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Zilience Calm three-day learning retreat for women

Reframe     Rewire     Recharge     Relax

Explore a range of resilience-building and change enhancing tools.

Backed up by scientific research and current best practice.

Learn our unique self-coaching technique as a way of re-energising and emboldening yourself.

Connect with other like-minded women in a restful, caring and inspiring environment.

Experience the restorative characteristics of staying at The Gates Accommodation.
Enjoy nearby Māpua Seaside Village as well as the famous Māpua Wharf.

Leave the retreat ready to welcome each day with increased inner strength, calm and self-compassion.

 

Please note: Your retreat provides learning, not therapy. 

Retreat programme outline

Day one 

​settle in

 

introductions

beliefs

 

breathing

 

weaving a flax memento

 

the brain 

 

activities

Retreat dates, prices and accommodation options

Usual price for our two night, three day retreat

$1750* 

 

An exclusive retreat - a maximum of eight women.

A minimum of 15 hours professional facilitation.
You will be staying at The Gates Accommodation in Māpua, Nelson.

Your breakfasts, lunches, tea breaks, accommodation and facilitated learning are included.

 

The distinctive and unique styles of the different accommodations, and their stunning surroundings at Adele and Roger's property, help put the zing into your Zilience Calm retreat.

 

* If you would like a room with a private bathroom, or you would like to stay in the Outlander Cabin, add $150 to your retreat cost. To reduce your retreat cost by $100, request the bunk, or mezzanine rooms.

Dates and Prices

Zilience Calm Recipe

Take a deck, a Magnolia, magic and magnificent
Coffee, camaraderie, two time-honoured friends
Add a shower of sunshine, a sprinkling of spring
Stir in an attitu
de of abundance mixed with
Several spoonsful of willingness, heaped
Carefully fold in thoughts and themes
Test, taste, and season as required
Test, taste, again and again
Pour into an ample tin and
Bake for many months
Until – it rises and 
Bounces back 
To the touch
Allow to 
Breathe 
Then – 
Gently
Take it 
Out, ice 
With love
Check it for
Readiness with
Wonderful Women 
Living life, loving life 
Launching with lunch 
Learning and such calm 
Resilience with a Zing 
ZILIENCE

Introducing your Zilience Calm retreat facilitators

Facilitators
Adele outside on her lovely property
ADELE SMITH

Co-founder and facilitator Zilience Calm retreat

Life change facilitator, Zilience

Bachelor of Arts

Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (credit Hons 1)
Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Management
Diploma of Secondary Teaching 
NZIM Diploma of Learning and Development
New Zealand Life Coaching Certification

Mindfulness Practitioner Certification

Member of the Australia and New Zealand Coaching Alliance 
NZQA Verifier and Assessor Standards
Robert F. Mager Criterion Reference Instructional Design
John Heron Group Facilitation

Project Adventure Facilitation

Adele outside on her lovely property
KATHERINE FAIRE
Co-founder and guest facilitator Zilience Calm retreat

Master of Business Administration

Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

Prosci Change Management Certification

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Lea Galvin reistered clinical psychologist
LEA GALVIN
Guest facilitator Zilience Calm retreat

Registered Clinical Psychologist

Doctorate in Psychology

Fellow of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists

Christine Gillespie psychotherapist
CHRISTINE GILLESPIE
Guest facilitator Zilience Calm retreat

Graduate Diploma of Child Psychotherapy Studies
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education (Educational Psychology focus)
Diploma of Psychotherapy Studies and Applied Counselling (L6)

Registered Psychotherapist

Member of NZ Assn Psychotherapists (Advanced Clinical Practice)

Member NZ Assn Counsellors

Sue Neal personal trainer
SUE NEAL
Guest facilitator Zilience Calm retreat

BSc (Hons) (UK) Physical Education and Sports Science
Cert Education (UK) Physical Education, English and Education
Previously Programme Coordinator for No Child Left Inside
 

Adele in her garden

Adele Smith

Katherine speaking about Adele:

 

Adele and her home in Mapua have long been my refuge from the stresses of my own life. One day, sipping coffee on Adele's deck admiring her Magnolia tree in flower, I wondered aloud whether we could use her various boutique accommodations at The Gates to give other women the wonderful respite I experience there.

 

Taking things a leap further and thinking way outside the box as usual, Adele suggested we could also share our experience and knowledge to assist others on their life journeys.

 

Visionary and creative, with a loving and positive energy, Adele makes things happen, while bringing lots of fun to the process. This vision, creativity and can-do attitude have been key to the development and success of the accommodation business she runs with her husband Roger, and her many other projects including Zilience.

 

Being a qualified training practitioner, and earlier a secondary and tertiary teacher, Adele is skilled at developing and facilitating motivational and inspirational learning experiences. Words such as 'stunning', 'brilliant learning' and 'the best training we’ve ever had' have been used to describe Adele’s work. Professional life coaching is another string to Adele's bow. 

 

Adele’s home and her companionship have provided me with peace and inspiration for many years. May the same hopeful calm also be yours.

Katherine in Adele's garden

Katherine Faire

Adele speaking about Katherine:

 

Kind and compassionate, perceptive and intelligent, Katherine is a people person.


Originally trained in information management, Katherine gets to the heart of any matter quickly and effectively. She is widely read with a gift for seeking out, sifting through and succinctly summarising relevant material.

Katherine has a broad background in communications, change management and human relations in the public, private and start-up sectors. 

Succumbing to the lure of the lifestyle block, Katherine and her husband John left Auckland in 2015 and moved to the stunning Tawharanui Peninsula. As well as continuing with her communications consultancy, her life there has broadened to running her boutique accommodation Kākā Ridge Retreat and co-launching Zilience.

Being a great listener is the key to any effective communication and Katherine displays such excellence. 

Katherine has been a true and wonderful friend, coach and mentor to me since my early twenties. I’m so grateful to have Katherine in my life and to have had her input into developing and launching Zilience.

 

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Learn more about the creators of your Zilience Calm Learning Retreat

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