A Powerful Collective is Gathering
Imagine being in a circle of people that can handle all of you. No masks. No pretense. No dimming your light. No playing small. A place to explore, to refine, and to practice wielding your power. A place to amplify your greatness—and repair what’s been worn down.
You’re Ready to Rise.
And You're Not Alone.
You’ve done the foundational healing work, and now it’s time to take the next step—a life of focus, creativity, power, and joy.
Your team is gathering. A fellowship of like-minded co-journeyers who require that you show up in the full expression of yourself.
Welcome to The Gathering. We’re thrilled you’re with us.
There’s a Ripple Effect
When you experience big growth, it touches every part of your life—your intimate relationships, how you parent, how you run your company.
Here, growth doesn’t stop when the weekend retreat ends. The Gathering focuses on gracefully bridging the space between the big upgrades and daily life.
We offer a consistent container — a women's small group, a men's small group, and new for 2027, a coed group for those who want to grow alongside their partner or in mixed company.
You’ll be on the same team over time, building trust and accountability, developing an elegant symbiosis. Through ceremonial work, regular calls, and adventures, you’ll be supported in turning breakthroughs into lasting change.
And once a year, all three cohorts gather in one place.
Ready to Go Deeper?
For a year, you'll gather with the same small group of highly-curated people.
Here’s What’s In Store for You:
Three All-Inclusive Ceremonial Retreats — including one where every cohort comes together
Monthly Small Group Calls
A Private Signal Community
Expansion Events to Deepen Play and Connection
Investment: $1,600/month per person · $2,400/month per couple
What People Are Saying
Meet your guide, Dr. Sherry Walling.
I’m Dr. Sherry Walling—clinical psychologist, founder of ZenFounder, and long-time guide to entrepreneurs, visionaries, and high performers.
I’ve walked with founders through exits, breakdowns, reinventions, and rebirths. I’ve helped veterans rebuild their nervous systems and CEOs rediscover their joy.
I’ve walked myself through the fire of loss. After losing my father to cancer and my brother to suicide—just six months apart—I found myself unraveling. I was running a business, raising a family, and holding space for others in crisis… but barely surviving my own grief.
Circus arts helped me rediscover joy, freedom, and aliveness in ways words alone couldn’t reach. Movement reminded me how to play and how to experience my body as a powerful tool for healing. Around the same time, I began exploring sacred plant medicine, which helped me break through emotional barriers and access parts of myself that I hadn’t even realized were locked away.
I’m not a life coach with a vision board. I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience and more than 30,000 hours supporting high-performers, creatives, and entrepreneurs. My work lives at the intersection of science and soul.
“The Gathering is my invitation to you: to come as you are, to stretch what you think is possible, and to heal in a circle of brave, brilliant humans. We work with mind, body, and spirit—through nature, movement, ceremony, and conversation—so you can return to your life more grounded, clear, and fully alive.”
8 Agreements for The Gathering
Intention: We act with purpose. We cultivate focus, honing the ability to find the signal in a noisy world.
Creativity: We listen, risk, and refine the skills to amplify our creative abilities. We bring truth forward.
Beauty: We cultivate and celebrate beauty within and around us.
Embodiment: We honor and pursue a healthy relationship with our bodies. We move, sweat, and challenge ourselves.
Power: We step into power in all aspects of life. We take up space—and are committed to wielding power with high integrity.
Love: We willingly, recklessly commit to love—love of self, love of others and love for the whole damn world. Love is our power.
Discipline: We develop practices that move us into mastery. From breathwork to dieta to meditation, to our specific creative medium, we put in the hours to enjoy the freedom that comes from excellence.
Play: We don’t take anything too seriously. Adventurous mischief is part of our DNA. Joy is the engine, laughter is the fuel. Our wheels are made of dancing.
Our Core Offering
for $1,600/mo
In 2027, The Gathering includes three cohorts: one for women, one for men, and — new this year — a coed cohort. Each cohort follows its own rhythm of monthly calls, private community Signal chat, and three all-inclusive ceremonial retreats throughout the year.
Travel to and from retreats is not included.
2027 retreat dates are being finalized now. Waitlist members are invited to weigh in before anything is locked.
Women’s Gathering
Monthly Group Calls: 3rd Wednesday of each month 12.30 PM to 2.30 PM CT
All-Inclusive Small Group Ceremonial Retreats:
Winter: dates and location to be announced soon
Summer: late June, near Minneapolis — all cohorts together
Fall: dates and location to be announced soon
Men’s Gathering
Monthly Group Calls: 1st Wednesday of each month 12.30 PM to 2.30 PM CT
All-Inclusive Small Group Ceremonial Retreats:
Winter: dates and location to be announced soon
Summer: late June, near Minneapolis — all cohorts together
Fall: dates and location to be announced soon
COED Gathering
Monthly Group Calls: ?????? Wednesday of each month 12.30 PM to 2.30 PM CT
All-Inclusive Small Group Ceremonial Retreats:
Winter: dates and location to be announced soon
Summer: late June, near Minneapolis — all cohorts together
Fall: dates and location to be announced soon
Expansions & Adventures
Explore these additional adventures designed to help you reconnect with your power, joy, and vitality, alongside your loved ones.
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Get personalized support through a private 50-minute call each month. These sessions are designed to deepen your growth, integrate your retreat experience, and stay aligned with your vision—at your own pace and depth.
Spots are very limited.
Investment: $850/monthly subscription
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March 12-14, 2027: Come to the Touching Two Worlds Circus Show and stay for the Family Play Day at the Circus!
Children (8+) VERY welcome.
We’ll get you into your heart, mind, and body and give you lots of opportunities to go deep as a family. Investment $325 (Includes tickets to the show. Lodging and food not included)
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Scheduled at the participant’s convenience. An immersive experience designed for deep personal connection. Investment $3500 individual/$4500 couple
The 2027 Focus: Permission
This year we're asking: whose rules am I actually living by?
You built the thing, made the money, raised the kids well. By every external measure, you're winning. And you're still not having a very good time.
Most of us are running on rules we never actually agreed to. Rules about how much rest we've earned. About what we're allowed to want. About how much of ourselves we can bring into a room.
The achieving was supposed to buy us out of those rules. It didn't.
So this year we go looking for the rules — and then we practice setting them down.
Save Your Spot
For just $1,600/month
Join a year-long, immersive experience that combines regular touchpoints, deep work, and adventurous retreats. Fill out the contact form and we’ll get in touch!
The small groups will be capped at twelve people to ensure a highly curated experience.
Questions first? Just email sherry@zenfounder.com.
FAQs
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Soon — and you can help decide.
We're finalizing the calendar now and we'd rather build it around the people who'll actually be in the room. Join the waitlist and we'll send you the date options to weigh in on before anything is locked.
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Anyone who'd rather do this work in mixed company — with a partner or on your own.
Some people join as couples because they want to grow in the same direction at the same time. Others join solo simply because a mixed room asks something different of them than a single-gender one.
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Yes. Some couples want the same room; others want their own. Both work, and we've seen each do beautiful things.
If you join separate cohorts you'll each pay the individual rate — and you'll still be together at the summer gathering. If you'd like to think it through, bring it to a call.
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Three all-inclusive retreats (lodging, meals, facilitation, ceremony)
Monthly group calls and curated content
A private Signal group for real-time connection
Travel is not included. In the coed cohort, the couple rate covers both partners in full.
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Founders, creatives, high-performers.
Some are building businesses, others are in transition, and many are asking deeper questions about how to live, lead, and love with intention. What they share is a hunger for growth, connection, and a life aligned with their values.
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This circle is for those who may come from different paths but share that same deep longing for more—more joy, more connection, more life.
It is for anyone who feels like they've lost touch with that part of themselves that used to feel playful, adventurous, and free.
You don’t need to have experience with ceremonial retreats or even someone who feels in touch with their body right now.
If you are ready to try something different, to stretch yourself (literally and metaphorically), and find joy in new experiences, you are welcome.
You’ll be guided and supported every step of the way, with options to go as slow or as fast as you need.
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We’re not religious, but we are reverent.
The Gathering is spiritually rooted—through ceremony, nature, embodiment, and presence—but we honor all belief systems (or none).
We simply ask that you come with an open heart and a willingness to connect to something greater than yourself.
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This is a yearlong container.
The Gathering is built on trust, consistency, and rhythm. It’s not a drop-in model—we grow together over time.
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Monthly calls + ongoing connection.
We meet once a month for group calls and stay in touch via Signal chat throughout the year.
The time between retreats is a space for integration, reflection, and community—with support always close by.
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Absolutely.
Many Gathering members are founders, but what really matters is how you show up to life.
If you're a high-performer, someone who leads with intention, and wants to grow in integrity and creativity—this space is for you.