THE CREATIVITY
RETREAT
with Dr Erika Jacobson
8-day creativity & wellness retreat for purpose-driven women
with Dr Erika Jacobson
KORČULA ISLAND, CROATIA
1 - 8 June 2024
Access higher levels of creativity, innovation & self-expression. learn to think differently, and be prepared to tackle complex, problems
You’re creative & courageous.
Your passion, energy, and commitment to an authentic & fulfilling life are contagious.
you make good things happen.
& inspire so many people.
You’re driven by more than applause, fame, or profit.
You can see yourself doing something with more impact and more focus on issues that concern you, your family, your community, your country, or your planet.
You wan to change something for the better.
When you leave Korčula after the retreat you will have:
a problem-solving toolbox filled with an arsenal of effective creative thinking tools & techniques to help you access high levels of creativity for problem solving and innovation;
knowledge and experience of embodied techniques and generative processes to help you think differently engage people that are difficult to engage, and
increased confidence when approaching complex problems and obstacles.
If you want to:
⏸️ pause your busy schedule for 8 days and take care of your biggest asset: YOU!
Step out of your suit and into your swimsuit 👙, and enjoy yoga 🧘🏻♀️, dipping in and out of the Adriatic 💦, delicious food, self-expression, creativity, and reconnecting with your purpose and values
🧰 fill your problem-solving toolbox with an arsenal of effective creative thinking tools, embodied techniques, and generative processes to help you access high levels of creativity, think differently, and tackle complex problems;
🌱 apply these tools techniques and processes to explore, clarify your vision, generate ideas, and strategise to transform & align your actions with your values, the issues you care about, and the people you serve;
🚀 amplify the impact, reach, and quality of your life, your business / social enterprise, your community, your team;
👩🏻🎨 Reconnect with your creativity, self-expression, and wellbeing.
Then this retreat is for you 🫶🏼
Business Owner - Mandy Price shares her experience of the Creativity Retreat.
“Erika created a safe space for participants to feel comfortable, open, and to let their inner struggles but also wisdom come out in a group of non judgement and support. I imagine anyone who joins this workshop in future will be a certain kind of person already somewhat open minded, but we were blessed with a wonderful and very diverse group of individuals with wonderful stories to tell and I have created beautiful friendships out of our weekend. What’s more, Erika’s post weekend coaching sessions have been the number one driving factor in not just “thinking happy thoughts” but also putting my hopes and dreams into real life action with a daily/weekly/monthly action plan. It is amazing to see how much I have been able to accomplish in such a short period of time with her influence and guidance. I look forward to future workshops with Erika and would recommend her services and workshops in a heartbeat! Thank you Erika for being just the right balance of intelligent, caring, and warm, yet still knowing how to draw our creativity out of us to be channeled in just the right way.”
HOW DOES THIS SOUND?
✨ We pick you up in Dubrovnik.
You travel by ferry, gliding through the shimmering turquoise water toward the island. The closer you get the more faint your worries become.
The fresh sea air dissolves any stress, and by the time you step on Korčula Island you cannot think of one single item on your to-do list. 🛥️ 🌬️ 😉
✨ The secluded, Croatian-style, three-story villa with private access to the Adriatic Sea, will confirm that you really are about to have 7 days away from the familiar; in an exciting culture, and immersed in a beautiful environment. 🏖️
A current of joy runs through you! 🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️
✨Every day - for a few hours a day, you’ll let yourself be guided through a series of creative techniques, embodied and generative activities that will reignite your imagination, heighten your perspective, and disrupt your thinking habits,
to give you clarity, reveal insights, and open you up to creative possibilities.
✨ You practice, apply, and start to generate ideas, rehearse scenarios, and prototype products to test them out. You’ll put together a plan.
You can do it all in your bathers - wear a sarong if you like 👙!
✨ You and the other 9 smart and heart-centered women have an energising and supportive impact on each other - you GET them and they GET you -
it feels as if you have known them all forever. 🥰
✨ In the mornings you’ll stretch, breathe, and reconnect with your body and mind through soulful yoga by the pool - you’ll feel replenished and lighter. 🧘🏻♀️
Maybe you’ll dip in before breakfast? 🤿
Pss… you are also allowed to stay in bed and sleep in 🛌
✨ The healthy and tasty vegetarian meals and snacks will nourish you in a hearty Mediterranean style. 🥑 🍇
✨ you’ll enjoy walking through the dark dense pine forests scattered around the island, and the nature reserves, marvel at the wildflowers and over 1000 different herbs traditionally used in healing and cooking, and remember how good it feels to be out in nature. 🌳
✨ adventure in a boat to nearby islands in the Korčula Archipelago and walk through a nature reserve where we’ll explore and share stories. ⛵
✨ you’ll create something unique 😉 guided by award-winning local artist 🎨 👩🏼🎨
✨ We’ll celebrate in style with dinner at a local restaurant in the old city overlooking the sea watching the sunset. Maybe you’ll find out firsthand why Korcula is so famous for its wines.🍷 Maybe we’ll go dancing! 💃🏻 🪩 🕺
✨ At the end of 8 days, you’ll have made a new group of purpose-driven women like you 👩🏻🦱 👩🦰 👱♀️👩🏼🦳 🧕 and leave the retreat inspired, revitalised, and jumping out of your skin excited by the possibilities you’ve explored, the insights you’ve received, and the reinforced CONFIDENCE about your purpose, your direction, and your role in leading your business, organisation, community or yourself towards work that helps to heal the planet and makes it a better place - for everyone. ❤️🔥 💪🏼
“I loved going on the creativity & walking retreat down the Margaret River recently.
After a stressful start to the year, I felt that I needed to get away and have some time to focus on myself and my needs!
The bush walks were magical and invigorating! I especially loved the bush sculpture followed by high tea in the bush! It made me feel really close to nature, special and creative!
Thanks for taking the time to get to know us all individually Erika! You are very perceptive and are able to help people find their true selves! I also appreciated the four-week follow-up too! It has taken me four weeks to work out my true calling and be brave enough to pursue it.
I want to help people improve their health, and build up their immunity and resilience so they too can pursue their dreams!”
Learning Outcomes from the Creativity Course
increased capacity for creative problem solving using a structured, step-by-step, process and practical idea generation tools.
more confidence in your ability to develop & improve a creative mindset and
the ability to transfer these tools and processes to tackle other problems as well as pass them on to other people and increase the creative capacity of others
a better understanding of creativity, the importance of play, making mistakes and taking risks
recognised habitual thinking patterns & the importance of disrupting them to access new ideas & ways of seeing and thinking.a 3 month action plan post retreat
Let me help you reignite and nourish your creativity, cultivate your purpose, and elevate your impact.
Dr Erika Jacobson - out in her hiking boots - Korcula Island
ABOUT Erika
I’m on a mission to do all I can to regenerate our natural environments, biodiversity and social equity… and contribute to the success, impact and proliferation of conscious, women-owned business.
I’m committed to give more women like you access to high levels of creativity, self-expression, and adventure, so you can find the courage, ideas, and direction to do what you love, earn an amazing income, and become an effective driving force for good in the world on your own terms.
Why?
#1 The world needs us/ nature needs us - without nature and its biodiversity, humanity will perish. There will be no economy, no profit margins, no country borders, and no value given to gold, lithium, or rhinoceros horns.
#2 Creativity is our superpower - we have the capacity to create anything through our limitless imagination.
We can use creativity to stop the destruction of biodiversity, regenerate our vulnerable ecosystems, and reimagine and reinvent the way we think about work, productivity, and society.
#3. This is our one and only, short and precious life - when we get to the end of it - and we will - there is NOTHING we can take with us.
Why not create a good living, have freedom, do something we love, and direct our resources toward issues we care about?
I think it’s worth it, and I’m certain there are many of you reading this who think so too.
Please read more about my positionality, journey, motivation, experience and specialised training and knowledge here. 💦
WHERE WE’RE STAYING
3-story villa in Lumbarda with private access to the Adriatic sea.
Korčula is one of the southern-most islands on the Dalmatian coast off Croatia.
Its coastline is dotted with secluded coves and pebbly beaches, shaded by coastal cypresses and caressed by the pristine, azure waters of the Adriatic Sea.
It is a place of abundant natural beauty and rich biodiversity with an array of edible herbs, medicinal plants and wildflowers.
On its fertile soil also grow a variety of Mediterranean pines and conifers, and everywhere there are citrus, pomegranates, olives and grapes. Not surprisingly, it is home to award winning wines, olive oils and honey, a home to some delicious cuisine.
It has been an important historical and cultural centre for at least 600 years evidenced in the Old Korčula Town with its medieval walls, Renaissance bell tower, carved stone buildings is comparable to Dubrovnik, but on a much smaller scale.
It is a charming, beautiful island.
Korcula Island - Croatia
ITINERARY OUTLINE
DAY 1 - ARRIVING
You’ll be picked up in Dubrovnik and travel to Korčula by ferry.
On arrival we’ll have lunch in the old town, followed by a short walk to where the transport and your luggage will be waiting.
Settle into the villa, go for a swim, relax, and explore the area.
We’ll enjoy our exclusively catered dinner together al fresco.
SESSION 1
INTRODUCTION/ WARM-UP / PLAYING / INTRO TO METHODOLOGY / REFLECTIVE WRITING
SESSION 2
POSITIONALITY / DEEP LISTENING
DAY 2 - CLARIFYING
Yoga/swim / breakfast
SESSION 3
UNDERSTANDING CREATIVITY
SESSION 4
REFOCUSING AND REFRAMING PROBLEMS
Walk through sections of the pine forest
DAY 3 - REMIXING
Yoga/swim/breakfast
SESSION 5
IDEA GENERATION TOOLS - Learn and use 4 idea-generation tools and techniques
Walk - Kojce Nature Reserve with herbalist
Local herbs workshop
DAY 4 - REHEARSING
Yoga/swim / breakfast
SESSION 6
PROTOTYPING AND REHEARSING
Improve / test / rehearse ideas - use embodied techniques & other tools
DAY 5 - REIGNITING
SESSION 7
Yoga/swim / breakfast
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
ENVISIONING Conscious business / social enterprise/self-expression
Boating to islands in the Korčula Archipelago
Walk Vela Luka
DAY 6 - RESETTING
Walk - Morning
SESSION 8
STRATEGISING Mapping journey / planning ongoing learning / reconnecting
Guided tour of Korčula Old Town
Honey and Gin Tasting
Dinner in Old Town
Dancing in Lumbarda
DAY 7 - REJOICING
SESSION 9 - CELEBRATING
DAY 8 - COMMITTING
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We know that life can be unpredictable and you may need to change your plans and cancel your booking.
WALKING ADVENTURES: If this happens please let us know no less than 31 days before your tour and we will be happy to give you a refund with a cancellation fee of 50%. If you cancel 30 – 15 days before the start of your tour, the cancellation fee is 75%. Regrettably, if less than 15 days notice is given, we are unable to give you any refund. Where possible though, we will consider transfers to alternative dates with a fee of 10% of your booking.
CREATIVITY RETREATS: If you need to cancel please let us know no less than 31 days before your event and we will be happy to give you a refund with a cancellation fee of 50%. Regrettably, If you cancel less than 30 days notice is given, we are unable to give you any refund. Where possible though, we will consider transfers to alternative dates with a fee of 10% of your booking.
To be clear the percentage refunded refers to the percentage of the total price of the event.