SETTING THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARD
FOR RETREAT HOSPITALITY™
Mastering Retreats™ Certification for Hospitality Venues
Mastering Retreats provides retreat venue training for hospitality teams, hotels, resorts, and retreat venues that want to become preferred destinations for retreat leaders. Learn the operational standards, guest experience strategies, and industry best practices that today’s retreat professionals expect.
Complete the certification in as little as 3 months, with 12 months of implementation support, live coaching, and access to resources to help you successfully launch and grow your retreats.
Early Enrollment Inclusion: Enroll by September 15
one full year of private, direct-message access to Catherine Kontos
The first certification dedicated exclusively to helping hospitality venues attract, deliver, and lead exceptional retreat experiences.
Transform your venue into the kind of destination retreat leaders recommend—with the strategy, systems, and support to deliver exceptional retreat experiences with confidence.
Designed by RetreatBoss® Since 2012
AI-Supported Planning & Hospitality Resources
Built on Proven Retreat Industry Expertise
Templates, Calculators & Implementation Tools
A SHIFT IN WHAT RETREAT LEADERS WANT
Hospitality has changed.
Retreat leaders are looking for more than a beautiful venue. They’re looking for a partner who understands the retreat experience.
They want a property that supports their vision, anticipates their needs, and helps create an experience their guests will remember long after they return home.
For many hotels, resorts, and retreat centres, retreats have become one of the fastest-growing opportunities in hospitality.
Yet most hospitality teams have never been taught what retreat leaders truly need from a venue.
As a result, many properties rely on traditional group sales and event practices that weren’t designed for retreats—often investing significant time and resources without knowing whether their property is truly retreat-ready, what retreat leaders are looking for, or how to position themselves as the obvious choice in an increasingly competitive market.
Mastering Retreats™ was created to change that.
RETREAT HOSPITALITY – NOT TRADITIONAL GROUP SALES
More Than Hosting Retreats.
This Retreat Venue Training and Certification for Hospitality Teams isn’t about teaching your team how to run a hotel. You already know hospitality. It’s about understanding what makes retreat experiences different and how every department contributes to a successful outcome for both the retreat leader and their guests.
You’ll discover how to align your property, your team, and your guest experience with the unique needs of the retreat industry—helping your venue stand out, build stronger planner relationships, and become the kind of destination retreat leaders return to year after year.
▧
EXPERIENCE DESIGN IMAGE
IMAGINE THIS…
A venue retreat leaders prioritize before they ever inquire elsewhere.
Instead of wondering why retreat leaders choose another property…
You understand exactly what they’re looking for, how they evaluate venues, and what positions your property as the obvious choice.
Instead of investing in marketing, amenities, and upgrades without knowing what truly influences retreat bookings…
You build a retreat-ready venue based on proven strategy, industry insight, and real market demand.
Instead of trying to adapt traditional group sales to the retreat market…
You follow a proven framework developed specifically to help hospitality venues attract, support, and retain retreat business.
Instead of relying on trial and error to grow your retreat business…
You follow a proven framework developed specifically to help hospitality venues become trusted retreat partners.
Instead of hoping retreat leaders come back…
You create an experience they confidently recommend, return to, and build their future retreats around.
▧
RETREAT EXPERIENCE PHOTO
MODERN TOOLS, RETREAT INTELLIGENCE™
Built for Today's Hospitality Industry
The retreat industry continues to evolve. The way hospitality venues attract, support, and grow retreat business should evolve with it.
Mastering Retreats™ combines proven retreat industry expertise with practical tools, strategic frameworks, and modern technology to help your team create exceptional retreat experiences and strengthen your position in the market.
AI-supported planning prompts to help your team organize ideas, strengthen proposals, and accelerate planning.
Hospitality-focused templates, worksheets, and implementation guides.
Planning calculators and business frameworks that support informed decision-making.
Marketing resources designed specifically for the retreat industry.
Experience design exercises that strengthen the guest journey.
Retreat readiness assessments to identify opportunities for growth and operational excellence.
Throughout the certification, you’ll work with AI-supported planning prompts, practical templates, business frameworks, calculators, implementation guides, marketing resources, experience design exercises, and retreat readiness assessments that help your team make better decisions, refine your approach, and build a stronger retreat offering.
What You’ll Learn
Build the systems that make retreat leaders choose your venue — and return.
By the end of this certification, you’ll know how to:
✓Position your venue as a trusted retreat partner rather than simply another property.
✓Identify what retreat leaders are truly looking for when selecting a venue.
✓Evaluate whether your property is retreat-ready and where the greatest opportunities exist.
✓Create guest experiences that generate repeat bookings, referrals, and long-term partnerships.
✓Align your departments around one exceptional retreat experience from arrival to departure.
✓Anticipate the needs of retreat leaders and guests before they become requests.
✓Design retreat experiences that strengthen your reputation and differentiate your property.
✓Build a retreat offering that supports your business goals while delivering exceptional guest experiences.
✓Use proven frameworks, tools, and assessments to make better operational and strategic decisions.
✓Stand out in one of hospitality’s fastest-growing markets without competing on price.
WHY HOSPITALITY PROFESSIONALS CHOOSE MASTERING RETREATS™
Built to reflect the same excellence your guests expect from your venue.
Unlike generic hospitality or event management programs, Mastering Retreats™ Retreat Venue Training and Certification was created specifically to help hotels, resorts, and retreat centres understand what retreat leaders need to create exceptional experiences—and how your venue can become the partner they return to year after year.
You won’t simply learn how to host retreats.
You’ll discover how to position your property for the retreat market, strengthen the guest experience, build lasting relationships with retreat leaders, and create a retreat offering that supports both your guests’ experience and your property’s long-term business goals.
WHO THIS CERTIFICATION IS FOR
Mastering Retreats Retreat Venue Training is
designed for:
Luxury Villas Glamping Properties Independent Properties Properties Expanding into Retreats
Whether you’re an independent property, boutique hotel, luxury resort, or retreat centre, this certification provides a practical framework for attracting, supporting, and growing retreat business.
WHY RETREATBOSS™
Built by the people helping shape the retreat industry.
Since 2012, RetreatBoss™ has worked at the intersection of hospitality and the retreat industry, helping venues, retreat leaders, wellness brands, and organizations create exceptional retreat experiences around the world.
Through venue partnerships, retreat strategy, professional education, consulting, media, and industry collaboration, we’ve gained a unique perspective on what separates properties that simply host retreats from those that become sought-after retreat destinations.
Mastering Retreats™ brings that experience together in one certification, combining proven retreat strategies, hospitality best practices, operational insight, and practical business frameworks to help hospitality venues better understand, attract, and support retreat business.
You’re not learning from hospitality professionals guessing what retreat leaders want.
You’re learning from the team that has spent more than a decade helping bring the two together.
TRUSTED ACROSS THE RETREAT INDUSTRY
Real experience. Real retreats. Real results.
"I thought I knew a lot about planning retreats, but this course exceeded my expectations. It gave me practical, step-by-step methods for defining a target audience, pricing, contract negotiation, and more..."
"I came into the RetreatBoss program not knowing much about retreats, just that I wanted to include them in my coaching practice. This program taught me everything I needed..."
"The RetreatBoss certification gave me the structure and confidence to build the retreat-based business I’ve always dreamed of. Catherine’s experience and mentorship go far beyond logistics..."
"I thought I knew a lot about planning retreats, but this course exceeded my expectations. It gave me practical, step-by-step methods for defining a target audience..."
"I came into the RetreatBoss program not knowing much about retreats, just that I wanted to include them in my coaching practice. This program taught me everything I needed..."
"Mastering Retreats Certification helped me realize there was so much more to creating retreats than what I thought I already knew..."
YOUR CERTIFICATION EXPERIENCE
Guided from where you are to a retreat-ready property.
Throughout the program, you’ll complete guided exercises, operational assessments, strategic worksheets, AI-supported planning prompts, and a comprehensive retreat readiness audit designed to evaluate your property’s ability to attract, support, and deliver exceptional retreat experiences.
You’ll leave with far more than inspiration.
COMPLIMENTARY RETREAT STRATEGY CALL
Let's Explore Your Retreat Potential.
In one focused conversation, we’ll learn about your property, answer your most important questions, and help you identify the strongest next step.
✓Assess your property’s retreat readiness
✓Explore opportunities to attract more retreat business
✓Identify your biggest opportunity or blind spot
✓Determine whether this certification is the right fit
No pressure. No obligation. Just greater clarity about your retreat and whether this certification fits.
STILL DECIDING?
Sometimes the conversation is exactly where the clarity begins.
“The Strategy Call alone gave me clarity I had been missing for months. Catherine asked questions I hadn’t even considered, helped me see the bigger picture, and I left with a clear direction. Even before joining the certification, the conversation was incredibly valuable.”
Anastasia – Venue Owner
YOUR NEXT PROFESSIONAL OFFER
Build the retreat before the retreat builds pressure around you.
The cost of an underpriced, poorly contracted or weakly positioned retreat can exceed the investment in learning how to develop it properly.
Mastering Retreats™ Certification Includes
✓ Professional Certification in Retreat Leadership and Programming Recognized by leading venues and retreat industry partners.
✓ Official ICF Continuing Coach Education (CCE) Approved
✓ 12 Months of Implementation Support Continue receiving live coaching, guidance, resources, and community support as you apply what you’ve learned and launch or grow your retreats.
✓ One-Year RetreatMatch® Community
• 10 live Round Tables • Monthly Introductions • Networking Opportunities • Automatic Enrolment to 100+ Expert Webinars, Conversations and Resources • 10 Live Mixers • Ongoing support from the RetreatBoss® team for a whole year.
✓ One-Year RetreatMatch® Professional Public Directory
Includes a full professional listing with direct links to your site and social media.
✓ AI-Supported Planning Prompts
✓ Professional Templates & Resources
✓ Four Live Coaching Sessions
✓ Followed by Four Live Q&A Sessions
✓ Retreat Leadership & Programming Badge and Certificate of Completion
✓ Professional visibility opportunities through the RetreatBoss® network.
Enroll with Confidence
We want you to feel confident in your investment. That’s why your enrollment includes a 15-Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Complete the first four modules, submit the required assignments, attend one live coaching session , and if you determine the program isn’t the right fit, you may request a refund in accordance with our Terms and Conditions. View full Terms and conditions.
Mastering Retreats™ Certification
Unlike programs that end when the lessons are over, Mastering Retreats supports you as you implement. Complete the certification in as little as 3 months, then continue receiving your 12 months of implementation support while you build, launch, and refine your retreat business.
$3,997 USD
Choose the investment option that works best for you.
Pay in Full and save, or choose the payment plan that best fits your budget. Starts at 375$ USD per month
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
IMMEDIATE ACCESS | 15-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
Enrol by September 15 and get direct access to Catherine
Full enrollment ends September 24th, 2026
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Next cohort begins: September 24, 2026
Live coaching dates: September 24, October 8, October 22, and November 5, 2026
Live session time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Completion deadline: December 21, 2026
Become a Certified Retreat Professional in Retreat Leadership and Programming
IMMEDIATE ACCESS | 15-Day Satisfaction Guaranteed
Included at no additional cost:
- ✓ RetreatMatch® Membership
- ✓ RetreatMatch® Professional Public Directory
- ✓ Live Coaching
- ✓ Live Q&A
- ✓ AI Resources
- ✓ Templates & Tools
- ✓ RetreatBoss® Retreat Launch Promo – Professional visibility opportunities through the RetreatBoss® network.
Your Enrollment Includes
- Flexible payment options
- 15-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
- Professional certification upon successful completion and full payment
- One year of community access and member benefits
- Each live session includes 60 minutes of instruction followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers.
- If there is sufficient demand, a Thursday, 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time cohort may be opened after the afternoon cohort is filled. Get on the waitlist hello@retreatboss.com
Ask about current scholarship availability during your conversation.
YOUR NEXT PROFESSIONAL INVESTMENT
The cost of missed opportunities, inconsistent guest experiences, and retreat leaders choosing another property can far exceed the investment in learning how to become a retreat-ready destination.
Your Retreat Ready Venue Program Includes
✓ Mastering Retreats™ Certification
✓ One-Year RetreatMatch™ Professional Membership
Including 10 live Round Tables, networking opportunities, 50+ expert resources, and ongoing support from the RetreatBoss™ team.
✓ AI-Supported Planning Prompts
✓ Professional Templates & Resources
✓ Four Live Coaching Sessions
✓ Four Live Q&A Sessions
✓ Retreat Ready Venue™ Certificate of Completion
✓ Featured Across the RetreatBoss™ Network
A social media and newsletter spotlight announcing your certification to our global community.
Mastering Retreats™ Certification
$3,997 USD
or three payments of $1,400 USD
Next cohort begins: September 24, 2026
Live coaching dates: September 24, October 8, October 22, and November 5, 2026
Live session time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Completion deadline: December 21, 2027
Included at no additional cost:
- ✓ Mastering Retreats™ Certification
- ✓ RetreatMatch™ Membership
- ✓ Live Coaching
- ✓ Live Q&A
- ✓ AI Resources
- ✓ Templates & Tools
- ✓ RetreatBoss™ Promotion
Each live session includes 60 minutes of instruction followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers. If there is sufficient demand, a 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time cohort may be opened after the afternoon cohort is filled.
Ask about current scholarship availability during your conversation.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The Need-to-Know Details
If there is sufficient demand, a Thursday, 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time cohort may be opened after the afternoon cohort is filled. Get on the waitlist hello@retreatboss.com
Attend at least three of the four live sessions, complete all 15 modules, and achieve at least 80% on the final quiz. The September 2026 cohort must complete all requirements by December 21, 2026.
Yes. Schedule a complimentary Retreat Strategy Call to discuss your retreat vision, ask questions, and determine whether Mastering Retreats™ is the right fit. You may also enroll directly if you are ready.
▶
FINAL RETREAT IMAGE OR SHORT VIDEO
TRUSTED BU THE RETREAT AND WELLNESS INDUSTRY
Become the Venue Retreat Leaders Choose First.
The hospitality properties that will lead the next decade won’t compete on amenities alone. They’ll understand the retreat market, anticipate the needs of retreat leaders, and create experiences that inspire repeat bookings and referrals.
Mastering Retreats™ gives you the framework to lead those experiences with confidence, professionalism, and purpose.
RetreatBoss™ | Mastering Retreats™ Certification for Coaches
Terms Privacy Refund & Cancellation Policy Accessibility
