For founders, owners and executives
Executive Retreats
Most retreats for executives are run by people who have never had to read a nervous system under load. Ours is run by clinicians who do it every day, and that is the whole difference.
You will not be asked to process anything, share anything, or sit in a circle and feel your feelings. You get genuine rest, a room of people carrying what you are carrying, and real work on the part of your business that is keeping you awake. The clinical training is why the rest of it lands. It is not what the days are about.
Who it is for
People who carry the final call. Founders, owners, and executives who cannot hand the decision to anyone else and have not had a genuine week off in years. If you are running something that would wobble if you disappeared for two weeks, this is aimed at you.
It is not a leadership course and it is not group therapy. It sits somewhere neither of those reaches, which is the reason it exists.
Restoration
Rest that actually holds
Most executives do not sleep properly and have stopped noticing. The days are built around a nervous system that has been running hot for years, which means real sleep, unstructured hours, movement that is not a workout you have to win, and food you did not have to think about. Nobody will make you meditate. The point is to leave with your baseline reset rather than a folder of techniques.
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Peer network
A room of people carrying the same weight
The isolation of the top job is the thing nobody warns you about. You cannot say the true version to your team, your board, or usually your spouse. The group is small on purpose so that by the second day people are saying the true version to each other. Several of the most useful relationships in this practice started that way, and it is the part attendees tend to talk about afterwards.
Business education
Work on the thing keeping you awake
Not a curriculum. You bring the problem you are actually stuck on, whether that is a hire you know you have to make, a model that stopped working, or the fact that the business cannot run without you in the room. Sessions are built around what people bring rather than a syllabus written in advance. You leave having moved it, not having heard about moving it.
What a day looks like To be confirmed
You are buying time, so here is what you would be giving up and what fills it. The shape below is what we are building toward. The final agenda follows once dates and venue are set.
Morning
Movement, then breakfast with nobody presenting anything at you. The first morning is deliberately slow, because most people arrive still running.
Late morning
The working session. One person's problem on the table, the room on it, a clinician in the room reading how it is landing.
Afternoon
Open. Sleep, walk, swim, or keep talking to whoever you were talking to at lunch. This is not filler; it is where the peer conversations happen.
Evening
Dinner together, then done. No evening programme. You are not here to be kept busy.
Who leads it
Vannah Hughes
M.A., LPC-Associate, LCDC, CSAT, RYT-200
Vannah founded The Trinity and has spent fifteen years working with trauma, addiction and the parts of high performance that nobody puts in the bio. She trained as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist under Patrick and Stephanie Carnes, and she directs the Dallas chapter of CEO LIFE, which is where the executive side of this work comes from.
She is a clinician first. That is the point of the room, and it is also why she will tell you plainly if a retreat is not the thing you need.
Format and logistics
Length
Being confirmed
Dates
Being confirmed
Location
Being confirmed. Within reach of Dallas-Fort Worth.
Group size
Small on purpose. Exact number being confirmed.
What is included
Accommodation, food and all sessions. Travel is your own.
Price
On request while the format is finalized.
Nothing above is a placeholder number dressed up as a decision. Where it says being confirmed, it has not been decided yet, and this page updates the moment it is.
Register your interest
Leave an email and we will write to you once dates and pricing are set. No calls, no follow-up sequence.
Questions executives actually ask
Is this a corporate retreat?
Most people search for it that way, so yes, this is the thing you are looking for. We call it an executive retreat because corporate retreat usually means the whole company goes, there is a ropes course, and somebody from HR runs a session on values. This is not that. It is a small room of people who each carry final responsibility for something, and the work is pitched at that. The word matters because it sets expectations before anyone arrives.
Will I be doing anything that feels like therapy?
No. You will not be asked to process anything, disclose anything, or sit in a circle and describe your childhood. The people running it are clinicians, and that shows up in how the days are paced and how the room is held, not in being asked to do therapy. If you want clinical work afterwards, that is a separate conversation and a separate invoice.
Who else is in the room?
Founders, owners, and executives who carry the final call on something. The group is kept small on purpose, because the peer conversations are half the value and they stop working past a certain number. Exact group size is being confirmed.
Is it confidential?
The confidentiality terms are being finalized and will be published here before booking opens. We are not going to describe them loosely in the meantime, because a vague promise about confidentiality is worse than none.
What do I actually leave with?
Rest that held, which most executives have not had in a while. A short list of people worth calling. And specific work done on whatever part of your business is keeping you up, rather than a folder of frameworks you will not open again.
How long is it, and where?
Length, dates, and venue are being confirmed. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you something that changes.
What does it cost?
Pricing is on request while the format is being finalized. Send an inquiry and we will come back to you with the number as soon as it is set.
Can you run one privately for my leadership team?
Yes, that is a real option and several people have asked. Tell us the size of the team and what you are trying to get out of it, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
Who runs it?
Vannah Hughes, who founded the practice, holds an M.A. and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and a registered yoga teacher. She trained under Patrick and Stephanie Carnes. She also directs the Dallas chapter of CEO LIFE, which is where the executive side of this comes from.