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Talloires France

Unlock Your Creative Potential

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Create, See, Think, Feel, Create.

Explore this Circular Path in Beautiful Talloires France

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Come Join Me in Paradise
with a Paintbrush!!

Hello Creative Beings!

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I'm very excited to share my favorite places, art making, and favorite activities with you here in the mountains of the Haute Savoie, France. Less than an hour from Geneva airport, and yet a world away from the usual. 

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Studio sessions and pleine aire immersions, will be rounded out by gastronomical, and local excursions--with plenty of optional free-time, or more studio-time to maximise what you personally seek from our time together.

 

Our homebase will be the historical Priory (dates back to 1081) in Talloires, also known as the Tufts University European Center, with the added bonus of the Tufts' team as our support and concierge team throughout your stay!

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We will be a small group, maximum 10 in total (6 minimum), so if you're interested, don't delay, quite a few spaces have already been reserved.

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September, 2025
Place: Talloires, France
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Agenda
 

Day 1

Introduction 

  • Meet & Greet

  • Unlearning

  • Apero

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  • Delicious Group Dinner

 

 

The importance of suspending beliefs and having fun!!!

 

Day 2

CREATE what you SEE

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  • Breakfast at your Hotels

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  • Morning Workshop on the Big shapes & composition

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  • Buffet Lunch

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  • Optional Open/Structured Studio at Priory or Optional Free Time

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Not getting lost in the woods, because we're too focussed on a single tree.

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Day 3

SEE what you THINK

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  • Breakfast at your Hotels

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  • Morning Workshop on perception, the life of a line, and the little shapes

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  • Buffet Lunch

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  • Optional Open/Structured Studio at Priory orOptional Free Time

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  • Sunset Group Dinner Excursion

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What are the lenses we use to decipher our visuals and how do they affect our creativity?

 

Day 4

THINK what you FEEL â€‹

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  • ​Breakfast at your Hotels

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  • All Day Excursion to the Top of the World (well not quite, but definitely up in those mountains) 

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  • ​Picnic Lunch

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  • ​Afternoon Pleine Aire Creative Session in the mountains

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What are the things, the moments, the visuals that make you feel alive, that frighten you, that make you laugh? The importance risk taking and of listening to your  your heart.

 

Day 5

FEEL what you CREATE

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  • Breakfast at your Hotels

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  • Putting it All together Workshop

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  • Buffet Lunch

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  • Optional Open/Structured Studio at Priory

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  • Optional Free Time

 

  • ​Potential Shared Exhibition of our works with local artists and residents

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  • Gastronomic Farewell Dinner

 

The importance of differences, in creating what you truly see, think, and feel--and how to use those 836 photos and 20 sketches you've amassed, once you're back home!!

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Watercolor Paints

Is This Retreat Right for

Me?

Anytime, Anywhere

Too many stories are lost because story tellers are afraid to share them. How many poems go unwritten because someone was told they didn't have the background to write them?

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This retreat is not about winning awards and polishing pebbles into gemstones. It's about harnessing your own, unabridged authenticity, and tweaking the lenses through which you see,think, and feel the world around you--so that you might maximise your creative voice and potential.

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So, never-evers, beginners, advanced, and everything in between are welcome. (Although I highly recommend messing around with some watercolor paints and YouTube videos ahead of time, just for some familiarity.)

 

And although, we only have one full day up in the big mountains, a minimum level of a love for walking would be helpful, with sturdy walking/hiking shoes.

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What I hope you will take with you should be applicable to not just what you paint creatively, but what you photograph, cook, write, dance, clean, spreadsheet, code, construct,  and contemplate...

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I hope you return home, refreshed, recharged, and ready to infuse new delight, into all your creative endeavours.

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Lisa Cirenza

74290 Talloires, France
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