Host Your Retreat in France
You bring your people. We'll give you a beautiful place to gather.
Perhaps you've imagined leading a retreat in France.
You can already picture your community gathered around a long table. Morning conversations over coffee. Afternoons exploring markets, vineyards, villages, and the French countryside. Beautiful meals. Meaningful work. Time together that feels completely different from anything you could create at home.
And then come all the logistics.
Where will everyone stay? Who will cook? How will you get around? What is there to do nearby? How do you coordinate everything from thousands of miles away?
Start with La Menarderie.
Our private home in the Cognac countryside offers retreat hosts an intimate, beautiful setting for bringing their communities to France—with as much or as little local support as you need.
Your Home in the French Countryside
La Menarderie is a historic private property surrounded by the vineyards and rolling countryside of southwest France.
With six guest rooms, each with its own en-suite bathroom, the house is particularly suited to intimate retreats, workshops, masterminds, creative gatherings, and small-group experiences.
This isn't a hotel or traditional retreat center.
It's a home.
A place where your guests can settle in, gather around the table, wander outside with a cup of coffee, linger over dinner, and experience the pleasure of being together in France.
Private rental begins at €1,500 per night.
Your Retreat. Your Way.
You know your community.
You know what you want to teach, facilitate, explore, or create together.
Our role is not to prescribe what your retreat should look like. It's to give you a beautiful home base—and, if you'd like, the local knowledge and support to help bring your vision to life.
Rent La Menarderie and manage your retreat independently, or allow us to help with the details that are much easier to arrange when you have someone on the ground in France.
Stay
Your private rental includes exclusive use of La Menarderie and its six en-suite guest rooms, giving you the freedom to create the rhythm that works for your group.
Host morning sessions. Gather for meals. Build in quiet time. Spend the afternoon exploring. Pour a glass of wine and continue the conversation long after dinner is finished.
The house becomes yours for the duration of your stay.
Add a Little Local Knowledge
Want help figuring out what happens beyond the front door?
I can make recommendations and introductions to trusted local resources, including:
Private chefs
Transportation options
Restaurants and markets
Cognac houses and vineyard experiences
Artisans and makers
Workshops and cultural experiences
Day trips and places worth exploring throughout the region
You make the arrangements and manage the details; I'll help point you in the right direction.
Or Let Me Take Care of It
If the thought of coordinating chefs, drivers, reservations, schedules, and experiences from the United States makes your beautiful retreat suddenly feel like a second job, there's another option.
Add Front-of-House Concierge Service.
I can manage the local details on your behalf, working with you before your arrival to understand your vision and then coordinating the people and experiences that will bring it to life.
Depending on your retreat, that might include arranging your private chef, coordinating transportation, making reservations, scheduling excursions and experiences, communicating with local collaborators, and managing the day-to-day logistics of your stay.
You remain the host of your retreat.
I'll help make everything around you feel effortless.
Concierge services are customized and priced separately according to the needs of your retreat.
You Don't Have to Know How to Host a Retreat in France.
That's the beauty of it.
You don't need a network of French chefs, drivers, guides, artisans, or experience providers.
You don't need to know which nearby village has the market you shouldn't miss.
You don't need to spend months researching every logistical detail before you can say yes to the idea.
You already know the most important part:
You want to bring your people to France.
We can begin there.
Imagine Your Retreat Here
A coaching retreat.
A writers' week.
A creative workshop.
A culinary experience.
A mastermind gathering.
A yoga or wellness retreat.
A women's circle.
A photography week.
A celebration.
Or something we haven't thought of yet.
La Menarderie gives you the setting.
Your work and your community give it purpose.
And, when you want it, my local relationships and concierge support can help make the experience beautifully easy.
The Details
Location
Cognac countryside, southwest France
Accommodations
6 private guest rooms, each with an en-suite bathroom
Private Rental
Beginning at €1,500 per night
Optional Retreat Support
Local recommendations and introductions are available as an add-on service.
Front-of-House Concierge
Customized retreat coordination and on-the-ground support are available for hosts who would prefer to hand over the logistics.
Pricing is determined according to the scope and needs of your retreat.
Bring Your People to France.
If you've been dreaming about hosting your community in France but haven't known where to begin, perhaps this is your beginning.
You bring the vision.
You bring the work you're here to share.
You bring your people.
We'll help you make France the setting for something extraordinary.
INQUIRE ABOUT HOSTING YOUR RETREAT: bonjour@wendy-harrop.com
Host Your Retreat in France
You bring your people. We'll give you a beautiful place to gather.
Perhaps you've imagined leading a retreat in France.
You can already picture your community gathered around a long table. Morning conversations over coffee. Afternoons exploring markets, vineyards, villages, and the French countryside. Beautiful meals. Meaningful work. Time together that feels completely different from anything you could create at home.
And then come all the logistics.
Where will everyone stay? Who will cook? How will you get around? What is there to do nearby? How do you coordinate everything from thousands of miles away?
Start with La Menarderie.
Our private home in the Cognac countryside offers retreat hosts an intimate, beautiful setting for bringing their communities to France—with as much or as little local support as you need.
Your Home in the French Countryside
La Menarderie is a historic private property surrounded by the vineyards and rolling countryside of southwest France.
With six guest rooms, each with its own en-suite bathroom, the house is particularly suited to intimate retreats, workshops, masterminds, creative gatherings, and small-group experiences.
This isn't a hotel or traditional retreat center.
It's a home.
A place where your guests can settle in, gather around the table, wander outside with a cup of coffee, linger over dinner, and experience the pleasure of being together in France.
Private rental begins at €1,500 per night.
Your Retreat. Your Way.
You know your community.
You know what you want to teach, facilitate, explore, or create together.
Our role is not to prescribe what your retreat should look like. It's to give you a beautiful home base—and, if you'd like, the local knowledge and support to help bring your vision to life.
Rent La Menarderie and manage your retreat independently, or allow us to help with the details that are much easier to arrange when you have someone on the ground in France.
Stay
Your private rental includes exclusive use of La Menarderie and its six en-suite guest rooms, giving you the freedom to create the rhythm that works for your group.
Host morning sessions. Gather for meals. Build in quiet time. Spend the afternoon exploring. Pour a glass of wine and continue the conversation long after dinner is finished.
The house becomes yours for the duration of your stay.
Add a Little Local Knowledge
Want help figuring out what happens beyond the front door?
I can make recommendations and introductions to trusted local resources, including:
Private chefs
Transportation options
Restaurants and markets
Cognac houses and vineyard experiences
Artisans and makers
Workshops and cultural experiences
Day trips and places worth exploring throughout the region
You make the arrangements and manage the details; I'll help point you in the right direction.
Or Let Me Take Care of It
If the thought of coordinating chefs, drivers, reservations, schedules, and experiences from the United States makes your beautiful retreat suddenly feel like a second job, there's another option.
Add Front-of-House Concierge Service.
I can manage the local details on your behalf, working with you before your arrival to understand your vision and then coordinating the people and experiences that will bring it to life.
Depending on your retreat, that might include arranging your private chef, coordinating transportation, making reservations, scheduling excursions and experiences, communicating with local collaborators, and managing the day-to-day logistics of your stay.
You remain the host of your retreat.
I'll help make everything around you feel effortless.
Concierge services are customized and priced separately according to the needs of your retreat.
You Don't Have to Know How to Host a Retreat in France.
That's the beauty of it.
You don't need a network of French chefs, drivers, guides, artisans, or experience providers.
You don't need to know which nearby village has the market you shouldn't miss.
You don't need to spend months researching every logistical detail before you can say yes to the idea.
You already know the most important part:
You want to bring your people to France.
We can begin there.
Imagine Your Retreat Here
A coaching retreat.
A writers' week.
A creative workshop.
A culinary experience.
A mastermind gathering.
A yoga or wellness retreat.
A women's circle.
A photography week.
A celebration.
Or something we haven't thought of yet.
La Menarderie gives you the setting.
Your work and your community give it purpose.
And, when you want it, my local relationships and concierge support can help make the experience beautifully easy.
The Details
Location
Cognac countryside, southwest France
Accommodations
6 private guest rooms, each with an en-suite bathroom
Private Rental
Beginning at €1,500 per night
Optional Retreat Support
Local recommendations and introductions are available as an add-on service.
Front-of-House Concierge
Customized retreat coordination and on-the-ground support are available for hosts who would prefer to hand over the logistics.
Pricing is determined according to the scope and needs of your retreat.
Bring Your People to France.
If you've been dreaming about hosting your community in France but haven't known where to begin, perhaps this is your beginning.
You bring the vision.
You bring the work you're here to share.
You bring your people.
We'll help you make France the setting for something extraordinary.
INQUIRE ABOUT HOSTING YOUR RETREAT: bonjour@wendy-harrop.com
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