Experience the magic of creative inspiration while connecting with wild animals in a natural setting.
Safari West Wildlife Preserve in Santa Rosa, California
September 28-30, 2017 (Friday – Sunday)
The Creativity Safari Retreat is an inspirational adventure for body, mind, heart and soul.
This Retreat is for writers, artists, photographers, and creatives of any kind and any level of experience.
In today’s fast-paced world, creatives are always looking for ways to tune in, connect with inspiration, and do what we’re here to do: write, paint, draw, design, photograph….create!
But let’s face it: there’s only so much inspiration we can get sitting at home in front of our computers! Sometimes we get blocked, sometimes we’re too busy – sometimes we just need to take a break and get away.
What if in one weekend you could learn how to tap into your natural creativity at will with a heart-opening, one-of-a-kind retreat nestled in the middle of a wildlife refuge that looks, feels and sounds just like the Serengeti Savannah in Africa? You’d do it, right?
During this all-inclusive retreat, you will
- Connect with animals, nature, and spirit
- Tune in to your creativity
- Better understand creativity in general and your creative process in particular
- Progress on a current project or begin a new one or simply explore your inspiration and creativity
- Take home tips, tools and best practices to keep your creativity going
The Creativity Safari is 3-day all-inclusive retreat designed to not only spark your creativity and give you time to create but also to set you up for a future of unlimited creativity in everything you do. Nestled in the “Sonoma Serengeti” and inspired by the animals and nature around you, you will connect deeply with your creative source to reach new levels of creativity and aliveness. PLUS, you’ll take home tips, tools and best practices to keep your creativity alive well into the future.
Program Schedule (subject to change)
Friday 4-9pm (including dinner at 6; check-in begins at 3pm or earlier)
Saturday 9am–9pm (including group and solo and free time and shared meals)
Sunday 9 – 11am (Gallery Walk and Readings – sharing our creativity!)
Inspired?
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Accommodations
Retreat participants will spend two nights in luxury tent cabins imported from Africa and built on high wooden platforms with spacious decks. Pale green canvas walls enclose plush beds, hot showers and rustic but elegant trappings. There are polished wood floors, gleaming copper basins in the private bathrooms and one-of-a kind hand-hewn furniture. This is “glamping” at its finest!
Meals
The Savannah Café provides continental breakfast and safari style BBQ lunches and dinners. Retreat participants can dine indoors surrounded by African murals and artifacts or out on the veranda with its African “Moto” (fire pit), custom-made wooden tables, and vine-covered arbors while overlooking the Sonoma Savannah. Selected wines, beers and fine ports from California and South Africa are available (sodas and alcoholic beverages are not included in Retreat Cost).
Investment (including meals and lodging, based on double occupancy)
Early Bird $795 (deposit received on or before June 1)
Regular $995 (deposit received on or after June 2)
Single Supplement – add $350
Interested?
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Detailed Program Schedule (subject to change)
Friday
3-4pm Check In
4-5:30pm Welcome Reception: Introductions, Intentions and Objectives
6-7:30pm Dinner
8-9pm Group Meeting: Creativity Defined, Explored, Enhanced
Saturday
7-9am Breakfast (at your own schedule)
9-10:30am Group Activity: Clearing Blocks to Creativity (Cara’s deck)
10:30-1pm Solo Creative Pursuits and/or Intuitive Coaching with Cara*
1-2pm Lunch and Group Process: Affirmations, Anchors and Wins
2-5pm Solo Creative Pursuits and/or Intuitive Coaching with Cara*
6-7pm Dinner
8-9pm Optional Group Meeting: Creativity = Humanity
Sunday
7-9am Breakfast (at your own schedule)
9 – 11am Gallery Walk and/or Readings – sharing our creativity!
*Registration includes one private 20-minute intuitive coaching session with Dr. Cara. There will be a sign-up sheet available onsite to choose your time. Additional private appointments may be available for an extra fee of $65.
Retreat Leader
Award-winning author Dr. Cara Gubbins is also a professional intuitive and coach whose passion is helping others live their dreams by connecting them with animals, nature and spirit.
Trained as a scientist, Cara found her creativity relatively late in life – but she’s making up for it now!
Cara has published three books, designed dozens of courses, workshops and retreats locally, nationally and internationally, and each day she co-creates the life of her dreams – full of inspiration, joy, fulfillment, meaning and love.
Cara’s current creative projects include writing a memoir, designing an oracle card deck, and recording guided mindfulness meditations. Cara holds bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in ecology, evolution, conservation biology, animal behavior, and spiritual psychology. When she’s not creating, Cara can be found outside enjoying nature with her husband, children, dogs and cat.
Ellie Jacques-Capon
HOLY SHIT! Mind blown, heart healed, course righted, soul singing!!!!!!!!! Cara, thank you for taking me through an energetic quagmire and helping me find level after level of clarity!!!!!! My energy is big, bold, brilliant and spaaaaaarklllllling!!!!!!!! I can’t tell you how freaking talented you are! Woos…this chick is the real deal. Check her out. She meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go…even if you aren’t entirely clear where that is! Cara, seriously, thank you so, so very much! Big giant love!
Tracie Devlin
You have changed my life in such a huge way! I now know my soul’s purpose and am 100% confident in my coaching. I can’t keep my mouth shut about you! You have changed my life in such a huge way; I can’t help but share your brilliance with others. You are honest, genuine, and tuned in. You’re connected and open to receive spiritual guidance and share your insights and that makes sessions with you priceless!
Dee Cooper, M.Ed., M.Div., D.Min.
Cara has a profoundly deep passion for the holiness of all animals on this planet. She recognizes and invites us all into the awareness that we are not otherlings with each other but indeed share the same spiritual DNA.
Angel Fullerton
Thank you for the Dragonfly call! I was in tears. Dragonfly and I have had a long, bumpy journey together. Getting organizations to cooperate is a monumental task but Dragonfly always reminds me to take it day by day. I can’t express my gratitude for your service in offering that call!
Susan Hagan
Thank YOU for the call today– what a gift! It was my good fortune to participate! In the hour or two following the call, I kept noticing that the top of my head felt more open– in a good way. 🙂 And I still feel a warm sense of greater connection — as of course with these calls you are providing a SUPPORTIVE, TANGIBLE CONNECTION for others — what better way to apply Naamfon’s wisdom??!!
Julie Sergel
Your work is sooo beautiful. It’s so magical what you do – and how you spread it out. Like a sun, so we can all drink it in, with our hearts. I was so blessed to be on the Animal Wisdom Circle call last night. Thank you, to you and Choppy. My wish is that you will get on Animal Planet. I just love animals so much and the more people who can expand their capacity to connect and understand. . .YES!!! Your work – it heals us all. XOXOX
Janet Roper
“Cara’s goal of connecting humans animals and Spirit shines through every aspect of the Animal Wisdom Circle. Thank you, Cara, for all you do for all sentient souls!”
Sean Murphy
Cindy-Wynne Kolding
Cara, I’m absolutely loving Talk With the Animals. You have organized the program so brilliantly and made it fun to boot!
Monica Chan
It’s like magic! I’ve been applying what I learned with my new dog Murphy. I’ve never had such great results!
Elaine Garley
Dear Cara, I’m so grateful I met you online a few years ago. As an animal communicator, I have the the gift of words, pain, and emotions. You have rounded out my world with your scientific knowledge and your wonderful guidance with your book, oracle cards, your readings, and your spirit. Thank you for all you bring to me and the world!
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