A Creative Reset Retreat for
Women Storytellers
Reignite Your Creativity.
Reconnect With Your Vision.
Step Into Your Creative Power.
Join us for Ignite Her Creative Power, an intimate retreat for women storytellers ready to reconnect with their creativity, move through what’s been holding them back, and return to their work with greater clarity and confidence.
THE SETTING
We leave the noise behind and step into the lush green heart of the Mexican jungle. The air feels softer here, rich with the scent of earth and rain. Sunlight filters through the canopy in golden streams, and the only soundtrack is the rustle of leaves and the call of distant birds.
Out here, creativity feels different, freer, wilder. The jungle’s calm slows your thoughts, making room for ideas that have been waiting patiently for you. Every winding path invites curiosity, every sunrise sparks a new perspective.
In this space, we disconnect from the demands of everyday life and reconnect with what matters most, our vision, our voice, ourselves. The jungle becomes our companion, grounding us in the present and guiding us toward what’s ready to be created.
What awaits you...
This retreat is an intentional space to release creative blocks, reconnect with your vision, and return to your work feeling inspired, grounded, and empowered. Every experience has been thoughtfully curated to nurture your creativity while creating space for reflection, connection, and renewal.
✨ Cacao Ceremony – Begin the retreat with an intentional opening experience designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and set the tone for the days ahead.
✨ Yoga & Temazcal – Ground into your body, quiet the noise, and create space for new ideas through restorative movement and a traditional temazcal experience.
✨ Writing Workshops – Faciliated by industry mentor, reconnect with your story, strengthen your creative voice, and explore exercises designed to bring greater clarity, momentum, and intention to your work.
✨ Private Cenote Experience – Step into a hidden natural sanctuary reserved for our group, where crystal-clear waters and peaceful surroundings offer space for reflection, renewal, and inspiration.
✨ Connection & Community – Share the experience with a small group of like-minded women storytellers who understand the creative journey, celebrate your ambitions, and encourage you to keep moving forward.
This is more than a writing retreat. It’s an opportunity to step away from the noise, reconnect with what matters, and return home with renewed creative energy and a clearer sense of what comes next.
VISION
Each day is inspired by a different element — Air, Water, Fire, and Earth — blending creativity, healing, and sisterhood into a journey back to your voice, your power, and your flow.
✨ Activities may vary slightly to honor the group’s energy and flow. Every workshop and ceremony is optional. This is your space to breathe, create, and reconnect.
✨ Day 1 – Arrival & Intention Setting
Arrive in paradise and exhale. Settle into your jungle oasis, enjoy a welcome drink by the pool, and give yourself permission to slow down. Under the stars, we’ll gather for a Stories & Meditation Circle to connect, set intentions, and open the space for the creative reset ahead.
🌬️ Day 2 – Air: Clarity & Inspiration
Begin the morning with a writing workshop centered on clarity, intention, and reconnecting with your creative voice. The afternoon is yours to create, relax by the pool, or book a massage or astrology reading. As evening arrives, we’ll gather for a Cacao Ceremony designed to open the heart, deepen connection, and invite inspiration.
💧 Day 3 – Water: Flow & Create
Step into the sacred waters of a cenote, allowing nature to inspire a day centered on intuition, creativity, and flow. In the afternoon, we’ll gather for a writing workshop designed to help you move through creative blocks, trust your instincts, and let your story unfold more freely.
🔥 Day 4 – Fire: Release & Empower
A transformative day devoted to courage, release, and stepping more fully into your creative power.
You’ll have the opportunity to experience a traditional Temazcal ceremony, creating space to release what no longer serves you and make room for what comes next. We’ll end the day with a New Moon manifestation ritual, setting intentions for the next chapter of your creative journey.
🌿 Day 5 – Earth: Ground & Integrate
Begin our final morning with gentle yoga, followed by breakfast and an intention-sharing circle.
Together, we’ll ground everything you’ve discovered, created, and released throughout the retreat and consider how to carry that energy forward. Leave Tulum feeling clearer, creatively renewed, deeply connected, and ready to return to your writing and your life with new intention.
Industry Mentor
Amy Ferris is an author, screenwriter, playwright, editor, and teacher whose work spans film, television, memoir, and theater. She co-wrote Mr. Wonderful, directed by Anthony Minghella, and earned a Black Reel Award nomination for her adaptation of Funny Valentines, directed by Julie Dash. Her memoir Marrying George Clooney was adapted Off-Broadway, and she has authored or edited several acclaimed books, including Old School Love with Rev Run, Mighty Gorgeous, and Amy in Retrograde.
Amy is also a longtime advocate for women and the arts, co-founder of the Milford Readers & Writers Festival, and faculty member at the Kauai Writers Conference. Her work has earned recognition from Women’s eNews, NextTribe, and the National Thoughtful Book Festival.
Janis LeMieux
Atlanta
Amy creates space for writers to sit in community with each other, to uplift and encourage and be uplifted and encouraged. Amy has a way of making writers feel the power of words weaving beautiful, painful, fierce, and funny tales of resilience, life, love, betrayal, survival, and thriving! Her prompts, her gentle responses, her encouragement to deeply examine both the feelings that led to the words written and the emotions that come from releasing words to the written page are a catalyst for participants to write, write, write.
Tammy McKillip
New Jersey
Amy is a muse; a writer’s guru; a champion of all women and a burning creative flame whose wise words spark light and brilliance in others. I am so grateful to have found Amy Ferris’s writing workshops!
Jay Grace
New York
For as long as I can remember I sought out a community I could belong to as I am - unmasked. Yet, I always fell short. To belong meant to fit in and to fit in meant to blend in, to blur the edges with half truth - yet always earning for someone to see through the facade.
A few years ago as I began my journey of making myself whole. I discovered Amy Ferris . I devoured her book Marrying George Clooney and knew I had to connect with her.
Her words stirred life back into me.
Special Guest: Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore is an astrologer and writer based in Northern New Jersey who helps clients find clarity and purpose through astrology, intuition, and energy work. Her approach empowers you to understand yourself more deeply and make choices aligned with your path. She writes a monthly online Astrology column available at OptiMYz Magazine and has published essays in anthologies from Noon Miracle.
Investment: $2550
Early Bird through October 20, 2026 — $2,250
8 SPOTS. ALL PRIVATE ROOMS.
Every room includes a queen-size bed and private bathroom, equipped with minibar, fan, coffee maker, swing and terrace, giving you your own space to rest and recharge throughout the retreat.
✨ Reserve with a $300 deposit.
Remaining balance due 45 days
before the retreat starts.
Flexible payment plans may also be available through Klarna, Afterpay, and PayPal Later, with options for 6, 12, or 24 months depending on credit approval and eligibility.
💛 Coming with a writer friend?
Ask about our Bring-a-Friend Special.
What's Included:
✔️ 5 days, 4 nights in a peaceful retreat setting
✔️ Delicious meals to nourish body and mind
✔️ Creatively inspired private rooms
✔️ Daily writing workshops with Amy Ferris
✔️ Meditation & Manifestation with Lisa Moore
✔️ Welcome Cacao ceremony
✔️ Yoga and temazcal sessions
✔️ Cenote day
✔️ Round-trip transportation from Cancun or Tulum International Airport
✔️ Welcome gift bag
Optional Add-Ons
To enhance your experience, you can also add:
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Massages
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Astrological consultations
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One-on-one career consultations
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Additional nights after the retreat at a discounted rate
Frequently asked questions
📩 Have more questions? Email us at info@onceuponascript.com or schedule a call. We’d love to chat with you!
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