Asian Boss Ladies 2026 Liberated Leadership Retreat:
Release, Ground, Ascend
REGISTER NOW!
August 7-9, 2026, The OMEGA Institute, 150 Lake Dr, Rhinebeck, NY
The Asian Boss Ladies Liberated Leadership Retreat is back by popular demand! Over the years, this retreat has strengthened our community, built lasting friendships, and catalyzed incredible personal and professional growth. When we are in the room together, magic happens.
Why This Retreat
In a time when challenges abound on a global scale, alongside our personal ones, we gather to share wisdom and tools for healing and growth. The theme of this year's retreat—Release, Ground, Ascend—equips us with the tools to shed what no longer serves us, ground into ourselves (body and soul), and rise above expectations and limitations.
Bask in the beauty of the OMEGA Institute.
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The retreat runs from Friday, August 7, 2026 through Sunday, August 9, 2026. Check-in begins at 4 pm on August 7 and the first workshop will take place at 7 pm. The final workshop ends at 3 pm on Sunday.
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Three housing options are available during your 3 day stay: dorms, a cabin with a shared bathroom, or a cabin with a private bathroom. See here for pricing.
All housing includes AC, heat, and wifi. Dinner Friday, B/L/D Sat, and B/L Sunday all included.
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Your ticket includes access to the majestic campus of the OMEGA Institute and its amenities, including yoga, meditation, hikes, kayaking on the lake, and art supplies.
Massages and other services purchased in the Wellness Center are an additional cost.
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The OMEGA Institute is located 90 miles north of NYC. It is accessible by Metronorth (Poughkeepsie Station) and Amtrak trains (Rhinecliff Station), followed by an Uber or car service to the campus. We will also coordinate carpools from NYC for those who wish to drive. More travel info is here.
Workshop Topics
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Workshop Topics •
RELEASE
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Let go of what no longer serves you and step into new, supportive mindsets through gentle qigong, movement, and body awareness practices.
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Reflect on how your identities shape your leadership. Gain clarity on what to carry forward—and what to release—as you step into a more authentic version of yourself.
GROUND
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Learn simple, body-based tools to stay grounded and centered in high-pressure moments—practices you can return to long after the retreat.
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Build confidence and clarity in high-stakes conversations. Learn practical tools to strengthen your presence, navigate conflict, and communicate with impact—without losing authenticity.
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Reconnect with your body through music, movement, and play. This energizing session invites you to take up space, build confidence, and experience movement as joy.
ASCEND
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Explore and shift your relationship with money through a powerful, experiential practice that addresses both personal and inherited patterns.
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Description coming soon...
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Close the weekend with reflection and intention-setting. Leave with simple ways to carry the calm, clarity, and connection of the retreat into your daily life.
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Speakers
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Cat Lum is an educator, facilitator, and strategist based in Brooklyn, New York, who is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations realize their full potential. Her work is driven by a deep commitment to equity and systemic justice. As a co-founder of Roots to Revolution and consultant with Change Impact, she supports people to use their strengths to build community, social connections, and create change.
Most recently, Cat served as the Senior Director of Partnerships & Strategy at nXu, where she wore many hats, including leading a team to develop a K-12 curriculum designed to help students build durable skills, explore careers, and cultivate a strong sense of purpose and wellbeing. Her commitment to social change is also rooted in her foundational experience as a high school history teacher, instructional coach, and DEI facilitator at Uncommon Schools.
In her free time, Cat enjoys hiking, finding delicious food, and staying curious through podcasts and books on health, social justice, and wellbeing.
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Alice Shikina is a mediator, arbitrator and negotiator. She also is an international speaker. She has written the play Okinawa 1945 and the book, Negotiating with Your Kids. She is currently working on her next two books: Don't Sleep on the Couch! and Influenceable. Alice was awarded the 2025 Visionary Peacemaker award by San Francisco's Community Boards.
In her free time, she enjoys playing the violin, rowing and spending time with good friends.
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Su is a founding partner of The Creative Collective Team at Compass, where she blends 15 years of expertise and over $400M in closed business with a deeply personal, client-centered touch. Ranked in the top 1.5% of agents nationwide, her true reward isn't the accolades, but the joy of helping first-time buyers, women, and people of color build a foundation of wealth and security they can call their own.
Su’s heart has been shaped by the world, having traveled to over 50 countries, but she finds her truest home in the rhythm of salsa dancing. After a decade on the dance floor, she describes salsa as the spark that changed her life, leading her to the TEDx Suzhou stage to share her joyful journey in movement. Su is so excited to bring her story and her passion to the ABL community, helping others find their own rhythm and joy in their bodies.
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Through constellation work, Kyla was able to heal generational money trauma and 3x her revenue. She now helps her clesties (client-turned-besties) do the same.
She is a Third Culture Kid: her mom is from Singapore, her dad is Japanese-American, and she was born in Hong Kong. She has spoken in 16 countries across 3 continents, traveled to 51 countries, and calls 5 countries home.
After her mom was diagnosed with early onset dementia, she tried 25 alternative healing modalities and got certified in the ones that helped her the most: Life coaching, Theta Healing, Integrative Hypnosis, and Family Constellations. She is currently the only Asian-identifying Family Constellations facilitator in North America who runs All Asian constellation circles, retreats, and certification program. You can find out more about her and her work here or connect with her on IG: @withwarriors.
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Rhea Wong is the co-founder of Asian Boss Ladies (ABL) and the founder of both the Nonprofit Lowdown podcast and Rhea Wong Consulting, two prominent pillars of fundraising support in the nonprofit sector. ABL began in 2018 when Rhea and co-founder Stephanie hosted their first dinner in Rhea’s Brooklyn apartment. Since then, the community has grown to over 180 women, united by a shared mission to exchange resources, ideas, and connections.
With over 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, Rhea has dedicated her career to helping individuals and organizations realize their potential. Drawing from her deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by nonprofit executives—such as the hard work, dedication, and often unspoken struggles—Rhea now empowers professionals to build multi-million-dollar nonprofits from the ground up, leveraging her own experiences and lessons learned along the way.
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Joyce Jia Hu (she/her) is a Chinese American immigrant, facilitator, community builder, and creative strategist who designs experiences centered on rest, reflection, and connection. With a background in performing arts, communications, and program design, she has spent over two decades leading workshops, retreats, and community initiatives across nonprofit, education, and cross-cultural spaces.
Through breath and movement, guided reflection, and creative expression, Joyce creates experiences that invite people to step out of autopilot, get curious, and reconnect with themselves and each other. She believes that this work is not a luxury, but a necessary foundation for how we live, create, and lead.
She currently lives in Southern California with her husband and their corgi, Oliver, and is always dreaming up new ways for people to slow down and gather with intention.
Got an idea? Let’s chat!
FAQs
Check out the menu to answer any outstanding questions you may have.
Feel free to reach out to ng.courtney@gmail.com with any questions!
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The retreat runs from Friday, August 7, 2026 through Sunday, August 9, 2026. Check-in begins at 4 pm on August 7 and the first workshop will take place at 7 pm. The final workshop ends at 3 pm on Sunday.
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We are capped at 30 of the smartest, most dynamic, and powerful Asian women in the US (and world).
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Nope, all are optional to attend (though you won’t want to miss them!). There will be ample time built in to the schedule to network, rest, and rejuvenate.
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This year's retreat is in-person only. No live streams will be offered.
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The OMEGA Institute is a stunning campus to explore!
You’ll have access to yoga classes, hiking, meditation, kayaking, a coffee shop, a sustainability center, and plenty of space to meet and discuss concepts and issues with other ABL members.
Best yet, all these offerings are included in your weekend ticket at no additional extra cost.
Private services at the Wellness Center are available at an additional cost, to be booked by each participant.
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Yes! Accommodations include a bed with linens and towels, wifi, AC, and clean bathrooms.
If you wish to have more private space, you may purchase a cabin instead. See the registration link for more details.
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Your All-Inclusive stay includes three delicious, healthy meals per day served in OMEGA’s air-conditioned Dining Hall. Each meal is a generous buffet of mostly vegetarian food, with vegan and gluten free options.
Additional snacks, beverages, and desserts are available for purchase in the Omega Café.
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Yes! You will be able to access WiFi across the campus.
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The OMEGA Institute is located 90 miles north of NYC. It is accessible by MetroNorth (Poughkeepsie Station) and Amtrak trains (Rhinecliff Station), followed by an Uber or car service to the campus. We will also coordinate carpools from NYC for those who wish to drive. More travel info is here.
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Due to limitations of this year's budget, no scholarships will be offered at this time.
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Yes! We won’t let you melt.
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Contact us!
We’re so excited to partner with like-minded businesses, corporations, and nonprofits.
Please reach out to ng.courtney@gmail.com for more information
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If by chance you still have more questions, reach out to shanthi@spinster.io
Got Questions?
Email ng.courtney@gmail.com.
ABL Book Club: Pachinko
Join your ABL’ers for a book club discussion about Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
ABL Book Club: Minor Feelings
One of our ABL members, Justine, is hosting our first-ever book club discussion about Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings, which is described as, “A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human.” Email if you’d like to read along with us.
Shake It Up - An intoxicating fundraiser for State Representative Yuh-Line Niou!
ABL came together at our (now virtual) monthly dinner to discuss the issues we’ve faced as a community. Despite some of the troubling experiences we’ve shared, we came away recognizing that the ultimate sign of Asian American strength is not in our shared silence, but in sharing our collective voice. And there is no more powerful place for our voices to be heard than in the government.
We have decided to throw a fundraiser for Yuh-Line Niou who is the first ever Asian American woman State Representative in New York. She represents one of the heavily Asian populated districts in New York City whose restaurants and bars were disproportionately hit before and during the pandemic due to racism and prejudice (Chinatown and the Lower East Side). During the past two months, Yuh-Line has stopped all campaign fundraising to focus on delivering food and resources to those in need in Chinatown.
We’ll feature FOUR Asian-American womxn bartenders who will showcase themed drinks to our Zoom audience.
Platform: Zoom
Tickets: Suggested donation $100 (or option to donate other amount)
Confirmed Celebrity Bartenders:
Natasha David: Co-owner of Nitecap and You & Me Cocktails
Fanny Chu: Head Bartender at Donna Cocktail Club
Ranjini Bose: Former Bartender at Dear Irving
Karen Fu: Bar Matrix at Republique