Kauai Creative Retreat ::: Registration OPEN!
We will welcome you with tons of aloha then you will get whisked away to your retreat on the island of Kauai where you will be REFRESHED by the island pace, INSPIRED by colorful Kauai and two days of artistic techniques with the lovely Jeanne Oliver, GATHER and connect with like-minded women, and INDULGE in the downtime to be still and know how you are LOVED by your heavenly father. You my sister are a masterpiece, created to do amazing things… so let’s walk in them and share your gifts with the world. My desire is for each of you to have the opportunity to return home with a fresh start so you can walk confidently in who you were created to be, to take home inspiration from Kauai, and have some new art techniques in your tool belt. We will spoil you with Kauai’s beautiful views, have slow mornings , take a botanical garden tour or a boat tour, healthy local Hawaiian meals, learn the Hawaiian art of haku-making, take beach walks, and partake in a cooking class. We will be sharing rooms, bathrooms, enjoy the tradewinds, waking up to the sweet sounds of mourning doves and roosters. Our private venue has a pool and a short walk to the beach. It’s a nice chance to go back to the basics while being in beautiful Kauai. Ready for your next adventure?!
Retreat Details:
5-day Women's Creative Retreat held on Kauai, HI
Dates: January 23-28, 2026
TOTAL COST OF FIVE DAY RETREAT IS $3,200
(amount due today $800 ::: not refundable)
Itinerary: (Itinerary may change at any time due to weather and scheduling conflicts)
Day One gather everyone from Lihue airport by 3pm and be transported to our private venue. Get everyone settled and find your bed. Welcome drinks and pupus (in Hawaii this means appertizers.) Walk to the beach for sunset. Gather for dinner.
Day Two Slow morning, walk to the beach. Art lessons with Jeanne. Picnic lunches in the lawn. Art lessons with Jeanne. Free time. Dinner
Day Three Leave early for a five hour boat tour and snorkeling. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Embroidery projects. Cozy long table dinner back at our venue. Gather time or free time.
Day FourArt Techniques with Jeanne Oliver before and after lunch. Dinner and gather or free time.
Day Five Slow morning with cappuccini, Cooking class with Aletha learning the art of preserving. Shopping. Downtime. Haku-making with Irina.
Day Six Sharing time after breakfast: share your art/share your heart, pack-up, crying optional, eat early lunch then transport back to Lihue Airport by 3PM.
FLIGHTS ARE NOT COVERED, all participants will be picked up from Lihue airport by 3 pm and transported to our venue. We will also transport you from the venue to Lihue airport on January 28, 2026 by 3 PM. All meals and transportation are covered.
Deposit: The $800 deposit holds your spot ( we only have 20 participants) and you can pay the remaining $2,400 in full or by partial payments. Payment plan is as follows:
$800 due by June 1,2025
$800 due by August 1, 2025
$800 due by October 1, 2025
Total payment due October 1, 2025
TOTAL COST OF FIVE DAY RETREAT IS $3,200
The $800 deposit is NOT refundable
IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND THAT IS ALSO SIGNING UP PLEASE LET US KNOW SO WE CAN PUT YOU TWO TOGETHER.
Art lesson details described by Jeanne:
I have always been drawn to objects with history and pieces that tell a story. I am fascinated by old closed up buildings, what is behind broken old factory windows, old gardens with creaky gates and walls with layers of plaster and paint.
In this workshop we will gather our supplies and start creating our own story of this place filled with history, beauty and layers. We will explore dyeing, mark making, collage and stitching as we create our book. We will incorporate plaster, encaustic medium and wire as we bring our books and stories to life.
In between our bookmaking we will grab our hand stitched journals that we will make and head to the shore to learn how to create quick thumbnail sketches, contour sketches and abstract impressions of our surroundings.
Techniques Taught
Using plaster gauze to create texture and substrates
Mark making and incorporating it into your work
Stitching on fabric
Magazine altering
Working with vintage ephemera
Mark making on tracing paper
Adding calcium carbonate to your work
Sealing your work with cold wax or encaustic medium
Supplies for the students to bring:
scissors
older work (or photocopies of their work) they would like to incorporate into the book
Vintage papers or magazine pages they like (this is optional)
pencil and mechanical pencil
2-3 paints in their color palette
3-5 paintbrushes in different sizes
1-3 colored pencils (not water soluble)
Guest Artist’s Bio:
Jeanne Oliver grew up in rural Illinois and now resides in Castle Rock, CO. She is inspired by our personal stories, travel, and nature. Jeanne uses art to tell her current stories and also those of growing up among gravel roads, cornfields and early life surrounded by open spaces. Through mark making, layers and mixed media, she hopes to convey that we all have a story to tell.
She speaks and teaches all around the country and abroad. She was told that she needed to find that one thing but she doesn’t like listening to directions so she embraces many loves and that has given her a sweet mash-up of family, art, and travel. Connecting with women and sharing that each of us has been creatively made is one of her passions.
Jeanne is also a best selling author, creator of the online art school jeanneoliver.com with over 70,000 members from around the world, creator of the Creatively Made Business curriculum, and podcaster.
THIS IS NOT INCLUDED»JUST A SUGGESTION…
We have designed a retreat for you where you will have time to actually rest! This is not an exploration of all of Kauai’s beaches, tons of shopping, or towns so I recommend you arrive on the island a few days before the retreat to explore the North shore beaches, get your shopping in, take a surf lesson, and get acclimated to the time zone. You can rent a car to easily access all these places since there is not much public transportation here. We are hoping to explore the Na Pali coastline on our boat tour but if the winds shift we might just explore the South side coastline or we might take a tour of botanical gardens. Also, it would be wise to get a hotel room for the evening of January 28, 2026 so you don’t have to sit at the airport waiting for an evening flight. You can arrange to be picked up with Uber, Lyft, or a taxi service to travel between hotels and the Lihue airport for your last day on Kauai.
Finish checking out (cart above)
We will welcome you with tons of aloha then you will get whisked away to your retreat on the island of Kauai where you will be REFRESHED by the island pace, INSPIRED by colorful Kauai and two days of artistic techniques with the lovely Jeanne Oliver, GATHER and connect with like-minded women, and INDULGE in the downtime to be still and know how you are LOVED by your heavenly father. You my sister are a masterpiece, created to do amazing things… so let’s walk in them and share your gifts with the world. My desire is for each of you to have the opportunity to return home with a fresh start so you can walk confidently in who you were created to be, to take home inspiration from Kauai, and have some new art techniques in your tool belt. We will spoil you with Kauai’s beautiful views, have slow mornings , take a botanical garden tour or a boat tour, healthy local Hawaiian meals, learn the Hawaiian art of haku-making, take beach walks, and partake in a cooking class. We will be sharing rooms, bathrooms, enjoy the tradewinds, waking up to the sweet sounds of mourning doves and roosters. Our private venue has a pool and a short walk to the beach. It’s a nice chance to go back to the basics while being in beautiful Kauai. Ready for your next adventure?!
Retreat Details:
5-day Women's Creative Retreat held on Kauai, HI
Dates: January 23-28, 2026
TOTAL COST OF FIVE DAY RETREAT IS $3,200
(amount due today $800 ::: not refundable)
Itinerary: (Itinerary may change at any time due to weather and scheduling conflicts)
Day One gather everyone from Lihue airport by 3pm and be transported to our private venue. Get everyone settled and find your bed. Welcome drinks and pupus (in Hawaii this means appertizers.) Walk to the beach for sunset. Gather for dinner.
Day Two Slow morning, walk to the beach. Art lessons with Jeanne. Picnic lunches in the lawn. Art lessons with Jeanne. Free time. Dinner
Day Three Leave early for a five hour boat tour and snorkeling. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Embroidery projects. Cozy long table dinner back at our venue. Gather time or free time.
Day FourArt Techniques with Jeanne Oliver before and after lunch. Dinner and gather or free time.
Day Five Slow morning with cappuccini, Cooking class with Aletha learning the art of preserving. Shopping. Downtime. Haku-making with Irina.
Day Six Sharing time after breakfast: share your art/share your heart, pack-up, crying optional, eat early lunch then transport back to Lihue Airport by 3PM.
FLIGHTS ARE NOT COVERED, all participants will be picked up from Lihue airport by 3 pm and transported to our venue. We will also transport you from the venue to Lihue airport on January 28, 2026 by 3 PM. All meals and transportation are covered.
Deposit: The $800 deposit holds your spot ( we only have 20 participants) and you can pay the remaining $2,400 in full or by partial payments. Payment plan is as follows:
$800 due by June 1,2025
$800 due by August 1, 2025
$800 due by October 1, 2025
Total payment due October 1, 2025
TOTAL COST OF FIVE DAY RETREAT IS $3,200
The $800 deposit is NOT refundable
IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND THAT IS ALSO SIGNING UP PLEASE LET US KNOW SO WE CAN PUT YOU TWO TOGETHER.
Art lesson details described by Jeanne:
I have always been drawn to objects with history and pieces that tell a story. I am fascinated by old closed up buildings, what is behind broken old factory windows, old gardens with creaky gates and walls with layers of plaster and paint.
In this workshop we will gather our supplies and start creating our own story of this place filled with history, beauty and layers. We will explore dyeing, mark making, collage and stitching as we create our book. We will incorporate plaster, encaustic medium and wire as we bring our books and stories to life.
In between our bookmaking we will grab our hand stitched journals that we will make and head to the shore to learn how to create quick thumbnail sketches, contour sketches and abstract impressions of our surroundings.
Techniques Taught
Using plaster gauze to create texture and substrates
Mark making and incorporating it into your work
Stitching on fabric
Magazine altering
Working with vintage ephemera
Mark making on tracing paper
Adding calcium carbonate to your work
Sealing your work with cold wax or encaustic medium
Supplies for the students to bring:
scissors
older work (or photocopies of their work) they would like to incorporate into the book
Vintage papers or magazine pages they like (this is optional)
pencil and mechanical pencil
2-3 paints in their color palette
3-5 paintbrushes in different sizes
1-3 colored pencils (not water soluble)
Guest Artist’s Bio:
Jeanne Oliver grew up in rural Illinois and now resides in Castle Rock, CO. She is inspired by our personal stories, travel, and nature. Jeanne uses art to tell her current stories and also those of growing up among gravel roads, cornfields and early life surrounded by open spaces. Through mark making, layers and mixed media, she hopes to convey that we all have a story to tell.
She speaks and teaches all around the country and abroad. She was told that she needed to find that one thing but she doesn’t like listening to directions so she embraces many loves and that has given her a sweet mash-up of family, art, and travel. Connecting with women and sharing that each of us has been creatively made is one of her passions.
Jeanne is also a best selling author, creator of the online art school jeanneoliver.com with over 70,000 members from around the world, creator of the Creatively Made Business curriculum, and podcaster.
THIS IS NOT INCLUDED»JUST A SUGGESTION…
We have designed a retreat for you where you will have time to actually rest! This is not an exploration of all of Kauai’s beaches, tons of shopping, or towns so I recommend you arrive on the island a few days before the retreat to explore the North shore beaches, get your shopping in, take a surf lesson, and get acclimated to the time zone. You can rent a car to easily access all these places since there is not much public transportation here. We are hoping to explore the Na Pali coastline on our boat tour but if the winds shift we might just explore the South side coastline or we might take a tour of botanical gardens. Also, it would be wise to get a hotel room for the evening of January 28, 2026 so you don’t have to sit at the airport waiting for an evening flight. You can arrange to be picked up with Uber, Lyft, or a taxi service to travel between hotels and the Lihue airport for your last day on Kauai.
Finish checking out (cart above)
We will welcome you with tons of aloha then you will get whisked away to your retreat on the island of Kauai where you will be REFRESHED by the island pace, INSPIRED by colorful Kauai and two days of artistic techniques with the lovely Jeanne Oliver, GATHER and connect with like-minded women, and INDULGE in the downtime to be still and know how you are LOVED by your heavenly father. You my sister are a masterpiece, created to do amazing things… so let’s walk in them and share your gifts with the world. My desire is for each of you to have the opportunity to return home with a fresh start so you can walk confidently in who you were created to be, to take home inspiration from Kauai, and have some new art techniques in your tool belt. We will spoil you with Kauai’s beautiful views, have slow mornings , take a botanical garden tour or a boat tour, healthy local Hawaiian meals, learn the Hawaiian art of haku-making, take beach walks, and partake in a cooking class. We will be sharing rooms, bathrooms, enjoy the tradewinds, waking up to the sweet sounds of mourning doves and roosters. Our private venue has a pool and a short walk to the beach. It’s a nice chance to go back to the basics while being in beautiful Kauai. Ready for your next adventure?!
Retreat Details:
5-day Women's Creative Retreat held on Kauai, HI
Dates: January 23-28, 2026
TOTAL COST OF FIVE DAY RETREAT IS $3,200
(amount due today $800 ::: not refundable)
Itinerary: (Itinerary may change at any time due to weather and scheduling conflicts)
Day One gather everyone from Lihue airport by 3pm and be transported to our private venue. Get everyone settled and find your bed. Welcome drinks and pupus (in Hawaii this means appertizers.) Walk to the beach for sunset. Gather for dinner.
Day Two Slow morning, walk to the beach. Art lessons with Jeanne. Picnic lunches in the lawn. Art lessons with Jeanne. Free time. Dinner
Day Three Leave early for a five hour boat tour and snorkeling. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Embroidery projects. Cozy long table dinner back at our venue. Gather time or free time.
Day FourArt Techniques with Jeanne Oliver before and after lunch. Dinner and gather or free time.
Day Five Slow morning with cappuccini, Cooking class with Aletha learning the art of preserving. Shopping. Downtime. Haku-making with Irina.
Day Six Sharing time after breakfast: share your art/share your heart, pack-up, crying optional, eat early lunch then transport back to Lihue Airport by 3PM.
FLIGHTS ARE NOT COVERED, all participants will be picked up from Lihue airport by 3 pm and transported to our venue. We will also transport you from the venue to Lihue airport on January 28, 2026 by 3 PM. All meals and transportation are covered.
Deposit: The $800 deposit holds your spot ( we only have 20 participants) and you can pay the remaining $2,400 in full or by partial payments. Payment plan is as follows:
$800 due by June 1,2025
$800 due by August 1, 2025
$800 due by October 1, 2025
Total payment due October 1, 2025
TOTAL COST OF FIVE DAY RETREAT IS $3,200
The $800 deposit is NOT refundable
IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND THAT IS ALSO SIGNING UP PLEASE LET US KNOW SO WE CAN PUT YOU TWO TOGETHER.
Art lesson details described by Jeanne:
I have always been drawn to objects with history and pieces that tell a story. I am fascinated by old closed up buildings, what is behind broken old factory windows, old gardens with creaky gates and walls with layers of plaster and paint.
In this workshop we will gather our supplies and start creating our own story of this place filled with history, beauty and layers. We will explore dyeing, mark making, collage and stitching as we create our book. We will incorporate plaster, encaustic medium and wire as we bring our books and stories to life.
In between our bookmaking we will grab our hand stitched journals that we will make and head to the shore to learn how to create quick thumbnail sketches, contour sketches and abstract impressions of our surroundings.
Techniques Taught
Using plaster gauze to create texture and substrates
Mark making and incorporating it into your work
Stitching on fabric
Magazine altering
Working with vintage ephemera
Mark making on tracing paper
Adding calcium carbonate to your work
Sealing your work with cold wax or encaustic medium
Supplies for the students to bring:
scissors
older work (or photocopies of their work) they would like to incorporate into the book
Vintage papers or magazine pages they like (this is optional)
pencil and mechanical pencil
2-3 paints in their color palette
3-5 paintbrushes in different sizes
1-3 colored pencils (not water soluble)
Guest Artist’s Bio:
Jeanne Oliver grew up in rural Illinois and now resides in Castle Rock, CO. She is inspired by our personal stories, travel, and nature. Jeanne uses art to tell her current stories and also those of growing up among gravel roads, cornfields and early life surrounded by open spaces. Through mark making, layers and mixed media, she hopes to convey that we all have a story to tell.
She speaks and teaches all around the country and abroad. She was told that she needed to find that one thing but she doesn’t like listening to directions so she embraces many loves and that has given her a sweet mash-up of family, art, and travel. Connecting with women and sharing that each of us has been creatively made is one of her passions.
Jeanne is also a best selling author, creator of the online art school jeanneoliver.com with over 70,000 members from around the world, creator of the Creatively Made Business curriculum, and podcaster.
THIS IS NOT INCLUDED»JUST A SUGGESTION…
We have designed a retreat for you where you will have time to actually rest! This is not an exploration of all of Kauai’s beaches, tons of shopping, or towns so I recommend you arrive on the island a few days before the retreat to explore the North shore beaches, get your shopping in, take a surf lesson, and get acclimated to the time zone. You can rent a car to easily access all these places since there is not much public transportation here. We are hoping to explore the Na Pali coastline on our boat tour but if the winds shift we might just explore the South side coastline or we might take a tour of botanical gardens. Also, it would be wise to get a hotel room for the evening of January 28, 2026 so you don’t have to sit at the airport waiting for an evening flight. You can arrange to be picked up with Uber, Lyft, or a taxi service to travel between hotels and the Lihue airport for your last day on Kauai.
Finish checking out (cart above)