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
Retreat Leader + Communications Facilitator
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)
Creativity + Leadership Facilitator
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
Wellbeing + Strategy Facilitator
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
Wellbeing + Connection Facilitator
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
