Jan Hornford is a Master Certified Retreat Coach whose passion is to help you reconnect with the heart and soul of who you are. Through customized coaching retreats Jan's trademark is getting you out of your usual environment and way of being to access your personal power and wisdom. Her retreats speak to your imaginative, intuitive, and spiritual nature and include expressive arts, walking in nature, labyrinths, and horse guided learning as methods for heart-centered personal discovery. Her unique style facilitates individual breakthroughs and action towards living a life that is more fully aligned with your truth and values.

Jan invites you to take time out of your busy life to reconnect with your heart and soul. Allow your inner wisdom to guide you to create a heart-centered life that truly reflects who you are. Come and experience peace, joy, and renewal in a caring and fun environment.

Her retreats create a safe and nurturing place to:

• Gain clarity on your life and deepen understanding of yourself
• Open to your heart sense and intuition
• Foster your hopes and dreams
• Experience deep listening and authentic sharing
• Spark your creative spirit and engage in play

Jan leads powerful and inspiring retreats for individuals and groups and is happy to custom create a retreat for your specific needs.

Enjoy beautiful natural surroundings, nourishing food, compassionate facilitation, and meaningful conversation. Step out of your usual environment and connect with your personal power and wisdom through a unique combination of private reflection, group sharing, expressive arts, and experiential learning.

Immersed in joyful self-care, connection, and possibility, you will get the breakthroughs that lead you toward a more fulfilling life and career. As a Master Certified Retreat Coach Jan can help you turn this insight into action by supporting you to develop meaningful and inspiring visions and strategies that enable you to live your true life.

Retreats are a wonderful way to inspire, renew, celebrate, and transform your life.

Jan writes:

“Through my journey in life I discovered the incredible healing and transformative powers of retreating; of connection with soul and earth, of ritual and community, and I realized how rarely it was that I created the space for this in my own life. I was humbled by my retreat experience and laid bare to the truth of my own being. It was like I met myself for the first time.

How do you describe the retreat experience? How do you describe the feeling of being surrounded by so many beautiful, wise, creative, spiritual, and inspired people? How do you describe the joy and peace and wisdom that flow when you are aligned with your heart and soul? Wonderful, empowering, energizing, possibility, joyful, healing, discovery are all words that come to mind.

Retreats are not just what I do, but reflect who I am. I try to bring the retreat experience into every aspect of my life. Retreat is about authentic connection with your true self and about the creativity and possibility that flow from this place of grace.

I understand that being a Master Retreat Coach means more than being able to lead a retreat; it is about the depth of experience you can create and hold for people so they can rediscover themselves, their power, and their gifts and live true to themselves. It is a blessing to be able to bring this experience to others and to share it with them.”

Education and Work History

Jan is a trained life coach and graduate of Coach U (2004) (www.coachinc.com) and has completed the Retreat Coach Certification (2005) and the Master Retreat Coach Certification (2006) offered by Helene Van Manen of Mountain Coaching (www.coachhelene.com). Jan is a member of the Retreat Coaches Network (www.retreatcoachnetwork.com)

Jan is a Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator (www.veriditas.org) and is currently completing her certificate from the Imaginal Trackers Institute. Imaginal Trackers Institute offers a transformational program of study and training in expressive arts, spirituality, and nature for personal healing and professional development. (www.spiritualdirections.com)

Jan is the past Director of Mountain Escape Retreats, a health and lifestyle retreat hosted by the Lake Louise Inn in Lake Louise, AB (www.lakelouiseinn.com) and is still involved with the program as a Presenter. Women of all ages gather to rejuvenate body and soul in this beautiful mountain wilderness. Through daily scenic walks, relaxing yoga, invigorating fitness classes, and mountain hikes women experience active living in an outdoor environment.

Jan holds a BSc (First Class honours degree) from the University of Alberta.