Retreats/Seminars

RELAX - REJUVENATE - RESHAPE
your life during an individual retreat with Vranna Sue Hinck, creativity coach extraordinaire! Embrace the natural beauty of the Beartooth Hi-Country in beautiful Silver Gate, Montana during the summer and fall seasons while you are enfolded in Vranna Sue's loving care. Enjoy the sights of Bozeman, Montana and the lovely Gallatin Valley during the winter and spring seasons. You can design the content of your individual retreat - or choose one of the retreats below designed by Vranna Sue and customized for you or your group.

For private retreats, the Hinck cabin has all the amenities of home plus spectacular surroundings near Yellowstone National Park. Come in the fall for sensational wildlife viewing, including bugling elk! During your free time you can enjoy hiking, bird watching, horseback riding, mountain biking, hot potting, and relaxing on the porch or in front of the fire. For more information and pictures of the cabin visit it on this web site.

In Bozeman you will enjoy the hospitality of the Hincks' in a lovely private suite next to Vranna Sue's studio. Bozeman is a thriving community of 32,000 located just north of Yellowstone National Park. Spectacular scenery in the area includes views of the Spanish Peaks, and the Gallatin, Bridger and Tobacco Root Mountains which surround the valley. In addition, there is an abundance of galleries and boutiques downtown, blue-ribbon trout fishing, alpine hiking, skiing at Big Sky Resort or Bridger Bowl, and dinosaurs at the first class Museum of the Rockies.

Bask in Vranna's care. During your retreat all meals will be provided based on your dietary needs and desires. Vranna Sue and her staff have an array of tried and true recipes that vary from mom's specialties to spa specials that will delight your palette but not your waistline.

Individual retreats are available starting at $250.00 per night - 2-night minimum. This price includes transportation between Bozeman and Silver Gate (no parking fees-ever), food, lodging, and your one-on-one time with Vranna Sue plus two ½ hour follow-up phone consultations. Individual coaching retreats with Vranna Sue can address creativity issues, personal and professional development concerns, visioning, and setting and achieving goals in any of the areas of your life where you want to become more free/creative/productive. The coaching relationship is in no way to be construed as psychological counseling or any type of therapy.

BECOME A SHAPE-SHIFTER!
Access and encourage your essence in the vast space under starry skies. Let the sweet silent awe-inspiring mountains of Montana awaken you to your deep dreams. Imagine manifesting possibilities in your life and living the wholeness of the truth that is yours alone to live. Choose any of the following retreat possibilities or design your own:

1. PERSONAL COACHING FOR INSPIRATION, ACTION, RESULTS
2. WAKING UP: Are you using or loosing energy?
3. CONNECTING TIME, MONEY, AND SPIRIT
4. RECLAIMING JOY, RESTORING BALANCE
5. CREATIVITY AS A SPIRITUAL PATH
6. FOSTERING SOUL IN A DISQUIETED WORLD: Creating Spaces and Places that Hold You
7. CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS: VISUAL ART AS AN INSTRUMENT OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING

1. PERSONAL COACHING FOR INSPIRATION, ACTION, RESULTS
Discover possibilities, remove barriers and plan the action steps that will help you realize your potential. Choose something you would like to work on and allow yourself to focus and enjoy the process.
Our sessions might cover:
Clarifying your life's purpose and defining your intentions, then planning the action steps that will support those purposes;
Figuring out how to get a business or project off the ground;
Rising to the next level of success in what you do;
Crafting a life that balances its many aspects;
Empowering your creative self through specific projects that you want to start;
OR,
Responding to any of the dreams that live in your heart and want to become more.

2. WAKING UP: Are you using or loosing energy?
How do you see where and who you are right now? Especially in terms of making the contribution you are here in this lifetime to make? Where do you imagine you are going? Imagine that your life energy flows down a pipe toward your "goals" like water flows to a garden. Is the pipe clear and open? What would it take to clear the flow so that you can make a blooming garden of your dreams and intentions for yourself?

This retreat focuses on discerning who you are in your heart, what you are here in this lifetime to contribute and how best to make that contribution. Wake up to who you really are and how you are using your energy so that the flow can serve the possibilities in your life.

3. CONNECTING TIME, MONEY, AND SPIRIT
When we become blocked, we often blame it on our lack of money or our lack of time. The truth is that the actual block is our own feeling of constriction, our sense of powerlessness and a barrenness of spirit. The goal in this retreat is to intervene in the time and money madness that drives us and to begin a recovery process that will reveal the abundance that is already available to us for the creation of the lives we are here to lead.

This retreat will offer you a chance to explore your attitudes about time and money through a variety of creative exercises. There will be time to think, play, feel, exercise, and rest.

4. RECLAIMING JOY, RESTORING BALANCE
Time to listen to your own inner voice and develop fresh approaches to handling life's challenges so that you can be an agent of your own transformation. This retreat will offer you a chance to awaken to your Greater Self; respond to your unacknowledged yearnings; listen to your inner voice and meet yourself in love and light. Explore your possible self through creative exercises, movement, silence, time stretching, and playing in nature.

Pause and greet the mystery within yourself along with the wilderness around you. The potential for stretching your body and mind in the crisp mountain air guaranteed!

5. CREATIVITY AS A SPIRITUAL PATH
Give yourself the luxury of time and space to explore the dreams that are most true for you. You do not have to be "an artist" in the traditional sense of being a writer, painter, musician, or sculptor… nor even aspire to being one. This is rather an opportunity to forge a creative alliance with the Great Creator. Choose the way you want to live your life…discover how prodigal the universe is in support of us when we are clear about who we are and what we are doing.

This retreat will empower you to midwife and witness your own creative progression as your imagination is spurred and your spirit is set free.

6. FOSTERING SOUL IN A DISQUIETED WORLD: Creating Spaces and Places that Hold You
A 2-4-day intensive retreat including experiential, creative, and reflective time to examine your soul's connection to home and place. Do the places in your life nourish and transform you?
Do you live in place or on top of place? What is your ground or the place you move from into the world? Discover the core, personal elements of your soul's place.

This retreat will help you discover the depths and intelligence of your imaginal capacity.

7. CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS: VISUAL ART AS AN INSTRUMENT OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Rollo May

Vranna Sue will guide you through stimulating exercises designed to liberate your creative spirit and enliven your imagination. Even those who do not think they have it in them to create art will find themselves able to enjoy the processes and take pleasure in using a variety of techniques, materials, and suggestions guaranteed to awaken your capacity for inspired expression. Visualize, fantasize, dream and experiment with various mediums that will become the mediators between your imagination and its expression. Absolutely no experience necessary.

Vranna Sue uses movement and music, experiential processes and play, including visual and poetic play as well as physical time out in the extraordinary environment that Montana offers to provide time with her that is stimulating, thought provoking, and restorative.

You may also come for lessons in drawing, water painting, cattlemarker, mixed media, print making, collage, and/or visual journaling.

For individual retreats, prices start @ $250.00 per day depending on the retreat you choose and the particulars of your lodging choices. Group prices are variable and negotiable at the time of scheduling.

Vranna Sue Hinck, M.A., who heads up Bazingo!© Coaching and Consulting, has over 30 years of communications consulting and teaching experience. Recently she trained for coaching with Maria Nemeth and Associates in Sacramento, CA. She holds a B.A. in communication from Colorado State University and an M.A. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Texas-Dallas. She has taught a variety of courses for UT-D and for MSU-Bozeman, been a program planner for age level camping for 25 years and coached through Montana Arts Council as an "Arts Pro." Along with coaching individual clients, she currently leads groups in creative independence classes, financial and personal fulfillment classes and art classes with an interesting and diverse collection of students. Her specialties are creativity and what can be learned at the intersection of creativity, new science and our lives. Along with many individuals, some of her former clients include Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Women In Transition, the Community Food CoOp, Texas Women's Ministry, the UCC Women's Annual Retreat and others.