Facilitator buyout, whole property
Bring your cohort. Take the whole preserve. Run your programme properly.
A full-property buyout for facilitator-led work: 18 beds, both spaces, 58 private acres, breathwork, sound, movement and plant-based food already on site.
- Nobody else on the land for the length of your programme
- Every session, meal and space sourced from one operator
- A schedule co-designed with Raven so the work actually lands
Feel it first
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Why most trips fail
The venue is never the hard part. Holding it together is.
You chase five vendors for sound, food, movement and space, then referee their calendars.
Shared venues put your closing circle next to somebody's wedding reception.
Rooms get capped, the day gets cut short, and the deepest part of your programme is the part you lose.
One operator, one invoice, the whole property.
A buyout means the schedule belongs to you: 18 beds across both spaces, every room available at every hour, and breathwork, sound bathing, forest bathing, chef service and coaching supplied in house.
What you leave with
Three results, in the order they happen.
1Your programme sets the clock
Sunrise yoga, late fire pit closes, a quiet afternoon on day two. No shared-venue curfew editing your arc.
2The group eats properly
Plant-based chef service on site, so meals become part of the programme instead of a coach ride into town.
3The land does half your work
58 protected acres, forest platforms, meditation areas and fitness stations. Participants regulate before your first session starts.
What it feels like
The change happens in this order, almost every time.
Load in
One property, one key, no venue manager watching the clock.
First circle
Your group is the only group here, so the room stays yours.
Mid retreat
Participants stop checking their phones because there is nothing to check for.
Final morning
People exchange numbers instead of leaving quietly.
After
Your testimonials write themselves.
What you hear
Wind in 58 acres of hardwood, and not one engine.
What you smell
Woodsmoke, wet leaf litter, and dinner being cooked for you.
What you touch
Hot water at dusk with cold air on your face.
What you see
Steel and stone sculpture standing where trees thin out.
Before and after
What you arrive with, and what replaces it.
Sourcing venue, chef, practitioners and transport separately
One property, one invoice, one contact
Sharing a retreat centre with another group
The whole 58 acre preserve to your cohort alone
Facilitating and running logistics at the same time
Facilitating only, because the day is already set
Participants who leave politely
Participants who ask when the next one is
Straight from us
You should be facilitating, not fixing lunch
Every facilitator we host arrives having previously done it the hard way: a venue that double-books, a caterer who is late, a sound practitioner two hours away, and a group waiting on you while you fix it.
Here the venue, the kitchen, the practitioners, the trails and the platforms are one operation, run by the two people who live on the land.
You show up to run your programme. That is the only job left on your list.
How it unfolds
3 nights, told the way you will remember it.
01 / Before
Raven co-designs the arc with you
Where breathwork sits, when the group eats, which day needs a quiet afternoon. You bring the method, we shape the container around it.
- Arrival and property orientation
- Opening circle in the Lodge
- Plant-based chef dinner
- Evening sound bath
02 / Day one and two
Opening circle, then the property takes over
Lodge for the group work, forest platform for sound and breath, marked trails for integration walks, fire pit for the close.
- Sunrise yoga on the platform
- Somatic breathwork
- Forest bathing walk
- Facilitator session
- Fire pit close
03 / Close
Integration, not a scramble to check out
Closing circle, integration session, unhurried departure. Nobody is turning over rooms behind you.
- Meditation
- Instructor-led workout on the fitness stations
- Small-group coaching
- Live sculpture performance
One day, hour by hour
So you can picture yourself in it before you book.
7:00
Optional movement on the platform
Outdoor functional fitness stations and forest platforms are already set, no equipment to haul in.
8:30
Breakfast in the black walnut kitchen
A kitchen big enough to feed everyone at once, or a plant-based chef doing it for you.
10:00
Your programme, your room
Gathering spaces that hold a full cohort without anyone shouting. You facilitate, we stay out of it.
14:00
Forest bathing or art therapy
Add our practitioners into your schedule where you want a break in the intensity.
18:30
Chef dinner for the whole cohort
Served on site, dietary needs handled in advance on the consult call.
20:30
Sound bath to close the day
Bowls and gongs, full group, then a property that is completely dark and completely quiet.
Every session listed is optional. 16 are already shaped across your 3 nights, and you can add, swap or drop any of them while booking.
Dates and real numbers
See what your wellness cohort retreat actually costs, before you talk to anyone.
Live calendar, live rates, live add-on pricing. Nothing here is a guess and nothing is hidden until checkout.
Open weekends by month
August
2 weekends open
September
2 weekends open
October
3 weekends open
November
2 weekends open
December
1 weekend open
January
2 weekends open
Aug 5–8
3 night minimum, live availability
3 nights
August 2026
September 2026
Adults in your group
Full Property Buyout takes up to 18
Add sessions, watch the total move
Your estimate
$5,808
3 nights, 8 adults, all in
Per night
$1,936
Per adult
$726
- $1,680 avg × 3 nightsIncludes weekend nights$5,040
- Cleaning & reset$375
- Ohio lodging tax$393
Free 24 hour hold, no card, no resort fees
Everything included
One property, one team, one invoice.
- Exclusive use of both spaces and all 58 acres
- Up to 18 overnight guests
- Programme design consult with Raven
- Forest platform, meditation areas and fitness stations
- Guided art tour of the collection
- Breathwork, sound bathing, forest bathing, yoga and chef service on request
- Program design consult with Raven
- Forest platform, meditation areas, fitness stations
Starting from
$1,600/ night
- Stay
- Full Property Buyout
- Length
- 3 nights
- Group
- 8–18 guests
- Sessions shaped
- 16 across the stay
- Add-ons available
- 6 on site
Free 24 hour hold on your dates. No platform or resort fees.
“This was a perfect location for our CEO forum group to retreat for a long weekend.”
Megan, Corporate offsite
Honest comparison
A hotel, a retreat centre, or 58 acres nobody else is on.
Who else is on site
A hotel floor, a lobby, other bookings, other groups
Nobody. 58 adults-only acres, one booking at a time
Sessions and practitioners
You source and coordinate four or five separate vendors
Breathwork, sound, forest bathing, massage, chef and coaching on site
Who runs the day
You do, on top of attending it
Owner-operated by an artist and a wellness practitioner
The building itself
Beige rental furniture and hotel art
Original museum-scale sculpture, handmade beds, a working collection
The invoice
Platform fees, cleaning fees, resort fees, vendor deposits
One itemised invoice, no platform or resort fees
The drive
A flight, a connection, a rental car, a lost day each way
One hour from Columbus, two from Cincinnati, two and a half from Cleveland
How booking works
Four steps, and only one of them needs you.
01
Hold your dates free
Pick your nights and we hold them for 24 hours at no cost, so you can check with the people coming before anything is committed.
02
Talk to Raven, not a call centre
A 30 minute consult with the owner. Group size, pace, dietary needs, what you want people to leave with. She shapes the plan around that.
03
Approve one itemised invoice
Stay, sessions, chef, everything on one page. No platform fees, no resort fees, no five vendors to chase and reconcile afterwards.
04
Arrive and hand it over
The property is set, the practitioners are booked, the schedule is printed. From the moment you park, someone else is carrying it.
Layer it up
Sessions you can add while booking, not chase afterwards.
Live Art & Creative
Live Sculpture Demonstration
60–90 minutes, Dustin Weatherby, master sculptor
Wellness
Somatic Breathwork
60–75 minutes, Raven Morgan
Wellness
Sound Bathing
60 minutes, Visiting practitioner
Wellness
Forest Bathing
90 minutes, Guided on-property
Wellness
Plant-Based Chef Experience
Per meal or full stay, Visiting chef
Wellness
Yoga Classes
60 minutes, Visiting instructor
Fit check
We would rather you knew now.
Book this if
- You are a facilitator who wants the whole venue, not a conference room
- Your programme needs privacy, quiet and no accidental audience
- You want practitioners on tap instead of coordinating five vendors
Look elsewhere if
- You need 40 plus beds on site, we sleep up to 18 overnight
- You need conference AV, breakout rooms and a hotel operations team
- You want a city-centre venue with catering contracts
When to come
The preserve is a different place four times a year.
Spring
Trilliums on the trail floor, cold mornings, the preserve waking up loudly. Best light for the forest platform.
Summer
Long green evenings, fireflies over the meadow, hot tub after dark when the heat finally drops.
Autumn
The busiest and most photographed season in Hocking Hills. Book two to three months out for peak colour.
Winter
Bare ridgelines, sightlines through the trees, fireplaces going, and the deepest quiet of the year.
Proof, not promises
4.97 out of 5 across 400 guest reviews.
“This was a perfect location for our CEO forum group to retreat for a long weekend.”
Megan, Corporate offsite, Sculptor's Art Lodge
“It was the ultimate, rejuvenating getaway and silent retreat experience!”
Greg, Solo silent reset, Sculptor's Art Bungalow
“I would truly recommend booking this experience to any and everyone.”
AD, Couples retreat, Sculptor's Art Bungalow
Before you book
The questions everyone asks.
Can I run my own curriculum?
Yes. Facilitators regularly buy out the property and run their own programme, using our spaces, food and sessions as the backbone.
What happens if my numbers change?
Tell us up to seven days before arrival. Sessions and catering scale and the invoice is re-issued so you see the change before paying.
Is 18 a hard cap?
Eighteen overnight guests is the maximum across the property. It keeps the preserve quiet and the programme intimate.
Can I white label the retreat as my own?
Yes. It is your programme, your branding, your schedule. We are the venue and the practitioner bench behind it.
How many can we sleep and how many can we host?
Up to 18 overnight across the property, with day capacity above that for sessions. Confirm the exact split on the consult call.
What about dietary requirements?
Collected before arrival and handled by the chef. Plant-based is the default and allergies are worked around, not accommodated grudgingly.
Who hosts you
Owner-operated, which is the whole difference
Dustin is a master sculptor, 25 years of large-scale commissioned work, featured on Disney+, the History Channel and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Raven is a wellness practitioner who designs the sessions and hosts the consult call herself. The art you sleep beside and the breathwork you are guided through come from the same two people, on the same land, and they live here.
- Free 24 hour hold on your dates before you pay anything
- One itemised invoice, no platform fees, no resort fees
- A consult call with the owner before every booking, always included
- Adults only, never shared with another booking while you are here
- Every stay funds our on-site and off-site animal rescue
Where you are
58 private acres, with the best of Hocking Hills inside 16 miles.
17683 Thompson Ridge Road, Laurelville, OH 43135. Drive times: Columbus 1 hour, Cincinnati 2 hours, Cleveland 2.5 hours.
Hold your programme dates now
Buyout weekends are the first to go. Reserve the property, then design the arc with Raven on a call.
Free 24 hour date hold, one itemised invoice, adults only
Other ways to use the preserve
Solo travelers
Solo Silent Reset
From $400 / night, 2–4 nights
Couples
Couples Slow Weekend
From $400 / night, 2–3 nights
Companies & CEO forums
Leadership Offsite
From $1,200 / night, 2–3 nights
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