Donna Brighton launches Vision & Vines retreat for women

Leadership advisor Donna Brighton has announced Vision & Vines, a four-day retreat in Oregon’s Willamette Valley designed to help women think about who they want to become next. The October event pairs AI-assisted preparation with an unplugged retreat focused on reflection, clarity and long-range life decisions.

Why it matters: - Vision & Vines is aimed at women who may have decades of life ahead of them after age 50. - The retreat is built around a question Brighton says technology cannot answer: who a person wants to become next. - The format reflects a broader tension between faster AI-driven answers and slower human reflection.

What happened: - Donna Brighton announced Vision & Vines, an intimate four-day retreat in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. - The retreat is scheduled for Oct. 25-28, 2026, at The Allison Inn & Spa. - Participation is limited to 15 women. - Registration starts with a personal conversation with Brighton to assess mutual fit. - More information is available at Vision & Vines details.

The details: - Brighton built Clarity Companion™, an AI-powered thinking partner, into the start of the experience. - Participants use Clarity Companion before arriving to organize ideas, build the pieces of a future vision and prepare for deeper reflection. - The retreat then sets technology aside and focuses on better questions and listening to inner voice. - Participants create a Vision Declaration™, a personal statement about who they want to become and how they want to live, lead and shape the decades ahead. - Brighton describes a vision board as defining what you want, while a Vision Declaration defines who you are becoming. - The retreat uses Brighton’s Success Operating System™, a framework developed over nearly three decades of advising leaders through growth, uncertainty, career transitions and major life decisions. - Brighton said the same process now applies to one of life’s biggest transitions: deciding intentionally how to live the decades ahead. - Christy Agee serves as the experience and hospitality partner. - Agee is the founder of The Curated Course, a luxury travel advisor and WSET Level 3 wine professional. - Wine will be available for guests who want it, but the retreat centers on conversation and reflection.

Between the lines: - Brighton is positioning AI as a tool for organizing thought, not replacing judgment. - The retreat’s vineyard setting during harvest season is meant to slow the pace and create room for deeper reflection. - The women-focused format suggests demand for leadership development that blends professional clarity with personal reinvention. - Brighton said AI can help people think more efficiently, but it cannot decide what kind of life is worth building.

What's next: - Brighton expects the retreat to help participants leave with clearer direction for the years ahead. - The limited-capacity, application-by-conversation model suggests the retreat will stay highly selective. - Brighton’s broader leadership platform, Brighton Leadership, continues to anchor the retreat’s framework and messaging.

The bottom line: - Vision & Vines combines AI-assisted preparation with an unplugged retreat to help accomplished women answer a harder question than “What’s next?”: who they want to become.