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How to Host a Wellness Retreat, and Why

She Means Fitness Business

Release Date: 11/29/2023

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Start with Why Host a Wellness Retreat

What is the reason you’re even asking how to host a wellness retreat (and there are many reasons why you would), but you don't want to begin planning that super fun, ambitious retreat, before you explore, what is my purpose? 

Some purposes could be: 

  1. Make a profit. I'm going to host a retreat, make a profit, and ideally make this profit doing something that you would enjoy doing: spending a week or a weekend depending on how long this retreat is, with people you enjoy doing activities that you enjoy. That would be number one, you immediately want the profit from the retreat. 

  2.  You might host a retreat as a live event model. That you definitely have to cover your expenses. Let's be clear on that. But in order to sell your attendees into something greater, and that might be a combination of sell them into a training program that occurred prior to the retreat. So they're buying the training program, the retreat is the reward. And you package it all together, but make it appear as if this is the test of the training they want. The conditioning, the strength, the endurance, the whatever it's going to take for them to have a good time at the retreat, even if there wasn't a retreat, but now you're allowing them to have this real goal: this real starting line if you will, at the beginning of the weekend. That's one way. 

  3. Another purpose is in bringing them together and selling them on what they don't know that maybe you're hosting simply an activity kind of retreat. You're taking them hiking, doing yoga, Pilates, core, stand up paddleboarding, horseback riding or kayaking, and otherwise just keeping them very active. But you're doing this with the opportunity to plant seeds about what it is you do on a deeper level. You’re making them hungry for more information, more guidance, helping them realize they don’t know what they don’t know… and want to. You're creating desire for a next step. You're planting that seed at the entire time of your retreat, and then planning to sell them into that and that is how you make a profit. You'll be concerned or thinking about your conversion rates. 

That is, you know that if you have 15 people attending 40% of them will take a next step and that those 40% might positively influence each other and make others have FOMO. 

Once you know WHY you’re hosting the retreat you can plan much more effectively. When will you drop seeds about what’s next? Even in your welcome kick off party there may be a very small hint about previous attendees and what they went on to do. That’s very subtle. 

Based on feedback from nearly 15 years of hosting retreats of various types: 

 

I’ve learned a few things:

  • You won’t please ALL the people all the time

  • People don’t always read the fine print

  • People who’ve never been in a program or met you might attend 

  • Some want “white space” time to for instance journal 

  • They don’t like to be rushed 

  • Many don’t read the fine print

  • Some don’t follow the training plan and aren’t prepared to keep up

  • If your brand has a style of eating/nutrition it doesn’t mean attendees will comply 

  • The right people always show up

Determine how long you want the retreat to be:

  • Half day
  • Full day
  • Weekend
  • 3 day

Do you want to host live or virtual? 

You might feel more comfortable doing one or the other.


Pros to virtual - low expenses.

Pros to live - the energy and no tech to go wrong! 

Let me know if you’re hosting a wellness retreat in 2024 or want to! 

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