Stretching Forward...

In our busy lives, we miss the opportunity to find time to evaluate our lives. Anne Morrow Lindbergh said, “For if it is a woman’s nature to nurture, then she must nourish herself.” As Joan Anderson says, we need to “retreat in order to retrieve lost strength, repair our inner selves and regroup by lightening our load, regenerating our spirits and returning new to an old place.”

It’s time to stretch forward. Time to take care of yourself, step outside of your routine, & savor nature.

2025 upcoming retreats:

Finding Purpose Today, Embracing Your Life, & Celebrate What’s Right With Your World

Join us on retreat where you will find a time of community, contemplation, and joy.

To read testimonials from previous retreaters, both in-person and online, click on button below.

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Are you ready to explore the purpose you have today? 

As Mary Oliver wrote, “What is it you plan to do with you one wild and precious life?” 

Join us as we examine the stages of adulthood, talk about resilience, what matters most, and the five P’s for purpose. We will look at our possibilities and reflect on our desires and hopes for the future. Take home a tool for helping you decide what’s next.

Retreat Objectives:

• Examine the unique gifts you offer the world

  • Explore roadblocks to finding and living your purpose

    • Enjoy time in community with contemplative women

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Scheduling Details for February 22 In-Person Retreat

• Retreat begins at 9:00 am on February 22, 2025

• Retreat ends around 4:30 pm

• Location:  Parlor at Bay United Methodist Church, 29931 Lake Road, Bay Village, Ohio (not church sponsored)

  
  All Inclusive cost of $105 includes:

• Time together for sharing 

• Time alone for directed journaling and exercises

• Programming, materials and more

• Directed meditation

• A personalized directed journal

• Coffee and snacks in am

• Soup luncheon

• A chance to meet like-minded women

• Access to the Alumni page on the Stretching Forward website

Early Bird Registration Bonus 

Previous Stretching Forward retreaters receive $20 off cost of retreat

Bring a friend new to Stretching Forward and each save $20

Early bird offers expire January 31

Click CONTACT to request registration forms or email at stretchingforwardretreat@gmail.com

             For women who are ready to . . .

                take a day just for themselves

                  continue their journey with inspiration and grace

                                        move forward with gratitude and purpose

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Scheduling Details for March 22, 2025 Zoom Retreat

• Retreat begins at 9:00 am on March 22, 2025

• Retreat ends around 4:30 pm

• Location:  your home

• Deadline to register: March 3 to allow time for mailing of care package

All Inclusive cost of $105 includes:

• Personalized care package to be mailed to you to help set the mood for the day

• Programming, materials and more mailed to you

• A personalized directed journal

• Directed meditation

• Regular breaks from screen time throughout the day

• One hour break for lunch

• Zoom link emailed the day before the retreat

• Access to the Alumni page on the Stretching Forward website

Early Bird Registration Bonus 

Previous Stretching Forward retreaters receive $20 off cost of retreat

Bring a friend new to Stretching Forward and each save $20

Early bird offers expire February 10

Click CONTACT above to request registration forms or email at stretchingforwardretreat@gmail.com  

          For women who are ready to . . .

                take a day just for themselves

                  continue their journey with inspiration and grace

                                        move forward with gratitude and purpose

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A retreat for a woman to rediscover her passion for life.

In our busy lives, we often miss the opportunity to find time to nourish ourselves.

Open your heart and mind as we explore how our past is only part of what shapes our future. We are on the journey to become scholars of spirit and soul. 

It’s time for each of us to reflect on our own journey.

Retreat - Retrieve - Repair - Regroup

Retreat Objectives:

• Harvest strength from your past

  • Find courage to embrace the life you have

    • Take home an intention to stretch toward

      • Enjoy time together to create a supporting community

        • Enjoy time alone to savor and reflect

          • Experience all nature has to offer at Lakeside

Scheduling Details:

• Check in Tuesday, May 6 between 10:30 - 11:30 am at the Idlewyld, Lakeside, Ohio

• Retreat begins at 12:30 pm Tuesday (after lunch on your own)

• Retreat ends around 1 pm Thursday, May 8

All-inclusive cost of $575 includes:

• 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch and snacks

• Individual bedroom and bathroom for each retreater for two nights

• Some ensuite, some single use hall bath

• Limited number of rooms available with ensuite bath ($50 value)

• Register early to ensure your space

• Programming, materials and more

• Personalized directed journal

• Directed meditation

• Access to Lakeside’s beautiful amenities including Lake Erie shore, paths and trails, spring scenery, recreational courts, a few local shops, and more

• Access to the Alumni page on the Stretching Forward website

• Creating the foundation for a new community of women to support you at Lakeside and when you depart

Next steps to Embracing Your Life:

• Click on CONTACT to request registration forms or for more information

• Deposit of $300 reserves your room (rooms assigned based on registration date)

• Final payment due by April 15

•   Early Bird Bonus (expires on March 28)

• Bonus 1: $60 off for previous Stretching Forward retreaters

• Bonus 2:  refer a friend to attend who is new to the Stretching Forward retreat experience and you will each receive $50 off registration

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We often celebrate the big things in life - graduations, anniversaries, and new babies.  

How often do we take the time to celebrate the small things, the everyday things? 

Do you celebrate finally cleaning that closet you can barely get in to? 

Or finishing the huge mound of laundry after vacation? 

If we believe that there is something to celebrate every day, 

we will have a better chance of finding it. 

What lens do you have on as you view your world? 

Do you look for possibilities? 

Do you savor what is in front of you? 

When change happens, do you embrace it? 

Retreat Objectives:

• Explore ways to be generous with yourself

• Reflect on what you are passionate about

• Create new, positive habits of celebration you can easily transition into your life

• Enjoy time together to create a supporting community

• Enjoy time alone to savor and reflect

• For women who are ready to . . .

take a weekend for themselves

    develop new habits of celebration

    see the world in ways that fill them with joy

    feel energy in their outlook

  and celebrate what’s right with their world!

Details will be added shortly for this Lakeside retreat October 17 - 18 - 19, 2025.

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Find Stretching Forward on FaceBook or Instagram at Stretching Forward Retreats or look for Diane McGregor on LinkedIn.

Stretching Forward retreats are for women seeking direction toward their next life chapter.