self-care, compassion and nurturing. This playful journey on the Great Mother Colorado River will be a fun, restorative and exciting paddle in inflatable kayaks for all levels of experience. Our professional guides and personal coaches will help you discover the river’s healing secrets. Let the river touch your soul and bring you back into flow!
The river day ends with quiet reflection and relaxation by the creek, then set up your camp before a hearty dinner. The evening brings ritual, music, and story-telling around the campfire.
Saturday provides the space to rest, rejuvenate and integrate all you’ve been learning.There will be space to share, and powerful ceremony in nature to help you release and restore your flow and energy. Movement, drumming and yoga round out this transformational retreat.
Includes: Four days; three breakfasts, two lunches, and three dinners; camping, full day professional guiding on the river and all equipment, two facilitators plus post-retreat follow-up. We strongly urge you to camp on the land. We have limited camping gear available!
Investment in your personal healing: Early Bird through July 1 – $795, then $1,595
RETREAT SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, 3 pm
Arrive settle in, explore the wild nature. Opening Ceremony and getting to know the land and each other. Deep nature connection practices. We will work with Frances Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow – understanding the gateways of grief in our lives. Enjoy a delicious dinner on the land, and drumming by the fire.
FRIDAY
Morning: 7:30 Coffee and breakfast.
9-4 Full day on the river, embodying the wisdom of flowing through grief into healing. Lunch provided on the river. Return to base camp and relax and enjoy free time to rest, hike, or explore. We’ll return to a gentle evening of rest and story telling around the fire.
SATURDAY
On this day of integration, you’ll spend time in nature solo and as a group, building new emotional intelligence. Learn powerful skills for growing your emotional resilience and empowering your strength through mindful choice
Yoga and sound healing
Rest and Dinner on your own (camp kitchen available)
Evening: 6:30 Truth Mandala Ceremony
SUNDAY
8:00 – Camp Coffee Call with breakfast following. Morning Council and Release Ceremony
Break camp and clean-up.
11:00 – Departure
Note: If you are traveling and want to arrive on Wednesday we can arrange for early arrival and staying on the land. Please call for a personal consult about this powerful workshop. 970-328-5472 – Susie Kincade
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