It’s time to create momentum toward the freedom-based business and career path you’re craving.
Welcome to ACTIVATE 2025, a one-day retreat experience for soulful business owners and those on non-traditional career paths, hosted by Jenni Gritters and Emily Tighe in Bend, Oregon, on June 6, 2025.
Who: This is a retreat for small business owners, entrepreneurs, creatives and folks on non-traditional career paths who want to do life in absolutely their own way. (If you’re not running a business yet but considering it, send us a note!)
If you’re at an inflection point with your work and you know you want to create something braver, different or more aligned: This experience is for you.
If you want to meet like-minded, adventurous humans who understand following non-traditional paths for the sake of joy: This experience is for you.
And if you’re an expert at working hard but you’re looking to integrate more play into the career picture: This is most definitely for you.
What: We’ll start with grounding work, then we’ll dream about the version of your business that’s evolving into being. Next, we’ll focus on your current workflows and business structures (or ideas), so you walk away with practical next steps. This day retreat also includes a gorgeous paddleboard adventure along the Deschutes River, followed by an outdoor sound bath experience and closing circle, to help you take the business game plan and integrate it into your whole being.
Where: Bend, Oregon (virtual tickets available for the morning portion)
When: June 6, 2025
Why? Because if you can create this kind of bold, joy-filled experience in your body during the retreat, you’ll be able to create it at home, too. And the world needs you to be louder about your unique ideas and mission in the world.
We’re not playing small anymore. And you’re invited to join us.
What’s included:
Breathwork
Visualizations
Paddle boarding
A sound bath experience
Business coaching sessions
Breakfast, lunch, coffee and snacks
A workbook to take home with you
A vision board for your business
** the virtual-only retreat includes breathwork, visualization, business coaching and a vision boarding workshop
Our schedule:
9 am breakfast
9:30 am breathwork for clarity & future self visioning, overlooking the river
10 am: brain dumping workshop & time to share what is coming up for you related to your work
11 am: snack break
11:15 am: business vision boarding session
11:45 am: structural business model & workflows session
12:45 pm: lunch
1:30-3:30 pm: paddleboarding adventure
3:30 pm: sound bath session & closing circle
4:30 pm: arrive back at The Haven Coworking
More information:
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If you’re attending in person, we’ll send out a survey closer to the retreat date to check in with you about dietary restrictions. You’ll get to pick your lunch order from a local restaurant.
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If you’re attending virtually, all you need is a Zoom link!
If you’re coming to Bend for the in-person version, you’ll meet us at The Haven Coworking, close to downtown Bend, with views overlooking the river.
We’ll paddle from that area (near Farewell Bend Park), to Drake Park. You’ll be shuttled back to The Haven at the end of the experience.
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Absolutely! We’d love to have you. Bend is gorgeous — especially in June! We’re happy to provide recommendations for places to stay and things to do, if you plan to stay beyond the one day.
If you’d like to check prices, our favorite hotels include Juniper Haven (for a fancy evening), Loge, or the Riverhouse.
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You’re invited if you own your own business or you’re business curious. This retreat will also be applicable for you if you’re weaving a unique, gig-based career path.
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If you decide to attend virtually, you’ll be with us from 9:30 am to approximately 1 pm PST, on Zoom, to participate in all the business workshops, plus the breathwork and visualization. You’ll also join the vision boarding session.
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If you have your own and you’d like to bring it, please let us know! If not, we’ve got you covered.
Meet Your Guides
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Jenni Gritters
COACH & FACILITATOR
Jenni is a certified business and career coach, and a writer who is obsessed with helping people craft lives they love. She believes true change comes from re-patterning old stories and finding deep community — and she can’t wait to help you make big moves in your life. Jenni was previously a journalist living in an urban center. Now, she gardens furiously and hangs out with her two small children at their house in the woods. Life is really, really good.
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Emily Tighe
EXPERIENCE CURATOR
Emily is an adventure-loving soul based in Bend, Oregon, with a passion for helping people connect to nature, themselves, and each other. She created Do Yoga Outside to blend her love of the outdoors with movement, creativity, and community. Whether she’s leading a yoga session on a mountain, guiding a bachelorette hike through stunning landscapes, or hosting an art-in-nature retreat, her goal is to create experiences that leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and more alive than ever.
Push yourself to your edge in the safest community, full of like-minded people with supportive values.
There’s just something about adventuring in gorgeous, bold landscapes (this is the land of fire and ice, after all) to help you integrate all of your big business dreams.
Because let’s be honest: The old paradigms aren’t serving us anymore. (And we mean us in a very global, societal sense.)
And building a big, joyful life and career on your own terms? It requires bravery. But this is a room where you’ll find that in spades.
Ready to book?
You’ll find all the details you need on the booking links below! If you have questions, reach out to Jenni and Emily directly via DM or riverwoodsmediagroup@gmail.com