Flourish After Forty-Five
A gentle retreat for reflection, spiritual awareness, and renewal, for women living in midlife.
Experience a reset from the demands of a busy life in this special nurturing setting. –
Flourish After Forty-Five is a gentle, restorative retreat created for women who want space to pause, reconnect with themselves, their purpose, and their faith.
In the midst of full schedules, family responsibilities, shifting relationships, career questions, and the physical and emotional changes of midlife, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to step away. It is an invitation without pressure, expectations, or the need to have everything figured out.
Across three thoughtfully guided days, you will be invited to slow down, listen inwardly, and rediscover what truly matters. Through reflection, conversation, creative practices, and quiet moments in nature, participants are invited to explore important themes of midlife: caring for yourself, navigating hormonal and emotional changes, setting healthy boundaries, and re-imagining calling and vocation. Rather than offering quick answers, the retreat creates space for wisdom, prayerful discernment, and hope to emerge.
The retreat is led by Fiona Schneider, who brings a rare integration of medical knowledge, coaching expertise, and spiritual depth. Trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist in the UK, she previously ran a women’s health clinic in Germany, which included psychosomatic care, herbal medicine, and nutritional health. Fiona now coaches women through her programme Flourish After 45 and accompanies people in spiritual discovery. She loves encouraging others to live with greater purpose and joy and flourish with renewed faith.
Retreat outline:
16:30h-17:30h Welcome Introduction: Relax and See
Where am I? Where shall my dreams take me?
18:30h Dinner
19:15-20:15 Journaling prompt: “How do I care for myself?” Evening Reflection and prayer opportunity
20:15 – 21:00 (optional) Guided meditation
Day 2: Help! I’m hormonal! What’s happening? Balancing love, guilt, and boundaries. How to bring ease and not be hostage to hormones
07:00 Optional Outdoor space. Exercise and or meditation.
08:15 Breakfast.
9:00 am Optional Morning Prayer in the Chapel
09:30 Energy for my nearest and dearest and me. Boundary setting. Energy management. Navigating hormones
11:00 Break
11:30 Career & Calling at the Crossroads” How the spiritual and identity intersect with vocation.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 -14:30 When Teens Become Strangers, Loneliness & Relationship Changes”
Healing, reconnection, or redefining love.
14:30 – 17:30 Creative Space for Body Mind and Spirit. In nature or indoors. Refreshments available
17:30- 18:00 (optional) Exchanging and sharing.
18:30 Supper
19:30-20:30 Candlelight Reflection
“Faith in the Wilderness” Evening prayer
Guided prayer: “What is God calling me to release or embrace?”
Day 3: Integration & Vision
07:00 Optional Outdoor space. Exercise and or meditation.
08:15 Breakfast.
9:00 am Optional Morning Prayer in the Chapel
09:30-11:00 Wellness & Worth
Letting go of shame.
Sustainable, joyful health.
11:00 Break
11:30 -12:30 Vision & Purpose After 45. Spiritual gifts inventory.
12:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Writing a personal “Midlife Manifesto”.
14:30 Nurture and Nature
15:00 Group affirmation & sending forth. Depart
