Team & Business Retreats with Heart, Soul (& Soft Seating)

Just 45 minutes from Halifax, The August House is your team’s doorway to clarity, connection, and the kind of conversations that actually move things forward. Bright, design-driven spaces, decadent private rooms, nourishing lunches, saunas, fire pits, chef-crafted dinners, skiing around the corner, Nova Scotia's best wineries just 15 minutes down the road. All the ingredients for a strategic reset...without the five-hour drive. Whether you book one night or a full multi-day retreat, we give your team room to breathe, think, plan, dream and get excited again.

Two Common Spaces

Perfect for hanging out and checking in. Both soft seating and our harvest table support whatever agenda you may have.

1,000 Sq. Ft. Meeting and Event Space

Equipped with beautiful harvest tables, cushioned crossback chairs, HDMI screen and/or projector and lots of natural light

11 Spacious and relaxed rooms

All with private baths, decadent Italian linens and swoon-worthy beds, let us give your team the sleep they’ve been craving.

Healthy In-house Lunches

Our nourishing lunches, featuring our collection of build-your-own bowls, are always a crowd favourite! Chef-driven dinners available. Reach out to explore our culinary partners!

Saunas and outdoor fire pits

Think fun fireside hangs in the evening and a nordic vibe with our two beautiful dry-heat saunas, available from 9am to 9pm daily.

Local Partnership

We’re delighted to partner with our friends at the Geldert House, a three-room B&B located 500m away, perfect for overflow for your larger groups. Based on availability.

Optional Programming:

In-house facilitation: We’re professional facilitators with 20+ years of experience navigating everything from creative topics and strategy to tricky points of friction and would love hop in with your team on an on-demand basis or let us plan and host your session from start-to-finish! Estimates available on request.
Team-building programming: From wine tours and cooking classes to woodworking and foraging workshops, we have a roster of partners to bring you a true local team-building experience.

What teams most want (and what we deliver):

A Space That Sparks Fresh Thinking

Your team is tired of boardrooms, beige walls and uninspired meeting spaces.

Our promise: A bright, window-wrapped meeting room filled with natural light and good energy; the kind of space where ideas start flowing again.

Privacy
+ Togetherness

Offsites derail when people are spread across multiple hotels or dodging distractions.

Our promise: Stay, meet, eat, rest, sauna and connect – all under one roof. Partial house and whole-house bookings available.

Turnkey Ease (Let Us Handle the Logistics)

Planning a retreat is one more thing on already full plates.

Our promise: Nourishing lunches, chef dinners, meeting set-ups, snacks, coffee, outdoor fires…we’ve got it handled.

Rest That Actually Restores

Burnout makes collaboration harder. A good night’s sleep should never be a retreat afterthought.

Our promise: Decadent, design-forward private rooms with luxe linens and deep rest baked right in. Teams arrive exhausted and leave lighter.

Connection That Isn’t Forced

No awkward trust exercises. Just space that invites people to naturally show up.

Our promise: A relaxed vibe, fire pits, saunas, cozy lounges and the kind of ease that makes teams remember why they like working together.

Location
That Makes Sense

Your team wants an escape…not an odyssey.

Our promise: The sweet spot: far enough to feel away, close enough that no one resents the drive (even if they’re flying in).

A team retreat with us is perfect for...

Strategic planning

Leadership team retreats

Board offsites

Sales kickoffs

Culture resets

Innovation + visioning sessions

Start-up + agency planning days

We’d love to help you design an offsite that will transform. Ready to book your team in or learn more?

Reach out to Colette at colette@theaugusthouse.ca.