The root of the word education is Latin: educare “to pull forth from within.”
What is The Creator Retreat?
When you feel stuck in your head, gasping for inspiration, it’s time to step back and retreat. After fighting the uphill battles for too long, what your soul craves isn’t more strategy or hustle—it’s a sanctuary.
The Creator Retreat offers that sanctuary. It’s a haven where you can exhale, reconnect with yourself, access the wisdom that lives within yourself, and let your inner voice lead the way. Here, you’ll discover a welcoming community and a safe, quiet space to pause, reflect, and chart your own authentic path to “making it”—on your terms.
Tired of marketing gurus and self-help coaches telling you want to do, how to do it, and what is best for you?
The answers lie within. The Creator Retreat offers an educational process to tug at the heart-strings of your life’s experiences, ancestral assets, and internal truths so you can know in your core the best path for you.
You know there isn’t a quick-fix or magick-pill, and you’re sick of the “scarcity” and “urgency” of other programs.
When it comes to creating, especially when building a soul-centered business, slow and steady wins the race. The Creator Retreat provides a slow, winding, steady (and sometimes messy) path that focuses on evolution and growth rather than goals, accomplishments, and achievements.
You’re done listening to the “sage on the stage” and want to talk with real people who treat you like an equal and actually listen.
When like-minded sensitive souls come together to celebrate each other, imposter syndrome and people-pleasing melts. Through a curious community approach, The Creator Retreat creates a safe space for participants to see what you cannot see in yourself by mirroring and reflecting the blooming brilliance in everyone.
You’re discouraged by the metrics & analytics of business coaches and disillusioned by woo-woo ways of self-help gurus.
Success isn’t only about metrics and tasks; it’s also about intuition, connection, and honoring the quiet inner work that lets your creativity truly resonate. The Creator Retreat helps you balance the wisdom you feel in your bones with a measured practical strategy so you can experience a new definition of success.
What You Get When You Join The Creator Retreat
Monthly Spiritual Inner-Work Workshops - 45min
Through an interactive mini-lesson and deep work process, you will learn simple 5-minutes a day exercises to train your brain, body and nervous system to realistically manage your worries, anxieties, perfectionism, control, imposter syndrome, feelings of inadequacy, not-enough-ness, loneliness, self-isolation, creator’s block, catastrophizing, self-sabotage, and much much more.
Each month, you will practice ONE simple 5-minute a day “inner work” exercise to address your deepest insecurities and challenges on a spiritual level.
Monthly Practical Outer-Action Business Workshops - 45min
We will explore a gentle winding path to help you find your own best way to success on Substack through consistency, commenting, relationship building, and collaboration.
Each month you will explore ONE simple daily “outer action” business task to build your digital online publication.
Monthly Immersive Workshops with Guest Educators - 60min
Join online creators who have found their tribe, built their business, and redefined success for themselves on Substack.
These immersive workshops are experiential and interactive. No talking-head lectures or q&a interviews…these guest presenters will be getting in the messiness of online creation with you.
Community Support Meetings and Private Chat Threads- (cohort only)
Work together in safe space with a small group of 15-20 committed like-minded creators.
Meet monthly in an open forum zoom hang-out where you will have time to share your experiences, ask for support, tell your stories, and offer guidance to each other.
Between sessions, cohort members can communicate openly on any subject on the private chat thread.
Schedule
The Creator Retreat Cohort will meet Live in Zoom 3x per month
February 27, 2025 thru December 11, 2025
REGULAR MEETINGS - 1st three Thursdays of every month at 12pm EST
FIRST MEETING - Welcome
Thursday, February 27, 2025 12pm - 1:30pm EST
1st Thursday - TeriLeigh & Ryan
2nd Thursday - Guest Presenter
3rd Thursday - Hangout with Q&A
The Creator Retreat Self-Study will have access to all lessons, materials, videos, and replays within 24 hours of each live session.
Guest Presenters
March 2025 - The Power of “the Void” to Build Consistency & Skill
Tom Kuegler of Writing the Long Game, Letters with My Father, & Finding Tom
April 2025 - Halting the Hustle and Finding the Slow and Easeful Approach
Alexander Lovell, PhD of Life As I See It
May 2025 - Getting “Out There” - Becoming Comfortable with Hitting Publish
Amanda Saint of The Mindful Writer & WestWord
June 2025 - Keeping the Fun & Joy in Creating
Kristi Keller of Wildhood Wanted & Unstack Substack & Dog Snobs
July 2025 - Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Shame & Branding Your Identity
Megan Lee of Shame Sandwich
August 2025 - Commenting, Community, and Digital Relationship Building
Don Boivin of Shy Guy Meets the Buddha
September 2025 - Self-Promoting for the Quiet Creator
Michael Thompson of shy by design
October & November 2025 - TBD
Your Retreat Guides
TeriLeigh
Mindfulness Mentor & Aura Reader: 30+ years experience guiding sensitive souls to uncover their inner wisdom through intuitive practices and transformative self-care.
Writer & Advocate for "Weirdness": Sharing insights on breaking free from societal norms, embracing individuality, and cultivating a heart-centered creative life.
Educator Turned Entrepreneur: Master’s Degree in education with 10 years experience in public schools informs 20+ years of pioneering a unique blend of mindfulness, spirituality, and self-guided learning for authentic growth.
Ryan Delaney
Join The Creator Retreat
Whether you’re going through a major-life challenge and transition and looking for a sanctuary to process all the big-stuffs of life, or you’re an online creator who’s been caught in the hustle of trying to make it all work and you need a retreat to turn within, The Creator Retreat is a safe space to get in touch with your Self.
We will be starting our educationally designed and spiritually guided process to find your own path in March 2025.
Here’s how you can join:
Option 1 - 10 Month Guided Cohort
The 10-Month Immersive Creator Retreat Program facilitated by TeriLeigh and Ryan Delaney as a closed container of 15-20 committed individuals. We will meet Thursdays at 1pm Eastern three times a month of ten months: March - December.
10 x Monthly Interactive Spiritual Inner-Work Workshops
10 x Monthly Immersive Business Outer-Action Workshops with Guest Presenters
10 x Monthly Community Open Forum Hang-out meetings
Private Chat Threads
90-minutes (3 x 30min sessions) 1-1 private coaching with TeriLeigh
90-minutes (3 x 30min sessions) 1-1 private coaching with Ryan
Pricing
Dana means generosity.
After an initial down-payment, each month cohort members will participate in a reflective process to assess their personal process, progress, and value of the program. We will provide a suggested minimum-base-rate for monthly payments, and participants commit to paying monthly what they think the program is worth based on their own generosity, financial situation, and self-progress-assessment.
***Applications Open January 2025***
Option 2 - Creator Retreat Self-Study
Self-study workshops, lessons, and homework exercises posted 3x per month, March - December.
10 x Monthly 45-Min Spiritual Inner-Work Workshops
10 x Monthly 45-Minute Business Outer-Action Workshops
10 x Monthly 60-Minute Workshops with Guest Presenters
Pricing
This process is a slow and steady growth. We have intentionally chosen pricing that symbolizes ascent through the spiritual and practical aspects of life and business.
$12.34/month (before Jan 1, 2025 - regular price is $23.45/month)
$123.45/year (before Jan 1, 2025 - regular price is $234.56/year)
***Prices increase on 1/1/25***
Testimonials
"TeriLeigh led me through a life changing journey to the true me. She made such a difference in my life in shifting the way I look at things." ~Susan
"I’m so grateful to have Teri Leigh as a mentor in my life. Her unique, detailed and powerful approach does more for me in one hour than I get from months of traditional therapy." ~Pam
"TeriLeigh has an ability to see in the dark like an owl. She just sees everything differently, and can change your perspective almost instantly. And that changes EVERYTHING! I really really really really believe in the work she does and that it does good for everyone who works with her." ~Julie
