May 5-9, 2025
Come to a writing retreat haven in the heart of Tuscany. Explore the surprising wellspring of the limitless creative mind when you are away from home. Held in the high, ancient city of Cortona in a light-filled manse with our private Italian chef with wine tastings, thermal bath excursions, incredible art and daily writing salons for your traveling muse, this is the experience of a lifetime! Register or send questions to: gatelesswriting@gmail.com
October 18-21, 2025
Home to pink granite bedrock and a resting spot for seals, Connecticut’s own premier coastline will be your home for this all-inclusive retreat. The unique Gateless methodology blasts through the critic and moves you to your singular genius and unique power on the page. Discover some of the most fantastic connections of your life, and write like you’ve never written before. Register or send questions to: gatelessprograms@gmail.com
January 26-31, 2025
A channeled retreat for the spiritual and creative deep diver. This retreat is co-led by internationally-acclaimed author Emily Pereira and focuses on the written word as medium and oracle. Based on creative brain science and the channeled scribes of ancient Mesopotamia, this six-day immersive writing retreat will completely transform your life.
~ Mary Okoye, JD, Tucson, Arizona
Retreats offer a wildlife sanctuary for the creative within. Run away from the quotidian to the lush power of your personal story. Share delicious meals from our private chef, experience Reiki and Thai head massage, and reach into the rich rooms of the self to create content that moves a crowd. The massage of the literary world, Gateless retreats are a radically-nurturing circle of support. They are designed to provide the network and the craft you need while answering the urgent call to come home to the genius within.
Our staff spends hours finding the perfect retreat house. Whether we are in a loft in Paris, a private home on the edge of the desert, or a beachside manse in New England, our houses are sprawling and light-filled with lots of couches to curl up on, both single and shared rooms, organic, gluten-free meals, and a dream team of writers who help move you forward on the creative journey of a lifetime. In these spaces, miracles happen. You fall in love again: with yourself, with each other, with your writing and with the world.
The core of the Gateless experience is the writing salon. Morning, afternoon and night we will be writing in salon. Led by inspirational meditations coupled with Thai head massage, Reiki, bodywork, and often augmented by embodiment practices like sound healing and breathwork, the prompts activate long-term memory and the imaginal. These sessions are remarkable in what they bring forth for writers. Gateless feedback draws out the power of your innate talent. You will generate more work than you thought possible, and reach an entirely new zenith of creative potential.
~ Kate Baldwin, MFA, MEd, writing teacher and editor, Massachusetts
If you are feeling that whisper of a yes, that’s a sign you are ready for Gateless. If you long to begin or finish a project, if you have no idea why you are called, come! You will leave buoyed, with the power to make your creative vision come alive. Based on intuitive, highly creative and therapeutic work, retreat is probably not for you if you believe criticism is the only catalyst for great work, if you prefer not to be touched, or if you do not want to risk crying or laughing your socks off! If you are ready, come meet the remarkably nuanced muse you hold inside.
Gateless was born within the confluence of neuroscientific research, ancient Zen and radical support for your singular genius. The aim is to still the inner critic so that you can take risks and gain artistic agency. The method enters the somatic field and shifts brain chemistry to fire feel-good neurotransmitters. Gateless is an incredibly potent process that has led to best-selling book deals, international literary awards, and high-profile media attention. The discipline gives you the impetus to write long after the retreat ends.
Retreats burst through blocks, shift your neurotransmitters, uplevel your confidence, and give you the motivation and the direction to make your creative dreams come true. Lifelong friendships are born. Your new network will include best-selling writers, Grammy-nominated musicians, top media personalities, brand strategists, award-winning speakers and more. You connect through your personal mythology, the intimacy of your singular story and support for one another’s talent. Long after the retreat has ended, you will find your life changing in astounding ways.
The inspiration that leads retreats viscerally connects you with your creative genius. Whether you are working on new pieces or continuing a project, your new writing will astound you.
We never deconstruct the work. Criticism is opinion-based teaching. At Gateless, we foster your innate talent and craft tools, anything not working simply falls away. You will generate more work than you ever thought possible, access inside industry-expertise, and reach completely new zeniths in creative potential.
~ Marshall Chapman, bestselling author of the memoir, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller
Retreats do fill fast, so reserve your space as soon as you can by sending us a note HERE.
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