The Women’s Retreat is an intimate experience for women who lead, build, and carry responsibility – and who understand the power of stepping back in order to move forward. Created by The Honest Talk, an organization dedicated to amplifying women’s voices and supporting women in leadership, the retreat is grounded in honest conversation, shared experience, and practical insight. It brings together a small group of women in a private, distraction-free setting where meaningful dialogue can unfold and genuine trust can form.

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Set at Spa Eastman, a serene resort nestled in the beautiful Eastern Townships of Québec, the location itself is integral to the experience. Surrounded by nature, Spa Eastman offers a calm, restorative environment that provides the perfect backdrop for rest, reflection, and recalibration.

Designed around impactful conversation, contemplation, and time in nature, the retreat offers a carefully curated program that blends strategic thinking with personal growth. Through facilitated discussions, collaborative workshops, and candid conversations, participants are invited to explore big questions: how to grow with intention, navigate risk and change, leverage networks, sustain ambition, and build resilience over the long term.

Anchoring the experience is time with Premier Kathleen Wynne, the 25th and first female Premier of Ontario. Her unique leadership journey offers rare insight into values-driven decision-making, strength under pressure, tenacity in the face of scrutiny, and maintaining conviction while managing the highest levels of responsibility. These conversations go beyond theory, offering perspective shaped by lived experience.

Just as importantly, the retreat honours the need for pause. Time for quiet solitude, movement, and being outdoors is intentionally woven throughout the experience, recognizing that clarity, creativity, and awareness often emerge when we slow down.

At its core, the Women’s Retreat offers women leaders the chance to step out of the noise, connect meaningfully with one another, and return grounded, challenged, and renewed, with insight and relationships that last well beyond the retreat itself.