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La Vendange 2026: Reveal the Edge

Uncovering the Gift. The Harvest. The Vintage.

The French have a word for this moment. La Vendange. The gathering of what the season grew. It only comes once a year. And it only comes to those who did the work.
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  • Are you a leader navigating unending change and feeling
    disconnected from your true purpose?
  • Do you know what you’re headed toward—or what you’re
    ready to leave behind?
  • As a purpose-driven professional, do you still feel that
    deeper pull toward creativity and lasting impact?
  • Are you craving space to tap into your imagination and
    transform the next chapter of your life?

You’ve done the work. Led the team. Built the thing. Guided others through their own thresholds. Weathered the seasons you didn’t choose and grew through the ones you did.

And somewhere in the forward motion of all of it, you haven’t stopped to gather what the season produced in you.

The harvest is ready. But gathering requires intention. And intention requires stopping.

That is what La Vendange is for.

 

 

This Retreat is for:

 - The leader who built something significant and is standing in the middle of it wondering what’s next. 

 - The coach who has guided others through change for years and is ready to do that work for themselves.

 - The professional in transition. Not lost, but standing at the threshold between what was and what’s possible.

 - The person who weathered a season: illness, loss, reinvention, success. Someone who hasn’t yet stopped long enough to take stock of what it grew in them.

 

If you have been saying “when things settle down,” they have. This is your signal.

You Will Leave Knowing Three Things With Certainty:

What to keep. The values, relationships, work, and ways of leading that are genuinely yours. Worth carrying into the next chapter.

What to release. The obligations, identities, and patterns that served a previous season and no longer fit who you’ve grown into.

What’s next. Not a list of possibilities. A decision. Grounded in who you are, built from what you’ve actually grown.

Apply to La Vendange 2026

Reveal the Edge
Uncovering the Gift. The Harvest. The Vintage.

Fall Retreat: Thurs. Sept. 17th to Tues. Sept. 22nd

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Three Phases. One Arc.

① Uncovering the Gift · ② La Vendange · ③ The Vintage

Phase I: Uncovering the Gift

Before You Arrive  ·  Core Gift Interview  ·  Intention  ·  Community

Before you arrive in Auros, you will know something about yourself that most people never discover.

Through a deeply personal 2+ hour interview with Natasha, you will uncover your Core Gift. The unique and urgent contribution you came here to make. It has been present in every season of your life, in your greatest moments and your hardest ones. It arrived with you. It will leave with you. Now, for the first time, it has language.

Your Core Gift statement, two to three sentences that capture the most significant positive force in your life, becomes your personal thread throughout everything that follows.

Three virtual group sessions establish your community, sharpen your intentions, and ensure you arrive in Auros already in motion. You will not be strangers when you land. You will be a group that has already begun.

Phase II: La Vendange

Six Days in Auros · Harvesting · Releasing · Deciding

This is the gathering.

Through daily coaching, immersive experiences, and the honest dialogue of a community willing to go there with you, you hold your Core Gift against everything your life has produced. What aligns. What doesn’t. What you’ve been building toward without knowing it. What you’ve been carrying that was never yours to carry.

You separate the wheat from the chaff. Not metaphorically. With precision and commitment.

You don’t just reflect here. You decide.

What to keep. What to release. What to build next, from the truest, most essential version of who you are.

Phase III: The Vintage

Integration  ·  Commitment  ·  Action

The harvest doesn’t end when you leave Auros.

Two follow-up sessions translate what you found into a specific, committed path forward. Not intentions. Not insights. Decisions about what you are keeping, what you are releasing, and what you are building next. Grounded in your Core Gift and witnessed by a community that will hold you to every word of it.

A great vintage is not made in the vineyard alone. It is made in what happens after. What you choose to press, to keep, to bottle, and to carry forward. That is your vintage. Unrepeatable. Entirely yours.

Gathering the Harvest

The Edgewalker Framework and the Core Gift. Two integrated methodologies designed not for reflection alone, but for discernment and decision. You won’t just name what you’ve grown. You will decide what to do with it.

Presence & Awareness

What has this season revealed that you haven’t let yourself see?

Values & Alignment

How long have you carried your most essential gift without knowing its name?

Identity & Voice

Who are you when the titles are gone?

Environment & Community

Who is growing with you and who is holding you to who you were?

Experimentation at the Edge

What if the pattern you keep returning to is the gift you came here to give?

Translation into Action

What decision have you been postponing and what has waiting cost you?

What Makes This Unlike Any Other Retreat

Natasha has a deep history in healthcare and ten years leading and supporting leaders across healthcare and various industries. This is not a program delivered at you. It is a relationship that reveals something true.

And it is not six days in France. It begins before you arrive, with a personal Core Gift interview and three virtual group sessions to prepare the ground and continues after you return with integration sessions and a community holding you accountable to what you found.

Rouge Bordeaux is not a venue. It is a partnership. Megan and Julien Martel are deeply embedded in the heart of Bordeaux, its locals, its food, its wine, its hidden rhythms. Their warmth, their table, and their connections become an inseparable part of your transformation.

What’s Included

  • Transportation to and from the Bordeaux train station. Your experience begins the moment you arrive.
  • Five nights at Rouge Bordeaux, a boutique B&B in the heart of Auros, France. Megan and Julien Martel are not your hosts. They are part of your transformation. Their deep roots in the region, its people, its food, and its rhythms become woven into every day. Each participant has their own bedroom and private bathroom. A shared room option is available for those who prefer it.
  • Individual and group coaching sessions throughout the retreat, structured, intentional, and designed to move you.
  • Every onsite meal prepared by private chef Julien Martel. Expect the kind of food that slows you down in the best possible way. Seasonal, regional, and made with the care of someone who understands that a great meal is its own kind of revelation.
  • Curated off-site experiences and excursions selected to immerse you in the landscape, the culture, and the life of Bordeaux in September.
  • A personal Core Gift interview with Natasha. A 2+ hour experience that uncovers the most significant and positive force in your life and gives it language for the first time.

Your Accommodations

B & B owners Megan and Julien Martel are an integral part of our experience. They will help curate the off site experiences and provide an insightful introduction to french food, wine, and everyday life. Each participant will have their own bedroom and adjoining bathroom. There are options to share a room, if desired.

Apply to La Vendange 2026

Reveal the Edge
Uncovering the Gift. The Harvest. The Vintage.

Fall Retreat: Thurs. Sept. 17th to Tues. Sept. 22nd

Apply Now
Download retreat PDF

Testimonials: Reflections beneath the surface

Just beneath the surface lies powerful insight and transformation. These reflections speak to the depth of the coaching experience where clarity emerges, and personal truth comes to light.

I left the experience feeling empowered and motivated, with a belief that real change is possible. In the next chapter of my life, I realize that my life experience is less about what happens, and more about how I show up in every situation. I have the power to use different tools to create more positive outcomes that align with my values. I am not just one thing, static and unchangeable, I can be whomever I want to be and stretch into new areas. Happiness can be a choice, not a thing to reach for.

Mathew

2024 Retreat attendee

I had some reserved feelings about how much to let strangers into my personal space. The enneagram assessment helped pull us together and create conversation throughout the retreat. I understand people in a way I had never been able to before. I enjoyed how the enneagram allowed room for exploration and improvement in oneself.

 

Stacy

2024 Retreat Attendee

What an impactful immersion into French life at Rouge Bordeaux with coaches Hayden and Natasha! Our group came together quickly as if we’d known each other for a long time. We did some serious introspective work mixed with fun excursions and meaningful encounters with locals. We wined, dined, laughed and had time to tell our stories and dreams, as well as explore the area on our own. My mind and conversations easily drifts back to my precious week in France.

 

Lynn

2024 Retreat Attendee

My retreat experience was truly life changing. From the moment I arrived, I felt genuinely loved and cared for by the coaches and by Rouge Bordeaux. The setting, combined with thoughtful coaching sessions and experiential activities, allowed me to reflect deeply, gain clarity, and connect with others in a meaningful way. I came away not only refreshed but with a renewed sense of purpose and tools that I’ll carry forward in my personal and professional life.

 

Christy

2024 Retreat Attendee
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