Yeske Buie Spring Retreat

Last week, the Yeske Buie team from both offices gathered at Marriott Ranch in Hume, Virginia for their semi-annual company retreat. While the retreat serves as a great opportunity to step away from the day to day office routine, the team spends each day working on various business related exercises.

This year’s Spring retreat was led, as usual, by business coach and good friend, David Brand, and had two main themes: strengthening our focus on our core goals, vision, and values and honing our ability to “be” the Client. The team worked on various visioning and goal setting exercises, worked on sharpening our collective understanding of Yeske Buie core values and world views, deepened our communication training, and engaged in awareness practices and role playing exercises to develop the skillful means to better see through the eyes of our Clients. Each retreat leaves the team feeling re-energized and better equipped to serve our Clients, and this retreat was no exception.

When the team wasn’t hard at work, we had the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful Spring weather, take a group horseback ride, eat (too much) delicious food, share stories and play games around the fire, and more! The week ended with our Open House in the Virginia office and a group dinner with each other and our loved ones. We hope you enjoy the following pictures from our retreat to Marriott Ranch!

Marriott Ranch in Hume, VA	Typical view at Marriott Ranch
Group exercise (not the calorie-burning kind) in the ranch living room	Brainstorm work in the great room
David Brand leading a mind mapping exercise	Group discussing and diagramming our core values
Group role playing exercise
One of our six daily meals together! Sitting (left to right): Cristin, Lauren V., Jen, Yusuf, Russell, Dorothy, Sabina, and Jane. Standing (left to right): Dave, Elissa, Lauren G., and David Brand.	The team at the stables, ready to ride!
Lauren G. on her horse, Cowboy	Jen and her horse, Tinker
Cristin and her horse, Bentley	Dorothy and her horse, Huey
Sabina and her horse, Skip	Dave and his horse, Troy
Russell feeding his horse, Rusty	Elissa on her horse, Darcy
Lauren V. on her horse, Mississippi	Lauren G. and Elissa enjoying the fire at Western Town
The group ride led us to Western Town for lunch (on the ride back, the horses suggested a bit less lunch on our part would have been preferable to them)	The unofficial “boy’s table” at lunch
Elissa, David Brand, Dave, and David’s wife, Jane, at Western Town	Victoria, Cristin, Jen, Lauren V, Dorothy, and Jane after the horseback ride (no riding helmet “hat head” for these lovelies!)
Team photo in Western Town
Delicious food from Purple Onion Catering at our Open House	The dessert table at our Open House (yes, the cheesecake stuffed strawberries were back!)
Tuscan spread with roasted vegetables, a variety of cheeses, pesto, hummus, and other delicious dips prepared by Purple Onion Catering	Elissa and two of our Clients. PS: Does Elissa’s outfit look familiar? She realized at the event that she wore the same jacket last year!
Lauren and her fiance, Eli, at the Open House (we all think it’s adorable how they like to dress alike)	Jen and Yusuf’s wife, Maegan, at dinner after the Open House
Dave, Lauren G. and her boyfriend, Daniel at dinner	What a great looking bunch! Group photo at dinner – OMG, is it time to eat again?