REFLECT 2025 Sunset Retreat
for coaches and healers
Thursday 9/11/25 - Sunday 9/14/25
Mears, MI
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REFLECT
Take stock of the last year. The shifts! The struggles! Where have you given yourself credit, and where have you not? Reflect on the patterns, blocks, growth, and how far you’ve come on this journey - as a coach, practitioner, and human.
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RECONNECT
Reconnect with self… with other coaches you already know and love, and meet new friends. Develop kinship with Lake Michigan’s unique energy and the uncountable grains of sand on 700’ of private beach a short walk away. We will be at the edge of land meeting unsalted water stretching to the horizon. As we reconnect, what starts to fall away that is no longer serving?
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REALIGN
This is an opportunity for deep work. To build awareness and acceptance, to transform blocks, and align toward who YOU are today and where your next steps are leading.
Sunset is our golden hour where we bring in gratitude for today, and welcome in rest and the gift of a new day.
JOIN US at the Lake
Your experience begins at sunset on Thursday September 11, 2025.
We will gather, set intentions, and call in transformation, inspiration, and celebrate community and the joy of being together - reuniting with dear friends and meeting new dear friends.
Breakfast and lunch are included Friday Sept 12 and Saturday Sept 13.
Breakfast is included Sunday Sept 14; lunch as well if you select the VIP experience. Vegan, DF, GF options will be available; please alert to any food allergies at signup!
Classes with our experts will run from 9am - 12 pm Friday and Saturday,
with a VIP session from 1-2pm with Angela.
Afternoons are free for integration, beach time, exploring the quaint lakeshore towns nearby, or catching up and connecting with friends.
Sunset ceremony will be at 7pm each evening, down on the beach (weather permitting). Sunset will be around 7:30pm.
Enjoy learning from various speakers and practitioners, see bio’s below!
Participate in deep healing sessions with Angela Johnson, Certified Master Coach. Elect the VIP Experience and further identify and transform the blocks that are between you and the business you want! Develop your next (or your first!) launch!
The VIP Experience is limited to 10 participants to create an intimate and safe container for some truly transformational work and beautiful shifts.
The setting for this transformational retreat is intimate and can hold up to 20 attendees (10 of whom can participate in the VIP Experience). Space is limited!
Reserve your place now and anticipate the beauty of a September weekend of Reflecting, Reconnecting, and Realigning on the golden beaches of Lake Michigan!
THE ENERGY AT THIS RETREAT WILL BE INCREDIBLE. What do you want to leave behind on the sands of the Michigan coastline? What energy do you want to IMBUE into your next project? We are all here to bring the Light and serve. Come be a part of this incredible collective and let the high vibe of our gathering and your particular genius bring the magic to your next project.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: the beach is accessible only via 3 sets of stairs, the shortest of which has 63 steps. Angela is working on an alternate sunset viewing place on the bluff for anyone for whom stairs are not a great option.
Sunset credits:
Top - from the north end of the Association beach, 5/22/25
Right - from the Cedar Point County Park stairs - Mears, MI - August 30, 2024
Below - from the south end of the Association beach, 8/30/24
All photos taken by Angela Johnson on her iphone 13
Meet your incredible instructors and presenters:
Carrie Smith, owner of Wholehearted Marketing
Carrie Smith started Wholehearted Marketing because she wanted to use her decades of communications experience to help organizations and people who are making the world a better place. Carrie learned the media world from the inside out, beginning her career as a TV news reporter, before fulfilling marketing and media leadership roles at corporations and agencies. She also spent five years as the Executive Director of a nonprofit where she grew revenue by 500%, allowing the organization to serve 10 times more families and expand into additional communities. Results-driven and client-focused, Carrie most enjoys intense listening, engaging, and collaboration—and the fulfillment of delivering outcomes that exceed expectations. When she's not helping deliver the right message at the right time to the right audience, Carrie enjoys spending time with her two children, dancing, and singing.
Stephanie Curtis, Soul Guidance and Akashic Records Practitioner
Stephanie has always felt a deep connection to both Spirit and Nature, growing up with a natural ability to see and hear messages for others. Life, to her, is a grand experiment where magic and the mundane meet, and the most joyful part of it is working with people. As a compassionate and intuitive guide, Stephanie connects with your energetic field through the Akashic Records.
In her sessions, Stephanie opens the Records to receive guidance from your spirit team, offering clarity, healing, and a sense of alignment with your soul's purpose. Through seeing, hearing, and knowing, she conveys the messages that will serve you for your highest good, creating a safe and nurturing space for exploration. Expect unconditional love, acceptance, and authenticity in every session, whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or deepened connection to your truth.
Stephanie's work feels like a heartfelt conversation, much like gathering in her living room for a chat. It’s a space where your journey unfolds with love, compassion, and a deeper understanding of the path ahead.
Angela Johnson, Certified Master Adult Chair Coach, 2025 Reflect Sunset Retreat Presenter - Host:
Angela is the owner of Open Hands Coaching. She is a gifted Master Coach and energy healer/amplifier, specializing in generational trauma, transforming triggers, and helping clients shed limiting beliefs. She helps clients step firmly into their power and worth; into who they are meant to be.
She felt called to host this retreat for coaches and healers to allow everyone to gather and rest, reconnect with self and with others, and to realign with what’s next. The Lake Michigan shoreline is a convergence of beautiful energy - peace and power - and is the perfect place for healers to gather - to rejuvenate and level up; to be filled; to laugh and connect.
She will be leading opening / closing sessions for all. Select the VIP Experience to engage in additional deeply healing, transformative sessions that will allow you to leave behind what you no longer need, and step into future versions of self sooner. You will be safely held to do the inner and outer work to bring forth your next - or your first! - launch. The world needs YOU and the work you are called to do! If you have been feeling stuck trying to get your next project off the ground, the VIP Experience is perfectly aligned!
Mandy Jarvis, Certified Adult Chair Master Coach
Mandy Jarvis is a sacred space holder, intuitive wayfinder, and devoted seeker of the unseen. She moves gently, but powerfully, walking beside those who are ready to shed the old skin of survival and return to their inner knowing. Her presence is soft, rooted, and luminous - a calming compass for those navigating transformation.
Mandy offers Breath of Grace: A Sacred Shift - a ceremonial practice that opens the door to remembrance. With grounded intuition and a gift for deep listening, she helps others soften the walls around their hearts and reconnect to the wise, unbroken self within. Her work is an invitation into stillness, emotional alchemy, and self-trust - a return to one’s sacred center, where the breath leads and grace gathers.
Nearby Accomodations
Vacation rentals are within walking distance of the Retreat site, or within a 10-30 min drive: search Airbnb & VRBO or your favorite property rental site and get a group of friends/coaches to share a house! Cities to focus on: Mears, Silver Lake, Hart, Shelby, Pentwater, Ludington, Whitehall, Muskegon.
Hotels are available in Hart, MI (a 10 min drive) and Ludington, MI; and Whitehall, MI; (around 30 min drive, each)
To help you map something nearby, the retreat address is:
4699 N Ridge Rd, Mears, MI;
The retreat site is a quaint and open cottage situated between Silver Lake Sand Dunes to the south, and Pentwater to the north, about 1/4 mile from Cedar Point County Park.
Email angela@openhandscoaching.com for help connecting to a nearby cottage rental.