The Executive Integration Experience
One Woman. One Body. One Life.
Six days and five nights for the woman who holds a standard for everyone except herself, and is living a life that impresses everyone and belongs to no one.
Join the WaitlistThe first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
Watch First
Two minutes, before you read another word.
Six days, five nights. May 12 to 17, 2027. Dominican Republic.
Until seats open to the public on December 1
What Women Have Said
These are not transformations that happened to exceptional women under exceptional circumstances.
They happened to women exactly like you, carrying exactly what you are carrying, inside one room in the Dominican Republic.
Photographs from previous retreats
"I finally made the decision I had been holding out on for a long time."
That sentence took twenty years to become possible.
Not because the decision was complicated. Because the woman making it had spent two decades believing that her needs were the last item on the agenda, and that good leaders do not put themselves first.
She made it on day four.
"I am done just taking what is being handed to me."
Read that again.
Done.
Not managing it better. Not reframing it. Not finding a more graceful way to absorb what was never hers to carry.
Done.
That word does not come from a motivational talk. It comes from a woman who finally located the belief that told her she had no other choice, and traded it for one that did.
"The greatest impact for me was realizing that I don't have to lean into mom guilt or feel like a failing wife when I go after my purpose."
This is the belief that costs the most and is spoken of the least.
The idea that ambition and presence are in competition. That every hour she spends becoming who she is meant to be is an hour stolen from the people she loves most.
She had been paying that tax for years.
She stopped paying it in this room.
"My most important discovery was knowing that I'm not alone."
One by one women walked into that room.
Every single one of them believed, privately, that she was the only one.
The only one performing wholeness she did not feel. The only one depleted behind the title. The only one who had quietly stopped recognizing the life she had worked so hard to build.
She was not alone.
She has never been alone.
She just had nowhere to say it out loud, until now.
"I didn't know how to let things go, and I was able to get an understanding of how to do that."
Not a technique. Not a framework. Not a breathing exercise she will forget by Thursday.
An understanding.
The kind that changes how you move through a room. How you respond to what used to send you into two hours of silence or three days of overwork. How you carry what is actually yours, and finally, permanently, put down what was never meant to be.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
Most women hear Matthew 16:26 as a warning.
The women in this room hear it as a receipt.
They already made the trade. The title. The compensation. The seat at the table they were told they had to earn. The reputation built decision by careful decision over twenty years.
All of it, gained.
And somewhere inside the transaction, quietly, one reasonable sacrifice at a time, the woman who was supposed to be living that life went missing.
Nobody signs that agreement on purpose.
It happens over two decades, by a woman who was only ever trying to do it well.
A standard is two things at once.
The measure you refuse to fall below. And the banner you carry so everyone knows who is coming.
You have held one for the business, the board, the team, and the family.
You have never once held one for the woman carrying it.
These five days together are where that changes.
The Condition Nobody Puts on the Agenda
There is the woman the room is allowed to see.
She is composed. She is competent. She walks in and the temperature changes. She has the answer before the question is finished. She looks like everything is fine, because she has spent twenty years making sure it does.
And there is the other one.
The one who is exhausted in a way that sleep does not touch. The one who has stopped knowing what she wants because no one has asked in years, including herself. The one who lies awake not with ambition but with a quiet, stubborn grief she cannot put words to. The one who knows the life she is living photographs beautifully and feels like it was assembled for someone else.
She is not permitted anywhere.
Holding both of them upright is the most expensive thing a high-capacity woman does. It does not appear on any budget. It appears as internal erosion. As a body that stopped cooperating. As blood pressure that will not come down. As weight that will not move regardless of what she tries. As a marriage that has quietly become functional. As children who have a present mother who is privately absent.
She has tried to fix it.
She reads the books. She hires the coaches. She takes the spa weekend and returns to the same life fourteen hours later. She goes to therapy, and it helps, until it hits a ceiling and she cannot work out why.
Because she has been addressing the symptoms.
While the actual problem, the divided life and the belief system underneath it, has never been stated out loud.
She does not need to be fixed.
Nothing is broken.
She has simply been divided for so long that she has forgotten one woman was ever possible.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
Why Everything Else Has Hit a Ceiling
The most capable women in every room share the same hidden operating system.
It is not their leadership style. It is not their industry. It is not even their calendar.
It is a set of beliefs they absorbed so early and applied so consistently that they stopped being able to see them as beliefs at all.
They just became true.
From a previous retreat
So she never stops. Rest feels like failure. Vacation feels like falling behind. She is as productive as ever and more depleted than she has ever been, and she cannot reconcile the two.
So the version of her that is struggling stays hidden. She performs wholeness. She waits for someone to ask if she is actually all right, and she makes very sure that no one ever will.
So she chooses. Career over presence. Ambition over rest. The life she built over the life she wanted. She wins the negotiation every time, and loses a little more of herself with every round.
So she holds every weight that walks into her office, her home, and her inbox. She is the last one standing. She is always the last one standing. And she is exhausted by a job she never applied for.
So she pays it. And pays it. And pays it. Until she cannot remember what she was paying toward.
These are not character flaws.
They are conclusions drawn by a brilliant woman from the evidence available to her.
And they are wrong.
Raising The Standard exists to surface the belief, state it in front of witnesses, and trade it, permanently, for one that is actually true.
Why I Am Doing This
"Only the version of me that has it together deserves to be seen."
The belief I did not know I was living by
There was the composed one.
The competent one. The one who walked into rooms and commanded them. She was allowed to be visible. She was the one people came to. She was the one they promoted.
And there was the other one.
The one in a relationship I knew was not right. The one whose private life did not match the image I was projecting. She had to stay hidden, because I was certain that if anyone saw her, they would question my leadership, my credibility, and my right to be in the room.
Somewhere underneath all of it, I believed them.
So I performed wholeness while quietly coming apart. I suffered in silence. I waited for someone to ask whether I was actually all right, and I made very sure that nobody ever would.
Then I lost both of my parents.
And the divided life I had been managing so carefully stopped being manageable.
What I needed was not more motivation. I had more than enough of that. What I needed was an exchange. A limiting belief system for an empowering one. A room built to hold the weight I had been carrying alone.
That exchange is the entire reason this experience exists.
And it is not work I am willing to attempt through a screen.
I am a Leadership Strategist, Coach, International Speaker, LCSW. The daughter of Dr. Myles and Ruth Munroe. I have spent my career building spaces for leaders that go where most coaches cannot, and will not, follow.
This is not the space I wish I had found.
It is the space I had to build in order to find it.
Charisa
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
How the Days Move
Four immersive days of executive integration at an all-inclusive Dominican Republic resort, surrounded by intentional arrival, restoration, connection, and departure. Each movement does a job the next one depends on. You are told what is happening to you before it happens. Nothing catches you unprepared.
You are not bringing her in here.
Every woman lands as her title. The first evening exists to separate the woman from the résumé, before anything else can begin. By the end of the night you will have been seen by nineteen women who are carrying what you are carrying, and the performing will already have started to fall away.
You leave the evening knowing you are not the only one.
Ten percent is visible. Ninety percent is running you.
The first full day makes the divide impossible to unsee. You will find out who you have been pretending to be, how long you have been doing it, and what it has been protecting. Then you will meet the woman underneath, the one who existed before the performance started.
You leave the day able to name the mask, and the woman behind it.
Emotions buried alive never die.
The heaviest day, placed in the middle on purpose, with two days on either side to integrate it. You will work through what has been suppressed rather than resolved, and you will finally say the thing you have never said to the person you have never said it to. Not to perform it. To be finished carrying it.
You leave the day lighter than you have been in years.
Leadership is not what you can carry. It is what you can carry without erosion.
You are fluent in one kind of ledger. This day hands you the other one. You will feel the weight physically, trace back to the exact decision where the erosion began, calculate what it has actually cost you, and then sort what is genuinely yours from what was never yours to hold.
You leave the day knowing precisely what to put down.
You will go back to everything you left.
The final day is not a send-off. It is construction. You will release what you have been carrying, declare who you actually are out loud with the room witnessing it, and write something to yourself that you will still be reading years from now. Most retreats end on a high and dissolve inside ten days. This one is built against that.
You leave as one woman, with a written record of who she is.
Who Is in the Room
That number is not arbitrary.
Twenty is what a room can hold when it is going to hear the worst moments of the woman beside her.
Twenty-one is a conference.
C-suite, senior vice president, founder, partner, board member. Women with real authority, in healthcare, finance, banking, sports, human resources, and entrepreneurship, and a private cost that has never had anywhere to go.
A small number of women who have done this work before and return to go first in circle, so that nobody else has to go first alone.
Preparation before you arrive. Honesty once you do. You are never asked to perform a depth you have not yet reached. The opt out is always visible. Using it requires no explanation.
What This Will Not Be
There will never be a livestream or a hybrid seat. What happens here requires bodies in one place and a door that closes. Our own videography and photography team is on site, and what they capture is handled under the terms every woman signs on arrival. Nothing leaves the room without consent.
Devices are surrendered at the start of each session and returned in set windows each day. Breaks are built into the daily programme, so there is always a point in view when you can check in. Every woman objects before she comes. By the third day, she thanks us.
We are not speaking at you the entire time. There is teaching, and it matters, but most of the time is spent doing the work rather than watching someone describe it.
Every seat is filled by application and conversation. This work is wrong for a woman in acute crisis, and the waitlist conversation is where we catch that before she boards a plane.
Who Is Holding the Room
I was the woman with the title and the private cost. I do not teach this from theory. There is a reason I answer the first question in circle myself, every time, before anyone else is asked to speak.
Leadership Strategist, Coach, International Speaker, LCSW. That is why this retreat can go where others stop. Why the screening is real. Why the safety here is structural rather than promised.
Daughter of Dr. Myles and Ruth Munroe. Raised inside a lifelong conversation about purpose and leadership. I have spent my career carrying it forward, on my own terms, in the place where it began.
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What Is Included
Four immersive days of executive integration at an all-inclusive Dominican Republic resort, surrounded by intentional arrival, restoration, connection, and departure.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
The Thoughts That Are in Your Head Right Now
You know the objections. You have used them before. They are the same ones your clients use when they know they need something and cannot yet justify it.
You are spending money on this problem right now. You have been for years.
The supplements. The spa weekends. The therapy that helps and then hits a ceiling. The retreat that charged half this price and returned you to the same life forty-eight hours later. The prescriptions managing symptoms that have not changed in five years.
The question is not whether you can afford this.
The question is how much longer the current arrangement costs you, in health, in relationships, in the years you are spending maintaining a life that does not feel like yours.
Payment plans are available. A twenty-minute conversation will tell us whether this is the right fit and the right time.
You do not have the time because you have spent twenty years building a life that cannot function without you present every hour.
That is not a reason to stay home.
That is the reason to come.
The women in this room are running organizations, boards, and families. They found the time. Not because it was convenient. Because they decided it was necessary.
Fair. And worth stating plainly: the woman who asks permission to invest in herself is often the same woman who makes every significant financial decision in her household without consultation.
Bring your spouse to the conversation if you would like. We are glad to speak with you together.
It never does.
It felt the same way last year. And the year before that.
Urgency is not the signal. Exhaustion is. Disconnection is. The quiet, persistent certainty that something has gone missing, and the growing suspicion that it will not come back on its own, is the signal.
You recognized yourself somewhere on this page.
That is not an accident.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
What Happens After
Raising The Standard is where the trade is reversed. What comes next is optional, and it exists because a trade made in one week needs somewhere to live for the twelve months afterward.
Five nights at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. The old belief is surfaced, worked, and traded. You leave as one woman with a written blueprint.
Your accountability pairing and the group reconvening. Included in your seat. No additional decision required.
Optional.
By invitation only.
Details provided at the retreat.
May 2027 路 Dominican Republic
Until seats open to the public on December 1
Twenty seats.
Filled by application and conversation, which means the process takes time, and seats close before the room does.
Here is what that means practically:
Tickets open to the public in December. The women who will be in this room in May are the women who started the conversation early enough to be in it.
If you have read this far, you already know whether this is for you.
The question is not if.
The question is when, and whether you are willing to let when become never one more time.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
How to Get a Seat
Twenty women are going to spend five nights telling each other the truth.
Who is in the room is the most important decision we make, and we make it personally.
This is not a form that feeds into an automation. It is a conversation that begins with a question and ends with a decision made by both of us.
If it is not a fit, for any reason, including timing, we will tell you so directly, and we will tell you why.
There is no pressure on the call. There is no close. There is only an honest assessment of whether this room is the right room for you, right now.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
Frequently Asked
No. It is not therapy or counseling. Raising The Standard is leadership and integration work. If what you need is therapy, we will tell you so on the application call, clearly and with a referral.
Never. Every exercise carries a visible opt out and no woman is asked to explain using it. Most women find that having permission to say nothing is precisely what makes them willing to speak. The room is built on consent. Structural consent, not the kind that is offered once and then quietly expected to hold forever.
Because you cannot leave a life you are still answering. Devices go into a locked box on arrival and are returned in set windows each day. Your family holds a number that reaches you immediately in a genuine emergency. Every woman objects before she arrives. By the third day, she thanks us. The phone is not the problem. The permission it gives the outside world to interrupt the inside work, that is the problem.
A beautiful all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic, one short flight from Miami, with our group held together in its own private space. The specific property is shared with applicants once the conversation confirms a fit, so that flights can be planned before anything is committed. Nothing is asked of you before you have what you need to make a fully informed decision.
Tell us on the call. This work is powerful and it is not right for every woman at every moment. Grief that is still acute, a crisis that is still unfolding, a situation that needs professional treatment rather than integration work, these are not disqualifications forever. They are reasons to have an honest conversation about timing. Part of what you are paying for is someone qualified to say so before you board a plane.
Yes, you can and you should. If there is a woman in your circle carrying what you are carrying, invite her. Women often go further knowing somebody they trust is in the room with them. Corporate cohorts are also available as a separate engagement. Reach out to discuss what that would look like for your organization.
No, it is not. Inclusions cover land travel and activities within the scope of the retreat only. You book your flight. Everything from the moment you land is handled.
Write to us at info@charisamunroe.com and we will answer it directly. You can also join the waitlist. The questions you have that are not on this page are almost always better answered in a conversation than in copy, and there is no obligation attached to joining.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
Hold the line for yourself the way you have held it for everyone else.
The woman reading this did not stumble here.
She has been carrying something heavy for a long time. She knows it. She has probably known it for years. She has been waiting for the right time, the right container, the right room, and finding reasons why none of them were quite it.
Here is what twenty years of that looks like:
A life assembled correctly. A woman disappearing inside it. A growing suspicion that the version of her that was supposed to arrive, the one who was present, whole, and actually living, never quite did.
She is not broken.
She is divided.
And division, unlike damage, has a repair.
Raising The Standard is not a retreat about doing more or becoming more. It is five nights of becoming one. The woman who leads and the woman who lives, finally in the same body, moving in the same direction, no longer at war with each other.
Six days, five nights. Twenty women. Dominican Republic. May 12 to 17, 2027.
A room held by people equipped to carry what you have been carrying alone, and willing to go where the weight actually lives.
You arrive as two.
You leave as one.
The first 25 women to join the waitlist are scheduled first when the application opens, with price protection and first access to payment plan options.
Every woman who joins after the first 25 receives price protection and priority application access before seats open to the public on December 1.
There are 20 seats in the room. The women who are paying attention first are the women most likely to be in it.
For what is a woman profited, if she shall gain the whole world, and lose her own soul?
Matthew 16:26
Seats open to the public on December 1. Waitlist members are invited to apply first.
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