The Retreat Workbook
Before you can see clearly what you want to build, you need to know what lens you are looking through. The beliefs that have been quietly running the business — about worth, visibility, permission, who you are allowed to become — will shape any vision you create without you knowing it. Clear the lens first. Then look.
Write without stopping. Without editing. Without reading back until all ten are complete. The first thing that comes is the real thing.
Read through everything you have written. Underline the sentence that feels most uncomfortable to have written. That is the belief doing the most work.
Take the belief that felt most uncomfortable from Exercise 1. You are going to locate it in the body rather than argue with it in the mind.
Beliefs shift when they are moved around, not just named. The action in the last prompt is where the rewrite begins.
Yesterday you looked at the beliefs running underneath. Today you get to vision from a cleaner place. This session is about stripping back what has been built from habit or fear, and seeing clearly — for the first time or again — what you are actually here to create.
On a blank page, write every offer, service, or income stream you currently have or have had in the last two years. Don't edit — just list. Then come back to these questions.
This is private work. You do not need to share the full list. The insight is in the noticing — what you circled without hesitation, what you avoided looking at.
This is not a visualisation exercise. This is a grounded, specific picture of a working day. Write one paragraph describing a Tuesday in your 2027 business. Use these anchors:
The specificity is the point. 'I want to work with high-achieving women' is not a snapshot. 'I have six clients in a six-month container, we meet fortnightly, they are women stepping into leadership in their own businesses' is. Keep going until it is that specific.
You have a vision and you have cleared some of the weight underneath it. Now: can you say it? This session is where the retreat turns outward — from inner work to public presence. Your message is not your credentials. It is the moment of recognition in the woman who needs you.
Two sentences. Not about you — about her. The client. This is the core of every message that works.
The test: the right person reads this and thinks 'that is me.' The wrong person reads it and thinks 'not me.' Both are correct responses. A message that tries to speak to everyone reaches no one fully.
Written first, spoken second. Three sentences — no more, no less.
This is a private practice of owning the work out loud. What you discover here is often the most direct thing you have ever said about what you do.
Closing and creating are the same act. You cannot fully step into what you are building while you are still carrying what you have not finished with. This session holds both: the year review as the ground clearing, and the 2027 declaration as the first act of building.
Before the review, start here. Write three things from this year that you are genuinely proud of — not the biggest numbers, not the most visible achievements. The most real.
This exercise often surfaces unexpected pride. Small acts of courage. Clients who were hard but important. The decision to stop something that wasn't working. These are the real markers of a good year.
Work through your Year in Review workbook here. Bring what you find into the Creation Declaration below.
The closing half and the opening half in one. Start with the release. Then step across.
Now step across. From the cleared ground, write your declaration:
Read your declaration back. Is it specific enough that someone else could describe it accurately? 'I am going to grow my business' is not a declaration. 'I am launching my signature programme in March with eight women at £3,000 each' is.
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