Retreat Services at Fern Hall

Custom experiences for families, teams, leadership groups, and organizations

Fern Hall Estate is a historic sanctuary surrounded by rolling hills, a beautiful lake, and the kind of stillness that invites people to slow down and reconnect. In addition to our signature fall and spring retreats, we offer private retreat services for outside groups who want to create their own transformative experience at the estate.

Whether your group is here for one restorative day or an immersive weekend, we curate experiences that match your intention. From light, nourishing activities to deeper personal growth sessions, each offering is designed to help people breathe, reconnect, and return home with something meaningful.

It’s Time To Love Yourself Again

With one-on-one guidance and group support, you've found a safe place to dig deep and nurture your inner self.

How it Works

1. Choose your length

Half-day, full-day, or weekend retreat.

2. Choose your intention

Connection, well-being, resilience, clarity, celebration, or a custom goal.

3. Choose your experiences

Select from our menu or let us design something tailored to your group.

4. We build the schedule

You will receive a proposed retreat outline that includes timing, flow, and optional enhancements.

5. Enjoy a beautiful, meaningful experience at Fern Hall

We coordinate. You breathe.

Foundational Experiences

These offerings are ideal for family reunions, wedding weekends, friend groups, or anyone who wants a gentle, soulful experience without diving into deeper emotional work.

Guided Mindfulness & Grounding Sessions - Breathwork, gentle presence practices, and simple nervous system resets, aromatherapy.
Nature Walks & Reflective Moments - Slow walks, mindful moments, journaling stops, and opportunities to reconnect with nature.
Creative Expression Workshops - Intuitive art, reflective writing, vision boards, or gratitude practices.
Morning Ritual Circles - Sunrise grounding, intention setting, and light movement.
Connection Activities - Simple, heart-opening exercises that strengthen belonging without emotional intensity.

Growth & Well-Being Sessions

Perfect for professional teams, leadership retreats, or groups seeking intentional personal or collective development.

Burnout Recovery & Sustainable Well-Being - A restorative session for professionals experiencing chronic stress, fatigue, or overwhelm
Emotional Wellness & Resilience Training - Nervous system regulation, stress-response education, and practical tools for daily life.
Hope & Strength Mapping - A signature framework that moves participants from awareness to grounded action.
Values-Based Visioning - Identify core values, clarify purpose, and create aligned goals.
Positive Psychology Practices - Evidence-based activities that cultivate optimism, meaning, and inner strength.
Authentic Storytelling Workshops - Guided exercises to help groups deepen connection and inspiration.

Deeper Transformative Experiences

Offered for groups intentionally seeking healing, clarity, or emotional growth. These sessions remain trauma-informed but do not replace therapy.

Wound to Well-Being Framework Sessions - A supportive arc that explores awareness, regulation, reframing, growth, and well-being.
Inner Narrative Rewriting -Guided reflection that helps participants release old stories and create new ones.
Restorative Circle Work - Gentle, guided group processes that foster understanding, trust, and connection.
Soulful Reset Sessions - Rituals, reflection, and practices that help participants reconnect with themselves and natural rhythms.
Heroic Arete Activation - Habits, identity work, and energy practices for showing up as the best version of oneself.

Optional Enhancements

Journals or reflection booklets for participants
Cacao ceremony
Herbal wellness table, aromatic and sensory station, creativity corners
Outdoor fire circle or sunset gathering
Photography add-on for group memories
Sound bath or vibrational healing experience (pending availability of local practitioners)
Gentle movement or yoga with certified partners
Scheduled private sessions of Massage, Raindrop Technique, Aroma Freedom Technique, Reiki, Emotion Code (pending availability of local practitioners)

Meet your guides.

Terra McAulliffe

Terra McAulliffe is passionate about helping others reconnect to nature's wisdom and living from above, down, inside, out.

She's a homeschool mom of three children, wife to a Chiropractor, and furmom to a variety of creatures.

With a background in art and art history, an interest in holistic health and martial arts, she creatively brings interests and information together to empower others.

Terra is a Certified Raindrop Technique Specialist through Center for Aromatherapy Reasearch & Education, a Minister Practitioner with LifeSpirit Ministry, co-owner of The Movement: Health & Happiness Hub in Dalton, PA, and a 6th Dan Black Belt in Tang Soo Do Karate.

Beyond her wide array of knowledge, accomplishments, and certifications, Terra embodies what it means to be an iconoclast in a world that is in desperate need of people to light the path for them as we find a new way.

Patty McLain

Patty McLain loves to empower people to move toward their goals and dreams by showing them how to leverage their unique interests and abilities to foster more creativity, confidence, and compassion in their lives.

She's a mom to a high-energy middle schooler and she is married to her high school sweetheart. They live in Northeastern PA with their three rescue pets.

Professionally, Patty started her journey as a teacher and retired to follow her passion for holistic wellness and education. She currently teaches about healthy relationships and she is a practitioner at Pathways to Inner Healing.

Patty is also the author of two books, a Minister Practitioner with LifeSpirit Ministry, a trauma-informed SEL consultant, an AromaFreedom Technique Practitioner, a mindfulness teacher, a certified Energy Healer (with multiple modalities) and an Empowerment Coach.

In addition to her degrees and certifications, Patty is a radiant exemplar of post- traumatic growth and, more than anything, she is a Hope Dealer.

"I use the strategies I learned in this masterclass daily. They help me show up for myself and my family in incredible ways."

Dina Porters

"I love the live practice sessions included in the masterclass! Being able to put what I learned into practice right away was powerful."

Petra Shrew

IS A RETREAT EXPERIENCE RIGHT FOR YOU?

Have you ever felt like something is missing in your life? Like no matter how hard you work, you are always behind where you (or society) think you should be?

If so, then the Self-Love Master class is definitely for you.

We'll help you tune out the world around you and break down your walls. Once you've gotten to know and love who you are on the inside, we'll teach you how to nurture and protect that person as you go through your daily life.

Booking & Pricing

All private retreat experiences are custom-quoted based on length, number of facilitators, group size, and chosen services.