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Falling in Love with Life Again
The Kind Gaze™ Retreat
For the therapists, coaches, and leaders who give everything: This is your time to renew your energy, reignite your inspiration, and expand your professional toolkit.
Therapists, Coaches, Leaders: Have You Given So Much That Your Own Joy Has Dimmed?
You are a therapist, a coach, a facilitator. You guide others on their journey of growth and transformation.
You hold space, you listen, you serve.
It’s your gift.
But…
Do you feel you’ve been giving so much that
Your own joy has dimmed?Are you so busy guiding others that
your own renewal has been put on hold?Do you feel a call to release old patterns in your practice? But you’re not sure how to find new inspiration?
You’re not seeking just another technique,
You’re ready to expand your professional toolkit
through a new way of seeing and being seen.
If you’re nodding (even a little:), you’re not alone.
This is the moment where many who hold space for others pause, not to retreat from life, but to return to it.
This Is How You Fall in Love with Life Again
This is a space where something in you softens,and something in you awakens.
This isn’t another retreat.
It’s a 5-day professional and personal immersion designed to help you reconnect with your creative essence, renew your emotional energy, and expand your therapeutic practice.
At the heart of this journey lies The Kind Gaze™
A powerful visual method that utilizes nature, art, and photography as a language for profound healing and transformation.
You won’t just rest.
You’ll reawaken through guided experiences that integrate body, image, and presence.
This is your invitation to:
Reignite your creativity and passion.
Rediscover your creative pulse through mindful visual practice and awaken inspiration that flows naturally into your life and work.
Rebuild with confidence and clarity
Be seen, supported, and empowered, seeing wide, leaving with renewed direction and purpose.
Experience the core of The Kind Gaze™ method
A way of seeing that offers three essential gifts: Visibility, welcoming, and a gentle return to your true self.
Integrate The Kind Gaze™ into your professional practice
Gain practical, creative tools you can apply immediately in sessions, workshops, or coaching processes.
Daily rituals of nature, movement, silence, and image open the door to lasting transformation.
You will leave not only rested, but reconnected, inspired, and ready to fall in love with life again.
This isn’t just a retreat -
it’s a gentle initiation into a new way
of seeing and being
The Power Behind Your Transformation
This retreat is not a random collection of relaxing activities.
It’s a structured, evidence-based immersive experience built on a proven transformational methodology.
At the heart of this journey lies The Kind Gaze™,
A visual approach I have developed over 25 years of guiding professionals and individuals
through creative, emotional, and therapeutic processes.
What is it?
The Kind Gaze™ uses mindful photography, healing art, and visual reflection to access deeper layers of awareness that words alone rarely reach.
It bypasses the analytical mind and opens a direct, gentle path inward.
Why does it work?
Instead of talking about your patterns, you will see them.
Instead of searching for inspiration, you will create it.
This bottom up method works through nature, art, and the senses, revealing what the conscious mind often hides.
It creates lasting transformation, offering both deep personal renewal and practical tools you can bring immediately into your professional practice.
Hear from Those Who Have Already Made This Journey
Efrat, you are my most impactful and inspiring encounter of the last 7 years. I'm immensely grateful for what you've given me: the challenging, caring way you confront me, your sharp, precise, and loving gaze that opens doors to reveal myself, your unique, powerful presence, and your devotion to serving others. I love you big and bluerange.
Elodie Palfer-Sollier, France, PHOTOGRAPHER & COACH
At a serene resort in Algarve, South Portugal, along with others from 14 countries, I participated in a transformative journey, it was more than just a workshop or retreat. The activities centered around nature, art, and introspection, allowing us to delve into our core and produce art that mirrored our newly discovered selves. Personally, I discovered my creativity and overcame the fear of others' labels, a liberating insight.
Jason Low, Singapore, HR manager
Meet Your Facilitator:
Efrat Shani
My name is Efrat Shani, a phototherapist, creative mentor, photographer, artist, and visual-culture researcher.
For more than 25 years, my work has bridged art, therapy, and human connection, guiding professionals, therapists, and leaders back to their authentic creative source.
As one of the co-founders and creators of Points of You, I helped shape not just a brand but a global movement, a new visual language that has touched and inspired millions of people worldwide. (Today I work independently and am no longer part of Points of You.)
From that journey grew The Kind Gaze™ practice and method. A natural evolution of everything I’ve learned about presence, art, and human connection.
It’s more than a method; it’s a way of seeing, a way of creating, and a way of living with compassion and truth.
At this retreat, my role is not to teach you, but to facilitate a process that is clear, precise, and deeply compassionate, helping you meet yourself with presence and authenticity.
This is my devotion,
And I’m here to meet you exactly where you are.
I would be honored to walk this journey with you :)
Your All-Inclusive Journey to Renewal
We believe that true transformation doesn’t begin at the retreat, it begins before you arrive and continues long after you return.
Your investment includes a complete, guided journey: before, during, and after the Algarve.
1. Before You Arrive
Begin your process early with a 10-session Mindfulness Photography Challenge, opening your eyes and heart long before you step onto Portuguese soil. A process that prepares you for the retreat and leads into it...
2. Your Stay in the Algarve
Four serene nights in a hand-picked, quiet room designed for rest, reflection, and deep integration.
3. Nourishing Meals
Abundant vegetarian meals prepared with care,
supporting clarity, grounding, and emotional presence.
(Vegan and all dietary needs warmly welcomed.)
4. Guided Kind Gaze™ Immersion
Full access to every transformative experience:
mindful photography, healing art, forest walks, evening rituals, and group reflections.
No hidden fees. No upsells. Just deep, intentional work.
5. After You Return
Continue your process with a structured integration program: another Mindfulness Photography Challenge, group Zoom circles,
and a personal 1:1 mentoring session with Efrat
From your first photo to the moment you return home, everything is included.
Your only work is to be present and allow the transformation to unfold.
Your Investment in Yourself and Your Practice
This 5-day, all-inclusive retreat is a profound investment in your personal growth,
creative renewal, and professional evolution.
Your investment includes the full program in the Algarve,
plus continued guidance before and after ensuring real, lasting transformation.
Early Bird Prices
(Valid Until December 30)
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Triple Room: €3,490
(X Regular Price €3,990) -
Double Room: €4,190
(X Regular Price €4,690) -
Single Room: €5,390
(one room left)
*Prices are per person for the complete, all-inclusive program.
This is an intimate, advanced retreat, limited to a small circle of participants
to ensure deep personal support for every individual.
If this feels like your moment, we warmly invite you to reserve your place.
A Place of Quiet Magic
Monte Velho sits where the ocean meets the cliffs, the pine trees whisper,
and the night brings stars like a gentle invitation.
The sea is part of the rhythm here,
and we visit it often, walking along the wild shoreline
or sitting quietly above the waves as they rise and fall below.
Surrounded by the preserved beauty of the Costa Vicentina Natural Park,
This eco-retreat offers a calm and spacious setting for inner work.
The vegetarian meals are carefully crafted, nourishing in a way that feels simple and grounding.
The land, the light, the ocean, and the quiet pathways
become part of the process,
a gentle container for everything you will explore.
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This is more than a retreat.
It’s an invitation to return to yourself and to the quiet power that lives within you.
If you feel the call to renew your energy, reignite your inspiration,
and step into the next chapter of your life with clarity, confidence, and joy, We warmly invite you to take the next step.
Maybe You Have Some Questions...
