Tide + Seek
Immersive Development Program
Tide + Seek 2025
Reignite your purpose and chart the course for the next chapter of your life and career in Denmark, Western Australia.
Create space for meaningful change.
5th – 9th November 2025 (4 nights)
Join us for a transformative retreat on Menang Noongar Country at NewFarm Denmark, WA. This immersive program combines professional and personal development, designed to help you reconnect with your inner compass, creativity, and wellbeing, guided by an experienced and supportive team.
The program begins at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5th, and concludes at 11 a.m. on Sunday, November 9th.
Who is this retreat for?
- Individuals navigating career change or personal transition.
- Purpose-driven individuals looking to align their work with their values.
- Curious and self-aware people seeking connection in a nature-based setting.
- People interested in leadership and communication skills to strengthen professional and personal relationships.
What’s included?
- A curated, impactful program of professional and personal development sessions.
- 4 nights accommodation (see options below) with exclusive use of NewFarm Denmark’s facilities and grounds.
- Expert guidance from a knowledgeable and warm facilitation team.
- 5 days of delicious, nourishing meals and snacks.
- Daily movement and mindfulness practices.
- A supportive environment for personal inquiry and reflection.
- A guided walk through the ancient Valley of the Giants.
- Optional visit to nearby Greens Pool.
- Time to restore, replenish, and re-energize.
- Follow Up Session online, 26th November 6pm.
- Ongoing support through access to online Alumni Monthly Meets and a network of like-minded individuals.
Program Highlights:
Values in Practice
Clarify your values and explore practical ways to put them into actionable behaviours in all domains of your life.
Wellbeing Toolkit
Gain a useful raft of resources that you can implement immediately into your life and work with wellbeing and mindfulness sessions across our program.
Cycles and Seasons
Cycles and seasons are all around us and within us. By tapping into this wisdom, we explore ways to support every phase of a life, project, or idea through embodied learning.
Purpose Work
Clarify the unique offering you bring to the world and learn to communicate it across your channels.
Creativity Toolkit
Practice daily creativity ‘spark sessions’ to build your capacity for imagination, reflection and mental agility in all areas of your life.
Support + Resource Mapping
Audit and identify your support structures and resources to consider the ‘how’ and ‘who’ of your next chapter.
Navigating Transitions
Use the intelligence of your body to expand your capacity for self-compassion through life’s inevitable transitions.
Mindful Forest Walk
A guided journey through the ancient Valley of the Giants. Identify local trees and take time to connect deeply with the natural world.
Yoga & Movement
Balancing and restorative yoga and movement sessions are integrated into the program, inclusive of all fitness levels.
Your Facilitators
Meet Our Facilitation Team
With decades of combined experience in business, communications, project development, mental health, wellbeing, mindfulness, and human connection, we’re here to challenge, support, and inspire you. We bring our whole selves to the development and delivery of our retreat program, creating an immersive, warm, and inclusive experience. Facilitators stay onsite with you, fostering a genuine sense of community throughout each session.
What others are saying about our team:
“In the hands of this professional and charismatic team, I felt both challenged and cared for.”
“The relationship between the facilitators made me feel like I am part of a genuine community.”
“Ricky, Bo and Lucy are all incredibly knowledgeable in their fields – the combination of these three is nothing short of alchemy.”
Bo Wong
Bo Wong is a freelancer and educator with 20+ years experience working in the visual arts and culture sectors. Passionate about elevating the importance of the arts through communications and advocacy, she runs a professional development program for creatives and small business owners, has a 1:1 mentoring program and co-hosts Soul Traders Podcast, the podcast about creative work,. Bo brings a spirit of collaboration and humour to the retreats and is a keen ocean swimmer.
Photo: Louise Coghill
Lucy Peach
As a published author, speaker and educator, Lucy has delivered her message to hundreds of thousands of people through her book Period Queen, as a TedX speaker, via her two online courses and her show, My Greatest Period Ever. As an award-winning, self described ‘period preacher’ Lucy draws on her experience as a human biology teacher, sexual health educator and performing artist to create transformational experiences with the menstrual cycle. Lucy works with schools, organisations and athletes, championing the importance of understanding the cyclic nature of the seasons and our bodies. Lucy is here to help you celebrate your life, in all of its ebbs and flows.
Photo: Liz Looker
Ricky England
Ricky England is an accredited senior clinical social worker specialising in mental health. Alongside his clinical practice in Denmark, he runs leadership and development camps across multiple organisations including Zero to Hero. Ricky is a passionate environmentalist - and as scientific evidence stacks up around our connection with nature and our mental health, his expertise is a clarion call in difficult times.
Photo: Richard Berney
Location
Menang Boodja: The Wildly Beautiful Southern Coastline of Western Australia
Nestled on Menang Boodja, NewFarm Denmark spans 62 acres in the stunning Great Southern Region of Western Australia, located between Denmark and Walpole. For the duration of the retreat, we’ll have exclusive access to the entire property.
Nearby are two of the world’s most breathtaking natural wonders: Greens Pool in William Bay National Park and the Valley of the Giants in the Walpole Wilderness Area.
Please note, attendees will need to arrange their own travel to and from NewFarm Denmark. We’ve also curated an epic playlist of podcasts and music to accompany your road trip. If you have any questions about the region or travel arrangements, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Testimonials
Investment
Workshop program, all meals and 4 nights accommodation:
$2640 – $3450 + GST
Costs vary based on the accommodation you choose.
Early bird rates have now closed.
Please note there are no day passes available. Invoicing can be tax deductible as professional development.
Unfunded Aboriginal creative practices and businesses receive a 20% fee reduction across Bo Wong’s services, including this retreat.
01. Cabin
Enjoy a queen bed in a spacious NewFarm cabin. Cabins have a fridge and kettle so you can make your own cuppa – plus a balcony to watch the sunset and from.
ONLY 2 LEFT
02. Bell Tent with Queen Bed
The signature NewFarm experience, enjoy a comfy queen bed in a glamping bell tent complete with an electric blanket and gorgeous views.
SOLD OUT
03. Safari Tent with Queen Bed
Spacious safari tents offer a cosy retreat with a queen bed. The attached deck is perfect for soaking up the peaceful surroundings. Powered and well-lit, the tents are just a short stroll to the bathrooms.
3 available
04. Bell Tent with Single Bed
Enjoy a comfy single bed, near all amenities. All NewFarm Denmark bell tents have power and light, and bedding and towels are provided.
3 available
05. Shared Bell Tent Twin Single
Enjoy a comfy single bed each in a shared bell tent, near all amenities. All NewFarm Denmark bell tents have power and light, and bedding and towels are provided.
Available on request, both parties must book together.
06. Camping
If you have your own tent, swag or campervan and want to enjoy safe, peaceful camping under the stars and near the shared amenities – the self-camp option is for you.
Limited spaces, available on request
Small Group, Big Impact
Places are purposefully limited.
We keep the group size small to ensure a deeply impactful experience within a confidential, kind-hearted environment. With a focus on fostering meaningful connections, our retreats are designed to cultivate lasting relationships that support both personal and professional growth.
Our community guidelines, including no phone use in communal areas, help maintain a focused, immersive atmosphere that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and thoughtful reflection.
By joining us, you’ll become part of a supportive Alumni network, where you can continue to plan and deliver your next endeavor, aligned with your values.
Food, glorious food.
“This is literally the best food I have ever eaten in my life”
Sharing meals is a key part of our retreat experience. We take pride in serving fresh, seasonal, and locally sourced produce from the bountiful region of Western Australia, featured in our platters, shared meals, and snacks throughout the retreat.
More questions?
Custom Group Retreat
Overview
Partner with me to create an immersive, multi-day experience tailored specifically for your team, group, or organisation.
You can choose to leave everything to me, collaborate closely, or find a balance that suits your needs.
Who is this retreat for?
- Program Consultation: Assistance with program content and development.
- Logistics Management: I can handle accommodation, catering, facilitation staffing, and logistical support, ensuring you can focus on your core work.
- Onsite Support: I’m available to be onsite for the entire retreat (full program) or to participate as needed (support program).
Who is this for?
- Exclusive Group Programs: Teams or groups wishing to experience the full Tide + Seek program exclusively with their own members.
- Corporate/Organisational Teams or Clubs: Organisations seeking a professional development experience, with logistics and details managed by an experienced local expert.
- Purpose-Led Facilitators, Educators and Leaders: Individuals or groups with a program in need of event management, retreat logistics, catering and additional facilitation staffing support.
- Workshop Expansion: Facilitators, educators, or leaders looking to develop their existing workshop series into a cohesive and impactful program.
- CPD-Accredited Programs: Facilitators or groups offering Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points who want to integrate their training into a meaningful, holistic program.
Location
Menang Boodja. The wildly beautiful southern coastline of Western Australia
Located on Menang Boodja, NewFarm Denmark is a 62-acre property between Denmark and Walpole in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. We’ll have the entire property to ourselves for the duration of the retreat. Nearby, are two of the most stunning places on Earth: Greens Pool in William Bay National Park and the Valley of the Giants in the Walpole Wilderness Area. You’ll need to be able to travel to and from NewFarm Denmark independently for this retreat (however we are happy to put you in touch for shared lifts) and we’ve made an epic playlist of podcasts and music for your road trip down. If you have any questions about this region or travel queries, let us know.
Program sessions examples:
Wellbeing Resources
Practical wellbeing and mindfulness sessions are integrated throughout the program. Gain a useful toolkit that you can implement immediately into your life and work.
Cycle Deep Dive
By tapping into the wisdom of natural cycles and seasons, we can explore ways to support every phase of a project or idea through embodied learning.
Values in Practice
Clarify your personal and/or team values and identify the behaviours to actively support each other in the workplace.
Articulate Your Purpose
Take the time to consider what’s truly important to you and how it might inform your mission, your vocation, and your profession in this insightful session.
Creativity Tools
Creativity sessions focus on building our capacity for a flexible and experimental mindset.
Support Mapping
Map your support structures and resources to plan your next moves. This personal and professional reflection can be a catalyst for identifying hidden strengths and deficits in our work and life.
Cycles + Transitions
An opportunity for those interested in going deeper to use cyclic thinking to navigate change and build capacity for self-compassion.
Mindful Forest Walk
Take a guided, soulful journey through the ancient Valley of the Giants. Enjoy the unique landscape, learn to identify local trees and take time to listen to and connect with Country.
Yoga & Movement
Enjoy balancing and restorative yoga sessions throughout the program, with inclusive and fun sessions for all levels of fitness in NewFarm’s yoga space with a knowledgeable yoga educator.
Facilitation Team
With decades of expertise across business, communications, mental health, wellbeing, movement, mindfulness and connection, my community of facilitators are ready to challenge, support and inspire yout group.
Key facilitators are brought into the program delivery team based on your group’s needs. Get in touch for details and availability.
Bo Wong
Bo Wong is a photographer and educator working across the visual arts and culture sectors. She’s passionate about elevating the creative sector through strong imagery and communications. She co-hosts Soul Traders Podcast, the podcast about creative work, where she shares tips and tricks on running a creative business. Bo leads the organisation and program development of her retreats and brings a spirit of collaboration and fun to all of her leadership roles. She also draws on an endless (Greens) pool of ocean-swimming related metaphors for all of her work 🙂
Photo: Louise Coghill
Ricky England
Ricky England is a senior clinical social worker specialising in mental health and well-being. He leads Rites of Passage camps, suicide prevention programs and personal development camps across multiple organisations including Zero to Hero. He’s an outdoorsy guy with an easy going presence that belies a strong clinical background in mental health. Ricky has been banging on about trees for over 20 years - now scientific evidence is stacking up around our connection with nature and the way it affects our nervous system, our ability to make decisions and our mental health in general.
Photo: Richard Berney
Lucy Peach
Lucy Peach is an award-winning period preacher who draws on her experience as a human biology teacher, sexual health educator and performing artist to create transformational experiences with the menstrual cycle. As a published author, speaker and educator, Lucy has delivered her message to hundreds of thousands of people through her book Period Queen, as a TedX speaker, via her two online courses and her show, My Greatest Period Ever. Understanding the cyclic nature of the planet and our bodies (menstruating or not) is a way of approaching anything from long term strategic business outcomes to daily scheduling. Lucy works with schools, corporates and athletes, championing the importance of rest and reflection and their connection to the more outward facing aspects of our lives. Lucy is here to help you celebrate life, in all of its ebbs and flows, with a warm and compassionate embrace.
Photo: Liz Looker
Testimonials
Investment
The investment varies based on the services you require:
- Program Design: Collaborate with me to design your unique program.
- Facilitation Support: Assistance and facilitation during the retreat.
- Event Management: Handling logistics and providing local contact support.
- Additional Facilitators: Access to local experts for individual sessions (e.g., yoga, mindfulness, breathwork, Ayurveda, nature connection, health and wellbeing).
- Catering and Onsite Assistance: Comprehensive support including catering and camp assistants.
- Local Experiences: Visits to local artists, craftspeople and wineries as well as nature-based activities.
Get in touch for pricing.
Health & Safety
We work to create an inspiring and culturally safe space for personal development in a collegiate group environment. The group program activities are not designed as personal counselling or therapy sessions and if you are looking for that type of program, this may not be the right program for you.
If your group require medications or pharmaceuticals (including inhalers and EpiPens) it is your responsibility to bring, maintain and administer these while you are at the Retreat following your doctor’s advice.
We may travel to Greens Pool which is an unpatrolled beach that can have strong surf and rips. If you are not confident swimmers, it is a great place for a walk.
You accept all risks associated with your groups activities including swimming, physical exertion, bushwalking, and exposure to the sun or adverse weather.
Food, glorious food.
“This is literally the best food I have ever eaten in my life”
Enjoying meals together is an integral part of our programs. We celebrate the opportunity to showcase fresh, seasonal and local produce from this abundant region of Western Australia in our platters, shared meals and snacks throughout.
Catering can feature seasonal, fresh and local produce including local wines.
More questions?
Tide + Seek
with Bo Wong. Work Well.
Personal + Professional Development
Participants enjoyed a retreat designed to reconnect to creativity, purpose and wellbeing in the beautiful surroundings of NewFarm Denmark.
Wed 1st May – Sun 5th May 2024
Participants enjoyed a supportive immersion with impactful, strategic sessions covering creativity, wellbeing and communication with facilitation from our established, multi-disciplinary artists, business mentors and mindfulness experts. All in the beautiful surrounds of Menang Country, at NewFarm Denmark in Western Australia.
Immersed in a carefully curated experience of nature, nourishment and knowledge sharing, participants could reflect, rejuvenate and re-boot in readiness for a new chapter in their life and work.
We didn’t let the rain stop us from being outdoors- we reveled in it!
Who came to this retreat?
- Curious, self-aware people looking for opportunities to connect to themselves and others in a nature-based setting.
- Purpose-led people who seek to better align their work with their values and purpose.
- Those interested in exploring personal development as a way to support both personal and professional relationships as well as their own leadership style.
- Those who have done a variety of professional development programs but had never found the ‘right space’ to explore some expansive possibilities for their work and life.
- Retreat Alumni who wanted to go deeper into the program.
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Program sessions featured:
Wellbeing Toolkit
Wellbeing and mindfulness sessions will be integrated throughout the program. Gain a useful toolkit that you can implement immediately into your life and work.
Values Based Business
Together, we’ll clarify your values and key motivators so that you can thread your values through all aspects of your business. Communicate your offer clearly to the right people using these valuable tools.
Social Media for Creatives
Clarify your strategy and content planning for social media. We’ll use simple prompts to form the backbone of your core marketing messaging and create a series of unique touch points for all of your future communications.
Creative Writing
We practice short, sharp daily writing sessions on the retreats to build our capacity for imagination and reflection. Unlock your creative blocks in these fun and energetic sessions, using writing as an exploration of our inner and outer imagined landscapes.
Practice Your Power
In your business and creative life, there is a time for everything; to Dream, to Do, to Give and to Take. By tapping into the wisdom of natural cycles and seasons, we explore ways to support every phase of a project/life/idea.
Mapping Your Supports
In this powerful set of sessions, we map your support structures and resources to plan your next moves and discover frameworks for ideas generation, disruption and project realisation.
Purpose Exploration
Using small focus groups, we delve into your unique interests to create connections between your passions and your skills to build a foundation for a purposeful life ahead.
Mindful Forest Walk
Take a guided, soulful journey through the ancient Valley of the Giants. Enjoy the unique landscape, learn to identify local trees and take time to listen to and connect with our natural world.
Yoga & Mindfulness
Enjoy balancing and restorative yoga sessions throughout the program, with inclusive and fun sessions for all levels of fitness in NewFarm’s new yoga space.
Meet the facilitators
With decades of expertise across business, communications, creativity frameworks, project development and delivery, wellbeing, mindfulness and connection – our facilitators challenged, supported, and inspired our brave-hearted group.
Bo Wong
Bo Wong is a photographer and educator working across the visual arts and culture sectors. She’s passionate about elevating the creative sector through strong imagery and communications. She co-hosts Soul Traders Podcast, the podcast about creative work, where she shares tips and tricks on running a creative business. Bo leads the organisation and program development of her retreats and brings a spirit of collaboration and fun to all of her leadership roles. She also draws on an endless (Greens) pool of ocean-swimming related metaphors for all of her work 🙂
Photo: Roger D’Souza
Danielle Caruana (Mama Kin)
Living and breathing connection and empathy, Danielle brings decades of experience as a performer, writer, speaker and facilitator to this retreat. As the co-founder of The Seed Fund’s Future Makers Management Workshop for the last 15 years, she fostered an environment of sharing, dynamism, and inspiration, impacting music industry members from artists to managers and beyond. Danielle brings her humour, warmth and an incredible capacity to listen and distill ideas into actionable tasks into all aspects of the retreat program.
Photo: Jarrad Seng
Lucy Peach
Lucy Peach is an award-winning period preacher who draws on her experience as a human biology teacher, sexual health educator and performing artist to create transformational experiences with the menstrual cycle. As a published author, speaker and educator, Lucy has delivered her message to hundreds of thousands of people through her book Period Queen, as a TedX speaker, via her two online courses and her show, My Greatest Period Ever. Understanding the cyclic nature of the planet and our bodies (menstruating or not) is a way of approaching anything from long term strategic business outcomes to daily scheduling. Lucy works with schools, corporates and athletes, championing the importance of rest and reflection and their connection to the more outward facing aspects of our lives. Lucy is here to help you celebrate life, in all of its ebbs and flows, with a warm and compassionate embrace.
Photo: Liz Looker
Ricky England
Ricky England is a senior clinical social worker specialising in mental health and well-being. He leads Rites of Passage camps, suicide prevention programs and personal development camps across multiple organisations including Zero to Hero. He’s an outdoorsy guy with an easy going presence that belies a strong clinical background in mental health. Ricky has been banging on about trees for over 20 years - now scientific evidence is stacking up around our connection with nature and the way it affects our nervous system, our ability to make decisions and our mental health in general.
Photo: Richard Berney
