The Connect Retreat
November 5th-8th, 2026
Catskill Mountains, New York
This November, we gather for a private retreat in the serene Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the landscapes expansive, and the pace of life gently slows. As the season softens, you are invited into a deeply intentional and refined experience designed for reflection, connection, and renewal. This year, we are honored to welcome exciting new expert guest facilitators and introduce thoughtfully curated additions to our itinerary, enriching the depth and transformational impact of our time together. It is a space to pause before the year’s end, reconnect with yourself, nurture meaningful relationships, and step forward grounded, clear, and beautifully aligned within an intimate community of women who value presence, growth, and elevated connection.
A Private Invitation for Returning Guests
Preferred Early Access and Early Bird Pricing Available Through March 11
Returning guests are invited to secure their place before registration opens to new members on March 15.
This early access window honors the women who continue to shape and strengthen this circle.
Investment
Full Retreat Investment
$900 to $1,100 depending on accommodation selection and eligible discounts
Returning Guest Deposit
$200
New Member Deposit
$250 with application approval required
Intentionally Limited
To preserve the intimacy and elevated nature of this experience, attendance is intentionally limited.
We anticipate this November gathering will fill.
Early reservation is strongly encouraged.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
As a mental health therapist, counselor educator, and retreat facilitator, my work centers on positive psychology, resilience, nervous system regulation, and the ways we intentionally cultivate growth. I am deeply interested in how women expand their capacity for joy, connection, and meaning.
As a Cuban American woman, I understand courage as something more than an abstract virtue. I experience it as something inherited. Movement lives in my lineage. Migration lives in my family’s story. My family crossed borders so that expansion could be possible for future generations. That kind of courage does not disappear, it echoes.
There is courage in crossing physical borders, and there is courage in crossing internal thresholds.
Travel, whether across oceans or into parts of ourselves we have avoided, requires regulation, flexibility, and openness. It asks our nervous systems to move beyond familiarity while staying anchored. Connection asks the same. So does reinvention.
Courage, in my experience, is rarely loud. It is not always dramatic. More often, it is the quiet decision to expand rather than contract.
When we travel or seek new experiences, we widen our perspective. When we practice vulnerability, we expand our capacity for intimacy and joy. When we choose growth over comfort, we strengthen our window of tolerance and build psychological resilience. Internally and externally, we widen.
Quality of life is not found in constant safety. It is built through intentional expansion. The kind that deepens connection, supports well-being, and increases our capacity for happiness. Part of this retreat is about stepping into spaces where the natural world can help regulate, ground, and widen us in ways conversation alone cannot.
And yes, it is also about adventure. About shared laughter at dinner tables, sunrise walks, conversations that stretch late into the evening, trying something new, and remembering that growth can feel expansive and fun. Expansion does not have to be heavy. It can be joyful. It can be communal. It can feel like coming alive in real time.
Come expand with us.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sarah Baquet
The Connect Retreat Founder & Host