What Does Your Forum Want To Experience?
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Your Forum retreat should be the one they talk about all year
When it's your turn to plan the retreat you want something awesome, and you don't want to deal with all the details. I design and facilitate Forum experiences that go deeper, feel more alive, and leave members genuinely changed โ whether it's your group's first retreat or your twenty-first.
Planning a meaningful Forum retreat is a lot of work
When the retreat-planning rotation lands on you, the pressure is real. You want something better than last year โ deeper conversations, more genuine connection, and moments nobody forgets. But you're running a company, not a travel agency.
"I dreaded the day it was my turn to plan this."
"Last year felt more like a nice vacation than a real breakthrough."
"I don't know how to create the deeper conversations our group is ready for."
"We've been meeting for years and still feel like we're scratching the surface."
Sound familiar?
What makes this different
Not just logistics. Not just facilitation. Both โ and everything in between.
What makes this different is hard to find in one place: someone who can select the destination, manage every detail, guide the adventure, and facilitate the depth โ all as one person who genuinely loves doing it. You show up with every detail handled. We do the important work together. You play, connect, and elevate.
Two ways to work together
Whether you need a day or a week, there's a format that fits
Forums typically hold two retreats a year โ a multi-day destination experience and a full-day annual gathering. I design and facilitate both.
The Multi-Day Forum Experience
3โ7 days. A fully co-designed destination retreat combining deep facilitation, adventure, and meaningful social connection. Fully managed end-to-end โ destination, logistics, activities, and all facilitated sessions. For groups ready to go somewhere they've never gone before.
The Full-Day Forum Gathering
Breakfast through dinner. A single-day facilitated retreat for your Forum's annual check-in โ structured, purposeful, and energizing. The format most facilitators overlook. A focused, high-value day that keeps momentum alive between destination experiences.
What kind of retreat does your Forum need?
Every group is at a different stage. Every retreat is built for yours.
Here are the kinds of experiences we co-design โ each one shaped to where your Forum is right now:
Who this is for
For the person whose name just came up on the rotation
You don't need to be an event planner or a facilitator. You just need a group that's ready for something great โ and a partner who knows how to deliver it.
You're planning a retreat for an EO, YPO, TEC, MacKay, or independent peer Forum โ and you want it to be genuinely memorable
You want the logistics, destination, and facilitation handled by one trusted person โ not stitched together from three different vendors
Your group is ready for more than a nice trip โ you want depth, laughter, and real conversation in the same experience
Whether this is your Forum's first retreat or your twenty-first, you want this one to set a new standard
You want a co-created experience โ not a packaged product โ that reflects your group's unique culture and goals
How it works
From first conversation to the moment nobody wants to leave
Discovery conversation
We talk about your group โ its history, dynamics, what's worked and what hasn't. I learn what your members actually need, not just what the agenda says. No pitch. Just a real conversation.
Co-design your experience
I build a retreat proposal shaped around your group's goals, timeline, and budget. We refine it together until every detail feels right and fully yours.
Pre-retreat leadership session
Members complete an individual leadership values profile. Ideally facilitated during your last Forum meeting before the retreat โ so by arrival, the group already knows each other's strengths, styles, and edges. Day one starts at depth.
The retreat itself
3โ7 days of facilitated depth, adventure, genuine fun, and real connection โ fully designed and managed. You participate as a full member of your group. I hold the container.
Integration check-in
A follow-up session 4โ6 weeks after the retreat. Not a debrief โ a check-in on implementation. What's shifted, what commitments are alive, and what needs support before next year.
Why this is different
The combination that's hard to find
Depth without the corporate script
Two decades of coaching emotional intelligence in high-performers. No buzzwords, no breakout-room exercises that feel like school. Real conversations that actually go somewhere.
Adventure that means something
Experiences designed to create aliveness, not manufactured stress. People who have genuine fun together trust each other faster โ and that trust is what Forums are built on.
Fully co-created, fully yours
Every retreat is designed with the person who knows the group best. Not a template, not a packaged program โ built around your Forum's specific history, culture, and goals.
One person, end to end
Destination, logistics, facilitation, adventure design, and the social arc โ managed by one person who cares about the outcome as much as you do.
What past participants say
In their words
"You are honestly doing something so unique and special. I've gone through leadership 101 and different development programs. This is so different than anything else. I feel you changing my life in a really wonderful way."
Jessica MacKinnon
Ontario Public Service, Canada
"I thought I was doing all the right things. By learning to be more aware and connected to what's most important to me, all of my conversations have changed. I feel lighter knowing this way."
Michael G.
Government Executive, Ottawa
"I thought this was about feedback, difficult people, delegation, conflict resolution. Now I know what to do to be great at all that โ and we didn't talk about any of it!"
Tommy L.
Legal Partner, Ottawa
"I'm introverted and quite private. I was concerned about being vulnerable. Thank you for creating such a safe and fun environment to share and learn."
Joan B.
Business Owner, Kanata
The facilitator
Trevor Bryce Stevenson
Human Dynamics & Experience Specialist ยท Chelsea, Quebec
I've spent over two decades helping high-performance leaders drop the armour and do the relational work that determines whether a team โ or a Forum โ actually functions. Much of this adventure-based. Before coaching, I spent 10 years guiding expeditions internationally, building the instinct to read a group, play the edge, and create the conditions where people have the time of their lives and surpass what they believed was possible. I bring all of it to every retreat I design โ and I co-create every one with the people who know their group best.
Ready to make this year's retreat powerful and unforgettable?
Let's have a 30-minute conversation about your group โ where you are, what you need, and how we might design something extraordinary together. No pitch. No pressure. Just a connection conversation.
Book a 30-Min Call with TrevorServing EO ยท YPO ยท TEC ยท MacKay CEO Forums ยท Independent peer groups
