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

Creating space for positive 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 and a network of likeminded people 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 explore new ways to put your values into action 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. Using a modified Ikigai framework, we clarify your unique offering to the world.

Creativity Tools

We practice daily writing and creativity sessions to build our capacity for imagination, reflection and mental agility. We use these sessions as a platform to loosen rigid thinking and open ourselves to new, creative solutions.

Support + Resource Mapping

In this powerful set of sessions, we map your current support and resource structures to plan your next chapter. We identify deficits and strengths, helping you work with what got – and reach out in the places you truly need it.

Cycles + Transitions

An opportunity for those interested in going deeper to use cyclic thinking to navigate change and build capacity for self-compassion. Understanding the changing needs in our bodies and working with, rather than against ourselves can change all aspects of our lives for the better.

Mindful Forest Walk

Take our 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

Retreat Lead Facilitator - Communciations and Planning

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

Health + Wellbeing 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

Mental Health + Wellbeing 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

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

It felt like such and inviting and safe space to explore the areas that might be holding us back in business or creativity and to gain tools to better work with our energy/seasons in life and work.

I absolutely loved the writing session with Danielle.

I feel like I have the perfect framework now to begin my writing project with confidence. A great teacher!

The retreat made my struggles in creative business valid and relevant.

I was provided with the tools and strategies I needed.

My experiences of the retreat were: connected, open, inspiring, joyful, supportive, emotional, challenging, freeing. Exactly what I needed.

I’ve loved the energy of family and friendship between the facilitators.

The workshops and experiences have been put together so thoughtfully.

Definitely grateful for the tools to overcome inertia and increase the creative juices!

I feel fed in many ways.

I feel more confident in myself and I had so much fun.

My biggest takeaway from the retreat was Ricky’s gentle guidance regarding self-care and the benefits of connecting with nature.

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 December 15th, 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 Bo Wong’s services, including this retreat.

The costs listed below cover all workshops, sessions, and activities, as well as accommodation and 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

+$660

($165 per night)

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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

+$560

($140 per night)

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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

+$220

($55 per night)

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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?

Is this tax deductible?

You will learn skills that increase your capacity for self-care and communication skills in the workplace, and support bringing the whole self to relationships, work and creative projects. Explain to your accountant how our program will improve your workplace productivity capacity, reduce stress and make you a better colleague, collaborator and leader.

You can read more from the ATO.

community.ato.gov.au/s/question/a0JRF000000ABIM2A4/p00256311

Payments + Cancellations

Payments

Following receipt of your Expression of Interest, we will notify you if a place is available and, if so, send you an invoice. You can accept the offer of a place by paying the deposit of $500 into our bank account. Your place is not confirmed until payment has been received by us.
If you need a more flexible payment plan, please get in contact with Bo.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be in writing.

If you cancel by close of business 12 weeks before the retreat start date, we will refund your deposit less a 20% administration fee.
If you cancel by close of business 8 weeks before the retreat date, your 50% deposit will be forfeited and the balance refunded to you.
If you cancel by close of business 6 weeks before the retreat start date, there is no refund.
We hope this doesn’t happen but it’s possible that we may need to cancel the Retreat. We reserve the right to do so if we think it necessary. If so, we will refund your entire payment.

Accessibility, Health and Safety

Accessibility: Some aspects of the program may be difficult for participants with reduced mobility. While the accommodation and program venue at NewFarm can be wheelchair accessible, the program features excursions to natural locations that are not. While no element of the program and activities is compulsory, it is important that you understand this. There is no discount or refund for activities you do not participate in.

Health and Safety: We work to create an inspiring and culturally safe space for personal development in a collegiate group environment. The 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 you require medications or pharmaceuticals (including inhalers and EpiPens) it is your responsibility to bring, maintain and administer these while you are at the Retreat in accordance with your doctor’s advice.

We may travel to Greens Pool which is unpatrolled beach which can have strong surf and rips. If you are not a confident swimmer, it is a great place for a walk.
You accept all risks associated with swimming, physical exertion, bush walking, and exposure to

Do I get 1 on 1 time with the facilitators?

Facilitators are onsite and immersed in the program with you, so you are welcome to chat and connect during mealtimes, walks and whenever the mood aligns – however there are no formal 1:1 sessions available in the retreat setting and all sessions are group sessions.

Food + Drink

With a focus on fresh, regional produce and collaborations with local producers, the food will be AMAZING.

We request that you notify us of any food allergies; however, we cannot guarantee to cater to all combinations of allergies and intolerances. Caterers will be in touch if we see anything in your Expression of Interest that might not align with the menu.

‘All meals included’ means : Breakfast, Morning tea, Lunch, Afternoon tea and Dinner. Coffee, tea and fruit will be available all day, self-serve.

Alcohol is not provided, though if you’d like to BYO, please feel free to bring something to drink with dinner. There are excellent wineries nearby if you’d like to pick up a local drop on your way.

COVID-19 + Hygiene Policy

We follow WA Department of Health guidelines for our retreats.

There are a number of shared facilities at New Farm including the bathrooms – however all spaces are well ventilated and have sanitiser and hand-washing stations.

If you contract COVID-19 and can’t attend we’d like to know as soon as possible so that we can start contacting our waitlist. We’ll need proof of a medically supervised RAT or PCR for a refund, minus administration fees. You’ll have priority placement in the next retreat.

Travel Arrangements

You are responsible for your own travel arrangements to and from NewFarm to attend the Retreat. While most of the program takes place at NewFarm, optional excursions to nearby places of interest may be arranged. You can use your own vehicle or carpool with another participant; however, this is at your own risk. We are not responsible for any damage or injury you may sustain while driving yourself or as passenger in a vehicle.

WiFi + Connectivity

There is no mobile coverage for any providers except Telstra so if you need/want coverage and are not with Telstra, NewFarm Denmark suggest buying a Telstra SIM prior to your arrival. There is no wifi. Many will take the opportunity to be free of their phone while on the retreat, but it’s not compulsory at all. You might want to use your phone for the Photography Workshop and there will be an emergency mobile phone on site at all times.

Expression of interest

Photo: Rae Fallon

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