April Retreat

APRIL 12-13, 2024

Time: 12:00PM Friday - 1:00PM Saturday

Bellwether Farms // 4655 OH-60, Wakeman, OH 44889

The ISI Life™ retreats give you 24 hours away from any distractions, allowing you the opportunity to Reflect, Recharge, Refocus, and engage in Relationships. Over this 24 hour period we challenge one another to grow and develop in the areas of faith, family, fitness, faculty, and finance.

New Lower Price: $195

Included with All retreats:

/ Amazing Lodging / Quality Content / Incredible Food / Stylish Swag / Memorable Connections

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Guest SpeakerS:

Cory Carlson : Faculty/FAMILY

Leadership Coach & Keynote Speaker

As an entrepreneur, former executive, husband, and father of three, Cory Carlson understands the pressures working parents face. He is passionate about helping business leaders win at home and work.

Twenty years in corporate America gave Cory amazing opportunities as he worked his way up to the executive level. But he also saw brokenness: work without purpose, burnout, lack of focus, strained marriages, and absentee parents. Business leaders especially were often not living life to the fullest.

When Cory discovered coaching, it helped him become a better leader, husband, and father. So he left his corporate career to help other leaders win at work and at home. Cory does this through executive coaching, speaking, and writing.

Currently, Cory lives in Cincinnati with his awesome wife and three amazing children.

Cory has a Civil Engineer degree from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Rockhurst University.

His first book released in June 2019 titled, Win at Home First, and is an inspirational guide for work-life balance. His book was Amazon's #1 New Release in 3 Categories and listed in FORBES as ‘7 Books Everyone On Your Team Should Read’.

Cory just released his second book, Rise and Go. This book is a resource to help leaders get back up quicker after getting knocked down from the challenges of leadership and life.

He hosts the leadership podcast, Win at Home First, a Top 1.5% global podcast per ListenNotes.

PARIS SALAS : FITNESS

Owner & Fitness Programmer, Compound Fitness

I am here to help anyone who desires to find the best version of themself. With me fitness is easy peasy all you got to do is give your best effort. Lets work hard so we can play hard.

If I was stranded on a desert island, I could only bring three items. I would bring the book “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” since I would have a lot of time to sit and think why not be the best sitting thinker out there, haha. The second item I would bring is a swiss army knife because that's just a practical decision for survival. The third and final item I would bring is 1000 lbs of bumper plates and a barbell, let's get strong!

My favorite exercise is the Olympic Clean and Jerk, just one of my true forms of strength that just is able to connect you to a lineage of lifting that is incomparable to other movements.

Randy Nickel : FAITH

Great Lake Region Director for International Student Ministry with The Navigators

Randy Nickel is married to Martha and has 4 children: Thomas 34, Kyle 32, Luke 22, and Joy 20. He grew up in Bay Village, Ohio and attended Bowling Green State University where he met his wife, Martha. He served on staff with Young Life® in various roles for 31 years. He has also been an elder at Providence Church for over 20 years and briefly pastored at a church in Medina County. He presently serves with The Navigators, where he is the Great Lake Region Director for International Student Ministry.

Epic Location

Bellwether Farm Camp, Retreat, and Education Center offers a model of sustainable living that promotes physical and spiritual wellness, fidelity to the environment, and social justice. It incorporates farming, food production, and eco-stewardship into land-based educational programs for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Our aim at Bellwether Farm is to equip children and adults to become informed, inspired, and empowered leaders for a sustainable future.”

Bellwether Farm is bordered on three sides by the Vermilion River and offers exceptional and diverse opportunities for educational programming.

Our 137-acre property includes farmland, woodlands, meadows, hiking trails, picnic pavilions, playing fields, and a five-acre pond.

This new center exemplifies green building and features super energy-efficient structures, renewable energy technology, water reclamation systems, and repurposed materials. Together the site and its facilities serve as vehicles for teaching the wider community about sustainable living and care of this good earth.