Brené Brown's Rising Strong™ Retreat and Workshop
Sunday 5th October - Friday 10th October 2025
Gariwerd (Grampians) National Park, Victoria
““What a landscape, what a house, and those hikes through nature and wildlife were incredible! ... I can’t recommend this experience and learning highly enough to others. Maggie creates a safe place to feel into your life ‘wholeheartedly.’ If you are in a space in your life where you want things to be different and really take hold of life, then this is the work for you... It is transformational learning at its best.”
Join us in wildflower season for the six-day Brené Brown Rising Strong ™ Workshop and Retreat in the stunning Gariwerd (Grampians) National Park in Victoria. After the difficult Covid years, the opportunity to “Rise Strong” has never been more timely or healing. It combines Brown’s Rising Strong™ workshop curriculum (different but complementary to The Daring Way), together with daily yoga, mindfulness meditation, guided relaxation and deep rest, afternoon hikes in the stunning National Park, periods of silence, and delicious food and sharing around the table.
We will commence with an orientation at the Brambuk Cultural Centre before our arrival session at the beautifully designed Eagle Wings Rise property, set on 50-acres with bush and mountain views and typically dotted with mobs of emus and kangaroos. We will greet each morning with a gentle yoga/movement session, then hot breakfast, morning workshop, lunch, guided deep rest and relaxation session, before heading out for one of the renowned walks such as to the Pinnacle or Balconies in the nearby mountains. In the 5-night/6-day format, there is more time to really integrate the experiential learning that Brené is passionate about and which “fits” so closely with all the understandings from the world of mindfulness. In this way, we move from theory to actually taking up and integrating practices that really make a difference to the quality of our lives and relationships.
Rising Strong™ is about exploring – and potentially re-writing – the stories that we live by, often largely out of our conscious awareness. At its core is emotional intelligence, including specific strategies and steps for grappling with challenges and picking ourselves up again when we experience the inevitable losses, set-backs, failures, or cross-roads that are bound to occur when we truly dare to live and love wholeheartedly.
In my own life as a partner, mother of three daughters, Relationship Therapist, and mindfulness practitioner and teacher, I have found Brené’s work to strike a deep chord especially in helping to understand and work more constructively with the fears that can keep us playing life safe, but small. I love her research and TED talks however I agree with Brené herself that, like mindfulness, it is only when the theory becomes integrated into our daily lives in practical ways, that it has the power to transform.
A typical daily format will be:
7:30-8:30 – Greeting the sunrise with Yoga/Movement practice (this may be outdoors if weather permits)
8:30-9:30am – Hot Breakfast
9:30 – 1pm– Rising Strong Workshop Session
1 – 2 pm – Lunch
2 – 3pm - Guided Deep Rest & Relaxation
3-5:30pm – Walking one of the beautiful National Park trails near Halls Gap (Or free time).
5:30-6:30 pm – Free Time or Quiet Chai/Aperitif around the fire-pit
6:30- 7:30 - Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 – Short Meditation / Discussion
Details
Sunday 5th October (check in 3pm) - Friday 10th October 2025. Please be in touch to register your interest.
Venue:
Eagle Wings Rise, Victoria (a few kms before Halls Gap if you are approaching from Ararat)
Cost
Earlybird Share with 2 others $1890 (bunks) or $1990 (shared ensuite / no bunks)
Earlybird Twin Share: $2090
Deposit to secure your place on booking: $697 or pay in full
(Payment by 3 x Instalments is also possible)
Included in cost:
Accommodation in twin-or triple share bedrooms in the beautiful Eagle Wings Rise retreat centre
(rated 5-star on the homeaway.com.au website)
All delicious and nutritious meals, snacks, quality coffee & teas
Training materials including Brene Brown’s Rising Strong book and workbook
To secure your place, please submit the Registration form online and deposit.
Direct deposit details:
Account name: Margaret O'Shea
BSB: 633000
Account number: 145643953
Photos: Eagle Wings Rise
Refund Policy for this retreat
A full refund (minus an admin fee of $120) is available for this retreat up to one month prior to the commencement of retreat, providing your spot can be filled. Unfortunately no refunds can be provided for withdrawals or cancellations less than 4 weeks prior to the commencement of this event. If we are unable to go ahead due to Covid Restrictions, a full refund will be provided or option to transfer to the postponed event.
