Empowerment: A Nature-Based Coaching Retreat
With Rod Francis and Sherry Trebes
September 4 - 8, 2026
“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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