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.
Tide + Seek, May 2025
Reflect, reconnect and ground yourself in readiness for the next chapter of your work and life in the beautiful surroundings of Menang Country at New Farm Denmark, Western Australia.
Overview
A brave space for change. 7-11 May, 2025.
Join us on an immersive professional and personal development program in the beautiful surroundings of Menang Country at NewFarm Denmark.
This unique development program is designed for you to reconnect with your inner compass, creativity and wellbeing under the guidance of an experienced, knowledgeable and warm facilitation team.
Program starts at 3pm sharp on Wednesday 7th May and finishes at 11am on Sunday 11th May.
Who is this retreat for?
- People who are looking for support and resources to navigate career change or personal transition.
- Curious, self-aware people seeking opportunities to connect to themselves and others in a nature-based setting.
- Purpose-led people who would like to better align their work with their personal values.
- Those interested in exploring personal development as a way to support both personal and professional relationships.
What’s included?
- An impactful, carefully curated program of professional and personal development sessions.
- 4 nights accommodation (see options below), exclusive use of facilities and grounds at NewFarm Denmark.
- Guidance from an experienced and knowledgeable facilitation team.
- 5 days of delicious and nourishing meals and snacks.
- Daily movement and mindfulness.
- A supportive environment to make space for personal enquiry.
- A guided walk into the ancient Valley of the Giants.
- Optional visit to nearby Greens Pool.
- Time to reflect, restore, replenish and re-energise.
- Access to Alumni Monthly Meets following the program.
Program sessions feature:
Wellbeing Resources
Wellbeing and mindfulness sessions will be 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 explore ways to support every phase of a project or idea through embodied learning.
Values in Practice
Together, we’ll clarify your values based on past beliefs, current needs and future aspirations. We’ll look at how this shows up for you in your professional and personal spheres.
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.
Creativity Tools
We practice short daily writing sessions and playful craft sessions to build our capacity for imagination, reflection and mental agility.
Support Mapping
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.
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 our natural world.
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.
Meet the facilitators
With decades of expertise across business, communications, project development and delivery, mental health, wellbeing, mindfulness and connection – we’re ready to challenge, support and inspire you. We bring our whole selves to both the development and delivery of our retreat program. Our facilitators stay onsite and bring an immersive, warm and inclusive dynamic to all of the sessions.
Some feedback about our facilitation team:
“In the hands of this professional and charismatic team, I was both challenged and cared for”.
“The relationship between the facilitators made it feel like you are part of a genuine community”
If you have any queries about the facilitation team, get in touch.
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
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
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.
Testimonials
Investment
All costs are GST inclusive.
Facilitation, Program and Meals:
$3,300
+ choose an accommodation option below, for your total cost.
$300 Earlybird discount before October 31st, 2024
Please note there are no day passes available. Invoicing can be tax deductible as professional development.
Unfunded Aboriginal creative practices and businesses can receive a 20% fee reduction across all of Bo Wong’s services, including this retreat.
The costs listed below cover all workshops, sessions and activities as well as your accommodation and all of your meals for the entire retreat. There are no further costs.
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.
3 cabins available
03. Bell Tent with Queen Bed
The signature NewFarm experience, enjoy a comfy queen bed in a glamping bell tent complete with a proper mattress, electric blankets (queen only) and gorgeous views.
6 queens available
02. Bell Tent with Twin Single Bed
Enjoy a comfy single bed in a glamping bell tent. You’ll be sharing with one other person, so bring the friend of your choice for a $200 fee reduction when you book together!
8 twin singles available
+$360
($90 per night)
04. Camping
If you have your own tent, swag, caravan or campervan, then the self-camp option is for you. Set up in the picturesque NewFarm campground and enjoy your own bed at night.
3 campsites available
Places are strictly limited
Small group, big impact.
We’re capping numbers so that you’ll be getting guaranteed IRL facetime with our facilitators. We’re ready to give you strategic support and cheer you on in your next endeavour.
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 the retreat.
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
