Long weekends of luxury, for fun and support.
Later life Retreat
This retreat is aimed at strengthening your connections with your loved ones during those times that might test it, but will also provide you with opportunities for coming closer. Spending more time together after retirement, navigating emotional and physical changes during perimenopause and menopause, or learning to live in an empty nest.
The workshops are fun and practical, you will stay in luxury accommodation, and we take care of everything, from delicious food to winery experiences. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun, which, let’s face it, you deserve at this point in your life!
Spend a long weekend with us in stunning locations in the Yarra Valley. We’ll supply the private chef, arrange winery tours and deliver connection workshops based on the science of positive psychology. After a long weekend together you will feel closer, more connected and ready to move forward with the next stage of your amazing life.
Let us take care of everything, so you can focus on each other.
Thursday
Arrive & relax
Check in to our luxury retreat from 5pm onwards. We’ll have chef prepared dinners available for those who are coming straight from work.
From 7pm, meet in one of our lovely shared spaces for a relaxing drink with your facilitators and the other guests.
Friday morning
Workshop
Enjoy a delicious breakfast prepared by our in-house chef, and then join our facilitators for your first workshop. You’ll spend the morning identifying the biggest strengths in your relationship and nurturing your fondness and appreciation for each other.
Our facilitators will take you through a series of enjoyable exercises that have been proven to help people feel deeply connected, respected and close. You will then learn how you can take these exercises home to connect more deeply with your partner.
Friday afternoon
Workshop
After our in-house chef has served you lunch, you’ll work together to build a plan for each of you to deepen your knowledge and understanding of your partners, or if you are single, to plan how you will develop a deep knowledge and understanding of partners in the future.
Together you’ll then plan a girls’ night out for Saturday night, deciding which of the wonderful venues in the Yarra Valley you’d like to visit. We’ll help you sort out the logistics, including bookings and transport to make it happen.
Saturday morning
Workshop
Following breakfast with our chef, we’ll get into some activities about how to let your partner influence you, and how to repair and come together after a disagreement. We’ll support you to improve your collaboration skills with each other, and give you tips on how to take those skills back to your intimate relationships.
Saturday afternoon
Wine tasting & Date night
We’ll take you to a local award winning winery where you’ll be treated to lunch and a special wine tasting experience. We’ll provide transport for the afternoon, and for your girls night out, so you can just relax.
Sunday morning
Workshop
Following another lovely breakfast crafted by our chef, you’ll join our facilitators again to learn proven techniques for solving recurring problems in your intimate relationship. Whether you argue about the housework, in-laws, life decisions, or what to eat for dinner, all relationships have some areas where it’s hard to see eye-to-eye - and your close friends will know what they are. We’ll support you to learn how to approach your partner to solve problems, to understand what these disagreements are really about, and how to support each other to implement those skills.
Sunday afternoon
Workshop
After our chef feeds your bellies, you’ll spend your final session planning for how you’ll take your new skills, and deeper connection back into your home and normal life. Together you’ll plan some rituals of connection (with each other, and to implement with your partner) that fit with your lives, and help you look forward to making time for each other. We wrap up at 3pm, so you’ve got plenty of time to make your way back home.