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4-Day Residential Retreat for Women

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Not Done Yet

Signature Program

 

The Journey Back to You

A 4-Day Residential Retreat for Women

 

There comes a moment in a woman’s life when she realises something fundamental has shifted.

 

It doesn’t always arrive with drama.

Sometimes it’s a quiet ache.

A restlessness you can’t name.

 

A sense that the life you built, the roles you carried, the strength you relied on, no longer fits the woman you’re becoming.

 

This retreat is for women standing at that crossroads.

 

For women who have lived full lives, who have loved, lost, carried families, careers, responsibility and expectation, and who now feel an undeniable inner nudge: there must be more than just holding it all together.

 

Not Done Yet: The Journey Back to You is a deeply immersive, 4-day residential retreat created to support women in midlife and beyond as they navigate change, loss, ageing, reinvention and awakening, with honesty, humour, compassion and profound respect for the journey they’ve walked.

 

Rooted in the understanding that midlife is not a decline but an initiation, this retreat gently guides you through three powerful phases:

 

The Breaking

 

We begin by naming what so many women experience but rarely speak aloud.

The shock of ageing.

Losses that don’t have funerals.

The empty nest.

Illness or injury.

Career upheaval.

Role reversals.

The quiet, relentless weight of guilt.

Here, nothing needs to be fixed or rushed.

You are met exactly where you are, with language, space and support to honour what has been breaking and why.

 

The Rising

 

From the rubble, something begins to return.

Stillness.

Clarity.

Courage.

Boundaries.

Support.

A remembering of who you are beneath the roles you’ve outgrown.

This is the turning point where you begin unlearning what no longer serves, reconnecting with your body and wisdom, and reclaiming your right to want more from the life ahead.

 

Reinvention

 

Not as reinvention for reinvention’s sake, but as a quiet, grounded becoming.

You’ll explore how to live with intention, trust yourself again, honour your time and energy, and allow your outer life to finally reflect your inner truth. You’ll leave with clarity, language, and a deeper sense of alignment, not with who you used to be, but with who you are now.

 

This retreat is not about becoming someone new.

It’s about returning to yourself.

Held in a safe, intimate residential setting, Not Done Yet offers a rare opportunity to step out of the noise of daily life and into a circle of women who understand this season, not as an ending, but as an invitation.

You are not fading.

You are not behind.

You are not broken.

And you are definitely not done yet.

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Program Outline

About the Facilitator

Welcome

Opening Ceremony

 

Introduction - Standing in the Storm

 

  • The Gathering Storm Clouds

  • The Storm Within

  • The Eye of the Storm

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Day 1 - The Breaking

 

SESSION 1

The Shock of Ageing

 

  • It Arrives Quietly

  • The Emotional Whiplash

  • The Hands Moment

  • The Myth of Invisibility

  • The Internal Shift No One Warned You About

  • The Reclamation

 

SESSION 2

The Shock of Loss

 

  • Loss Isn’t Always Loud

  • The Loss That Doesn’t Have a Funeral

  • The Loss of What You Thought Your Life Would Be

  • When a Relationship Ends and You’re Still Standing in the Rubble

  • Loss as a Turning Point

  • Loss Is Not Linear

  • Loss Isn’t the End of You

 

SESSION 3

The Shock of the Empty Nest

 

  • The Day the House Changes Shape

  • The Two-Part Grief No One Talks About

  • When Your Purpose Suddenly Expires

  • The Guilt Trap

  • Who You Are After They Go

  • Relationships Change Too

  • The Moment the Grief Softens

 

SESSION 4

The Shock of Illness or Injury

 

  • You Don’t Realise You’ve Been Running on Empty Until You Stop

  • The Body Keeps the Score Long Before You Do

  • When Illness or Injury Disrupts Your Identity

  • The Loneliness of Being Unwell

  • The Gift You Don’t Ask For

  • The Moment You Begin Again

 

SESSION 5

The Shock of Career Change or Redundancy

 

  • When the Ground Shifts

  • The Cruel Gift

  • The Identity Unravel

  • The Kintsugi of Career

  • The Reframing

 

SESSION 6

The Shock of Role Reversal

 

  • The Subtle Slide into Becoming the Adult in the Room

  • The Complicated Mix of Love, Duty, Resentment and Guilt

  • The Shock of Seeing Your Parents as Mortal

  • Carrying Two Generations at Once

  • The Guilt That Follows Every Decision

  • Finding Remnants of Joy Amid the Weight

  • Letting Yourself Be Both Strong and Human

 

SESSION 7

The Shock of Guilt

 

  • The Motherhood Guilt that Never Retires

  • The Guilt of Boundaries

  • The Guilt of Self-Care

  • The Guilt of Not Being Everything to Everyone

  • Rewriting your Relationship with Guilt

 

Day 2 - The Rising

 

Introduction - The Turning Point

 

SESSION 8

Remembering Who You Are

 

  • You Haven’t Lost Yourself. You’ve Outgrown the Roles That Hid You.

  • The Things You Let Go of Are the Things You Grew Beyond

  • Tiny Sparks of Yourself Returning

  • Listening to the Woman You’ve Become

  • Permission to Want More

  • This is the Turning Point

  • A Story of Remembering

  • The Invitation

 

SESSION 9

Finding Stillness and Inner Clarity

 

  • Why Stillness Feels So Strange

  • The Clarity That Only Silence Can Bring

  • Finding Stillness in a Noisy Life

  • A Story of Stillness Leading to Awakening

  • The Invitation to Pause

 

SESSION 10

Courage - The First Step

 

  • Courage Often Begins as Discomfort

  • The Courage to Disappoint Others

  • Courage Isn’t Instant. It’s Accumulative.

  • The Courage to Let Go

  • A Story of Courage in the Midst of Fear

  • The Courage to Begin Again

 

SESSION 11

The Power of No

 

  • Why No Is So Hard for Women

  • No Is a Full Sentence

  • No Is a Boundary, not a Betrayal

  • The First No Is the Hardest

  • The Freedom That Follows

  • My Own Experience with Saying No

 

SESSION 12

The Circle of Support

 

  • The Myth of the Strong Woman

  • The Circle Isn’t Big - It’s Important

  • You Deserve Support That Feels Like Support

  • Letting Yourself Be Supported

  • The Circle You Build Now Will Carry You into Your Next Session

 

SESSION 13

The Unlearning

 

  • Unlearning the “Good Girl” Conditioning

  • Unlearning Self-Sacrifice

  • Unlearning People-Pleasing

  • Unlearning Over-Functioning

  • Unlearning Shame Around Wanting More

  • Unlearning the Fear of Being Seen

 

SESSION 14

Soul Lessons

 

  • Soul Lesson 1: Your Worth Isn’t Conditional

  • Soul Lesson 2 Peace Is a Form of Power

  • Soul Lesson 3 The Body Knows Before the Mind Does

  • Soul Lesson 4 You Cannot Heal in the Same Environment That Broke You

  • Soul Lesson 5 You Are Not Behind

  • Soul Lesson 6 Joy Is Essential, Not Optional

  • Soul Lesson 7 You’re Allowed to Begin Again

 

Day 3 - Reinvention

 

SESSION 15

Living Your Becoming

 

  • Becoming Happens in the Micro-Moments

  • Becoming Is Not About Improvement

  • Becoming Requires Self-Trust

  • Becoming Means Your Life Starts Matching Your Soul

  • Becoming Isn’t Comfortable - It’s Honest

 

SESSION 16

Living With Intention

 

  • What It Means to Live with Intention

  • Your Time Is Your Power

  • Intention Brings Your Values to Life

 

WRAP UP

  • The Wise Woman’s Manifesto

  • The Ten Rules for a Life Fully Lived

  • A Love Letter to Your Inner Child

  • Closing Ceremony

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