How to Craft Transformative Retreats (For Yourself or Others) With Nina Butler

Dec 17, 2023

Nina Butler, an expert in retreat planning and transformative travel experiences, shares advice on curating retreats, scouting locations, and promoting them. Other topics include setting intentions, exploring emotions and actions, planning multi-generational trips, the power of energy and transformation, and the importance of having intentions on a retreat.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Transformative Travel and Setting Intentions

02:34 • 16min

Exploring the Gap: Understanding Emotions and Actions

18:13 • 4min

Planning Multi-Generational Trips and an Energetic Alignment

22:31 • 3min

The Power of Energy and Transformation

25:39 • 16min

Casual Conversation and Retreat Business

41:59 • 3min

The Importance of Having Intentions on a Retreat

45:12 • 20min

Having Fun and Choosing Unique Locations

01:04:52 • 27min

Connection, Selfie Time, and Trivia Fun

01:32:09 • 4min

How can you use travel as an intentional tool for growth? Today, I’m joined by Nina Butler to learn about retreat planning and how you can create transformational travel experiences for yourself as a solo traveler or as a facilitator for a group.

Figuring out how to harness the power of travel to transform is what Nina Butler does best. She went from a high school dropout to working and sailing around the globe on private yachts at 16 to eventually getting a Ph.D. in philosophy. She became a yoga instructor and launched her retreat business, InRetreat, which crafts immersive transformative travel experiences designed to open the mind and expand the heart.

Nina shares some powerful concepts around intentionality and how to set the framework for a transformational experience. She gives plenty of advice on curating your own retreat-like experience, and we dig into the business side to talk about things like what to avoid doing as a facilitator, how to scout for locations, and the most powerful tools to promote your retreat.

Have you ever been on a retreat? Do you want to plan a retreat for yourself or others? I'd love to hear about your experience and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message.

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Tune In To Learn:

How she went from high school dropout to Ph.D. and yogi
The mind-body connection and how to free yourself from your thoughts and foster gratitude for difficult experiences
How she was able to get a job on a yacht at 16, the skipper’s lifestyle, and how that led her to her university studies
How she defines a retreat and advice on setting intentions (for your retreat and in life)
The five ingredients for an epic retreat
Why you need to get out of the way when facilitating an experience for others
Her favorite African retreat and how she finds her locations
Advice for packaging your retreat and how it’s possible to have your trip paid for as a host
The most powerful tools for marketing and how to promote before you launch
How her studies in philosophy have changed her perceptions of life
How to create a container for transformation
And so much more

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