Hella Retreats
Our Hella Retreats are driven by your actionable, measurable goals. We work with you to create an inclusive space where everyone can participate fully and and be their authentic selves.
Gather your leadership team, employee resource group(s), and/or your entire organization for a truly inclusive experience unlike any other.
One of our clients described their Hella Retreat as a “transformational experience.”
That’s exactly the kind of feedback we like to hear.
Book a Hella Retreat to help you:
Align DEIJ commitments with mission, values, and strategic plan
Build and strengthen trust amongst the team
Understand “the why” that drives your work
Facilitate transparent, safe discussions about workplace issues
Explore diverse communication styles and provide pathways for compromise and strengths-based approaches
Craft a vision for a prospering and safe work environment for all
Create an action plan for transformational cultural change to make DEIJ goals meaningful and actionable
Hella Retreats—featuring Hella Social Impact’s expert emergent facilitation—can be one-to-multi-day experiences, and can be in person, online, or hybrid.
What sets Hella Retreats apart from the rest?
Venue
Although it’s not always possible, we recommend our retreats be in-person and close to nature. We want participants to feel grounded and safe in a neutral, accessible, and beautiful place, and that can’t always happen in a company conference room or coworking space. The work we will be doing together is sometimes challenging, and having access to places to walk, stretch, or sit quietly away from others during breaks is integral to our retreat experience.
Activities
As emergent facilitators whose purpose is to help you maximize your impact, we find ways to bring happiness, laughter, and joy into our work. We create holistic experiences that, in addition to our rich content, bring in poetry, movement, music, and mindfulness. We customize our agenda to your goals, and build meaning into everything we do. We are constantly collaborating. We work hard to bring all voices into the room.
We are not sitting in a dark room looking at PowerPoint slides. We promise.
Service Providers
When required, we draw upon our network of consultants to support our Hella Retreat experience. We may include various creative coaches, mindfulness/yoga teachers, musicians, and/or playback theater actors to build inclusion, deepen relationships, and strengthen connections to inclusive and equitable principles.
We Handle It All
Transformative experiences like our Hella Retreat don’t just happen on their own. It takes sharp attention to detail, the skills to manage many moving parts, and the ability to think and behave “emergently” when last minute changes come up to create the most immersive and meaningful gathering possible for your organization.
We manage it all.
Working closely with you (and your budget), we:
Select the Hella Retreat format and corresponding date(s)
Research and book the venue (preferably BIPOC-owned)
Research and provide BIPOC-owned vendors for food and beverage
Create the content and format for our time together
Set expectations for all participants in advance
Tightly manage the agenda
Expertly facilitate the retreat, noticing when additional topics need to be addressed or breaks are needed
Take notes especially for accountability and/or action items
Provide post-retreat reporting and follow up
Let’s plan your retreat.
Contact us for more information about Hella Retreats.
Note: All retreats currently require 4-week lead-time.