What is Creation Escape?
The Creation Escape is an opportunity to gather together, somewhere beautiful, nourishing, and inspiring, and focus on the things that matter most. This experience is not about talking about what matters most, but it’s about doing what matters most.
Why Creation Escape?
Because while we all know that we need to prioritize important over urgent, it’s incredibly hard in the rhythm of everyday life.
Because white space is the most seductive, elusive, difficult-to-create yet essential-to-have aspect of most of our lives.
Because the world (and your team, your co-founders, your company, or your organization) needs that thing you most want to create.
Because creating, and preserving, uninterrupted space for the things that matter most is really $%^#@# hard.
Because beautiful surroundings inspire beautiful work.
To turn those things you’ve always wanted to do into things you’ve done.
How Creation escape works
Together, we will gather for two nights, over the course of three days, in a beautiful, inspiring, and nourishing location. We will kick off the experience with an intention setting ceremony, as well as a coaching and clarity circle which will help you get crystal clear on what you most want to focus on and accomplish during the week. The morning will begin with breakfast, where you can declare your intention for the day and request accountability or input from the group if desired.
The days will be delightfully spacious, giving you total freedom to use your time in the way that serves you most. This might mean writing by the ocean; it might mean filling your inspiration cup with a paddle or a local micro adventure; it might mean huddling with your co-founders to work on the project that you’ve been intending to prioritize for the last six months but haven’t had time for. There will be paddle boards and bikes available for use, and there will be guided local adventures available for purchase.
After each amazing day of focused work; inspiration; creation; or whatever you need most, we will come together in the mid-late afternoons as a group. In this sacred circle, we will talk about our progress and celebrate together; leverage the collective wisdom of the group to glean insight, input, and suggested resources as desired; receive laser coaching and strategy work on areas where we’re stuck or stumped; and receive a jolt of inspiration and momentum to carry with us to tomorrow. This work will happen over a lingering dinner of beautifully catered, organic and local meals, in the company of amazing humans.
Over the course of these two nights and three days, you’ll have the opportunity to turn the thing you’ve been wanting to do into the thing you’ve done. You will leave feeling accomplished and inspired after creating time to focus on the things that matter most. You might leave with a bit of a tan after spending your time creating and writing in a hammock outside, or in a quiet cove listening to the birds.You’ll leave breathing more deeply, after having space to think and create and reflect and be. You’ll leave feeling like you’ve made significant progress on that thing you’ve been wanting to do for so long - and now have finally done.
Overall, our days may flow as follows:
Arrive mid-afternoon
Welcome & gathering
Clarity circle & intention setting
Laser strategy sessions and time to work
Dinner
Evening bonfire, conversation, and reflection
Breakfast with optional intention setting and request for accountability
Spacious day of focused work, creation, inspiration, and whatever you most need
Early evening sacred dinner circle
Breakfast with optional intention setting and request for accountability
Spacious morning of focused work, creation, inspiration, and whatever you most need
Completion and Commitments: how will we carry the work of the week back into our worlds?
How Creation Escape is different
Many conferences and retreats are packed - with content, sessions, information, and evening networking opportunities. We create an opportunity for ourselves to step out of the day to day and the whirlwind to attend something like this - only to find ourselves in a different kind of whirlwind, with little time to think, create, or tap into our own inspiration.
This experience is different. It acknowledges that most of us have plenty of content and information and have heard plenty of canned motivational talks with animated powerpoints. We don’t need that. Instead, we are craving time with ourselves - time to look inward, time to fill our souls and our creative wells, time to actually do the things we most want to do. And rather than painful evening networking events, we crave quality time and conversation with incredible humans who are passionate about doing the same thing - and who are smart and strategic and amazing and generous and who can offer insight and input when we get stuck or stumped.
The group will be intentionally small, in order to create an intimate and connected experience. Think of this as part mastermind, part group adventure, and part retreat with some of the smartest and coolest people you’ve ever met.
Who is Creation Escape for?
This experience is for incredible humans who are passionate about creating meaningful things in the world. It’s for founders and entrepreneurs and leaders and solopreneurs and passionate professionals who:
Desperately crave more space and time to think, create, tune into inspiration and creativity, and unscheduled time to actually get things done
Find it challenging to carve out blocks of sacred, uninterrupted time in the rhythm of everyday work and life
Have a project, a program, an initiative, a book, a blog post (or 17), or a priority that you’ve been wanting to get done for weeks, months, or maybe even years, that continually gets pushed to the bottom of the list behind demands that take up your time, attention and energy
Could benefit from laser focused, expertly facilitated coaching and strategy work to help you gain clarity and momentum, work through any areas of stuckness, and hold yourself accountable
Are inspired by beautiful surroundings
Are excited to carve out some time away from the routines of everyday life in a beautiful, inspiring, and nourishing location, to do what you most want to do