Agile Coaching Retreat 2024 Wine Country

Join us at the Scrum Alliance Agile Coaching Retreat Wine Country in Northern California on November 3-5, 2024. This retreat will occur near Tomales Bay, California, near the renowned Napa Valley wine country. It's an excellent opportunity for agile coaching practitioners to come together, connect, and learn. You'll have the chance to collaborate with Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coaches, ICF Coaches, CSPs, and others who share a passion for coaching. This retreat is designed for individuals at any experience level. It's a unique occasion to engage with a focused group of coaches in a rejuvenating setting. Over three sunny days, you can look forward to exchanging ideas, acquiring new knowledge, and forming lasting connections.

Schedule

The Scrum Alliance Agile Coaching Retreat is for anyone who wants to improve as an Agile Coach or Agile Practitioner and deepen their connection to the agile/scrum community.

During the three-day retreat, you will have the opportunity to engage with Certified Agile Coaches, forming partnerships and collaborating with them. Gain fresh insights into innovative work methodologies and elevate your coaching abilities to new heights. This event is designed to cater to individuals at all experience levels, ensuring that there are valuable takeaways for everyone in attendance.

You’ll partner with like-minded professionals working in any agile role, including representatives who are Scrum Alliance Certified Team/Enterprise Coaches to Trainers, ICF Coaches, and even those who are just starting their agile journey. 

Principles: Scrum Alliance Agile Coaching Retreats are developed in alignment with agile/scrum values curated to maximize your experience and network connections.

• Retreat - The event creates time and space for focused learning and growth.

• Scrum - Learning is done using an empirical framework called scrum.

• Teams - Teams are the heart of scrum and a key differentiator at the retreats.

• Deep - Teams go deep into single topics, rather than covering many broad areas.

• Long - Learning, collaboration, and relationships continue long after the event.

• Shared learning - The event is designed for deep, collaborative, shared learning.

• Two sleeps - Connections are made when our brains are quiet; the two nights of sleep allow for creative idea formation.

• Time and space for focused learning and growth

• Connection, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration with coaches from around North America

• Accommodation and food at a soul-restoring, beach-side location

• Focused time to practice your coaching skills

• Unfocused renewal time to allow your mind to rest and recharge

• 20 Scrum Education Units (SEUs) to use and counts as qualifying community event toward the renewal of your certification(s)

Agile Coaching Retreat Wine Country 2024 will be held at the Marconi Lodge at Tomales Bay, California. Its location within Tomales Bay showcases the natural beauty of the West Marin coastline. The region is best known for its abundance of outdoor pursuits, vineyards, creameries, and oyster farms. It is conveniently located only an hour away from San Francisco and the famous Napa valley wine country.

The lodge is able to accommodate registrations for those who wish to extend their stay prior to or after the retreat dates (November 3-5, 2024).

This event is about halfway between the major San Fransisco Bay Area Airports and Napa Valley the heart of California Wine Country. The flights to this destination tend to sell out, so don’t wait to save your space at the retreat and book your travel.

Airports:

• San Francisco International - 60 miles
• San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport - 60 miles
• Sonoma County Airport - 40 miles

The best transportation options to get you from the airport to the lodge (and back) are:

• Car rentals 
• Taxi service
  • Note: Uber and Lyft can be difficult to schedule
    
    

Join our Slack to coordinate sharing transportation and rooms.

Additional Details: 

You have the option to extend your stay by one night prior (November 2) and/or one day after (November 5) for the same rate of $209 plus Tax. If you would like to book additional nights, change the name on a ticket, inquire about the refund policy, or ask general questions please contact the organizing team at: ACRwinecountry2024@gmail.com

We are excited to spend time with you in November! Don't miss the chance to enhance your coaching journey, share knowledge, and make a lasting impact within the Agile community. We invite you to join us at the California Wine Country Agile Coaching Retreat, where growth, collaboration, and connections await.

Covid - 19 : 

Please test before you arrive, if you test positive please stay home, and contact the organizers.