The Writing Party
A relaxed, social writing experience with creative prompts, conversation, independent writing time, and optional sharing. Works for writers, book clubs, friends, and coworkers alike.
Retreats & Workshops
Gather with purpose.
Lakes Global designs and facilitates retreats, workshops, writing gatherings, and small-group experiences that help people connect, create, reflect, and move ideas forward. Sessions range from a focused 90-minute workshop to a multi-day retreat.
Experiences
Facilitated experiences for your group
Each experience can be tailored for friends and family, writers and book clubs, small businesses, nonprofit and leadership teams, community organizations, and milestone gatherings.
Team Reset
A practical team experience focused on communication, priorities, relationships, and what needs to happen next. Built for staff teams, leadership teams, and boards.
The Big Idea Workshop
For people with ideas they want to explore, develop, or turn into something real — a new venture, a project, or a creative work.
Vision to Action
Turn a collection of ideas into a shared vision, priorities, and a simple action plan. For groups with something they want to build, change, or figure out.
The Next Chapter Retreat
A reflective workshop for individuals or groups thinking about what is next in their lives, careers, organizations, or creative work.
Create Your Own
Have something different in mind? We design a workshop or retreat around your group, occasion, location, and goals.
What makes a Lakes Global experience different
A clear structure that adapts to your group's goals.
We provide a clear plan while leaving room for the people and ideas in the room to shape the session. Tell us what you want your group to experience, and we will design the agenda.
Facilitation elements
- —Guided discussions
- —Writing and reflection prompts
- —Collaborative exercises
- —Creative challenges
- —Goal-setting and visioning
- —Small-group activities
- —Structured conversation
- —Action planning
- —Optional pre-event questionnaires
- —Customized materials and take-home resources
For hosts, retreat properties & travelers
Bring a facilitated experience to your venue
Visiting the area with friends, colleagues, or family? We bring the session to your retreat, rental home, or meeting space. Lakes Global also partners with vacation-rental hosts, retreat properties, and event spaces to offer guests bookable workshops, recurring experiences, or programming customized for the property.
Contact us to discuss adding a Lakes Global experience to your property's guest offerings.
How booking works
Four steps to a facilitated experience
- 01
Tell us about your group.
Share your preferred date, location, group size, and what you would like the experience to accomplish.
- 02
Choose an experience or create one with us.
Select an existing workshop or ask us to customize one for your group.
- 03
We design the session.
Your facilitator prepares the agenda, activities, prompts, and materials.
- 04
Gather your group.
We lead the experience so you can participate rather than manage the event.
Book a retreat or workshop
Planning something?
Tell us a little about your group and what you have in mind. We can recommend an existing Lakes Global experience or design something specifically for you.
Booking services for a government agency instead? Request a proposal.