CLUB Shine Retreat 2024

A retreat for top Bay Area women that will leave you shining. Come for the inspiration, community, and calming ocean view - and leave with your 2024 intentions.

Registration:

• Early Bird CLUB Member Registration – $300 (register before January 20)

• Early Bird Non-Member Registration – $400 (register before January 20)

• Regular CLUB Member Registration – $375

• Non-Member Registration – $475

Registration covers meals, activities, and programming unless listed as “optional.” Hotel room registration is a separate cost and paid directly to the hotel—request reimbursement from your learning and development (L&D) stipend.

Hotel Room: $239*

*The hotel room rate for Friday, February 2 is for an Ocean View King or Ocean View Double Queen room. Attendees will be responsible for their own room payments and for coordinating any room-sharing arrangements. The hotel room rate does not include tax. The parking fee at the hotel has been waived for attendees of the Shine Retreat. Details to book will follow reservation.

Agenda (Subject to Change)

Friday, February 2, 2024

1pm: Lunch (Optional)

• Ideal Bar & Grill; 106 Beach Street, Santa Cruz
• Pending weather, lunch may be outside.

2:30pm: Community Event (Optional)

• Sanctuary Exploration Center; 35 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz
• The Sanctuary Exploration Center is committed to promoting ocean literacy and conversation. We'll start with a self-guided tour and then head outside to Cowell’s Beach for a beach clean up (pending weather).

4:00pm: The Dream Inn Hotel Check-In

• Lobby of The Dream Inn
• Hotel check-in opens at 4pm. Please check in at your leisure and feel free to explore the facilities. There will be a group chat for onsite coordination as well.
• The pool deck will be heated and available to use.

5:30pm: Shine Bright Opening Reception (Tanal Basma)

• Lobby of The Dream Inn 
• Join our opening reception with CLUB President Tanal Basma. We'll meet here and move around pending weather (possibly the pool deck to the lounge for beverages and appetizers).

8pm: Dinner and Table Talk (Tamar Serna)

• Jack O’Neill Restaurant & Lounge (private room) @ The Dream Inn
• Where the conversation flows, with fun and fiery topics. Table Talk will be led by CLUB Treasurer Tamar Serna.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

7:30am: Rise and Shine Simply Stretch (Optional)

• The Beach View Room
  

• Bring a mat or grab a hotel towel and join your fellow attendees for a calming stretch series led by all of us!

• The Beach View Room

• The Beach View Room

• How is it that our aspirations, dreams, and goals can be both energizing and overwhelming at the same time? Keeping our personal and professional goals in mind, the wonderful Laraine McKinnon will lead an insightful discussion about best practices for execution. From habit-building to leveraging technology (yes, artificial intelligence), we’ll talk through best practices and strategies we can implement to execute successfully.
  

• The Beach View Room

• Led by Candice Heidebrecht, Inclusion & EQ thought leader, entrepreneur, coach, and CLUB member, she’ll address how we as a community can overcome the tendency to people please. We’ll learn techniques to make ourselves and others feel safe to be our authentic selves and close with a set of meaningful questions that people can use to develop relationships with new (or lost) connections.

11:45am: Putting it all together, together (Tanal Basma)

• The Beach View Room
• How can we better show up for ourselves, and each other? We’ll put everything together to leave energized and focused for 2024 and beyond.

12:30pm: Lunch

• The Beach View Room

2:30pm: Choose your Shine Style (Optional)

• Spa/Self Care: The Dream Inn Pool deck 

• Creativity/Art: Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz

• Wine Tasting: Vino by the Sea 55, Municipal Wharf Ste B, Santa Cruz

Registration covers meals and activities unless listed as "optional." Above event plan may change. 

COVID Protocols: We strongly encourage all attendees to be fully vaccinated (including boosters) if medically appropriate.

• Pending weather, Friday lunch will be outdoors.

• Friday dinner will be indoors. 

• On Saturday, the conference room space is large and there is plenty of space to socially distance. 

People may wear masks and may take the buffet meals (breakfast, lunch) to an outdoor location (pool patio) or their room to dine individually if preferred.