The Stoker Area Fall Retreat is one of the highlights of the Mary Kay year. It is a time of motivation, sharing and training unlike any other. It is where you can gather in relaxing surroundings to get away from the day-to-day problems of life and concentrate on developing the knowledge you need to take you to the next level and beyond. “What a Gift!!” will teach you not to be content with modest success, but to set audacious goals. It will teach you what you need know to achieve those goals and will give you the motivation to reach for them. The Retreat has two parts. The first is the general Retreat for all Consultants and Directors on Friday evening and Saturday. On Sunday there is special advanced training for DIQs and Directors. 

This will be the biggest and best ever Stoker Area Retreat and it can become the catapult to the rest of your career. The National Sales Directors shown above represent over 340 years of Mary Kay experience. All eleven NSDs knew Mary Kay personally and were taught by her. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime Retreat - the likes of which has never happened before. This will be the closest you can come to actually being with Mary Kay herself.

What can one say about the best group of women in Mary Kay Canada? We will gather together, in one place, women from across the country. They all have one thing in common - an extraordinary love for what they are doing. Our teachers will be some of the most inspirational women in the company today. This year we are privileged to welcome 10 fantastic National Sales Directors from across the continent. We are especially honoured to welcome Elite Executive Senior National Sales Director Emeritus Anne Newbury, from San Diego, California. Anne was my mentor and National and when she retired in 2007, she was the top National Sales Director in the world, with annual commissions of over one million dollars. Anne is the soul of Mary Kay for me.

We will also welcome my dear friend Senior National Sales Director Renée Daras, from Blenheim, Ontario, who has been the number two National in Canada for over a dozen years and who was the first Senior National Sales Director in Canada. I am pleased to have my two offspring National Sales Directors, Linda MacDonald from Halifax, Nova Scotia and Phil Warren, from Pasadena, Newfoundland. Linda and Phil started coming to our retreats when they were still Consultants and Directors in my Unit.

Speaking of offspring National Sales Directors, we have the privilege of welcoming four of Anne Newbury's offsprings, National Sales Directors Janice Connell from Waterdown, Ontario, Donna Weir from Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Debbie Mattinson from Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Darlene Ryan Rieux from Vankleek Hill, Ontario. We also have two of the Directors who were instrumental in my success when I first moved to Ottawa in 1986, and are coincidentally newly-retired Nationals, Anne Austin from Ottawa and Doreen Burggraf from Kingston.

To read more about any of these wonderful Nationals, click on their pictures above.

Our teachers at our Retreat will be drawn from our visiting Nationals, our Area Directors and our DIQs.Autres invités spéciaux sera le président de Mary Kay Canada Ray Patrick, et notre vice-président Lynda Rose. It never happens that we have both the President and Vice-President, but everyone knows that this is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime Retreat and no-one wants to miss it. We are also privileged to have among our Directors, Miss Go-Give for Seminar 2011, the beautiful Josée D'Anjou, and three of the Top Ten Directors in the company, our own Mireille Morin, Josée and Nathalie Delisle, who will have just returned from the Top Director Tip to Prague and Budapest.

We will be gathering at Hotel du Lac, located in the scenic beauty of Mont Tremblant, Quebec. Two hours northeast of Ottawa and/or one hour northwest of Montreal. The resort is our new home and is an amazing condominium resort in the village of Mont Tremblant. This beautiful location on the shores of Lac Tremblant is perfect for our Retreat. 

All three days of the Retreat are being held in the resort and you are encouraged to stay overnight and experience the ambiance of curling up in a sofa in one of the cozy common areas throughout the resort, or finding a quiet place to catch up on the news with an old friend or go over your game plan with a mentor. This is a wonderful place to map your future plans. There will be plenty of spare time to enjoy the warmth and romance of the resort  too... Wait until you see the Spa! It's worth spending an extra day just to pamper yourself!

Your husband is encouraged to join us and there will be lots of things that he can join us in. 

It is almost impossible to describe the way you feel at an event like this. You will be both relaxed and energized at the same time. You will fall in love with your career all over again. If you didn't see the full scope of the Mary Kay opportunity before the Retreat, you will. You will meet friends you never knew you had and will make contacts with sister Consultants and Directors across the country. Once you've been to one, you never want to miss another!

Registration is done on line by clicking on the On-Line Registration link below, or by downloading and completing the downloadable form, and mailing or faxing it in. Registration for this year's Retreat is $189. Husbands' registration is $159.00. Participation will be on a first-come, first-seated basis. This Retreat will sell out - guaranteed! So submit your registration as early as possible. Completing all of the registration form is important, so that we can make the proper arrangements so that you get the utmost from the 2011 Fall Retreat - "What a Gift!"
 

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The classes are custom-designed to give you all of the tools you will need to build your business and help you achieve your career goals. You will be taught at your career level, by our visiting Nationals and the top Directors in the Area. Husbands are encouraged to attend and will  have their own classes or can attend yours!

The classes have proven to propel you to the next level on the Ladder of Success. Click Here to view the program for the Retreat. Currently available is last year's program. When it becomes available, this year's program will be posted here, and you will be able to see the classes and who will be teaching them.

The training you will get at the Retreat will easily be the equivalent of a year’s worth of Monday meetings. You will hear from some of the most successful women in Mary Kay. Our 11 Nationals, our President Ray Patrick, our Vice-President Lynda Rose and Top Directors Nathalie Delisle, and Josée D’Anjou and Mireille Morin will all be teaching at the Retreat.

The training will be exceptional. The food will be fantastic. The surroundings will be idyllic. The friendship will touch your heart. The stories will be inspirational. Come and learn how to dream and achieve. We will send you home with wings on your feet.

The Schedule  (at a glance):  (DIQs attend all Directors events)