Empowerment: A Nature-Based Coaching Retreat

With Rod Francis and Sherry Trebes

September 4 - 8, 2026

Date and Time Details: Check-in is 3-4pm on Friday and check-out is at 1pm. on Tuesday.

Location: Forest Studio

Location: 251 Elohee Drive, Sautee Nacoochee, GA, USA

What to Expect: To help you fully unwind and deepen your retreat experience, Elohee does not provide televisions or internet access (unless you bring your own hotspot). Reliable cell service is available for AT&T, Verizon, and T-mobile. Upon arrival, you’ll leave your car in a secured parking lot and be shuttled to your room. Shuttle service is also available at any time during your stay and for your departure. All facilities at the top of the mountain are within a five-minute walk of each other, along gently sloped gravel paths. Two cottage rooms are ADA-compliant, and all cottage rooms are located on the ground level.

Price includes room, meals, and grounds fee but does not include taxes or course fees. Please register for the course before booking accommodations.

“STAND STILL. THE TREES AHEAD AND THE BUSHES BESIDE YOU ARE NOT LOST. WHEREVER YOU ARE IS CALLED HERE. AND YOU MUST TREAT IT AS A POWERFUL STRANGER, MUST ASK PERMISSION TO KNOW IT AND BE KNOWN. THE FOREST BREATHES. LISTEN. IT ANSWERS.”
– David Wagoner, Lost

How about spending some real time out in nature to reinvigorate and reconnect while also growing radically as a coach?

The Empowerment Retreat is an immersive, experiential program grounded in a rites-of-passage coaching model. Across five transformative days, you’ll learn to embody your fullest capacities as a coach—deepening your presence, radically enhancing your deep listening, having powerful conversations, and living more aligned with your deepest sense of purpose. 

The activities and skills include: 

  • deep listening practices & mindfulness practices
  • conversations with the wild, 
  • somatic and embodiment skills 
  • plus many nature-based practices and games entwined with and built around competencies-based coaching skills. 

All of these open powerful new doors for coaches to grow personally, and to engage their clients more effectively and effortlessly. As well as developing professionally, the retreat is also about reconnecting with and growing personally, and we allocate plenty of time for personal reflection and integration and also offer appropriate support if it’s needed.

Did we mention fun yet? Well, we also have plenty of space for fun, play, relaxation, and reconnection. Each evening there’s community time around the beautiful fire with story, song, and plenty of laughter.

The program will be led by Rod Francis & the Emergent Coach Training faculty. The Empowerment Retreat is part of the Emergent Coach Training program and earns participants up to 30 International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Competency Units.

For more information, contact Rod Francis at learning@interactualizer.com. 

For specific Elohee guest information, visit https://elohee.org/retreats/guest-information/.

About the Leaders

Rod Francis

ROD FRANCIS, is creator of the Emergent Coach Training program and a director of InterActualizer. Rod’s early interest in physical performance led him via an elite national academy in his home country of Australia onwards to an extensive international performing, teaching, directing and choreographic career. Following a period as an entrepreneur, Rod transitioned into coaching […]

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Sherry Trebes

While working a corporate career for 33 years Sherry’s interest blossomed into coaching when she was introduced to the Enneagram. After extensive training and her own self-development with the Enneagram, her interests flourished into life coaching, health coaching, mindfulness, and living authentically and intentionally with her personal values and professional ethics guiding her path. Sherry […]

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