REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES TO TAKE YOU WAY, WAY OUT OF OFFICE
RETREATS TO RECONNECT YOU
To yourself. To others. To your creativity and vision.
Our retreats in a nutshell:
Part personal development, part professional reset.
Our retreats are for mid-career folks in any industry who have an undernourished creative side. We’ve found these people are often asking themselves big questions:
Where am I headed in my career?
How do I bring more of my authentic self to life?
What kind of work gives me purpose and meaning?
What role do I want my job to play in my life?
Our retreats give you the tools and support to tap back into what’s meaningful to you, so you return to your work, life, and creative projects renewed and resourced.
“This was a transformative week I’ll be thinking about for months—if not years.”
— L.S., 2025 Retreat Participant
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We run regular online events about the topics we cover at our retreats. We’d love for you to join us! Browse our calendar below, and sign up for the events that interest you.
OUR FLAGSHIP RETREAT:
THE SOFT RESET
An artfully held space in the French countryside where rest meets clarity, giving insight room to root.
What you’ll do
Our flagship programming
Through structured sessions, introspective exercises, and expansive discussions, we explore:
Your values and shadows: Rediscover what’s truly important to you, and get clear on the challenges your values present.
Your authentic desires and vision: Define what you really want, and set a North Star for the near future.
Your rituals and practices: Analyze your everyday opportunities to work toward your vision, and design and align your habits.
The daily schedule is light, open, flexible, and intentional. No strict agenda, and no forced fun.
What it’s about
Reconnect with your vision & purpose without the noise of daily life
Rediscover your values and vision, and learn how to apply them to your current situation— be it at your current job, your next adventure, or your day-to-day life and creative practice.
Who it’s for
Mid-career professionals across sectors & industries
Anyone who’s curious and intentional about showing up as their best self at work and in life will find something to take away.
Previous attendees have been:
Heads of marketing
Freelancers
Coaches
PR professionals
Civil servants
Folks going back to school for a career change
Basically, if you’re connecting with what we’re describing, there’s a place for you!
How it goes
“I can’t stress enough the impact this reset has had on me. It has given me space to be what I needed to be, take time to find clarity and embody it.”
-C.A., 2025 Retreat Participant
More from the participants of our last Soft Reset below.
NOT GURUS, BUT CURIOUS CURATORS. OF SPACE, TIME, AND PRESENCE.
Kevan & Shannon lead the week’s main programming.
We are firm believers that the only real answers are the ones you come to yourself. The Soft Reset doesn’t offer one-size-fits-all advice—or much “advice” at all. It’s about crafting an intentional experience that prioritizes psychological safety, exploration, and connection while offering tools for individual and group self-inquiry.
We’re not gurus or oracles—just folks who have been down this path and are passionate about walking it with a community.
Meet your hosts
Shannon Deep,
Co-Founder @ Bonfire
Shannon came up in theater and the arts, later transitioning into branding and marketing for influential agencies and startups small and large. Now, she brings a producer’s eye and a storyteller’s vision to crafting memorable retreat experiences, designed with intention and connection at the forefront.
Kevan Lee,
Co-Founder @ Bonfire
Kevan is a journalist-turned-marketer who built teams for a handful of successful technology startups. His background in brand-building and people managing helps inform the way he shows up for Bonfire retreats: creating safe spaces where people can feel free to be their true selves.
Featured Guests
PAST GUEST SESSION LEADERS
In addition to the programming by your retreat hosts, we plan every retreat to feature guest session leaders who bring their particular gifts and points of view to the week. Examples below!
Mary Jantsch | Career Strategist
Mary Jantsch is a writer and career strategist who helps people traverse the gap between knowing they want to make a career change and acting on it.
After a decade building teams and career development programming inside mission-driven startups, she tuned her attention to the patterns beneath how people grow, stall, and find their footing again.
She writes the newsletter Quite Contrary, builds tools, and works 1:1 with people using her Career Season Framework. Her work draws on ecology, systems thinking, personal experience with burnout and career change, and close observation of how conditions, timing, and environment shape growth.
Rachel Korb | Somatic Leadership Coach
Rachel Korb of coaching with rachel is a startup leader and ICF-certified coach whose approach integrates 20 years of expertise across leadership development, nervous system regulation, neuroscience, mindfulness, positive psychology, and organizational design.
Amy Henderson | Writer, Editor & Educator
Amy Henderson is a writer and group facilitator who helps people make meaning of their lives through the written word. Her essays have been published in The Sun Magazine,Harvard Business Review, Slate, and Fast Company.
As the founder of Writing One True Thing, Amy has spent over twenty years creating spaces where reflection becomes communal. She works with people who consider themselves writers — and those who don’t — guiding them to use language as a tool for clarity, integration, and forward movement.
Writing in community, she believes, allows individuals to articulate what matters most while recognizing themselves in one another.
Sam Ogborn | Consultant & Professor
Sam Ogborn is a marketing strategist, content creator, and adjunct professor who has crafted a fulfilling career path—and an online audience of 150,000+— that embraces her marketing expertise and big-picture thinking.
Beginning with her in-house career as a marketing leader at Red Bull and Synchrony, where she specialized in content and brand marketing, Sam now charts her own path with a blend of exciting and enriching work through CMO advisory, online media, and teaching.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN OUR RETREATS
While every retreat is different, there are some things that we’re committed to providing for every experience.
✅ What’s included:
Accommodations in the French countryside for the length of the retreat
All meals on the premises, made from scratch by an onsite chef
Transportation to and from the nearest train stations to the retreat location
Onsite programming and select activities in the surrounding area
Speaker fees
Materials for sessions and workshops
Transportation to and from any programmed activities off site
❌ What’s not included:
Travel costs and logistics (e.g. flights to and from France, trains from Paris to the nearest station to the château, etc.)
Meals/shopping in the nearby villages
Any additional activities not listed our official programming
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“What a life-affirming week—one that I didn’t even know I needed.”
— C.C., 2025 Retreat Participant