RETREATS
Restoration and rejuvenation for yourself and your business
UPCOMING RETREATÂ
The Creatorâs Circle Retreat
September 21-24, 2026* |Â Â Vancouver, WA USA
*We will not hold a retreat in 2025.
Early bird registration will open in 2025, apply to be added to our priority registration list
âThe conference reignited my passion for our work and emphasized the importance of authenticity in leadership. The comprehensive sessions on systems and employee connection provided practical insights that I can implement immediately. I left feeling inspired and equipped to foster a more engaged and cohesive team. This conference is a must for anyone looking to elevate their business while staying true to their mission.â
- Ksusha
What to expect from our 2026 Retreat
Choose one of two tracks:
Bloom
Choose this track if you are just starting to blossom in your business. If you are a solo provider with a dream of a wellness center, or a small group practice wanting to add new modalities, this is for you. If you want to learn how to hire effectively, build sustainable systems into your business, and create the wellness center of your dreams, choose BLOOM.
*Limited to 20 people.Â
Grow
Choose this track if you have an established group practice or wellness center, and want to optimize, scale, and dream bigger and/or better. If you want to dive into sustainable expansion, exponentially more profitable services and systems, and becoming unstoppable in leadership, choose GROW.
*Limited to 20 people.
The Creator’s Circle Retreat includes
- 4 nights of hotel and breakfast at the AC Vancouver Waterfront Hotel
- Group reception
- Morning movement daily
- Coaching sessions (large and small group) curated to your unique business needs and goals
- Facilitation by Kendall Hagensen, Founder of Wellness Center Creators
- Guest Facilitators who are leaders in the field and successful Clinic Owners
- A Wellness or Spa service of your choice (thinkâŚsignature facial or all-inclusive massage, etc.!)Â
- Group Restorative activities (i.e. community acupuncture)Â
- WCC Coaching Workbook 3rd Edition (the Mothership!!!)Â and tangible tools to take home
- Opportunity to join a WCC Coach for an exclusive Inner Circle lunch Â
- Experience the retreat in both Vancouver Wellness Studio locations, as well as the AC Vancouver Waterfront Hotel
*REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THE 2024 RETREAT
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Early bird registration will open in 2025, apply to be added to our priority registration list.
All the tools you need to start, expand, and sustain your wellness center taught in-person by leaders in the field
Registration is closed for 2024
*Limited to 20Â people
âThe retreat, like last year, served not only to inform, but also connect and inspire. I led, I participated and I let it all soak in. Allowing myself the time to focus on my business felt like a luxury before I came last year, but after this year's retreat, I consider it a necessity. Where else can you learn, relax, receive individual support and create a comprehensive business game plan for the whole next year in 4 days?â
- Anna
Meet Your Retreat Team
Kendall and her team are master facilitators, all active in their fields with many years of experience working with groups of healthcare and business professionals.
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Josh Satterlee
How To Register
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Make your wellness center dream happen
The WCC Workbook has everything you need to put your retreat experience into action!
Connect with successful wellness center owners from all over the World!
Kendall Hagensen
Kendall is a Somatic Mental Health Therapist, Multidisciplinary Clinic Owner and Business Coach. She specializes in, and is passionate about, working with healthcare professionals to create the businesses of their dreams. Big goals always have a psychological component beneath the surface, so Kendall uses her background in Somatic Psychotherapy and EMDR Therapy mixed with Business Coaching tools to help clients develop a healthy relationship with their business and their strength as a leader. As someone who lives with a chronic illness herself, Kendall feels that health happens best within community, which is why she takes a holistic, integrative, and collaborative wellness approach to her personal and professional life.
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Wellness Center Creator's Coach Anna Rudel, L. Ac is the owner and founder of Lokahi Acupuncture Clinic in San Jose California, founded in 2003. Anna is a master organizer and clinician, and as a Coach she specializes in working with Clinic Owners in the state of California, and Acupuncturists and Acupuncture Clinic Owners, or groups wanting to add Acupuncture worldwide, as well as teams that need support with employee retention and satisfaction. Born in the UK, Anna has traveled extensively in Asia and now has a thriving multi-practitioner clinic in the US!
Apply NowShawniel Chamanlal
Shawniel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Empowerment Speaker, Life Coach, and the proud CEO and Founder of Healing Springs Wellness Center, a community of culturally diverse wellness practitioners and therapists providing trauma-informed and culturally competent care. Healing Springs Wellness Center offers in person and online services that include mental health counseling, nutrition, reiki, and wellness workshops.
Shawnielâs professional training began at Southern Connecticut State University where she earned her Bachelors of Art in Psychology. She then earned a Masterâs Degree in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University. Her 15 years of clinical experience as a licensed therapist as well as her personal experience of overcoming trauma, fuels her passion for empowering individuals to achieve the life of their dreams by resolving limiting beliefs, and moving past the fear that holds them back from manifesting their biggest desires.
Her Transformational Coaching and Consulting Services provides practical steps to achieve emotional wellness, improve mindset, and attract abundance personally and professionally Through the use of Manifesting techniques and the Law of Attraction, Shawniel not only manifested the life of her dreams, she manifested a successful thriving business. She is on a mission to help others to do the same by unapologetically dreaming big in life and business. Learn more about her services at www.shawnielchamanlal.com
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Kirsten Werner brings over two decades of experience in health and wellness to her role as a Wellness Center Creatorâs Coach. As a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) in Canada with over 15 years of hands-on practice, Kirsten has worked in clinics, luxury resorts, and successfully ran a thriving home-based studio with a dedicated team for over a decade. Having navigated the challenges of entrepreneurshipâincluding business burnout, system engineering, and clinic managementâshe is passionate about empowering health and wellness practitioners. Kirsten specializes in helping clinic owners and professionals streamline their workflows, develop effective marketing strategies, and build sustainable, thriving practices. Her tailored coaching approach combines resilience, creativity, and a deep understanding of the wellness industry, ensuring her clients achieve balance and success without overwhelm.
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Ron is a certified personal trainer who has a passion for helping clients achieve their fitness goals through customized workouts. His programs have also helped people with chronic issues (depression, pain, poor sleep, illness, hormone issues) find relief and breakthroughs. He has over 20 years in the fitness industry, giving clients who are ready to change the science-based movements they need to achieve their goals. “Life constantly throws punches at you. By building strength, flexibility and balance, you’ll have what it takes to bob and weave, so you don’t have to absorb 100% of the punches. A lot of them will swing and miss when you have the right fitness foundation.” Ron is eager to help clients who have tried and failed on their own – and are ready to commit to a process of improvement that will yield incredible results. His unique approach guides you through what it means to achieve strength, balance, and flexibility to develop holistic fitness for your mind, body, and spirit.
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Jess is a dynamic and knowledgeable wellness practitioner with over 13 years of experience in the field. As a Doctor of Acupuncture (Dr. Ac), TCMD, Registered Massage Therapist (RMT), and Certified Hypnotherapist (C.Ht), he brings a unique and comprehensive approach to his work, helping clients achieve optimal health and wellness.
In addition to his clinical practice, Jess is also a passionate teacher and mentor. For over 10 years, he has been sharing his expertise and knowledge with massage therapists and acupuncturists, helping them further their skills and deepen their understanding of the body and mind. He is highly regarded by his students for his ability to convey complex concepts in a clear and engaging manner.
Jess's talents as an educator are not limited to the classroom. As an energetic and engaging speaker, he has a knack for capturing and holding the attention of audiences, making him a sought-after speaker for wellness-related events and conferences. With his deep knowledge, hands-on experience, and unwavering commitment to helping others, Jess Reynolds is a valuable asset to the wellness community and a respected teacher and practitioner.
Apply NowMeg & Neena
Meg and Neena are both trained Physiotherapists (PTs) with over 25 years of combined clinical experience. They met as clinicians but soon realized they shared many commonalities; one being passion for all things design and the relationship our environment has on the individual experience. They both noticed a massive lack of aesthetic appeal when it comes to health and wellness spaces, and started to ask how we could enhance a patient’s personal experience, through thoughtful design of the wellness space. After many personal triumphs in interior design, they were approached to design a wellness center and soon realized that their unique lens of being clinicians and clinic owners really informed a thoughtful and intentional design that doesn’t exist in this industry. Meg and Neena are on a mission to change the status quo of healthcare spaces. From the moment someone walks in the door of a clinic or studio or wellness center, they should be confronted by all senses that it is a place of vitality, health, comfort and wellness. When we feel our worst, we need our surroundings to inspire our best.
Apply NowPaul Kuthe
Story is the most powerful tool for compelling human beings, but too many business leaders fail because they aren't telling the right story. They end up trapped by the very business that was supposed to give them freedom. It's tough to know what changes to make to the story when you're alone with the struggle. Paul developed Tributary Coaching™ to create positive change in the lives of business owners and the communities in which they operate.
Everyone at Tributary Coaching™ is driven to help people thrive while finding happiness and renewed purpose in their lives. Paul's story began as a professional ‘action sports’ coach and athlete developing and managing programs for a leading company in his field. It was during those adventures that he learned the importance of coaching, commitment, and operating in the moment with intense focus and determination while simultaneously managing fear and self-doubt. The natural world can be one of life’s greatest teachers if you ‘attend class’ on a regular basis.
He started paddling some of the most demanding rivers anywhere at a young age. Soon after moving to Oregon he was making appearances in numerous film projects taking him to the very brink of what can be done in a sea kayak for National Geographic. He was asked back time after time as a guest coach at the top international symposiums in the years to follow. Paul served as a Marine Technical Advisor to Paramount Pictures and made appearances in national television ad campaigns for companies like Keen Footwear and Tampax. He even worked a day on the set of the popular TV show ‘Portlandia’ personally coaching actor Fred Armisen and serving as an expert consultant.
Despite the long list of accomplishments, Paul’s most proud of his volunteer efforts spent cleaning his local rivers and fighting for access to clean water, even gracing the pages of the NY Times in defense of free flowing rivers.
Paul is a Best Selling Author, Dual Certified Storybrand™ Guide and Business Made Simple™ Coach. He's also a TetraKey qualified Lead Trainer and Performance Coach with over two decades of coaching and training experience. For more information visit tributarycoaching.com.
Apply NowRobin Valadares
I'm just like you, a healthcare professional. More specifically a physiotherapist. Traditionally trained. I followed the conventional route of high school, Undergrad, and Post Graduate education. Over many years of clinical experience and extracurricular courses, I finally became comfortable and confident with my skills. Qualified, by conventional standards...
In early 2020, I realized that as health professionals we tend to put the needs of our clients over ourselves. Ultimately to our detriment. This is likely due to the aspect that we receive absolutely no education on very practical concepts like financial education. Something I believe will have more of an impact on your life than your actual career. So I decided to teach myself.
I'm your unconventional financial literacy educator. Non-traditionally trained. I did not follow a prescribed route. Iâve never enrolled in or completed a single undergrad or post-grad business, economics or accounting course. I struggled through self-education, networking groups, trial and error, and failure. Unqualified? Iâll let you decide.
Donât get me wrong, I love being a Physiotherapist and Iâm truly blessed that I can go to work with a smile on my face knowing that I am making a positive impact on my clientsâ lives.
BUT
I knew that being a Physiotherapist would not solely lead to my goals of retiring early and enjoying my middle (and not my golden) years living on my schedule and not trading my time for money.
Throughout my 11+ years of practicing as a Physiotherapist, Iâve been fortunate enough to complete several manual therapy, exercise, concussion and golf-specific courses (the traditional path- find a niche, expand your therapeutic tool kit and own it). It was in those courses that I came across experienced practitioners and novices- all on the same journey, to become successful practitioners and skilled technicians. Just the way our traditional education system (TES) always promised us.
What our TES did not teach us (at least not me) was how to get out of student debt, the difference between a TFSA/IRA and RRSP/401k, what the stock market is, how to buy my first home why saving money may make me less wealthy. Instead, my brain was filled with stoichiometry, the quadratic formula, how to âfeelâ an intervertebral motion, and how to stress test the dorsal calcaneocuboid ligament.
I was fed up circling around the rat race and devised a plan to get out of it. Now my mission is to help health professionals quit trading time for money and live life on their terms.
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Josh Satterlee
Josh Satterlee, DC has been a chiropractor in Las Vegas, NV for 17 years. He's always been fascinated by human movement and how to improve it. In practice, he has had every type of chiropractic office from being a solo provider to adding massage therapists and personal trainers, and has had a team of 12 other providers in his clinic/gym hybrid set up.Â
Dr. Josh believes deeply in education and has taught at the highest levels of post-graduate education, and he set about educating every one of his team members. This allowed them to perform at the highest allowable level of their license, and to offer the most value to the patient. As a side benefit, his team members were incredibly engaged and fulfilled in their work.Â
Recently, Dr. Josh has become very interested in patient communication after a friend and mentor was misdiagnosed due to communication issues. This has led Dr. Josh to read and understand the research, and try to match that research with tools that allow it to happen in a busy office and multiple providers.
Josh is the Founder of Trust Driven Care, and a Sponsor of The Creator's Circle Retreat.Â
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