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Free guide for Ohio facilitators
Fill a 12-student retreat before you owe a venue a dollar.
The Ohio Facilitator’s Black Book is the operating framework behind every retreat we host: the three formats, the 14-day hold, the break-even math, and the payment schedule that keeps a retreat off your personal savings.
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What’s inside
Five steps, in the order they actually happen.
- 01Choose the format before you hold a dateThe venue fee, the ticket range, and the break-even headcount for a session, a full day, and a weekend, printed side by side.
- 02Place a 14-day hold, not a depositA day-by-day window for testing real interest, plus the five-sentence email you send your students.
- 03Make the go or no-go callHow to decide from money received instead of warm replies, with the deposit math worked out.
- 04Separate the lodgingWhy leasing every bed is the trap, and how guests book their own cabins while your retreat budget stays clean.
- 05Collect by milestoneThe three-payment schedule and a roster worksheet you can write on.
- —And the whole model on one pageFrom hold to paid roster in four moves, plus the four numbers to keep in front of you.
Who it’s for
Honest about what this is.
You teach now and you’ve thought about a retreat, but the deposit math has stopped you. Or you’ve run one, it worked, and you want a repeatable way to do it twice a year without fronting the risk.
You want a marketing funnel, an audience-building course, or a way to sell retreats to strangers. This is about filling a room with people who already know you.
When you’re ready
The room the book was written in.
Yurt Altaia is a 20-person Mongolian yurt on 100 family-held acres in Hocking Hills, an hour from Columbus. Every price is printed on the site, any open date holds free for 14 days, and you can come stand in the room before you decide anything.
We hold the room. You hold the circle.
Straight from the book
“A paid commitment can fund a decision. Polite interest cannot fund a venue.”