Creative Workshops + Retreats
Outside of Unruly Women, I am a published freelance writer. I have always loved writing and find that our creativity flows when we allow expectations to fall away and join together in community.
Welcome to the ‘Unearth Your Inner Wild’ Creative Writing Series
Being unruly and unearthing your inner wild means to do the sometimes painful - messy work to reveal who you are beneath the titles, rules, and societal standards that confine you. Discover your authentic self and the things that stoke your internal fire. Embrace your power and see your strength instead of weaknesses.
This workshop series will be a thoughtful combination of journaling and creative writing. We’ll meet at various places around Minneapolis, have a cozy beverage, make new friends, and dive inwards.
Through this workshop you’ll find community, connection and inspiration.
2025 Creative + (Re) Wilding Wellness Retreat at Mallard Point Resort
Join Marybeth and Monica for a rejuvenating 3 night/4 day retreat at Mallard Point Resort in the beautiful northern wild of Grand Rapids, MN.
An opportunity to (re) connect with nature and engage the senses, while in the community of others. For all who identify as women, femme + non-binary and want to unearth their own inner wild through forest bathing, journaling, and embodied movement.
Stay
You'll sleep in cozy cabins with high ceilings and large windows that face south for views of a private peninsula and lots of natural light. Have your morning coffee with a peaceful lake view in front of a cozy fireplace, or venture out to the dock.
Eat
Hearty, healthy vegetarian meals will be provided – including welcome drinks, coffee, cozy hot chocolate, and more.
Reflect & Unearth
Much of the pace of this retreat is built around a signature Unearth Your Inner Wild writing framework - it's structured to help you (re)discover your authentic self and the things that stoke your internal fire.
Play & Relax
Find balance through short hikes, walks, paddling on the lake, and daily gentle yoga and meditation practices. Expect equal amounts space to relax in a sauna and invitations for embodied movement and breath in community.
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Cabin 1 Sleeps up to 4 people
Bedroom 1: one king bed ($1095 single occupancy or $900 per person shared bed)
Bedroom 2:
one queen bed ($995 single occupancy or $800 per person shared bed)
one twin bunk over ($895)
1 Bathroom
Cabin 2 Sleeps up to 4 people (pricing same as above)
Bedroom 1: one king bed
Bedroom 2: two twin beds
1 Bathroom
Cabin 3 Sleeps up to 5 people (pricing same as above)
Bedroom 1: one king bed
Bedroom 2: one queen bed, one twin bunk over
1 Bathroom
This cabin’s kitchen and living room space will be used for group meals and gatherings if raining / too buggy outside, and most likely for breakfast / coffee.
Property Details
6 Person Sauna included
Firewood included
Gas grill and charcoal grills
Swimmable lake with sandy beach area
2 Kayaks, 2 paddle boards, 2 canoes included
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Gentle and beginner friendly yoga, meditation, and breath work practices taught by Marybeth Thursday-Sunday.
Nourishing vegetarian meals (including coffee, tea, & mocktails) from dinner Thursday to breakfast on Sunday.
Curated writing workshops with Monica and Marybeth
Campfires, star-gazing, guided hiking, forest bathing, and more.
Custom swag bag
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We'll be doing some hand writing, which requires average hand dexterity and strength. Hikes, walks, and gentle yoga practices will require some physical mobility. If you have accessibility limitations, please contact us and we’ll do our best to include you!
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Meals include Thursday dinner, all meals Friday, Saturday, and Sunday breakfast. We will provide some mocktails and cozy campfire beverages as well as snacks, but BYO snacks and beverages if you have specific desires. No alcohol is permitted on this retreat.
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transportation to/from retreat
travel insurance (recommended but not required)
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Mallard Point Resort is located 3 hours north of Minneapolis, Minnesota in Grand Rapids, MN
Arrive Thursday September 25th, 2025 at 4PM or later (dinner will be at 6pm)
Leave between 11AM and noon on Sunday September 28th, 2025
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This trip is open to all who are 18+ who identify as women, femme + non-binary.
Meet Your Guides for this Retreat
Marybeth is the leader & founder of LivingWells: a holistic life coaching and creative agency opened in 2017, back when she was at the height of burnout as a Flight Paramedic and college educator.
As an experienced coach, mentor, teacher, guide and creative entrepreneur who has a unique range of certifications, education, life experience, and interests she supports a wide range of people and businesses.
Marybeth works with her coaching clients using various tools including guided meditation and visualization, yoga, somatic experiencing, guided journaling, and breath work to facilitate awareness from within while building a sense of mind-body connection and self-efficacy. When she's not coaching, teaching, or adventuring - you can find her in the forest with a fancy mocktail checking on her plants or playing with her food.
Monica is the founder, event + retreat curator, guide + outdoor recreation educator for Unruly Women: an inclusive and accessible organization with a mission to cultivate community and empower all female identifying, femme and non-binary persons to reclaim their voice by unearthing their inner wild, outdoors.
She curates and guides retreats for backpacking and mountain biking in the Midwest, collaborates with small businesses and organizations in the community to host public events to bring community together and create a sense of belonging in the outdoor space, for everyone.
Monica is a certified mountain biking coach, wilderness first responder, published freelance writer and entrepreneur who quit her job to fulfill her dream of creating a safe space outdoors for everybody.
*early bird pricing ends 12/31/24*
Unearth Your Inner Wild Creative Writing + Journaling Workshop and Q&A for Unruly Women
AN INTUITIVELY DESIGNED WORKSHOP TO HELP YOU DIVE INWARD, (RE)DISCOVER YOUR DREAMS, MEET NEW PEOPLE, AND LEARN MORE ABOUT UNRULY WOMEN.
This event is for all female identifying and non-binary individuals
This event is FREE
This is a great opportunity to dive inward through the journaling and creative writing prompts AND to meet new people / make new friends
Bring something to create with, this can be: pen and paper, watercolors and paper, a journal, a notebook, feel free to use colored pencils or markers - whatever helps your creative process flow freely
You may use this time for writing and creating, talking with others to bounce ideas, and to give yourself permission to allow your creativity to flow - unrestricted.
We will begin with a brief meet-n-greet, this will be followed by a 1 hour - 1.5 hour journaling/writing/creating guided session, followed by a short Q & A for Monica / Unruly Women
I know that working around others is often the creative kick that I need to help my creativity flow, so if this is also you, feel free to stick around and keep working :) after 8 pm
Creative Writing + Journaling Meet Up
About this workshop…
This week, we’re meeting at Sister’s Sludge Cafe and Wine Bar in Minneapolis @ 9:30 AM
Bring something to create with, this can be: pen and paper, watercolors and paper, a journal, a notebook, feel free to use colored pencils or markers - whatever helps your creative process flow freely
You may use this time for writing and creating, talking with others to bounce ideas, and to give yourself permission to allow your creativity to flow - unrestricted.
This will last 1.5 hours, but you are more than welcome to continue working on whatever flows through you this session - I know that working around others is often the creative kick that I need to help my creativity flow, so if this is also you, feel free to stick around and keep working :)
Do you have questions, location suggestions, or time suggestions? Click the button below and send me an email, I’ll do my best to accommodate. :)
Creative Writing + Journaling Meet Up
About this workshop…
This weekly workshop will change topics (creative writing or journaling or both) and locations
Bring something to create with, this can be: pen and paper, watercolors and paper, a journal, a notebook, feel free to use colored pencils or markers - whatever helps your creative process flow freely
You may use this time for writing and creating, talking with others to bounce ideas, and to give yourself permission to allow your creativity to flow - unrestricted.
This will last 1 hour, but you are more than welcome to continue working on whatever flows through you this session - I know that working around others is often the creative kick that I need to help my creativity flow, so if this is also you, feel free to stick around and keep working :)
Do you have questions, location suggestions, or time suggestions? Click the button below and send me an email, I’ll do my best to accommodate. :)