Dates for 2025 and 2026 are in progress, but there are two options for getting in some condensed/intensive practice on these skills in a way that lets you combine "MeTime" with some "MakeMeBetterTime":

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The 5-Day Intensive Retreat - This is a condensed version of the 8-week program, focused on giving you all the intensive and challenging practice you'd normally get over 8 weeks, in a condensed format in a beautiful location. Pricing ranges from $4-8Kpp depending on location:

• Cabo San Lucas (Beach!)

• Santa Fe, NM (Horses!)

• Pacific Northwest (Hiking/Kayaking/Spa Time)

• France (France!)

 

Master-Class Weekend - This luxe weekend (Friday-Sunday - approx $2-3kpp) at a Pacific Northwest resort location can be customized for different needs. In the past these workshop intensives have focused on such topics as:

• Team Presentation Skills: From advanced C-Suite speakers to building strong team presentation skills. Customized to learning need

• Spokesperson Survival Skills: For those charged with representing their company on the news, in podcasts and on social media

• Speech Builder's Weekend: Build/Refine/Practice an upcoming keynote, speech or presentation. We also offer a version of this weekend specifically for Professional Speakers who are looking for advanced-level expertise and insight in building or refreshing content.

• Speaker Audit: Get not only a professional analysis of your native strengths as a speaker, but identify any challenges and refine your approach in a safe and supportive environment.

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Why would I go away to do this type of work?

There's something powerful about getting away - really away - from the email and the pressure and the everyday environment in which you roam. 

Learning new things is difficult in the best of situations - and we've found that the kind of deep behavior change we're going for is best achieved when you have three things:​

- An absolutely safe environment. The five women chosen for this retreat will share your goals and commitment to be a supportive cohort. You'll all be learning new things and the concept of "perfection" will not exist in our time together. Instead, we will embrace the safety of being able to try and try again, and the shared jubilation when you all see in each other just how changed you are.

- Repeated Practice: We want you to walk away with these new skills not only learned, but woven into your mental muscle memory so deeply that they won't be "techniques' you pull out when you need them; these will be elements of how you communicate. Using on-camera and group practices - as well as our 1:1 sessions - you'll be able to see your progress throughout each day.

- Time and space *away* from your life to do the intensive and challenging practice that is required for long-term skills adoption. And it doesn't hurt that we'll be someplace beautiful and relaxing so your time *away* can be rejuvenating as well!  

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We are gauging interest in in-person versions of this program so let us know below if you are interested.

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ITALY: October 2023: We first piloted this program with a group of women at a week-long presentation training lab in Verona, Italy. Uncommon/Confidence is our effort to bring an expanded version of this program stateside and virtual, so we can offer it to more people, while maintaining the connection and personalized attention we experienced in the Italian countryside.

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