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Powerful Resources from 10 Years of Retreat-Leading Experience
About Darla
There are two things that have made a difference for me more than anything else on my journey to right here.
- Alignment. Aligning with my spiritual Truth has created a priceless internal freedom.
- Retreats. Connection heals and healing frees. To risk being truly seen, in a retreat community, creates permanent transformation.
Kurt Wright said, “We can only trust that part of ourselves that we have revealed to another person and had validated instead of violated.” This simple statement demonstrates why small, safe-space, truth-based retreats are such powerful tools for empowerment. Once we experience ourselves in a new way, we can’t un-know who we now are. And live retreats create experiences in a way no self-help book (or virtual program, or information-packed big event) ever could.
If you are someone who creates a safe space of non-judgement in which people can share their Truth (or people just tend to tell you stuff), or if you love to dig into the root cause of an issue to shift it at its core, you might a transformational entrepreneur and a powerful retreat leader. Join us!
Recent Posts
Six Tips for Leading Virtual Transformation
Do you need to be live to transform? This is a big question for so many right now, as we shelter at home, and I have some thoughts on this for you. I have been feeling so grateful for the education I’ve received in the last 10 years. From so many mentors, from...
Transformational Leaders: Seriously, Find Your Inner Kitten
Transformation is serious work and requires us to keep doing our own evolving and finding our sticky spots. We’ll be looking at where some of those sticky spots tend to show up in this work (guess what – you’re not alone in this!).
Tune in to the Wisdom of your Body
Tune in to the Wisdom of your Body Guest article with Ashlie Woods of Wildhearted One of the best pieces of advice I ever received came at a very pivotal time in my life. I was straddling the fence of my marriage, an almost 10 year relationship, and I was really...
What is a Mastermind Retreat?
Napoleon Hill, in Think and Grow Rich, shared his ideas about a mastermind being something that shows up any time two or more are gathered… the ‘third mind.’ I think of this ‘third mind’ as an opening to access the collective consciousness, or Source if you will, and...
Tapping Into the Hidden Power of Your Brand Container
Tapping Into the Hidden Power of Your Brand Container Guest article with Veronica Wirth of Evolvative™ Brand Studio As my work in branding has evolved over the years, I’ve come to see a brand not only as an identity, a set of values or a strategy, but as a virtual...
Falling, Crying, and Letting Go
It’s been two weeks or so now since I was in Sedona for my first Sourced(™) Retreat. The day after we completed our retreat may have been my personal favorite transformation. On that day I was the self-proclaimed MIP (Most Improved Player) as a mountain biker! What...
Marketing is Your Soul Discovering Her Voice Out Loud
Marketing is Your Soul Discovering Her Voice Out Loud(and the strategy to attract your soul-aligned clients) Guest article with Janet Kodish of Free Once Again “Janet Hope sounds good,” I muttered to myself. “Like Bob, without the golf club.” It was 2013 and I was...
Embracing your Vulnerability Advantage
Embracing your Vulnerability Advantage Guest article with Wendy Lee of Leadhership Revolution Wow! It’s hard to believe that I started my career in Human Resources nearly 20 years ago. If you asked me back then to name some qualities that define strong leadership,...
The Truth About Money and Desire
There are two relationships that it’s vital you get comfortable with if you want to create truly successful, profitable retreats: Your relationship with your desire… …and your relationship with money. The two concepts are connected. Because much of what you desire...
Would you pay to do nothing?
Would you pay to do nothing? There’s a Zen proverb which goes, “Don’t just do something, sit there." It’s a tongue-in-cheek reminder that in a world where we spend a lot of our time filling our days with activities, choosing to simply sit and be still is a radical...
Why marketing your retreat feels hard
A lot of people don’t realize that your retreat doesn’t start on the day when your participants arrive, or even when you arrive at the venue to prepare. Your retreat actually begins way back before any of that – when you first have the spark of an idea for your...
The Secret to Creating the Best Retreat Content
There’s a trap a lot of people fall into when they’re creating content for their retreats – especially as RICH leaders: Right-brained, Intuitive, Creative and Heart-centered. If you’ve come from a background where those unique aspects of your personality weren’t...