Lambing Retreat: Finding Clarity and A Return to What Matters Most

A restorative, farm-luxury retreat for individuals and couples ready to pause, reflect, and realign their lives.

April 13-16, 2026 | Arlington, Washington
Ninety minutes from Seattle, nestled in the embrace of nature


A Place to Come Home to Yourself

This retreat is for the person—or couple—or friends – who know it’s time to slow down. Not because you’re failing, but because something in you is asking for more truth, more clarity, more connection.

If you’ve been carrying responsibility (work, family, life), navigating transition, or simply moving at a pace that leaves no room for your own inner rest, this weekend gives you a chance to breathe… and to listen.

Whether you come alone or with a friend or with your partner, this is an invitation to reset your system, reclaim your clarity, and reconnect with what truly matters most in your life.

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it."

- Parker Palmer


"I didn't realize how far I had drifted from myself until I felt what it was like to return." - A.D. past participant

A Weekend Devoted to You and Your Life

Across three nourishing days during lambing season—a vibrant time of aliveness, tenderness, and new beginnings—you’ll engage in a process of reflection and recalibration supported by horses, lambs, nature, and the Natural Leadership / Natural Intelligence™ model.

This is not about “optimizing your life” or creating a five-year plan or any kind of productivity hacks.

Instead, this is about remembering why you’re here. This is about alignment—the deep kind that changes how you walk back into your life and relationships.

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For Individuals:

A chance to drop the performance, the vigilance, the pace.

 To listen inward again without interruption.

 To be guided with questions that give your life meaning and purpose. 

To hear your own clarity return.


For Couples:

A chance to reconnect with yourselves and each other—

 to rebuild presence, attunement, pace, and truth in a way everyday life rarely allows.


Over the Weekend You Will Engage In:

  • Equine-guided sessions that reveal how you relate, communicate, and lead your life

  • Somatic and nervous-system based practices that restore calm and increase your capacity to hold pressure

  • Nature immersion during lambing season—a living metaphor for renewal that is awe inspiring

  • Reflection circles and guided prompts that help you see what’s true for you now and harvest learning for the current season of your life

  • Deep rest, quiet space, and meaningful conversation

  • Chef-prepared meals—seasonal, beautiful, nourishing

“It was more beautiful than I imagined… all of the best medicine at once.” J.W. — Past Participant

Why the Equine Work Matters

Horses don’t respond to your story.

 They respond to your state—your truth, your boundaries, your internal alignment.

They show you, with extraordinary clarity:

  • Where you override yourself
  • Where your signal is mixed or unclear
  • Where you lead from pressure instead of presence
  • Where your relationships need recalibration

For couples, this becomes some of the most honest, tender, and transformative work you can do together.

For individuals, it becomes a mirror for the gap between who you are—and who you’re becoming.

By the end of the retreat, you will have:

  • A calmer, steadier internal state

  • Clarity about what you’re ready to let go of—and what wants to begin

  • Tools for regulating pressure and returning to presence

  • A deeper connection with yourself (and your partner, if you attend together)

  • Renewed trust in your instincts and direction

“A weekend of clarity, courage, and reconnection.” — W.W. Past Participant

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Why Lambing Season

Lambing is one of the most honest seasons in nature—raw, instinctive, and full of new life.

It teaches timing.

It teaches trust.

It teaches what wants to emerge when you slow down enough to notice.

You won’t just witness new beginnings—you’ll feel one emerging inside yourself.

This retreat is ideal for:

  • Individuals seeking space to reflect, reset, or navigate transition

  • Couples wanting to reconnect, repair, or recalibrate their relationship

  • Anyone sensing they’re at an inflection point in life

  • Therapists, coaches, leaders or space-holders needing restoration

  • People longing for clarity, purpose, and internal steadiness

  • No horse experience is required—only openness and curiosity.

Held at Shepherd’s Retreat during lambing season, surrounded by pasture, stillness, and newborn life, this experience offers space you can feel in your whole system.

You’ll leave clearer.

You’ll leave lighter.

You’ll leave more yourself.

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  • Brad Lande-Shannon

    Owner, Head Leadership Coach

    A long-time C-suite executive himself, Brad Lande-Shannon has a first-hand understanding of the pressures and stresses that face company founders, leaders, and high performance teams. This is partly why he first turned to Natural Leadership as he faced his own professional challenges.

    Brad's passion for horses has been a life-long pursuit. Having competed with the National Cutting Horse Association as a youth and now as an adult amateur dressage competitor, he’s combined his deep horse expertise with his executive leadership coaching. Over the course of his career, Brad has guided thousands of leaders on values, purpose, emotional intelligence, and well-being.


    Certified in the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership and following training from The Center for Equus Coaching (formerly The Koelle Institute), Brad enrolled in the Natural Leadership program. Compared to other programs, Brad says Natural Leadership is, “deceptively simple and multi-dimensional in its use cases to apply and teach.”


    Brad has an equestrian facility that offers Natural Leadership facilitation, coaching and programming at Awake Ranch, near Portland, Oregon, which he acquired with his husband in late 2022.


    Send Brad an email.

  • Lynne Green

    Natural Leadership Facilitator, Owner of A Shepherd's Retreat

    Originally raised in the "Bluegrass" area of Kentucky, Lynne learned farming from her family roots of raising cattle and horses. She then moved to Boston for education, receiving a BA cum laude in Biology and Anthropology at Tufts University. In Boston, she met and married Scott Green, and they embarked on the adventure of a lifetime to spend decades in Hong Kong and China. Upon returning to America in 1997, they settled in Seattle. Their combined educations enhanced their work by building effective leadership teams in Asia and Germany. In 2013, they moved to Berlin to work with European leadership teams in the not-for-profit sector. She also earned her MA in Communication and Leadership from Gonzaga University.

    By working with leadership groups in both of these unique cultures, their commitment to the need for effective communication was honed. Scott was unfortunately diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in 2016, which led to their return to America. Lynne felt the call to return to her early roots of farming. Scott had purchased the farm in 2016 with an eye to retirement. In Chinese culture, the name for Prince Charming is translated as 'Prince White Horse.' Lynne's Prince bought her the farm sitting at the foot of Whitehorse Mountain. Since 2016, Lynne has developed the farm into a retreat facility with the hope of providing "peace and space" in our hectic world.


  • Rune Christensen

    Natural Leadership Facilitator

    Rune is a certified conscious and natural leadership coach with a knack for empowering organizations and individuals to lead with purpose, authenticity, and maybe just a little bit of horse sense. Growing up in Denmark, Rune spent his teenage years surrounded by horses, forging a lifelong bond that would eventually lead him to the world of equine-assisted coaching. With certifications in conscious leadership, natural leadership, and training as a Co-Active Professional Coach by CTI, Rune is also on the path to becoming an Internal Family Systems Coach by the IFS Institute. He blends these approaches to create transformative experiences that inspire self-awareness, intentional action, and a strong link to one’s intuitive knowing.


    When he’s not connecting people with their inner wisdom, Rune is likely out on the open sea, indulging his passion for offshore sailing. There, he finds a similar sense of connection and flow with the deep blue ocean, the wind, and the creatures of the sea—proving that whether on land or water, Rune is all about guiding others on their journey to becoming mindful, impactful leaders.


    Send Rune an email.