Traveling During the “New Normal” Talking to Raoul About Solo Retreats

Who is Raoul?

Raoul is a coffee lover and a young entrepreneur, who started his own company about three years ago. Act-of-Travel, a travel agency specialized in organizing individual sophisticated trips for a special occasion. The trip that the client wants to make must have a specific goal. Then Raoul and his team will organize a personalized trip around this goal. A trip so unique and so personalized, you won't find it anywhere else!

The current situation we are in right now, makes us very limited to travel and the constant change of rules. One day the borders are open and the next moment the borders are closed again. It is in our DNA, in our nature to continuously move and discover things. Humans love change, that is how we are made, that is human nature.

We then saw that many of our clients started organizing local trips, where they stayed in a hotel for two to three days to come back to themselves and (re)discover where they wanted to go (in their personal growth), especially in the time we live in now. As an entrepreneur, your work is not just “work”, it is your passion and you love what you do. For this reason, it is also difficult to distance yourself from this and to relax from time to time.

“We just took a moment for ourselves. We have always been about very much listen to what our clients want, we have very much listen to what do they need.”

“The core to every purpose when we talk to our clients is a matter of transformation. A lot of our clients are entrepreneurs as well and they always just go on holidays to find rest, to disconnect in general and to learn about new cultures, taste new food, experience new stuff that really just adds to their lifestyle.”

Then we thought that it is unnecessary that we feel so limited, given that there is enough to experience within the Netherlands. Add the elements of the foreign experience and voilà: the creation of the Solo Retreat. The Solo Retreat is inspired by our customers and partly by a virtual retreat that I myself have done in the past months. During the virtual retreat I was called with the entire group for two hours a day, three times a week for a month. It was super intense and time-consuming. We were virtually pulled out of our situation and allowed ourselves to think about the different aspects of our lives.

These elements have also been added to our Solo Retreat.

So what does our Solo Retreat entail?

It concerns a solo, two-day local overnight stay. A moment for yourself, so that you can disconnect from your current situation/environment. You will then be linked to one of our experienced coaches with whom you will have a conversation before your departure to discuss clear agreements, such as what this trip is intended for, determining realistic expectations and to get to know each other.

Before departure, you will receive a travel package from us, containing a notebook to write everything down and a room spray. During this trip, there will be multiple virtual conversations with the coach so that you can stay focused. And finally, there will be a final conversation to conclude this retreat. It is also possible to have conversations with them after the solo retreat, but that falls outside the retreat.

The Solo Retreat is also a sustainable trip within the Netherlands, because it is not far from home and you go there yourself by car. We have made 10 personal choices, all exclusive hotels that we love, with whom we work together. We have consciously chosen this as part of our sustainability choice, because in this way we support local hotels and can help prevent our favorite concierge from being fired because the doors have to close.

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