Welcome to the Kids Life Studio® Children's Change Makers Sizzling Summer Retreat! Join us for a fun, playful and educational 5 night/6 day event designed to help you navigate children's challenges and support their mental, physical and emotional wellbeing with confidence. Whether you are a certified Kids Life Studio® Coach or considering starting your own Kids Life Coaching practice or deciding whether to add to or transition out of your current career to support children on a deeper level, we have you covered!
Who is invited to attend:
If you are a children's change maker this retreat is for you! Come and surround yourself with like minded professionals who share your passion for supporting children.
Retreat Theme:
Press Pause & Play - This is your time! Time to recharge, reconnect and reclalibrate. Supporting children in any capacity (even as a parent) can be a journey that leaves you feeling fulfilled but exhausted! Maybe you give your all to everybody else but sometimes at the sacrifice of your own peace of mind. In this immersive coaching retreat, you will not only get the opportunity to press pause and rest but the aim is to leave with a toolbox of new skills to support children through Play Based Coaching®.
Duration:
5 nights, 6 days Sunday 1June 2025 to Friday, 6 June 2025 (add on extensions available on request) Checkin 5 pm on Sunday and Checkout 10 am on Friday. Retreat Training times Monday to Friday 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Group size:
Maximum 12 children’s change makers to ensure a personal experience and opportunity for individualised mentorship.
️Location:
This in-person retreat will be held at the beautiful Elmers Court Hotel & Spa in Lymington in New Forest, England. Picture sailing yachts, marinas and cobbled streets with an ice cream parlour on every corner. A very special place!
Venue:
Elmers 4 star Spa Hotel which used to be a reform school for “troubled children” and also a training school for spies in WW2!! A perfect English Manor House venue for children’s change makers to step into summer with the beach nearby and with ample time for swimming in the outdoor pool or sitting in the sauna or playing a round of tennis or doing a yoga or fitness class. This expansive Manor House is set in tranquil grounds with lots to do if you love keeping busy or you can find a little nook and read a book inbetween your training and adventure activities if that's your thing!
Accommodation:
Fancy but no so fancy that you can’t kick your feet up and just relax!! Shared self catering 2 or 3 bedroom apartment style accommodation sleeping 4-6. Private rooms available with own bathroom or go with the flow twin sharing. Each apartment has it's own kitchen and dining room for preparing and sharing meals along with a cosy lounge for night time board games or sipping hot tea and nibbling on English Shortbread.
Travel:
If you come by car, parking is available onsite. Lymington Train station within 5 minutes walk. Closest airports Southampton or Bournemouth within a half hour drive. Gatwick and Heathrow Airport around two hours away.
Food:
Daily Lunch and refreshments provided. You will be responsible for your own breakfast and dinner in your self catering apartment kitchen - this isn’t one of those feed your soul, detox, drink green juice kind of retreats! So nourish yourself with food you love with no judgement! Even a glass or two of wine welcome! We can connect you with your apartment mates so you can menu plan for breakfast and dinner and cook together if you choose! Or….Splash the cash with no cooking or washing up dishes….Optional use of in house hotel restaurants or local Eateries within walking distance in Lymington town. Who knows where you end up but know you won’t go hungry!!
Inclusions:
- Brain Capital Mentoring and support (sounds fancy but tap into your brain and how it works, why it works that way and how to build it for peak performance as children's change maker and learn to transfer this to kids effectively.)
- Personal 1-1 Mentorship Strategy Session with Kids Life Studio® founder, Zelna to design your own unique personalised action plan for transferring the skills learnt on your training retreat into your existing or future Kids Life Coaching practice or into your classroom or therapy room. (This is your chance to dream big!)
- 5 nights single or shared accomodation in 4 Star Historic Manor House Spa Hotel (It was a spy school and a reform school so expect the unexpected….)
- 5-days Play Based Brain Building and Brain Balancing activities - (shhh….its a secret…every retreat is different! Yup we know the controller in you is struggling with this. Trust us you will love it!)
- 5 nutritious lunches with refreshments (Ranging from conference style lunches to fish and chips on the quayside and homemade sandwiches from the local deli, you won't go hungry!)
- Free time available for some pampering with access to leisure facilities including jacuzzi, sauna, indoor heated pool and outdoor pool if you are into cold water dipping (excludes beauty treatments…sorry…that’s for another type of retreat not this one!!)
- Want to whack a ball around for fun - tennis courts, pitch and putt green and croquet (not the one you eat the other one.)
- Choice of yoga and fitness classes (If bending your body like a pretzel at sunrise or sunset floats your boat!)
- Towels and toiletries….(unmm yes…collectible miniature bottles you can take home and never use. You know it!!)
- Fully equipped apartment kitchen with fridge and dishwasher (ugggg…practical and needs to be said…moving along)
- Private apartment Dining room and Lounge area (chin wags and a cup of English tea anybody? Fully equipped apartment kitchen with fridge and dishwasher (ugggg…practical and needs to be said…moving along) Fairtrade Herbal Tea & Coffee, milk and sugar provided.
- Take home Let’s Play Toolkit (swag with a play vibe!!)
- Two Play Based Adventure activities (summer weather permitting these could include but are not limited to forest hikes, boating, cycling, forest bathing, rowing, paddle boarding, archery, horse adventures…all abilities and fitness levels considered so don’t worry)
- Opportunity to connect with thousands of wild ponies in the iconic New Forest along with some tree hugging if that’s your jam! Maybe even make a human friend or two along the way!! Oh and you may even spot some wild deer and a roaming wild pig or two…)
Exclusions:
Travel and travel insurance for own account. Breakfast & Dinner not included. Refreshments provided exclude alcohol. Spa treatments bookable directly with hotel. Telephone or room charges for additional items.
Fee:
Varied fee dependent on accomodation type. Discounted fees for all Kids Life Studio® Membership Coaches. Early bird fees available until 28 February 2025.
Outcomes:
- CPD Accredited Professional development opportunity with a focus on personal wellbeing.
- Designing a bespoke action plan to transfer into your current or future Kids Life Coaching practice, classroom or therapy space.
- Reset and recharge by tapping into your inner child and having fun connecting and learning alongside like minded children’s change makers.
Facilitator:
Kids Life Studio® Founder, Zelna Lauwrens will be offering personal mentorship and training on this intimate retreat. With over two decades experience supporting children as an early career Special Needs Teacher and Kids Life Coach she is well positioined to share her practical experience with you. Alongside this , she has Masters Degree in Clinical Child Psychology and as a Doctoral Reader in Psychiatry, Zelna is skilled in the theoretical knowledge for building brain capital as a consultant, trainer and university lectuerer. Having designed and developed her Play Based Coaching System® in 2003, her methods and tools are now used in over 47 countries. She has been offering accredited Kids Life Coach Certifications for over a decade with clients from all over the world which gives her unique insight into cultural awareness, diversity and inclusion alongside the legalities for working with children to safegaurd their wellbeing.
Preparation process applies:
To ensure all participants share the same values and outlook when it comes to supporting children's wellbeing, a pre-retreat strategy call is mandatory.
