Holistically Speaking Retreats
Find Your Voice. Strengthen Your Presence. Step Forward With Confidence
Holistically Speaking Retreats
Holistically Speaking Experiences are immersive one-day and two-day confidence and speaking journeys designed to help you reconnect with your voice, build calm self-assurance, and develop the presence to speak, lead and be seen with confidence.
Whether you are preparing for stages, leadership, visibility, or simply want to feel stronger in every room you walk into, these carefully curated experiences create powerful personal shifts that last far beyond the day itself.
Our Speaking Services
One-Day Experiences | Two-Day Immersive Retreats | Optional Overnight Stay
Holistically Speaking is a powerful series of immersive confidence and speaking experiences designed to help you reconnect with your voice, strengthen your presence, and step forward with clarity, calm and confidence, whether in business, leadership, speaking, or everyday life.
These experiences are not about performance.
They are about presence.
They are designed for individuals who know they are capable of more: more confidence, more clarity, more visibility and are ready to unlock it in a supportive, transformative environment.
Choose Your Experience
One-Day Confidence & Speaking Experiences
A focused, energising experience designed to create powerful shifts in a single day.
- Perfect for those who want:
- Increased speaking confidence
- Greater clarity and communication skills
- Stronger presence in meetings, networking and presentations
- A personal reset to refocus confidence and direction
This experience combines practical speaking techniques, confidence coaching, grounding practices and powerful mindset work, leaving you feeling clearer, stronger and ready to step forward.
Two-Day Immersive Retreat Experiences
For those ready to go deeper, our two-day retreats provide a transformational immersive experience combining speaking confidence, communication mastery and restorative wellbeing.
With optional overnight retreat stays, guests experience:
- Step-by-step confidence development
- Voice, presence and communication coaching
- Visibility and leadership confidence work
- Restorative grounding and calm-building practices
- Time to reset mentally, emotionally and professionally
These retreats create lasting internal shifts that support long-term confidence, clarity and leadership growth.
What Makes Holistically Speaking Different
Unlike traditional speaking courses, Holistically Speaking supports the whole person.
We focus on:
- Calm before confidence
- Presence before performance
- Clarity before communication
- Sustainable confidence rather than short-term motivation
The result is confidence that feels natural, grounded and authentic.
Hosted by Joanna Scott-Aspray
Founder of The Cheshire Club, mentor, speaker and Business Connector, Joanna Scott-Aspray hosts Holistically Speaking alongside a carefully selected group of expert facilitators specialising in communication, wellbeing, visibility and leadership development.
Each experience is intentionally designed to provide both personal transformation and practical real-world confidence tools.
Who These Experiences Are For
Holistically Speaking is designed for individuals who want to:
Feel calmer and more confident in professional and personal environments
Strengthen speaking confidence for presentations, social media platforms, camera, media or stage and leadership
Improve communication, clarity and self-expression
Reconnect with energy, focus and direction
Develop confidence to be seen, heard and recognised
Whether you are an entrepreneur, leader, professional, speaker or someone ready for personal growth, these experiences meet you exactly where you are.
Flexible Options
One-day and two-day experiences available
Optional overnight retreat stays
Limited group sizes for deeper support
Early booking priority for mailing list members
Upcoming Experiences
New Holistically Speaking Experiences and Retreat dates will be released shortly.
Join the priority list to receive early access to bookings, retreat announcements and exclusive invitations.
Featured Experts
Lucy Allen
Executive TV Producer (Hollyoaks, BBC dramas) with rich experience shaping narratives and guiding speakers behind the scenes. Lucy leads media prep workshops, sharing insights into what producers want and how speakers can deliver.
Joanna Scott Aspray
CEO of The Cheshire Club & Serial Entrepreneur with deep expertise in visibility and personal brand building through networking, strategic connecting & monetising your knowledge
Kerry Daynes
Media Production Psychologist & TV expert (‘The Profiler’ on Faking It: Tears of a Crime), bestselling author, and resilience advocate. Kerry will unpack how to use storytelling, presence, and authentic voice in TED-style talks and media interviews.
Sarah Stephens
PR Strategist & Public Speaker. PR masterclasses on press angles, messaging, and attracting media attention.