LEADERSHIP RETREAT NEAR SEATTLE, WA

Healing Leaders

A Transformative Leadership Experience

Oct 2-5, 2025 | Outside of Seattle, WA

Explore how your unsequenced trauma may be impacting how you live, lead and love. Whether you’re a leader in your family, community, or organization, your role and relationships can feel more easeful and aligned with your values when you take radical responsibility to heal the emotional pain that has gone untended for so long.

On this long weekend retreat, Kelly will invite you to go deeper with self-reflection, relational leadership skills, transformative writing prompts and more. Candis Fox will bring their financial wellness magic to the group to begin healing any wounding around money (a stand-in for power, pleasure, giving, and receiving). We’ll conclude each program day with somatic breath work practices to release stored emotion.

Based on Kelly’s book, Heal to Lead, these trauma integration modalities are grounded in Buddhist psychology, mindfulness studies, neuroscience research, attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and somatics. Together, we’ll correlate how your survival strategies have kept you from playing bigger. You’ll reconnect to your innate wisdom and the healing power of community, and you’ll remember the gifts you are here to contribute.

Limited to 12 participants.

Includes shared accommodations, all meals and snacks, and access to all amenities (hot tub, fire pit, walking trails and more).

Two 50% scholarships are available to BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ participants in a season where financial support would enable their presence.

LEADERSHIP RETREAT NEAR SEATTLE, WA

Healing Leaders: A Transformative Leadership Experience

Oct 2-5, 2025 | Near Seattle, WA

Explore how your unsequenced trauma may be impacting how you live, lead and love. Whether you’re a leader in your family, community, or organization, your role and relationships can feel more easeful and aligned with your values when you take radical responsibility to heal the emotional pain that has gone untended for so long.

On this long weekend retreat, Kelly will invite you to go deeper with self-reflection, relational leadership skills, transformative writing prompts and more. Candis Fox will bring their financial wellness magic to the group to begin healing any wounding around money (a stand-in for power, pleasure, giving, and receiving). We’ll conclude each program day with somatic breath work practices to release stored emotion.

Based on Kelly’s book, Heal to Lead, these trauma integration modalities are grounded in Buddhist psychology, mindfulness studies, neuroscience research, attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and somatics. Together, we’ll correlate how your survival strategies have kept you from playing bigger. You’ll reconnect to your innate wisdom and the healing power of community, and you’ll remember the gifts you are here to contribute.

Limited to 12 participants.

Includes shared accommodations, all meals and snacks, and access to all amenities (hot tub, fire pit, walking trails and more).

Two 50% scholarships are available to BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ participants in a season where financial support would enable their presence.

 

What’s the Schedule?

Thursday (10/2) — Arrival, Container Creation + Dinner
5:00pm - 8:30pm
Friday (10/3) & Saturday (10/4)
8:30am - 8:30pm
•••••••• Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30am
•••••••• Exercises, Group Shares, Somatics
9:30am - 12:30pm
•••••••• Lunch
12:30 - 1:30pm
•••••••• Exercises, Group Shares, Breaks, Embodied Dyads
1:30 - 5:30pm
•••••••• Gentle Breathwork
5:00 - 5:30pm
•••••••• Free Time*
5:30 - 6:30pm
•••••••• Dinner
6:30 - 7:30pm
•••••••• Guided Meditation
7:30 - 8:30pm
Sunday (10/5) — Breakfast, Closing + Departure
9:00am - 11:00am

* Free time is woven throughout the long weekend. You can take a nap, meditate outdoors, go for a walk, hop in the hot tub, cozy up with a book, or do whatever feels good to you.

 

Meet Your Co-Facilitators…

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Kelly L. Campbell

Kelly L. Campbell (they/them) is a former CEO turned certified Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach to emerging and established leaders who know they’re meant for more. They are the author of HEAL to LEAD: Revolutionizing Leadership through Trauma Healing (Wiley) and a sacred trauma healing practitioner. They are engaged to the love of their life and live in New York.

Candis Fox

Candis Fox

Candis Fox (any pronouns) is a Financial Wellness & Integrity Coach, consultant and speaker. They combine 10+ years in cognitive and behavioral science with a master’s in education to help clients transform their relationship to money, impacting systems and communities in the process. They are pure magic and currently live in Tacoma, WA.

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What Questions Do You Have?
How should I prepare for the retreat?

The most important preparation is to set your intentions for this work together and to enter the space with your mind and heart as open as possible.

Pack loose or comfortable clothing, pajamas, a bathing suit and toiletries. (Shampoo, conditioner and body wash are provided in each of the five full bathrooms.) Bring a water bottle, a journal and a pen, a book if you like to read during free time, and anything else that may feel good to you (i.e. meditation cushion, yoga mat, or favorite shawl or blanket).

Our chef will be able to accommodate all dietary restrictions, allergies and preferences; however, if there is something specific you’d like to bring for yourself, please do.

What is the investment?

The investment for this experience is $1,500 and may be paid in full or in two parts (50% upon acceptance and 50% fifteen days prior to the experience.)

Includes:

• shared accommodations for 4 days / 3 nights
• all programming
• all meals and snacks
• all amenities

Two 50% scholarships are available to BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ participants in a season where financial support would enable their presence. Please note this when sending the form near the bottom of the page.

Who is this long-weekend retreat for?

This retreat is for you if you’re an emerging or established leader who wants to live, lead, and love with more confidence and freedom. You may be feeling called to step more fully into your gifts, but are unsure where to start, sometimes second-guess yourself, and know that there are parts of your past that are holding you back.

Between the c0-facilitators and participants, the container will be an inclusive, supportive space for all genders and identities.

All are welcome to apply.

Where is the retreat being held?

The retreat location is about an hour outside of Seattle, WA. Photos are seen above. The address will be provided to participants once they are approved and paid.

If it feels like a fit, apply below.

Each applicant will be invited to a 1:1 Zoom call. Once confirmed, location details will be provided once payment is received. We will also gather as a group on Zoom on September 15th at 12:00pm PST / 3:00pm EST (about two weeks prior to the retreat) to say hello virtually and answer any remaining questions participants may have. Anyone able to carpool or rideshare will be able to connect at this time as well.

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