The Matthew Hussey Retreat, from the author of Get The Guy, brought guests to Fort Lauderdale for sessions on stage and time outdoors on the beach.

Welcome kits tied with eucalyptus

The welcome kit held a spiral notebook printed with "5 magical days. A lifetime of change." and a kraft card from The Retreat Team that opened "Welcome to... Fort Lauderdale." Gift boxes went out tied with grey ribbon and a sprig of eucalyptus.

White high-rise hotel behind palm trees and flowering shrubs under a blue sky
Gift box tied with grey ribbon and eucalyptus, topped with a kraft card reading Welcome to Fort Lauderdale
Guests looking through a booklet at a check-in table with flowers, balloons and a palm print banner
Welcome kit with a Matthew Hussey Retreat notebook, a Welcome to Fort Lauderdale card and a bag tagged essentials
Three people with lanyards laughing together in a hallway

Beach yoga at sunrise and volleyball on the sand

Beach yoga ran at sunrise, and guests also played volleyball on the sand in front of a row of blue cabanas.

A speaker in a maroon T-shirt beside a flip chart on a stage with blue curtains and palm print banners
Sign styled like an exit sign reading EXIT SMARTER on a wood-paneled wall
People with lanyards chatting in front of a banner printed If you can't fly, then run
A woman on raised steps holding a band overhead as a crowd exercises on the beach at sunrise
Guests in a room with chandeliers throwing papers into the air
Guests playing volleyball on a wide sandy beach with blue cabanas behind
Hallway with shell decor, a dresser with flowers and easels of printed sheets and sticky notes

Sticky notes and flip charts on stage

Inside, sessions ran on a stage with deep blue curtains and flip charts, one headed "Mastering our emotions." Guests covered a cork board labeled Comments with colored sticky notes, and a box marked Questions sat beside a fresh stack of them.

A group of guests hugging beside a banner that begins If you can't fly
Cork board covered in colored sticky notes under a label reading Comments
Two guests hugging beside a palm print banner with the retreat logo
A man with a name badge cheering with both arms raised beside a flip chart as the crowd raises fists
Box labeled Questions beside a stack of rainbow sticky notes and a jar of pens
Wide view of a purple-lit room with a speaker on stage between flip charts and banners
A speaker laughing beside a flip chart reading Mastering our emotions as guests clap overhead
Two men laughing together at a wooden podium beside a palm print banner with the retreat logo

Photography by Angie Myers