You’ve spent your whole life being told to speak up more, network better, put yourself out there. The world runs on extrovert rules, and you’re exhausted from trying to keep up.
You’re not shy. You’re not broken. You’re just wired differently. Somewhere along the way, you started believing that your quieter way of being was a problem to fix instead of a strength to work with. You second-guess yourself. You drain your energy trying to show up the way everyone else does. And you’re tired of feeling like you’re doing life wrong just because you need more alone time and think before you speak.
This four-day private retreat in McMinnville, Oregon is for introverts ready to explore how they work and honor what makes them different.
Through one-on-one coaching, Breath Work that helps you access your deeper knowing, and practical tools for protecting your energy, you’ll learn to work with your introversion instead of fighting it.
You’ll discover where your depth, your listening, your careful consideration are actually forms of power. And you’ll build real strategies for honoring how you feel in a world that doesn’t always understand it.
You walk into rooms and immediately calculate how long you have to stay before you can leave without being rude. You rehearse conversations in your head. You come up with the perfect thing to say three hours after the moment passed. People tell you to just be more confident, like it’s a switch you’re choosing not to flip.
The world rewards quick answers, loud voices, and constant availability. You’re none of those things. And you’ve spent years wondering if something’s wrong with you.
McMinnville is in the quiet wine country, where being still doesn’t feel strange. You’ll stay at a nearby hotel and spend your days working with Sandy and Susan.
They start by slowing everything down. Introverts process internally, and most of the world moves too fast for that. Here, there’s space to actually think, to feel what you’re feeling, to hear yourself beneath all the noise about who you should be.
You’ll talk about what it’s actually like being you. The exhaustion after social events. The way you need time alone to process. The depth of your thinking that others mistake for overthinking.
And here’s what shifts. Your ability to listen deeply while others talk over each other? That’s power. The way you notice what everyone else misses because you’re observing instead of performing? That matters. Your need for solitude isn’t a weakness. It’s how you recharge so you can show up fully when it counts.
Sandy and Susan help you see where your introversion is already working for you, and where you’ve been fighting it because the world told you to. They give you tools for protecting your energy, yes. But more than that, they help you claim your space as an introvert. To stop shrinking. To own that your quieter, more thoughtful way of moving through the world has real value.
Breath Work sessions help you access what you know beneath your overactive mind. Some sessions are with both of them, some one-on-one. There will be time to walk the town, sit with a book, or go back to your hotel and recharge. The pacing is up to you.
By day three, you’re not just setting boundaries. You’re recognizing your strengths. The depth you bring. The way you think before you speak and actually mean what you say. The quality of presence you offer when you’re not forcing yourself to be someone else.
You’ll leave with strategies for navigating an extroverted world without losing yourself. But you’ll also leave knowing that being an introvert isn’t just something to manage. It’s something to work with, to lean into, to own. Being different has power when you stop apologizing for it.
Everything slows down to your actual pace.
Introverts process internally. The coaching here creates space for that instead of rushing you to quick answers. You finally get to think at the speed you actually think.
Tools for protecting your energy in real situations
You’ll learn how to set boundaries at work, in relationships, and socially without apologizing. How to honor your need for alone time. How to stop saying yes when you mean no.
Breath Work accesses your deeper knowing
Introverts often can’t articulate what they know fast enough for how conversations move. Breath Work helps you access that wisdom directly, bypassing the overthinking.
Four days of complete privacy
This is not a group retreat. There are no other people to manage. Just you working at your own pace with two experienced coaches who adapt everything to your needs.
Focus on strength, not fixing
This isn’t about making you more outgoing. It’s about helping you see where your introversion is already powerful and building a life that works with it.
This is a private retreat designed around your needs. The following represents a typical rhythm, but all sessions are adjusted based on what emerges.
Pricing:
Day 1 – Arrival and Understanding
Evening – Rest
Day 2 – Finding What’s Underneath
Evening – Rest and reflect
Day 3 – Building Your Tools
Evening – Rest and integrate
Day 4 – Integration
We invite you to our table as friends & family. Water, tea, and coffee, as well as healthy snacks like fruit and nuts, are included in your booking.
We know and love the best health food places in town and during your retreat days we invite you to explore fresh, regional, mostly organic food.
We will adapt to your dietary wants and needs, whether you are vegetarian, vegan, GF or you have other wishes.
SUSAN COOK
As a lifelong counselor and life coach, Susan embodies her craft.
Being a Professional Certified Retirement Coach and someone who is in the last chapters of her life, she understands the urgency for folks to take inventory of what’s still important to be lived.
“This is the time you have to make sure there are no regrets in order to feel fulfilled by caring for your unfinished dreams.”
She is always looking for openings where she can support others to believe in themselves.
She has always had a natural and passionate interest in what makes people “tick”– what makes each person uniquely who they are.
In her role as coach, Susan hears and senses patterns in people that both support and obstruct their self-development.
She sees her work as guiding people into their essence and authenticity; the most effective place from which to live and make decisions.
From her training with a Master’s degree in counseling and through numerous years of experience both in education and business settings, Susan can easily relate to people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
She helps her clients chip away at their own interior sculpture waiting to be revealed and shaped. Susan is a passionate “life teacher!”
SANDRINA WELLER
Sandrina Weller offers a unique global perspective informed by her experiences living and working across cultures.
As a bi-national citizen, Sandy brings a unique perspective to her coaching work with women.
Sandy, although a fluent English speaker, is always translating through the lens of language, culture, and meaning.
She can see that the same language speakers constantly assume meaning through what is being said, yet often miss what is being said.
Sandy uses this asset to slow down communication with her clients in profound ways so that deeper inquiry and reflection can occur.
As a Systemic Integrative Coach and Breath Work Coach, she helps participants break free from limiting patterns and uncover profound new perspectives on life.
These special coaching tools and processes help her to focus on supporting her clients to “jump the system” of their chronic thinking and behavior patterns and open a wide perspective on the bigger picture of the various systems they belong to.
Sandy’s playful, curious approach and wide-ranging life experiences make her a compassionate and inspiring guide for women navigating change. She is curious, fun, and deeply committed to the challenges and dilemmas facing women today.
Making special memories in McMinnville!
Nestled in the heart of Willamette Valley, McMinnville was just nominated as the friendliest small town in Oregon!
With an inviting climate that’s temperate year-round, McMinnville is a great place to visit in any season. Hospitable, welcoming, and very friendly, the town is an ideal destination for a weekend getaway or a longer break to unwind, explore, and choose your own adventure.
Whether you’re in the mood to sip local wines, enjoy the Pacific Northwest scenery, or simply stroll the cozy streets of this historic Oregon college town where you can browse galleries, family-owned businesses, and unique boutiques, McMinnville offers a variety of experiences to make your visit unforgettable.
With art, culture, history, and some visiting UFOs, McMinnville is truly an out-of-this-world destination, and our Coaching to Connection workspace is right downtown on 3rd Street!
Additional information:
Airport transfer:
For an additional fee ($100/one way) we can pick you up at Portland International Airport. The travel time by car is between one and two hours, depending on traffic.
Accommodation:
We have countless cozy Hotels or Airbnb’s here in McMinnville. If you would like our recommendations or support please reach out- we’re here to help.
Other venues:
If you prefer to meet at a different venue (i.e. at the coast) feel free to reach out to us and we’ll do our best to accommodate your preferences.
A non-refundable trip deposit of $500 USD is needed to hold your spot in the retreat.
Your final payment of is due 2 weeks before the start date of your retreat. Payments can made by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, or PayPal and include an additional 3% convenience fee. These payments are made online directly through our website.
Other payment options are “cash” payments by money order, cashier’s check, or Zelle. If you choose a cash payment option, we will provide you with our mailing address or Zelle contact information.
If you wish us to provide you with a payment plan, contact us at info@coachingtoconnection.com
All payments must be paid in full and received by our office no later than 2 weeks prior to the retreat event. We cannot make exceptions to this policy.
If cancellation occurs 120 or more days before departure, there will be no loss of your trip deposit.
Any cancellation made between 90-119 days will result in a total loss of your $500 USD trip deposit. Any cancellation received in writing from 60-89 days will result in in a loss of 50% of the trip price. Any cancellation between 59 days and the trip departure will result in a total loss of funds. We reserve the right to cancel the trip if it does not meet the trip minimum (if we do so, your trip deposit is refunded).
Trip cancellation insurance is strongly recommended if there is a possibility that you might have to cancel your trip. All cancellations and/or any refund requests must be made in writing (no calls) to info@coachingtoconnection.com before the start date of our retreat. Keep in mind that once your retreat payments become non-refundable as delineated in our cancellation policy above, there will be NO refunds, and you will need to report your cancellation to your trip cancellation insurance provider for reimbursement.
Coaching to Connection reserves the right to cancel any retreat prior to departure for any reason whatsoever, including an insufficient number of participants or logistical problems (e.g. acts of God, war, strikes, etc.), which may impede trip operations. The refund of all payments as described in the paragraph below shall release Coaching to Connection from any further liability. A trip cancellation due to insufficient numbers would normally occur at least a month prior to departure, unless acts of God, war, strikes or other events impede our departure causing large numbers of participants opt to cancel participation on the journey in the last days before departure.
Coaching to Connection must make substantial payments to suppliers (including providers of land travel) far in advance of the scheduled date on which we embark. If a trip is cancelled due to forces beyond our control (acts of God, war, labor strikes, earthquake, flooding, etc.), Coaching to Connection will promptly refund the portion of the trip cost not advanced to suppliers. Coaching to Connection will use its best efforts to recover advance payments as promptly as possible, and will refund to you the amount recovered, if any. However, Coaching to Connection does not guarantee recovery of any or all of the advance payments made, and our use of best efforts to recover these payments will not include the institution of any legal proceeding in foreign lands. This policy applies to a trip cancellation by client choice following any necessary increase in trip costs.