All women* carry stories about money. Some are hopes and fears handed down from our parents, grandparents, and elders. Some come from the assumptions of society. Some come from our own lived experience. All of them shape the way we navigate money and the exchange of value day to day.

Whether you want to take control of your finances or understand your financial shame, we invite you to join us in a community of trust and support and explore the ways we can use story, art, and movement to understand and reshape the financial stories we carry.

Over the course of 4 days, participants will work collectively and individually to use storytelling as a way to examine, balance, and reshape their relationship with money and financial matters. Participants will also use artistic process and exploration to deconstruct and reframe the financial stories they have carried.

As we tend to our hearts and minds, we are excited to rely on Adventure Chef and Yoga Teacher Shannon Walton to help us tend to our bodies through both nourishment and movement. Each day, participants will enjoy delicious meals, focused on fresh local ingredients and prepared to accommodate any dietary restrictions. Twice a day, participants will also engage in light movement work, designed to align with the work of our mental and emotional journey through our financial stories.

When they leave on Sunday, each participant will take home one piece of art and writing that represents their journey of transformation from old financial story to new, and will later receive a photo book containing a reproduction of the final story and artwork of each participant in their workshop.

Participants will also leave behind a second piece of art and writing that will become part of the Currency of You Workshop Collection.

*Vickrey Ventures affirms that transwomen are women. This retreat welcomes all women, as well as nonbinary and genderqueer individuals who share culturally female experience.

The Spring 2024 Currency of You Retreat will take place from the afternoon of Thursday, April 11 to midday on Sunday, April 14.

The 2024 Currency of You Retreat will be led by Project Guide Sarah Rutledge Fischer, Financial Guide Roselyn Spaan, Narrative Guide Laura Lang, Nourishment Guid Shannon Walton, and Experience Guide Cheryl Corvo.

In Spring of 2024 Currency of You Retreat will take place in beautiful Gulf Shores, Alabama at the Learning Campus at Gulf State Park. The Learning Campus is a LEED Silver Certified, sustainably designed and operated facility.

Explore the property’s impressive features at the Learning Campus website.

Be sure to check out the Virtual Tour of the facilities we’ll be using: the Bunkhouse, the Roost, the Loblolly Classroom, and the Longleaf Porch.

Guests will be staying in the Bunkhouse, Scandinavian influenced designed sleeping and living quarters that provide comfort and privacy. No need to choose your specific accommodation ahead of time, there is ample space for all.

WEATHER

Gulf Shores is known for sunshine. While April is still wintery in much of the country, the average April temperatures in Gulf Shores have highs in the mid-70s and lows around 60.

GETTING HERE

Gulf Shores is easy to reach by car or airplane. Check out this excellent guide to plan your travel.

EXTENDING YOUR STAY

If you can, we encourage you to extend your stay and spend some time exploring the area. Gulf Shores is known for its beautiful white sand shores, outdoor adventures, and unique attractions.

Click Here to find everything you need to plan your extended stay.

Whether you come to Currency of You seeking to de-stress, find financial balance, step into a strong financial identity, build new financial boundaries and resilience, or navigate childhood or intergenerational financial traumas—you will be coming face-to-face with important and deeply personal issues.

We ask each person who attends the retreat to commit to honoring the privacy of each fellow participant and maintaining the confidentiality of all that is shared in our sacred space.

What’s more, many of the financial stories we carry cut deep into our sense of emotional security. We will do our best to create a safe and nurturing environment and to support each participant as they navigate their introspective financial journey. However, we are not mental health professionals.

We highly encourage all participants to seek out a well-trained mental health professional to either prepare for this work, follow up on the work we do, or both.

The 2024 Currency of You retreat costs $3500.00 per person, and spaces are limited to 12 participants.

Due to the limited size of each retreat, we require a completed Registration Form and Payment in Full to reserve your spot.

If you have a specific question about Registration or Payment, please reach out.

All payments are processed through Stripe and can be made with most major credit cards.

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Please make sure you read and understand our cancellation policies before reserving your spot.

IF WE CANCEL

We never want to have to cancel a retreat, but sometimes the unexpected happens.

We reserve the right to cancel a retreat at any time in the event of dangerous weather or other circumstances that may compromise the integrity or safety of the retreat.

We reserve the right to cancel a retreat due to low enrollment if minimum enrollment is not reached 6 weeks prior to the retreat.

If we cancel a retreat, you will be offered a full refund. If a retreat has to be postponed for any reason, you will have the option to either receive a full refund or transfer your registration to the same event at the new, future date.

If you are concerned, we suggest a travel insurance policy to protect any related travel expenses as we are not responsible for any of these expenses.

IF YOU CANCEL

We understand that circumstances sometimes change. If you need to cancel your retreat registration, please provide as much advance notice as possible so we can offer the space to someone on our waitlist.

Notice must be provided by email and confirmation will be sent when the email is received.

If a request for cancellation is received thirty (30) or more days prior to the start date of a retreat, a refund of the retreat cost minus a $150 administrative fee will be issued.

If a cancellation request is received between thirty (30) days and fourteen (14) days prior to the start of a retreat, 50% of the program cost will be refunded.

If a cancellation request is received less than fourteen (14) days prior to the start of a retreat, none of the retreat cost will be refunded.

No refund will be given for early departure or late arrival.