Create a Retreat That Will Change Their Lives
My multi-role retreat consulting and curation delivers strategy, finance, operations, marketing, and a finessed guest experience.
With 16+ years of building and leading international retreats from the ground up, I help purpose-driven brands and wellness leaders create retreats that are intentional, profitable, and repeatable.
I partner with business owners, coaches, and educators seeking to take their clients to the next level by curating a life-changing retreat overseas.
Beginning with understanding the takeaways you want your clients to experience, I offer collaborative, detailed planning, vendor liaison, strategic communications, profit-building budgeting, and on-the-ground support. This includes retreat consultancy, retreat planning, and retreat management.
Working with me gives you the mental freedom you need to enhance your offerings that will take your business to the next level.
Let’s make plans!
This is for:
Wellness Practitioners ready to host their first retreat.
Retreat Leaders tired of doing it all themselves.
Purpose-driven Businesses expanding into experiences.
You Can Expect:
- Personal collaboration with Venture Within’s founder, who has more than 16 years of experience running experiential retreats overseas.
- Curating your Retreat experience (collaborating, liaising, understanding what the host desires to create, connecting with the expectations of the participants, and designing the main elements to feature in the Retreat).
- Outlining the step-by-step process for booking and specific travel experiences for your participants, including access and timing of information delivery.
- Liaising with subcontractors to ensure what they deliver meets the expectations and standards of your Program/Retreat.
- Consulting/Coaching with you, the host, in creating the most impactful experience from the beginning of the contract through to the end of your Retreat.
- Access to my overseas community, network of accommodations, and local experiences worldwide.
- Back-end platform support for logistics, payments, partnership site hosting, and more.
- On-location support staff, location management, and extra facilitation if desired.
- Transparency, professional treatment, and genuine care for your business from the initial chats to the final moment of celebration at the end of your successfully completed retreat.
Retreat Strategy Session
Are you clear on the impact and purpose of your Retreat, and can manage the background tasks, but seek seasoned expert advice while you build?
Book a Retreat Strategy Session for:
- Retreat concept refinement
- High-level Positioning and Pricing strategy
- Key Risks (logistics, insurance, margins)
- Actionable Recommendations
- A “How To” Guide to Build Your Retreat With Ease
- Next Steps & Accountability
The Retreat Strategy Sessions are $350 for a duration of 90 – 120 minutes.
Basic Retreat Blueprint
The Basic Retreat Blueprint brings the magic. Deep dive into each unique aspect and build your customized Retreat.
Services to expect include:
- Retreat concept & experience design
- Ideal client & offer positioning
- Sample itinerary (flow & pacing)
- Budget framework (costs, margins, pricing tiers)
- Basic website messaging (headline & structure)
- Customer journey mapping (before, during, after)
- Risk awareness (permits, waivers, insurance guidance)
The Basic Retreat Blueprint turns your idea into a sellable retreat.
This $5000 investment delivers 4 – 6 months of high-touch support for a smooth and strategic Retreat you can repeat.
Full Retreat Design & Build
The Full Retreat Design & Build brings the magic, PLUS the heavy-lifting that no one likes to do but is a must, so that your Retreat is a seamless success.
This includes the Retreat Blueprint PLUS:
- Full retreat architecture (experience design & emotional arc)
- Detailed budgeting (profit targets, break-even, upsells)
- Vendor & location strategy (how to source/negotiate)
- Website copy (sales page, retreat description)
- Booking & payment strategy (deposits, refunds, cash flow)
- Customer service systems (emails, onboarding flow)
- Insurance & legal framework overview (waivers, liability, structure)
- Launch strategy (how to fill spots)
The Full Retreat Design & Build takes the background stress off your shoulders so you can focus on the impact that only you know how to deliver.
This $8000 investment for 6 – 12 months ensures high-touch support to curate a customized, profitable and life-changing experience.
Here is how six different business owners created the Retreat of their dreams . . .
A high-end “Awoken & Unbroken” Pilates Retreat on the beaches in Nicaragua (studio.kevynzeller.com/retreats/).
A fabulous “Beauty of Connection” Interior Design Retreat in a Tuscan villa in Italy (www.aubrey-sanchez.com/events/).
The “Brave Journey” Women’s Retreat in Montenegro (www.dawnpickbenson.com/solo-women-travelers-retreats-for-women).
“Wine & Food Tour” in the south of France (www.venture-within.com/wine-and-food-tour-in-france/).
Student Leadership & Adventure in Nicaragua (https://venture-within.com/student-enrichment-leadership-program-nicaragua/)
Your future Retreat! If you want to create an impactful and life-changing travel experience for your business, your clients, or your family and friends, I can help you do this.
“AS A LEADERSHIP COACH for the past 10 years, and having lead workshops for companies, it has always been a dream of mine to lead retreats that got people out of the conference room and out of their context, which is where true shift of perspectives can happen. I wanted to combine my passion for travel and adventure to lead retreats, but did not know how to secure the perfect location, especially from the US, market, run the logistics, take payments, safety and liability challenges, communication to the participants about travel and logistics, and all that happens when running a successful retreat. . .
Rachel Salzberg
Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach
. . . I wanted to partner with someone who not only understood my leadership philosophy, but was highly experienced in running retreats in different countries where I trusted I could bring my clients from corporations who had high expectations, and were nervous about traveling to a different country. . . .
Rachel teaching her Leadership curriculum in our yoga shala.
. . .I found Christy with Venture Within and we talked about being able to co host, and where I could showcase the content that I have developed over time. Christy suggested Costa Rica at a barefoot luxury hotel, in the jungle and local. I completely trusted Christy from beginning with follow through, detail, knowledge and experience leading retreats in different countries, as well as her business acumen. . . .
Rachel & Christy, riding ATVs through Costa Rican landscape after a Leadership workshop with a few of the Retreat participants.
. . .Our first retreat together was almost seamless. We are great partners, similar philosophies and compliment each other’s strengths perfectly. We learned from one another and pulled off a life changing experience for not only myself to fulfill a dream, but also for the participants. Partnering with Christy was one of the best decisions I have ever made and look forward to many more together.”
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Rachel and her group taking a dip in the ocean during the Costa Rica Retreat.
Meet Your Retreat Consultant
Christy Nichols
Curator of Transformational Retreats | Author | Speaker | Writing Coach | Purposeful Travel Advocate | For-Purpose Business Strategist | Reiki Master | CEO at Venture Within
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Christy’s professional education expertise has afforded her the opportunity to work around the world. Since achieving a Masters Degree and Teaching Credentials in Sussex, England, she has created and developed two companies focused on Leadership Development Programs through education and conservation projects overseas.
She has delivered leadership initiatives internationally to individuals, universities, small companies, and non-profits in the UK, Europe, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Australia.
Through her company, Venture Within, she creates transformational experiences for personal and professional growth. She lives a full and meaningful life while inspiring and enabling others to do the same.
- Expert in leadership development amongst professionals
- 20 years an Educator, CEO of Venture Within, and formerly Co-Founder of EDventure International
- ICF Accredited Certified Professional Coach
- Curated strategic leadership workshops catered for traveling professionals, with a focus on personal development and growth.
- Utilizes cultural immersive experiences as transformative opportunities.
- Specializes in transformative experiences that enhance leadership abilities on personal and professional levels.
Connect. Reach out to me and share how you want your dream Retreat to look and feel. What kind of experience do you want your clients and students to have with you?
Choose. Your Retreat could be in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico or Europe. Over 20 years of professional travel have given me the experience needed to run Retreats with competence. My connections are a savvy, in-country network around the globe. Where do you want to go?
Your Take-Aways: I work with you personally from beginning to end to ensure your Retreat is created and delivered to the highest standard – with professionalism, authenticity and ease.
Ready to give your clients or students a full and meaningful experience? I can help you.
Our Nicaraguan Retreat will offer you and your students a wellness-minded leadership experience set within a luxurious beach community and epic coastline. Your time here offers a holistic approach to align your purpose, your career, and your life. Our transformative experiences are designed to support your own offerings as a wellness coach or instructor to enhance what each individual takes away. These Retreats are for professionals who need time away to harness purposeful direction in their lives.
In Nicaragua you will stay in modern luxurious accommodations, surrounded by positive energy, a vibrant jungle landscape, be serenaded by monkeys and exotic birds, enjoy healthy cuisine, experience revitalizing yoga, and walk along tropical beaches with a stunning coastline.
Our Costa Rica Retreat delivers a wellness-minded transformational experience from a holistic approach to align your purpose, your career, and your life. Our leadership experiences are designed for professionals who need time away to harness purposeful direction in their lives. Leadership workshops can be crafted to support and enhance your own Retreat’s purpose based on what you desire.
And, because the setting in which we learn and connect is important, we offer this retreat in a spectacular location.
In Costa Rica, you will stay in a luxurious sanctuary, surrounded by positive energy, a vibrant jungle landscape, be serenaded by monkeys and exotic birds, enjoy healthy cuisine, experience revitalizing yoga, and walk along tropical beaches with a stunning coastline.