ascend

An Exclusive Women’s Retreat

To Step Into Power, Presence and Your Next Level of Leadership

November 15-16, 2025 | Toronto

Very Limited Spots

As a woman in leadership, you’ve achieved a lot. Yet you may still feel:

  • Stuck in patterns that keep you from fully stepping into your power

  • Drained by the pressure to “have it all together” while quietly questioning yourself

  • Invisible in rooms where your ideas should command attention

  • Alone in your challenges, with few spaces to truly be seen and understood

  • Held back in achieving your goals by negative thinking, blocks and/or limiting beliefs

  • Unsure how to set bold goals without slipping into burnout or self-doubt

That's me!

The Ascend Retreat

The Ascend Retreat is designed to change that. Over two days, you will break through the beliefs that hold you back, learn to take up space with unapologetic confidence, and map bold goals with the strategy and presence to achieve them.

Alongside a circle of ambitious women, you will connect deeply, gain clarity, and expand your leadership through transformative practices. Including oracle card pulls, personalized mindset coaching to address the blocks holding you back, two beginner-friendly pole dance classes, and mapping of your 2026 goals and strategy. Requested by a number of clients, we included pole dance classes as this is an incredible way to tap into your confidence, presence, owning space, strength, creativity and empowerment. There will be no event photography of that portion of the event as confidentiality is incredibly important throughout this retreat.

This is for the woman who is a leader, visionary and/or entrepreneur with big goals—the woman ready to step into her embodiment and shed the things holding her back. It’s the event that blends spiritual tools with results-driven executive coaching and shows how movement unlocks a version of yourself you haven’t yet seen, but was there all along.

It’s the uplevel. It’s the growth. A unique retreat that combines head, heart, and soul to help you transform and unlock the next version of yourself. Healthy, nourishing breakfast and lunch are included each day cooked by a private chef, fuelling you for deep reflection, connection, and embodied practice.

Day 2 - Mapping Bold Goals & Strategy

  • 9:00 AM – Breakfast & Morning Connection

  • 10:00 AM – Mindset Coaching Session

  • 11:00 AM – Beginner-Friendly Pole Dance Class with Lady Kori (Part 2) (Note: There will be max 8 people in this class. There will be no event photography of any kind during this portion of the event)

  • 12:30 PM – Nourishing Lunch by Chef Adam Alguire

  • 1:30 PM – 2026 Goal Mapping & Strategy Workshop

  • 3:30 PM – Integration & Oracle/Tarot Pulls for 2026

  • 4:30 PM – Closing Circle

  • 5:00 PM – Departure

Note: This itinerary is subject to change if only to enhance the experience of the retreat

In just two days, you will shed the blocks of the past, chart bold 2026 goals with clear strategies, and embody the mindset and presence to achieve them. Through powerful practices of leadership and embodiment, Ascend will take you into an experience unlike any other.

This retreat isn’t about who you’ve been. It’s about meeting the leader you’re becoming—the version of you who is done playing small, leads with presence, and achieves her goals with power.

Retreat Itinerary

Day 1 - Unlocking Presence & Power

  • 9:00 AM – Arrival & Nourishing Breakfast by Chef Adam Alguire

  • 10:00 AM – Opening Circle & Oracle Card Pulls

  • 11:00 AM – Mindset Coaching Workshop - Shedding Your Blocks

  • 12:30 PM – Nourishing Lunch by Chef Adam Alguire

  • 1:30 PM – Integration & Reflection Session

  • 3:00 PM – Embodiment & Presence Practices

  • 4:30 PM – Beginner-Friendly Pole Dance Class with Lady Kori (Part 1) (Note: There will be max 8 people in this class. There will be no event photography of any kind during this portion of the event)

  • 5:30 PM – Closing Circle

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What one of our retreat attendees had to say…

Mila Olumogba, Colour Me Gifted & Akoma Marketing

Facilitators

Lucy Cullen

Lucy Cullen is an Executive Coach, 5x Founder, and the co-founder of Comeback Catalyst, a nonprofit that empowers people with lived justice experience to launch businesses. She is also the founder of Lumen Onyx (soon launching), her coaching practice dedicated to helping leaders unlock clarity, presence, and achieve their goals. A graduate and Valedictorian of the Rotman Executive Coaching Program, Lucy has spent over a decade building and leading companies, while supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives around the world. To date she has supported over 300 entrepreneurs on their journey.

Her own leadership journey has been shaped not only by business but also by embodiment practices. Among the most transformative for her has been pole dance which she has been practicing for 2 years—a practice that has unlocked confidence, freedom, and unapologetic presence in ways that ripple through every meeting room and stage she steps onto.

At Ascend, Lucy brings together her entrepreneurial experience, her work with leaders through Lumen Onyx, and her own transformational tools to help you step into 2026 with clarity, confidence, and the presence to lead at your next level.

Lady kori

Lady Kori received a multidisciplinary education in both the fine and performing arts, including formal schooling in theatre, classical and jazz ballet, West African, modern, and contemporary dance. Her continued training encompasses flexibility and conditioning for dance, lyra, burlesque, contact improvisation, belly dance, and mask work.

She has worked professionally as an instructor, choreographer, performer, teacher training mentor, mistress of ceremonies, showcase director, stage manager, competition coach, host and judge, administrator, and studio manager within the Toronto pole and dance community since 2014. Amongst numerous certifications, Lady Kori completed both Pole Fitness Level 1 and 2 from ElevatED training at Body and Pole in New York City.

Also passionate about the healing arts, Lady Kori has trained in shamanic medicine, is a meditation teacher, certified reiki master practitioner and crystal healing practitioner, registered Munay-Ki mentor, and mesa carrier.

At Ascend, she brings her artistry, depth of training, and healing practices to guide you in unlocking embodiment, presence, and freedom through movement.

I'm ready!

The Investment

Early Bird - Ends October 24th

  • $1,399 + tax - Limited to 4 spots

    1. Two payments of $699.50 + tax

Tier 2:

  • $2,000 + tax

    1. Two payments of $1,000 + tax

We want Ascend to be accessible for the right women leaders. If you require additional financial support or payment plans, please reach out directly to discuss at hello@lucycullen.co

Ascend is not just a retreat… but a beginning.

A beginning of you stepping into the most powerful version of yourself.

Ready to rise with clarity, confidence, and presence—ready to take on 2026 and everything it holds for you.

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 FAQs

  • In-person in Toronto! It will take place in the west end of the city.

  • $1399 is the early bird pricing end October 24 and the full rate is $2000. Payment plans are available. Please reach out to hello@lucycullen.co if you require financial assistance

  • If you are an executive, leader or entrepreneur with a clear vision of the business you are launching or growing, are wearing all the hats in the business, and have big dreams you want to achieve… This day is perfect for you!

  • We want to ensure everyone in attendance is a good fit for the programming.

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