Bring Your Team
Curated Retreats for Your Team
A Quiet Place near Knoxville for Teams to Reflect, Plan, and Reconnect
Seven Springs Retreat Center hosts midweek retreats for nonprofits, educational institutions, and mission-driven teams seeking time and space to step back, reconnect, and move forward with clarity. Located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, our retreat setting offers a quiet, natural environment that supports both focused work and meaningful renewal.
Seven Springs is stewarded by Zachary and Jessi Townesmith, who bring over a decade of experience facilitating leadership retreats, organizational planning processes, and restorative group experiences. Zachary’s background in community organizing and organizational development supports teams in clarifying priorities and strengthening alignment. Jessi’s work in trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness helps individuals and teams reconnect with resilience, presence, and well-being.
We suggest at least 2 full days, including 2 or 3 nights, for these retreats. Teams stay in our yurts, eat meals together, and immerse in nature. This is an opportunity for groups to connect and rejuvenate both individually and as a team through these all-inclusive and unique team retreats.
Organizations can choose from these carefully curated retreats:
Leadership & Team Development
This retreat format creates the conditions for real trust to form: shared time, honest conversation, and space away from the roles people play day to day.
We work with teams to design experiences that strengthen communication, surface what isn’t getting said, and help people reconnect to one another and to their shared purpose. Some groups come in the middle of a transition. Others come simply because it’s been too long since they were in the same space without an agenda.
Either way, people leave knowing each other better, and working together differently.
Focus on strengthening trust, communication, and collaboration for your team.
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Tuesday: Arrive and Open
3:00–4:00 PM — Arrival & Check-in. Settle into your yurts.
5:00 PM — Opening Circle & Walk to the Springs. Set intentions and agreements for how we'll be together.
6:00 PM — Dinner. Local, organic, and vegetarian, made from scratch by our chefs.
7:00 PM — Fireside: Origin Stories. Each person shares what brought them to this work.
Wednesday : Listen, Notice, Reconnect
8:00 AM — Morning Yoga for All Levels
9:00 AM — Nourishing Breakfast
10:00 AM — Deep Listening. Practice in pairs and trios that moves past downloading into real listening.
11:30 AM — Mapping the Team. An embodied map of how the team works today, including what's strong, what's strained, and what isn't getting said.
1:00 PM — Lunch
2:00 PM — Solo Time on the Land. Quiet reflection at the springs, labyrinth, or forest: What do I bring to this team?
3:00 PM — Break
3:15 PM — FourSight Profiles: Creativity & Self-Esteem. Explore each person's FourSight profile and how the team's preferences combine. Why personal creativity drives innovation, and why self-esteem comes first: people only offer ideas when they trust their own worth.
4:30 PM — Honest Conversations. Bring what surfaced into the circle with simple structures that keep it safe and useful.
5:30 PM — Free Time. Rest, hike, or the forest spa.
6:00 PM — Dinner
7:00 PM — Fireside Gathering & Sauna. Music, games, and stories.Thursday: Commit and Return
8:00 AM — Morning Yoga for All Levels
9:00 AM — Nourishing Breakfast
9:45 AM — How We’ll Work Together. Turn the day’s insights and FourSight profiles into a few shared agreements and first steps.
10:45 AM — Closing Circle & Appreciations
11:00 AM — Check-out
Strategic Visioning & Planning
This retreat format gives your leadership team the time and environment to actually feel as much as you think; about where you are, where you’re headed, and what it’s going to take.
Zachary brings over two decades of experience facilitating organizational planning processes with nonprofits and community-based organizations, using a structured methodologies such as Theory U, Flow Design, and FourSight to move teams from reflection to concrete next steps.
You’ll leave with clarity in direction, alignment in purpose, and a realistic roadmap you actually believe in.
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Tuesday: Arrive and Open
3:00–4:00 PM — Arrival & Check-in. Settle into your yurts.
5:00 PM — Opening Circle & Walk to the Springs. Set intentions and agreements, then arrive on the land together.
6:00 PM — Dinner. Local, organic, and vegetarian, made from scratch by our chefs.
7:00 PM — Fireside: How We Got Here. Stories of the team's journey so far.Wednesday: Sense, See, Shape
8:00 AM — Morning Yoga for All Levels
9:00 AM — Nourishing Breakfast
10:00 AM — Co-Sensing: Where We Are. Map the team's current reality, including what's working, what's hard, and what's going unsaid.
11:30 AM — Solo Time on the Land. Quiet reflection at the springs, the labyrinth, or the forest, with a guiding question.
1:00 PM — Lunch
2:00 PM — Creative Visioning. Give form to what emerged through drawing, building, and movement, then shape it into a shared vision.
3:30 PM — Break
3:45 PM — Framing the Path. Define what success looks like in 90 days and craft the question that will guide the work.
5:00 PM — Free Time. Optional forest bathing, rest, or sauna.
6:00 PM — Dinner
7:00 PM — Fireside Gathering & SaunaThursday: Commit and Return
8:00 AM — Morning Yoga for All Levels
9:00 AM — Nourishing Breakfast
9:45 AM — 90-Day Mission. Choose solutions, name owners, and set first steps.
10:45 AM — Closing Circle
11:00 AM — Check-out
Rest & Renewal
This retreat focuses on your team’s well-being so all can be not just functional, but genuinely resourced. This retreat format offers guided, restorative experiences designed to help staff decompress, reconnect with themselves, and return to their work with renewed capacity.
Jessi leads these sessions with a trauma-informed approach, drawing on practices including yoga and movement, forest bathing, sound healing, labyrinth walks, and guided reflection. Plus, plenty of time to rejuvenate and decompress in the silence and stillness of nature.
If your team is running on empty, this is where you start.
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Tuesday: Arrive and Exhale
3:00–4:00 PM — Arrival & Check-in. Settle into your yurts.
5:00 PM — Opening Circle & Walk to the Springs. Arrive in body and breath, and set a personal intention.
6:00 PM — Dinner. Local, organic, and vegetarian, made from scratch by our chefs.
7:00 PM — Fireside & Sound Bath. An unhurried evening by the fire.Wednesday: Set It Down
8:00 AM — Gentle Morning Yoga
9:00 AM — Nourishing Breakfast
10:00 AM — Forest Bathing. A slow, guided walk to let the nervous system settle.
11:30 AM — Labyrinth Walk: Setting It Down. You don’t have to let go of everything you carry, just set it down for a while.
1:00 PM — Lunch
2:00 PM — Forest Spa & Open Time. Cedar barrel sauna, cold plunge, plant baths, and therapeutic soaks. Or hammocks, the creek, or a massage.
4:00 PM — Restorative Yoga or Yoga Nidra
5:00 PM — Painting & Creative Expression. Give form to what’s surfacing, no artistic experience needed.
6:00 PM — Dinner
7:00 PM — Fireside Gathering & SaunaThursday: Choose What to Pick Back Up
8:00 AM — Morning Yoga for All Levels
9:00 AM — Nourishing Breakfast
9:45 AM — Choosing What to Pick Back Up. Each person decides what to carry home and what to leave on the land, and the team names how to support each other.
10:45 AM — Closing Circle
11:00 AM — Check-out
Each retreat is tailored to the needs of the organization, with options for self-directed or facilitated experiences.
We welcome teams from across Tennessee, the Southeast, and beyond seeking a grounded, supportive setting for meaningful retreat work.
Whether you have an agenda or just need to exhale, this space will hold you.
Rather talk it through?
A short call is usually the quickest way to find out whether we are the right fit for your group — and what a few days here could actually look like for them. Or use the contact form below and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
Contact us to explore availability for your Team Retreat
