Reconnect to what truly inspires you.
WHERE
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
WHEN
October 6-12, 2024
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Spend an enchanting week in the south of France.
Immerse yourself in the luxury of your senses, explore your own creative potential, and map out what’s next.
Design Your Life
Imagine what it might feel like to spend a week completely focused on yourself. On designing your life’s next chapter.
Reward yourself with the time you need to reconnect with your senses and discover how the simple practice of slowing down—to savor, to think, to create without distraction—will reinvigorate you and help you to clarify your creative purpose.
Leave with a complete toolkit for your next chapter in life, whether it’s business or personal, and a network of supportive women to guide you.
ABOUT THE RETREAT
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You’ll stay in a private suite at the exclusive Domaine Agalia maison—a 20 hectare olive and lavender farm in the heart of the famed Luberon Valley.
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Indulge in the bounty of French cuisine with a healthy, local meals everyday throughout the retreat.
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We’ve curated a curriculum of unforgettable designer-focused experiences for every day of the retreat, each focused on one of the 5 senses.
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One of the highlights of the retreat will be time for you to interact and collaborate with other ambitious creatives in an intimate, immersive learning environment.
Your week-at-a-glance
Sunday
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Airport Transport to Domaine Agalia in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Welcome Workshop
Cocktail Atelier w/ a Mixologist
3 course provencal dinner
Monday
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Daily yoga or meditation class
Daily facials or massage services
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Morning seminar and book signing by photographer and NY Times Bestselling Author Jamie Beck (author of An American in Provence and The Flowers of Provence)
Afternoon excursion to tour the celebrated winery, contemporary art center and gastronomy hub, Château la Coste
Dinner at Chateau la Coste
Tuesday
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Daily yoga or meditation class
Daily facials or massage services
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Morning: Truffle hunting + wine tasting.
A 3 hour tour of a Provençal truffle plantation where we’ll learn how truffles are cultivated and truffle dogs are trained, then go on a hunt with professional hunters who will share the secrets of their truffle search!
We’ll learn to tell the difference between a real Provençal tuber *(melanosporum) and its inferior Chinese counterparts.
We’ll also learn how to properly clean, store and cook with truffles.
The tour is followed by a sampling of fresh truffle hors d'oeuvres and champagne, with a tasting of organic olive and truffle oil.
Private Group Dinner
Wednesday
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Daily yoga or meditation class
Daily facials or massage services
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Transport to historic Aix-en-Provence for a fragrance workshop in a perfume atelier
We’ll start with a questionnaire to establish your olfactory profile, learn about the different extraction techniques, then you’ll compose your own 75ml eau de parfum in a hand blown crystal bottle which you will be able to personalize to take home.
Dinner in Aix
Thursday
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Daily yoga or meditation class
Daily facials or massage services
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Morning: A visit to one of the world’s most renowned flea and brocante markets in nearby L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue—the antiques capital of France, third largest center for antiques in Europe, and the most enchanting in the eyes of many!
After lunch, enjoy a guided antique walk and tour through the heart of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue’s historic town center to learn more about this unforgettable French village.
Evening Seminar: Learn through a hands-on workshop all about French cheese + charcuterie during the sacred apéro hour! Elevate your cheese board making skills to an entirely new level ✨
3-course provencal dinner at Domaine Agalia
Friday
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Daily yoga or meditation class
Daily facials or massage services
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Morning: Enjoy a sensorial hike through the wild Luberon valley along the picturesque Aigue Brun river.
Upon return, we’ll experience a sound bath ritual performed using a variety of instruments—Tibetan and crystal bowls followed by a seminar to synthesize the week’s sensory immersion.
Champagne Apero + Vision Board Celebration
Evening 3-course dinner at Domaine Agalia
Saturday
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Final Seminar (with a special gift!)
Transfers to airport (or extend your journey throughout the south of France or to Paris!)
Transitions are a gift.
Every change in life offers a chance, too.
A chance to start anew—to reimagine a world exactly as we want it to be.
Yet for many professional women, the struggle to balance the obligations of a career, family, and personal growth can be overwhelming, leaving us depleted as we give and give until there’s nothing left to give ourselves.
Sometimes the biggest changes in our lives come at the most unexpected moments—times when the universe shoves us into a pivot point and we must make decisions.
And at other times, we find ourselves sitting in stasis, uncomfortable yet unaware. Perhaps simply undecided about what next best steps to take.
No matter which state of flux you find yourself in, we encourage you to use your next transition to create lasting change in your life.
Join us.
WHY ATTEND?
By offering yourself the chance to slow down, you can revel in the information and inspiration your senses are sharing with you—all the time!—and connect to your highest creative potential.
Allow yourself to be guided back to the innate inspiration that started you on your creative journey from the beginning.
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Your time is a gift.
Savor it.
Immerse yourself in a world that inspires you and learn to savor every moment. It’s here that you’ll reconnect to your most creative and inspired self.
Launch a new business.
Write that novel.
Gain the confidence and inspiration to paint again.
Dance everyday.
Sing your heart out.
Nurture your dreams.
Put yourself first for once.
Celebrate yourself.
Live your most creative life.
Reconnect to your purpose and use it to design the life you want.
Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime creative experience.
Amber Cartwright & Ericka Saurit
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Besties since the moment they met, their decades-long friendship and creative partnership has endured and evolved across time and continents.
Both North Carolina natives and creative executives, Amber Cartwright and Ericka Saurit share a passion and purpose to elevate the lives and careers of women through creative education and professional mentorship.
Gleaning wisdom from following their own dreams after similar life transitions—love, loss, divorce, career changes—they embarked on a new journey in the south of France.
Away from the hustle of city life in the US, they’ve both gained a new energy and vitality from building new lives in the French countryside, and are thrilled to share this transformative experience with other creative women on a similar journey of discovery and transition.
In every transition lies the potential for growth beyond your greatest imagination.
Your greatest creative potential is already inside you.
This week-long, immersive retreat is designed to bring together professional women searching to reconnect with their own creative purpose.
It’s specifically designed for those seeking inspiration and a new point of view they can bring into their next chapter—be it starting a new business, stepping confidently into a new career or role, or simply looking for the time, space, and framework to discover what’s next.
You’ll find the support you need to develop a plan, reconnect with your creativity, and Design Your Life.
Space is very limited, don’t miss your chance to bloom with us this FALL in the south of France.
