The most critical feedback from our retreat and what we've learned about running events with Dr Claire Plumbly

Welcome to the Business of Psychology podcast. I'm really pleased to be here today with friend of the podcast, Dr Claire Plumley. Claire's been on the podcast a few times now, sometimes talking about her experience of working in burnout and writing an amazing book about it. Sometimes we've been talking about the cool and exciting stuff that Claire does in her practice, like EMDR intensives and working with people online. But today we are getting together to talk about our joint venture, a retreat that we ran for the first time last year and we're running again in 2026, because so many of you tell me that you've got a real craving for in-person connection. Getting people together in a room feels like something amazing that we can do to enhance wellbeing, but in-person events feel really different, especially when we've been working predominantly in the online space since 2020. Claire and I thought it might be helpful for us to let you in behind the scenes of what it was like running a retreat and the learnings that we've taken from a super successful one last year, and how are we going to make this year even better based on those.

Full show notes and a transcript of this episode are available at The Business of Psychology

Links:

2026 Psychologists Business Retreat

Get in touch here.

Links for Claire:

LinkedIn: Dr Claire Plumbly

Facebook: @drclaireplumbly

Instagram: @drclaireplumbly

TikTok: @drclaireplumbly

Website: www.plum-psychology.com

Links for Rosie:

Substack: substack.com/@drrosie

Rosie on Instagram:

@rosiegilderthorp

@thepregnancypsychologist

The highlights

We talk about our reasons for wanting to run a retreat 01:26
We discuss the different skills we brought together, and liaising with the right venue 06:56
We look at how we got the right mix of people 13:08
We discuss costing an event 16:35
We talk about marketing something with this much logistical planning 19:55
We look at what will be different for 2026 25:22
Claire gives her advice to anyone thinking about planning their own event 35:10
I tell you how to find out about the 2026 retreat 37:11

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