NOVEMBER 13th - 16th
2026
The POSSIBILITY Retreat: Hillside Carool
[What if it was possible for me?]Sometimes life deals us a hand that feels impossible.
But there is a knowing inside of you: a glimmer, a question, a whisper of what if it's not? Is there a possibility there might be a greater plan at play here?
After being dealt a pretty challenging hand myself, here’s what I know to be true. Everything is possible. I believe you have unlimited potential and the possibilities are endless for you.
Many just haven't even scratched the surface yet …
So, what if you gave yourself the intentional space, in an expansive and grounding environment, surrounded by the right people, with the opportunity to be asked the profound questions you maybe won’t ask yourself and that allows you to unlock what you already know?
If you’re open to it, something quite profound, pivotal and truly transformational unfolds when we make a decision like that.
Put simply, that’s exactly why I created the POSSIBILITY RETREAT.
Four days and three nights that change everything.
All inclusive. Fully catered, farm to table meals. Workshops, nervous system nourishment, movement. An experience designed to shift perspective, challenge, inspire, connect, and leave you in a different state from when you arrived. Together we move through the four days - Ground. Connect. Expand. Embody. Nothing to organise except showing up with a commitment to openness, vulnerability and receiving.
THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU:
For the last wee while you’ve been “doing all the things”, you’ve got the knowledge, you’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, maybe even invested in a few courses but there still feels like a gap, somethings missing, you’re not quite living it yet. Now it’s time to get out of your head and into your heart space. It’s time to turn that knowledge → action → embodiment.
:: You’re ready to release what is no longer serving you, close the year in a way that allows you to open 2027 with fresh perspective, energy and a roadmap for success on your terms.
:: You don’t just want new information, you’re craving connection and community. To be seen, heard and witnessed in your expansion.
:: You’ve been dealt a hand you really didn’t see coming, it’s taken the wind out of your sails, left you questioning everything. You know that life is not what happens to you, it’s how you respond. You’ve been feeling very reactive, maybe you’ve been surviving, but something needs to shift, you want to start moving forward in a new way that starts to feel more like thriving and a new, more confidence, embodied version of you
:: You're brilliant in the boardroom, or building the business you built from nothing. But somewhere around 2pm, there's a flicker - a thought so fast you barely catch it. Is this it? Then the next meeting starts, and it's gone. You’ve got a feeling there’s more for you and you’d love to explore that.
:: You're craving some intentional time away from the pressures of daily life - not an escape, but space to rest, recalibration and bring awareness back to what truly matters
:: You're not necessarily unhappy. That's almost the hardest part to explain. Your life looks good. It often is good. But there's a quiet hum underneath it, a feeling you've forgotten what it's like to simply be, without an audience or an output attached to it.
Meet your host and facilitator
Charlie Gordon
I’ve been investing in these environments, curating experiences, coaching women and running workshops for just under a decade. So many of us have knowledge, we are missing the environments, accountability and radical self honesty and responsibility to turn that knowledge → action → embodiment.
In 2024, I was dealt a hand that I never saw coming, my fiancé Johnny sustained a life-changing spinal cord injury. Overnight, I became his full-time carer, and everything I thought I knew about life, resilience, healing, and what it actually takes to hold yourself together in the hardest moments was tested in ways no qualification could have prepared me for.
Yet, I truly believe the years I had spent investing in myself, building an unshakeable foundation, understanding my own mind, developing real emotional intelligence and resilience are what carried me and still do through this season. The little things become the big things. And a grateful heart is a magnet for miracles. I have said both of those for years, I have never understood them more fully than I did in this season.
That season took almost everything I had. My work became my way of life, every piece of knowledge I had ever studied or habit I hadn’t quite mastered yet became something I was now living and embodying, at a rate that was initiation on fire, and still moves me when I look back on it. It asked me to put down most of what I had built in my business. And then, slowly, it gave me back a version of this work that is more honest, more embodied, and more impactful than anything I could have taught before living it.
Everything I now teach about nervous system regulation, about resourcing yourself through seasons that have no roadmap, about finding your way back to your own internal compass when everything familiar has changed comes from both the inside of that experience, and the years of study and hours of mastering my craft.
Whilst my embodied and lived experience is profound, my background includes BSC in psychology, health coaching, life coaching, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), mindfulness practices, Reiki Level 1 and 2, pilates instructing, product development and business.
A retreat is one of my favourite ways to blend these all together.
What’s included
:: Accommodation at luxury, spacious and newly renovated Hillside Carool.
:: Nourishing and seasonal farm-to-table meals - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, snacks all included by our private chef. An opportunity to reflect on what is possible for you when you fuel yourself properly?
:: Private or twin-share rooms with private freshly renovated ensuites
:: Daily meditation, healing and gentle movement to support integration and calm the nervous system
:: Daily workshops and group experiences to support you to remember your potential, possibility and leave you with tangible tools to implement post retreat. You’ll return home leading with more love, boldness and an expanded capacity for your nervous system.
:: Facilitation and access to expert practitioners
:: Contrast therapy access - sauna and cold plunge
:: 20m lap pool and spa with ocean views
:: Private pickleball court and walking tracks around the property
:: Burning ceremony - the land has an amazing fire pit area where we will gather to clear, manifest and integrate
:: Connection with like-minded guests. With so many attending alone, it’s really moments in between that are my favourite on retreat. Witnessing strangers become friends, and connections that continue to bloom well beyond retreat.
:: Curated wellness gifts to support your integration beyond the retreat
:: Surprise and delights - if you know Charlie, you know she loves a gift and a surprise. Lot’s of treats up her sleeve.
This isn't just a retreat.
It’s a reminder of your power, your potential and what’s truly possible for you when you give yourself the environment to action your wildest dreams.
The shifts you notice on retreat won’t stop there, when we rewire your nervous system, identity, mindset and shift your state that impact doesn’t stop with you. That change ripples into your relationships, your friendships, how you parent, support others, it impacts your business, your work, your clarity, your confidence, your knowing. It’s going to be an impactful, heart opening and nourishing way to close out the year.
SO WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGES?
It’s not just about our four days together, it’s about everyday after and the continued ripple effect
:: You feel equipped with practical tools to thrive in everyday life with more calm, clarity and confidence, but more than anything you’re building trust with yourself. To lead with love, feel more grounded , capable and lean further into what’s possible for you
:: You answer that 7am email twenty minutes later than you used to, because you've finally given yourself permission to drink your coffee first. It sounds small. It isn't.
:: You have the conversation you'd been avoiding for months. The retreat helped you find the words and the confidence in the same weekend.
:: You say no to something you would have said yes to before, and you don't spiral about it afterward.
:: You notice the nudges and ideas, and trust that knowing. You finally take action on the business or project you’ve been sitting on
:: Three weeks later, you remember the one decision you made at the retreat and you realise you actually took it. Not because you had more time or your circumstances changed. But because something in you shifted about what you were willing to keep ignoring.
:: You notice a subtle shift in the way you respond, maybe it used to feel more activating in your body, your daily default used to be reactive. Now you’re able to be a more present parent, a courageous leader and grounded partner
A Day on Retreat
*The following is intended as a guide of a rhythm we may follow. Each day follows a different theme, so that will be reflective in our daily flow too
6-8am: Wake slowly to the sounds of nature and make your way to morning meditation / gentle movement / somatic practice
8:30am: Nourishing seasonal breakfast [we will have coffee on retreat]
10am: Powerful guided interactive wellness workshop and teachings with Charlie. [These workshops will be grounded in the modalities of coaching, NLP, psychology, energy work, reiki and personal lived experiences]
11:30am: Break - time for a swim, sauna, rest, a pause to integrate the mornings teachings, walk around the property
12pm: Delicious lunch, a beautiful opportunity to connect
1pm: Spacious afternoon - time to simply BE: lay around the pool, sauna, cold plunge, pickleball game, rest, reading, journaling and integration
4pm: Group experience or guest speaker - one our divine guest facilitators is Steph from HER SOLIS to chat about our lymphatic system and how we nourish our physical vessel for possibility.
6pm: Group dinner and shared conversation and wisdom. [Sitting around the dinner table, celebrating, reflecting and listening to stories is one of my favourite things - this a highlight of retreat]
7pm: Each evening is different, there will be a guided session to support a restful nights sleep - time by the fire pit, a sound healing or you’re welcome to be in your own space for evening integration practice or quiet reflection
Four days. A complete arc of transformation.
Day One [Friday]GROUND
Arrive. Exhale. Let the world fall away. Today is about grounding - in your body, in the space, in yourself. The permission to exhale, to set down what you carried in, and to remember what it feels like to simply be. Through a welcome circle, a workshop and a shared meal around the table, the space begins to do its quiet work. You'll meet the women who will journey this retreat with you, and set an intention for the remainder of your weekend.
Arrive + get settled From 3pm
Welcome ceremony4:00pm
Platter + explore 4:30pm
Workshop5:00pm
Dinner6:30pm
Please note this guide may be subject to change
Day Two [Saturday]CONNECT
Now that you're grounded, go deeper. Into yourself. Connection is the catalyst. Not just connection with the women beside you, but with the parts of yourself you've been too busy to sit with. Today creates the conditions for both. Through a morning movement, sound healing, and a workshop designed to gently surface the truth beneath the story you've been living inside, something begins to loosen. The walls come down, not because they're forced, but because the space is finally safe enough to let them. You'll be held, nourished and restored, and by the time the day closes, something in you will have already started to shift. Not because of what was said, but because of what was finally felt.
Day Three [Sunday]EXPAND
You're open. You're safe. Now, what becomes possible? This is the day you stop playing small and begin to see what's truly available to you. Grounded in your body, connected to yourself and the women around you, Day Three opens up the question at the heart of this entire retreat: what becomes possible when you get radically honest about your desires? Through an expansive morning practice and a visioning workshop unlike anything you've done before, you'll begin to see your life not as it is, but as it could be. The afternoon is yours entirely, unhurried, unscheduled, and spacious. Because sometimes the most important work happens in the spaces between. The day closes around the fire, where each woman speaks her possibility out loud. Witnessed. Held. Believed.
Day Four [Monday]EMBODY
Inspiration without action yields no results. So, you’ll leave equipped to land everything you’ve learned, uncovered and carry with you that powerful presence, inner knowing and possibility. You leave not with more to-dos, but with one true next step, and the clarity, confidence and blueprint to make it happen. This is the bridge between the retreat and your everyday, because that’s the whole point. The ripple far beyond our four days spent together.
Morning practice6:00 – 8:00am
Nourishing Breakfast8:00am
Pack up / swim9:00am
Closing Ceremony9:30am
Make your way home10:00am
Luxury Accomodation: HILLSIDE CAROOL
Where we will be staying
Resting within the lush rolling hills of the Northern NSW hinterland, Hillside Carool is a luxury hinterland estate just 25 minutes from Gold Coast Airport and world-class beaches.
Set across seven private hectares with vineyard rows, breathtaking nature & ocean views, Hillside offers complete privacy and provides the perfect setting to fully exhale.
The Space to Simply BE
Whether you're soaking in the lap pool as the hinterland light shifts, warming by the fire after an evening workshop, detoxifying in the sauna, sharing laughter over a pickleball game, lingering a little longer over a farm to table meal, or simply lying still in your room with nowhere to be. Every corner of Hillside Carool carries the same quiet invitation. Slow down. Soften. Come back to yourself.
Each private suite features its own ensuite bathroom, beautiful linen, towels, and stocked with toiletries. Offering you personal space to retreat, reflect, and integrate.
ROOM OPTIONS
Our POSSIBILITY Retreat is intentionally intimate. We have 10 spaces in our main house with a combination of private rooms and twin shares. This experience is a female-only retreat. There are currently 8 spaces remaining.
KING TWIN SHARE
Three bright, spacious rooms featuring a luxurious king bed and newly renovated ensuite bathrooms. Some rooms open directly to an outdoor patio. Designed to be shared with one other woman, these rooms have everything you need for a luxurious, restorative stay. Some of the most meaningful moments of the retreat happen here, in the quiet mornings and the unhurried evenings, with the woman on the other side of the room who just gets it.
[Please note that guests are responsible for arranging the person they will share a room with - or contact Charlie to place you with another solo guest who’d love to share]
$3400 PP
QUEEN SOLO ROOM
Your own solo oasis. A beautifully appointed private room with a queen bed and luxury ensuite. Designed for the woman who knows she cultivates her deepest rest when she has space to herself, this is your sanctuary to return to after each full day. A place to process, to journal, to dream, to simply lie still and let everything land. Just you, your thoughts, and the quiet that makes the work of the retreat possible. Restorative, private, and completely your own.
$4200 PP
$3900 PPMASTER SUITE
The most generous room in the house. Light-filled and spacious, with a king bed, walk-in robe, and a beautiful ensuite including a bath. Plus views overlooking the pool and rolling hinterland all the way to the ocean. Shared between two women, this room has an energy all of its own: the late night conversations, the quiet morning rituals, the little moments in between. Bring a friend, your sister, your Mum.
[Please note that guests are responsible for arranging the person they will share a room with - or contact Charlie to place you with another solo guest who’d love to share]
JOIN US TO EXPLORE YOUR TRUE POSSIBILITY
13th -16th NOVEMBER
To secure your room on retreat, a $600 non-refundable deposit is required.
The remaining payable can be invested over a monthly payment plan [email Charlie], or remaining balance in full, due one month before the retreat commences.
Invest in your Possibility
You already know.
That feeling that brought you here. That glimmer, that quiet wondering, the inner gut feeling. Trust it. This is where the next chapter begins
Questions about the POSSIBILITY Retreat?
Timing doesn’t align this time, but you’d love to join us on retreat in 2027?
Pop your name on the waitlist and you’ll be the first to know upcoming dates, locations and updates.