Conscious Leadership Retreat
Nature-based Day Retreat to deepen presence, clarity and connection
Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre | October 2nd or 3rd 2025 (select your date below)
escape into nature. quiet the noise. re-connect with yourself and your vision.
Inspired by stillness and natural surroundings, you’ll draw upon renewed clarity as you explore your unique leadership strengths, tendencies, beliefs and motivations - in an intimate, supportive and confidential setting.
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As a high-performing leader, your mind often races and your to-do list feels endless. While you may understand your purpose clearly, there’s a subtle, deeper sense of disconnection—from yourself, your energy, and the moment-to-moment experience of your life. This retreat offers a rare chance to pause, quiet the noise, and return to your inner steadiness—so you can lead with deeper self-awareness, presence and clarity.
A transformative journey
The journey begins in the weeks leading up to the retreat. In September, you’ll receive access to pre-retreat information, guidance and reflective prompts.
On retreat day, you’ll take in the fall colours on your scenic drive to the Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre to spend a day immersed in nature and community.
Following a grounding exercise, you’ll savour some refreshments and a light breakfast as you get to know your fellow participants. You’ll then be guided through an expertly curated series of activities including reflective time in the forest, awareness-building practices, fireside chat, guided meditation and peer-to-peer sharing.
Each activity is thoughtfully designed to deeper your understanding of how to work with your reactive patterns and unlock your unique creative expression. You’ll wrap up the day feeling nourished and connected - to self, purpose, nature and your fellow leaders.
We understand that lasting change requires support. That’s why, after the retreat, you’ll receive seven days of audio recordings to deepen your insights, followed by a live online integration session.
You will also be offered the option to sustain and deepen your transformation through The Arborvida Collective - a year-long mastermind to support you in bringing deeper presence and clarity into your leadership.
Kind words from last year’s participants
“I loved [the experience] and am really hoping it’s an annual retreat. As leaders, we need to learn to slow down before we can speed up. You are a masterful facilitator.” - Stephen (CEO)
“Rebecca - The day was incredible (I’m still looking at spiderwebs differently!). It was evident that you put so much intention behind each aspect of the retreat; you created a space for us to be vulnerable, allowed time to digest our learnings and respectfully challenged some of our ways of thinking. I would highly recommend this day in nature to any leader who wants to better connect to their inner leadership capacities and to learn from other likeminded leaders. Hope to see you there next year!” - Melissa (Manager)
“Thank you Rebecca for a wonderful day - very enriching and a lot of take aways. You and Arija did a great job facilitating and creating a safe environment for leaders to explore conscious leadership” - David (CAO)
“Thank you, Rebecca, for an incredible day! I highly recommend this retreat experience to anyone who wishes to deepen their practice of conscious leadership” - Rachel (Manager)
Beyond a retreat
It’s all too common for the insights and clarity gained during retreats to become lost or forgotten once a leader steps back into the day-to-day. For this reason, this offer is not just a retreat, but an integrative journey. The following elements are included:
Pre-retreat reflective prompts
Full day in-person retreat with an intimate peer group (capped at 12 leaders).
An embodied experience of conscious leadership principles
Guided self-reflection and facilitated group discussions in a confidential setting
Deepened awareness of your reactive tendencies and creative expression
Mindfulness techniques you can use to access the spaciousness of retreat beyond the day itself
Light breakfast, nutritious lunch and refreshments
7 days of brief post-retreat audio recordings straight to your inbox
An online integration session post-retreat (October 10th 1:00-2:30pm EST)
$500 off annual enrolment in The Arborvida Collective (available through October 2025).
Total investment is $595 + HST*
Register by July 18th for early bird pricing (save $100 with code EARLYBIRD100) + receive a bonus Presence Reset Session: A private call with Rebecca to co-design a personalized, neuroscience-backed routine and habit change roadmap to quiet your busy mind and be more deeply present for the moments that matter.
*A limited number of partial scholarships are available based on financial need. If this experience is of interest and cost is a barrier, please e-mail rebecca@arborvida.com to inquire.
Meet Rebecca
Rebecca Wilson is an award-winning Executive Coach and Speaker, certified mindfulness teacher, and experienced senior leader.
Rebecca spent much of her life identifying as a do-gooder and high achiever. At some point along the path of striving for more outward impact, she realized she’d lost connection with herself. Her path of self-discovery led her to experience the profound effects of mindfulness.
Along this journey, Rebecca continued to thrive professionally, moving into senior leadership positions in the management consulting and not-for-profit sectors. All the while, she was diving deep into wisdom traditions and personal development, eventually training as a certified coach, meditation and yoga teacher. As she observed changes within herself and her clients, she began witnessing the transformative impact of inner work on leadership effectiveness.
Rebecca founded Arborvida to help high achieving, purpose-driven leaders deepen their presence and elevate their impact. She is recognized for her expertise in the field of Conscious Leadership and weaves together 15 years of experience in strategic facilitation and leadership development with her qualifications as a Mindfulness Teacher and Executive Coach to create truly transformative retreat experiences.