Destination Journey

BWELL Journey at Sea

Leading with Rest & Resilience

Black women ready to invest in themselves — personally and professionally — with time and space away from the calendar, alone or with a companion.

A destination-based BWELL escape with more time and space to explore the Journey through facilitated learning, reflection, restoration, coaching, community and meaningful experiences away from normal routines.

November 13–20, 2027 · Los Angeles → Mexican Riviera → Los Angeles See all dates

Golden-hour view over turquoise water from a ship deck lined with lounge chairs

The Journey

What this Journey is

BWELL Journey at Sea is a Destination Journey built on a simple premise: your vacation and your professional development do not have to compete.

Seven days to rest. Time to think. Space to breathe. Meaningful conversations, new perspectives, and plenty of room simply to enjoy yourself. This is an investment in the woman behind the work.

Burnout is not always solved by learning how to do more. Rest creates the space to notice what constant motion can hide. The goal is not to fill the week with programming — it is to create just enough intentional space for something meaningful to happen.

Experience format

Seven nights at a destination, with facilitated BWELL experiences on sea days and selected evenings, private coaching scheduled at your convenience, and unscheduled time throughout.

Is this Journey for you?

Who this Journey is for

Black women ready to invest in themselves — personally and professionally — with time and space away from the calendar, alone or with a companion.

You are the person other people rely on, and you have been for a long time
You need rest, and you also want the week to give something back to you
You would rather have space to think than another packed conference agenda
You want development and a genuine vacation to stop competing

Why this Journey

The challenge this Journey addresses

Rest is information. Self-awareness is a leadership practice. Resilience should not require self-abandonment.

You could book a cruise yourself. What you could not book yourself is a facilitated leadership arc across the week, a private coaching session, a restoration series led by a practitioner, curated group experiences with women doing the same work, and a Return-to-Self Plan you leave holding.

What you will experience

Learning you take part in, not watch

Facilitated leadership experiences on sea days and selected evenings
A private 1:1 Breakthrough Coaching session, scheduled whenever suits you
Yoga, sound healing and guided mindfulness in the Rest + Restoration Series
Journaling and reflection across both arcs of the CONTINUE™ Framework

What you will explore

Themes and learning objectives

Rest + Exploration

Ocean views, beautiful meals, port adventures, sunsets, spa, sleep, unscheduled time — and doing absolutely nothing when you choose.

Reflection + Development

Leadership experiences, burnout exploration, 1:1 coaching, journaling, and your Return-to-Self Plan.

Joy + Celebration

Welcome reception, curated group dinners, new friendships, laughter, and gathering with purpose.

Wellness + Restoration

Yoga, sound healing, mindfulness and guided meditation — restoration without having to earn it.

Learning objectives

Understand your own wiring — behavioral style, motivation and emotional intelligence — and what it reveals about your burnout pattern
Name what you are carrying, what you have normalized, and where you are overfunctioning
Practice restoration in the body as well as the calendar
Decide how you want to return, rather than simply how to go back
Leave with a Return-to-Self Plan you actually intend to keep

What we look at together

Know Your Wiring — what self-awareness reveals about your burnout pattern
The Cost of Carrying It All — leadership, burnout and the pattern of overfunctioning
What am I carrying? What have I normalized? Where am I overfunctioning?
Return to Self — not 'how do I go back?' but 'how do I want to return?'

The learning

Core Workshops & Coaching

The facilitated workshops, included 1:1 coaching and Rest & Restoration Series this Journey is built from. Each date may add its own experiences.

Core Workshops

Workshop

Led by Davina Ware

Workshop

Know Your Wiring

See the pattern before it repeats: how you are wired, and how that wiring shapes the burnout you keep meeting.

What self-awareness reveals about your burnout pattern — behavioral style, motivation and emotional intelligence.

Your behavioral style, and where it serves or costs you at work
What actually motivates you, underneath the expectations you have absorbed
Emotional intelligence as a leadership instrument, not a personality trait

Led by Davina Ware

Behavioral style
Motivation and drivers
Emotional intelligence

More about this experience

An assessment-informed leadership experience covering behavioral style, motivation and emotional intelligence: how you are wired, and how that wiring shapes the burnout pattern you keep meeting.

Workshop

Led by Dr. Thenera Bailey

Workshop

The Cost of Carrying It All

Name what you carry, where you overfunction, and what that overfunctioning has been protecting.

Leadership, burnout and the pattern of overfunctioning — the first arc of the CONTINUE™ Framework.

Clarity — what is actually yours to hold
Ownership — the choices hidden inside the obligation
Naming — language for the load nobody has asked you about
Truth — the cost you have been absorbing quietly

Led by Dr. Thenera Bailey

Burnout
Overfunctioning
CONTINUE™ Framework

More about this experience

The first arc of the CONTINUE™ Framework: clarity, ownership, naming, truth. Facilitated work on what you carry, where you overfunction, and what that overfunctioning protects.

Workshop

Led by Dr. Thenera Bailey

Workshop

Return to Self: Choosing What You Will Continue

Not 'how do I go back?' but 'how do I want to return?' — decided on purpose, in writing.

The second arc of the CONTINUE™ Framework — not 'how do I go back?' but 'how do I want to return?'

Integrity — what you will not trade away again
Nurture — what keeps you resourced once the week ends
Uncertainty — leading without a settled answer
Evolve — what you will practice next

Led by Dr. Thenera Bailey

More about this experience

The second arc of the CONTINUE™ Framework: integrity, nurture, uncertainty, evolve. You decide, on purpose, what you will protect, release, practice and continue.

What you may leave with

Your Return-to-Self Plan

Private 1:1 Coaching · included

Breakthrough Coaching

One private hour that belongs entirely to your own question.

A private 1:1 coaching session held with a BWELL coach at a time that suits you across the week — not squeezed between sessions, and not shared with anyone else.

It is the place the group work becomes personal. You bring the thing you have not had room to say out loud, and you leave with language for it and a next step you actually chose.

What pattern keeps following me?
Where am I overextending?
What do I actually want next?

Format: One private 1:1 session, included in your investment
Scheduling: Scheduled at your convenience during the Journey — sea day, port day or evening, whichever protects your rest.

Coached by Davina Ware

Facilitated series · included

Rest & Restoration Series

Restoration held as programming, not as leftover time — practice, not amenity.

A facilitated series held across the week on the premise that resilience begins in the body as well as the calendar. Mindful movement, sound healing and guided mindfulness, offered as practice rather than performance.

Yoga
Mindful movement, offered as practice rather than performance.
Restoration in the body, at whatever pace your week needs.
Led by Cornelius Jones Jr.
Sound healing
A guided sound session that asks nothing of you but attention.
A nervous system that settles without being managed.
Led by Cornelius Jones Jr.
Guided mindfulness + meditation
Guided mindfulness and meditation practices held across the week.
Space to notice what constant motion has been hiding.
Led by Cornelius Jones Jr.
Reflection + integration
Journaling and guided reflection across both arcs of the CONTINUE™ Framework.
The week does not stay theoretical once you are home.
You leave with: Reflection materials kept in My BWELL

Around the learning

Restoration, community and time that is yours

Designed with the same care as the workshops, and never treated as filler.

Community Experience

BWELL Welcome Experience

Settle in and meet the women you are travelling with, before any of the work begins.

Led by Dr. Thenera Bailey

Community Experience

Welcome reception, curated dinners, sips + sunsets

Two curated group dinners, informal connection, and new friendships with women doing the same work.

What you will leave with

Outcomes, tools and Keepsakes

Outcomes

A week of genuine rest with structure that supports it, not fills it
Clarity about your own burnout pattern and where it comes from
One-to-one coaching alongside group programming
A cohort of women you travel with, not just sit beside
A return plan so the restoration survives your first week back

What you take home

Your completed Return-to-Self Plan
Personal insight from the Know Your Wiring leadership experience
Notes and commitments from your private 1:1 Breakthrough Coaching session
CONTINUE™ Framework reflection materials in My BWELL

BWELL Keepsake

Your Return-to-Self Plan

Take more than memories home — an intentional reminder of what you discovered when you finally had enough space to hear yourself clearly.

What I know now
What I am releasing
What I am protecting
How I will rest
How I will lead
What I will continue

The BWELL approach

How this Journey is held

Intentionally designed. Never overscheduled.

No packed conference agenda. No expectation to attend something every hour. No pressure to perform.

Port days belong to you

Explore independently, book an excursion, visit the beach, or rest. BWELL experiences are held on sea days and selected evenings.

Development that respects the vacation

The learning arc is real and facilitated by practitioners — and it is built to leave the week feeling like a week away.

Bring someone, or make it entirely yours

The rate is the same whether one or two guests occupy the accommodation. Share the Journey, or keep the space to yourself.

Meet your facilitators

Who leads this Journey

Dr. Thenera Bailey

Leadership Architect & Organizational Strategist

The SISGI Group

Creator of BWELL and the CONTINUE™ Framework, Dr. Bailey works with leaders on the patterns underneath burnout — what they carry, what they have normalized, and what they choose to continue.

Davina Ware

Leadership & Talent Strategist

Davina leads Know Your Wiring and the private 1:1 Breakthrough Coaching sessions, working with behavioral style, motivation and emotional intelligence.

Cornelius Jones Jr.

Wellness Facilitator

Cornelius leads the Rest + Restoration Series — yoga, sound healing and mindfulness offered as practice rather than performance.

When this Journey runs next

A Journey can be offered again in another season and another place. Each offering has its own dates, location and pricing.

Destination Journey