Are you ready to step into
something bigger than you may have
ever dreamed possible?!?
Open to the Magic - in Africa! Retreat
It’s a magical world!
The magic is just closer to the surface in Africa …
from sea to safari
Join us for a small group retreat on the eastern coast of South Africa
November 12-20 2026!
Are you ready to live in the full knowledge of how truly LOVED you are?
If you’re ready to increase your capacity to receive,
to step into the fullest expression of yourself…
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If you feel a yearning,
a knowing that an even higher vibration is possible,
that you are meant to have even more impact than in the incredible life you already lead…
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Then Open to the Magic (in South Africa!) is made for you.
How big are you willing to let your life be?!
@lisadunforddickman
If you’re like me…
You’ve been on a spiritual path for a while.
You know that you have access to divinely-inspired inner guidance.
That the Universe (God, the Great Mother, Source) wants abundantly above and beyond what you can imagine for yourself.
You understand that even in the challenging times, life is happening for you not to you.
But do you live that knowing and create from ALL THAT IS every day?
Are you In?!
Nov 12-20, 2026
I didn’t always. For a long time I had one foot in each world. I would tune-in and trust one minute. I’d have peak experiences, be guided by the downloads and signs… and then I would forget.
I would forget and start trying to figure it all out myself . I’d go back into default mode - striving and struggling to MAKE things happen .
About the same time I began traveling to Africa, I faced a series of personal challenges. My mom died suddenly of a heart attack, then in a few short years we lost her brother, my mother-in-law, and my father… During the same timeframe, two hurricanes and a freak freeze hit our home in Texas. And we moved back from 10 years in Abu Dhabi just in time for a global pandemic and for me to catch Coronavirus, twice. Every new hit would knock me down. I would forgot I was supported, I would forget I wasn’t alone. I’d go back to my old pattern of relying on my small self - struggling to get through it, efforting away, fearing I couldn’t handle things. Eventually things went far enough that I became truly committed to making a change in my life. I became devoted to living in alignment with Source.
Thankfully, I knew to reach out for help when I was ready. I learned to love myself and to transform my old patterns, to transmute the densities that were keeping me struggling to “do it myself” instead of accepting, allowing and receiving from Love.
Whether you call it Oneness, Unity Consciousness, Divine Wisdom, the Universe, God, Love…. that higher vibration, that elevated perspective is ALWAYS available to us. Living in Connection, living in Devotion, changes lives. It changed mine.
You don’t have to wait until pain drives you out of your comfort zone like I did!! The world needs you living fully as the powerful creator you are!! Your family needs it, your children need it, your parents need it… our planet needs it - now more than ever. When we are healed, we are not healed alone. Raising our vibration raises the vibration for those we love, for those who came before us, for our communities, for our countries… for the collective. If you are tired of the struggle, of the stop-and-start of living with one foot in two worlds. If you are fed up with trying so hard to make things happen, until you finally remember to trust and then things flow again. If you are ready to live in that Flow full time, if you are ready to be surrounded by signs and serendipities, to live a life where you know you are well and truly supported, consider joining us for the Sacred Creative Adventure Retreat in South Africa. You CAN learn from joy instead of pain. And I want you to! Experiences in Africa have been a major part of my own transformational journey, are you feeling called for them to be part of yours?? If your soul is buzzing with recognition right now, schedule a call and let’s talk!
The Adventure Begins…
On retreat we’ll spend the first two nights at a luxurious Indian Ocean-front villa: relaxing, releasing and receiving what Divine Wisdom and this amazing continent has to offer. From there we’ll continue on our transformational journey to spend six days on safari in one of my favorite places on this earth: the wild lands of Kwazulu-Natal. Manyoni Private Game Reserve is nearly 100 sq miles of protected land, where riverine forest, African savannah, and rocky hills stretch wide under an endless sky. We may get up close and personal with elephants, lions, cheetah, maybe even leopard… Not to mention the rhino, cape buffalo, wildebeest and warthogs… baboons, bush babies and cheeky vervet monkeys… the antelopes like nyala, impala, kudu and red duiker…. hundreds of avian species from snake eagle to swamp hen…. and all the way along we’ll be spending time with our limitless selves. Because in this magical place, it is easier to drop in and deeply get present, to see What is Real and What is NOT Real.
Using what arises on the journey we will lovingly get clear on and shift a protection pattern keeping you “safe” (aka small). We will lean into divine guidance, discerning the messages the animals want to share to help you open to all that the universe intends for you.
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
November 12-20 2026!
A leopard tail for you…
“It feels like God visits everywhere else but lives in Africa.
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To be honest, Africa was a dream farther than I ever thought I’d go….
What I know for sure is…
So much more is possible than most of us think! If you’re having doubts, that’s ok, I get it. I had traveled on three continents, lived in five countries, and still Africa was a dream farther than I thought I’d go. Africa was too far, too much money, too scary.…
Until I did something else I never thought possible. In 2016, despite the fact I was completely out of shape, I walked every one of 100km on pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I am not exaggerating my out of shape-ness. I decided last minute, I didn’t train, I wasn’t used to hills since I lived in pancake flat Abu Dhabi and Texas…. Mostly I spent a lot of time eating cake while writing in cafes.
Yes, I was smart enough to choose to go with an amazing group of Martha Beck life coaches. And also…
I did not take that walk alone.
“If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa.”
I know like I know like I know that I had Divine support.
“God, I can’t do this, but you can. Guide me” was my mantra.
I am not saying it was effortless. I’m not saying that our guide, Carlos, wasn’t sewing up my blistered toes every morning, that I wasn’t popping Tylenol and Ibuprofen on the regular… But sooo many magical things happened on that trip. I’ll save those stories for another time. Suffice to say, I did it.
Afterwards a friend asked me my biggest takeaway. I told her my Camino experience made it really hard to say anything was impossible.
Her next question: “So If you could do anything then, what would you do?” My answer: “Go to Africa.”
I bought a little ceramic elephant, put it on my vanity and promptly forgot about it. That is, until six months later when on a writing retreat I remembered one of the participants had some connection to South Africa.
“Oooooh….. You would be perfect!!” she said when I asked about it. She had planned a safari in South Africa with friends and she could no longer go. Did I want to take her place? Um….Hell YES!
That’s how things work in Oneness. When you tune-in and trust; when you follow the guidance, things just flow.
I know it can be really scary to take a big step. Making a large investment in ourself does not necessarily feel easy or comfortable. It can be hard to trust our own deep, divinely-guided knowing, to follow our own “Hell, Yes!” It can feel so much safer to stay anchored in the small-self’s logic and all the “Yeah, buts…”
And yet…. pushing our edges is where real growth happens.
Maybe this invitation is for you. Are you ready to shake things up? To step into something larger than you may have ever dreamed possible? You don’t have to do it alone. You are absolutely supported. And sometimes true change still takes a big step.
Schedule a discovery call now!
More about me
Hi, I’m Lisa…
I’m a Transformational Coach, a Traveler, a Writer, and a Creative. Exploring our world has been a passion for my entire life. I cannot remember a time when I was not on the move. (Well, except for during Coronavirus ;).
I took my first airplane ride at 18 months. My family came from Chicago, but we relocated every two to three years growing up. So that’s a total of six US states we called home. Since then I’ve lived in five foreign countries (Slovakia, Hungary, Canada, Korea and the UAE) and speak four languages. (Five if you count Texan!)
Over the years, I’ve worked at the US Agency for International Development at the embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia. I climbed the ladder from clerk to Home & Garden editor at a South Texas newspaper. I was a freelance editor for Fodor’s guidebooks. And for 15 years I traveled the globe for Lonely Planet, co-authoring more than forty guidebooks about the places I love most in the world. I adored every minute of it. And, eventually, writing guidebooks started to feel a bit “been-there, done-that”.
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Travel writing was hard a career choice to leave! But I knew deep in my soul that it was time for me to start helping others explore their inner worlds as much as our outer one. Six years ago, I honored that call. I followed my intuition to my initial life coach training with the Martha Beck Institute (now Wayfinders) and I have recently received certification from Darla LeDoux’s Sourced Leader transformational one-on-one coaching program as well.
The latest addition to to my resume is that of “Creative.” After my mom died suddenly a few years back, I found how healing art and painting were. I now use creativity among the healing modalities available to assist my clients in moving and shifting energy, in raising their vibration. I feel passionately about helping sensitive souls live their most expansive life. I dream of a world where everyone feels safe to live the fullest expression of their True Self. That’s why I help humans stop struggling from their small self and start living in the flow that is available through Oneness. When we are healed, we are not healed alone. Our planet needs you to free yourself so you can help free others!
The Open to the Magic (in Africa!) retreat is the meeting point of all my passions - traveling and adventure, inner exploration (spirituality, healing, growth), creativity (birthing new things)! Oh, and I love hosting get togethers! So… if this resonates with you….