Want to join our next Nurture Retreat? Coming this November 15-17th!
RETREAT WITH US
Three days and two nights full of hands-on creative workshops, sumptuous seasonal meals and time to connect with yourself and kindred others.
Nurture retreats offer a soft place to land. A community that has your back. A weekend of creative nourishment and tending for entrepreneurs, leaders and caregivers.
A culinary love letter of a meal in celebration of your business or meaningful milestone. NOT just the ‘food for your event’ but an experience in and of itself.
Branded dinners, reunions, birthdays, anniversaries, club celebrations, graduations & retirements, engagements, bachelorette gatherings and small weddings. Or, just a group of you and those you love most on a casual Wednesday (p.s. hiring me to be your personal chef for the night is the same price per person as a night out in the city!).
Let me take care of feeding your people on retreat while you focus on what you do best. The bonus? All of the food will be telling the story of you and your brand, while intentionally nourishing the work and essence of what you and your guests are diving into.
We partner with Canadian makers, artisans and store owners like you, whose products embody the spirit of Nurture: nourishing, beautiful, quality, handmade items with an emphasis on natural or organic ingredients, and promoting connection with oneself.
We love to feature small businesses and get your products in the hands of people who both need them and love them, at the retreat, in our online Nurture Marketplace and beyond!
At Nurture Retreats, we intentionally partner with people whose unique expression of creative talent influences, inspires and informs their life: as a business owner and in their own personal and professional development. We’re inspired by YOU, your creativity, and the way you see the world and would love to consider you for our team!
Nurture workshops are less about the materials or skills we’re working with, and more about YOU and how you create and see the world through your tangible craft.
NOTE: We exclusively feature workshops that feature a tangible take home craft in the medium of your area of expertise. While we love them otherwise, applications that centre movement, somatics, and other intangible arts are not what we are after for the retreat.
At Nurture Retreats, we intentionally partner with people whose unique expression of creative talent influences, inspires and informs their life: as a business owner and in their own personal and professional development. We’re inspired by YOU, your photography, and the way you see the world and would love to consider you for our team!
Nurture guest photographers are encouraged to capture the weekend from a place of inspiration vs. documentation.
The Nurture Marketplace is part shop, part archive, part celebration of all the talented people we’ve collaborated with since 2015. We intentionally don’t get a kickback, but we DO get immense pleasure out of introducing you to these incredible creatives. Tell them Nurture sent you!
Browse through for inspiration, a glance at our creative community and perhaps a special treasure for yourself or someone you love.
Sonja Seiler, Founder of @nurtureretreats and 20/10 human is on the pod this week. We’re talking about all things creativity, community and food — which are just a few of the things she absolutely excels at.
Sonja is the visionary behind Nurture Retreats, one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself (which I shared about in last week’s solo episode). It’s a place where you can set down the things we’ve been carrying for so long and just be – while reconnecting with ourselves and sharing space with other incredible humans. It was magic and I will share more about it soon.
This week’s episode is talking about how Nurture came to be NINE years ago – and how it’s been so impactful to so many ever since. Sonja shares so many stories about the experience, why creativity is so important and how we can show love for each other through food – which if you know anything about me is a way to my heart.
The episode is as special as this week’s guest and I hope you love it as much as I did.
Today on the show, I’m creating some space for Sonja Seiler of Nurture to share her story of burnout recovery, and speak to the subtle shifts & changes to her retreat as a result of her experiences throughout the pandemic. Sonja is one of my best friends & favourite collaborators, and it was such a gift to get to connect with her and make meaning out of what she’s been going through over the past few years. 
This episode is perfect for anyone who has been struggling with burnout and is trying to find new inspiration and new ways of being in the world. Tune in to hear how Sonja is learning to nurture herself and allow herself to be nurtured by others, how our Fall retreat will be different from previous iterations, how important it is to tell the truth, and the movie scene that made us both cry while recording. It’s a thoughtful and honest conversation and we hope you can find some solace or reassurance inside.