Corporate Retreats Near St. Louis at LaBarque
Think of it like an offsite, with the planning and facilitation handled for you. True North retreats take your organization out of the conference room and into 28 acres of bluffs, ravines, and streams, with a program designed around what your team needs to work through.
- Organizations planning an annual or seasonal offsite that want more than a rented room and a slide deck.
- Leadership and management groups that need focused time to reconnect around shared priorities.
- Mission-driven and nonprofit teams looking for a retreat grounded in reflection and purpose.
- Planners who want one partner to handle facilitation, curriculum, catering, busing, and materials.
What makes it a retreat
The setting does part of the work. LaBarque is not a manicured corporate retreat center. It is a wild, inspiring landscape that demands presence and rewards curiosity, just far enough from the office to disconnect.
The rest is design. Every True North engagement begins with a diagnostic phase so the day addresses your actual challenges, goals, and culture. Outdoor scenarios and gathering-hall conversations are sequenced so the retreat builds toward something rather than filling time.
Read more about our philosophy and the LaBarque campus.
From first conversation to the drive home.
- 01 / Discovery
Diagnostic conversation
We learn your team's challenges, goals, and culture, then design an experiential curriculum to match.
- 02 / Logistics
All-inclusive planning
Expert facilitation, customized curriculum, catering, busing, and materials are part of every program.
- 03 / Retreat day
Webster Groves to LaBarque
Gather at TCS, travel together to LaBarque Creek, and spend the day moving between outdoor scenarios and the open gathering hall.
- 04 / After
Integration
Depending on the format, the retreat can include a post-retreat integration summary so insights do not stay in the woods.
Programs that tend to fit
True North Experience
Full-day immersion with pre-retreat assessment, multi-stage outdoor scenarios, catered meals, and a post-retreat integration summary.
View program detailsCustom design
Have a format the three journeys do not quite fit? Tell us what you are imagining and we will talk through what is possible.
View program detailsEvery program is all-inclusive. Pricing depends on group size and goals, so we build a proposal around your team.
Frequently asked
Plan Your Team Experience
Tell us about your group and what you hope to get out of your time together. Carl Pelofsky, Head of School, will follow up personally.
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The TCS educators and advisors behind True North.