The Empowerment Retreat 2025

“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 does spending some real downtime in nature to reinvigorate and reconnect while also growing radically as a coach sound?

The Empowerment retreat is a 5-day immersive and experiential program, based on a rites of passage coaching model, running at Elohee from August 29^th to September 2nd, 2025. There, participants learn how to more fully embody their capacities as coaches by reconnecting with and radically enhancing their abilities for deep listening, powerful conversations, and living aligned with their deepest sense of purpose. The retreat offers a unique opportunity to radically deepen one’s development in an amazing community and an extraordinary wilderness setting while learning new skills and ways of being to take to their client-facing work.

The activities and skills include deep listening practices, mindfulness practices, conversations with the wild, somatic and embodiment skills, and many nature-based practices and games entwined with and built around competencies-based coaching skills. All of them can open powerful new doors for coaches to grow personally, and to be able 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.

PLEASE NOTE: You must enroll in the program before reserving your accommodations. Meals are included in the accommodation. To learn more, including watching a video describing the program, or to enroll please go to:

Email us at learning@interactualizer.com or come along to one of our free Open Houses.

Check out Elohee’s Guest FAQs here.