Dream Design Retreat

One Day. One Room.

One Life Finally Designed.

The Dream Design Retreat is an intimate one-day experience for men and women in their 40s, 50s and 60s who are ready to stop drifting and start designing their next chapter — with clarity, purpose, and a written plan they take home.

Saturday, June 27th

Southern California (exact address shared upon registration)

8:00am – 2:30pm

Limited to 10-12 participants

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Is This You?

You've been faithful. You've shown up. You've built a good life. But somewhere in the last few years, something shifted. The roles that used to define you — career, parenting, leading — are changing. And without them, you're not entirely sure who you are in this next season of life. You're not in crisis. You don't need rescuing. But you are at a crossroads. You sense there's a next chapter — something that's actually yours — but you can't quite see it yet. You want it to mean something. You want it to be purposeful, aligned with who you are now, and genuinely fulfilling. But no one has ever guided you in how to design your next chapter intentionally. This retreat was built for exactly that moment.

The Framework That Changes Everything

The Dream Design Retreat is built around Brad's proprietary DREAM Framework — a five-element process that takes you from quiet misalignment to a written, designed next chapter in a single day.

D — Desire - You'll recover full permission to want what God placed in you to want.

Most people in this season have spent so long living for others that they've lost fluency in their own desires. We restore it.

R — Resilience - What you've survived in your life is not just wounds or pain.

It's a map. We'll excavate what your hardest seasons reveal about what you care about most — and what you're built to do.

E — Experiences - Your life has given you more than you realize.

Your accumulated wisdom, skills, and perspective are assets waiting to be deployed. We'll inventory them together.

A — Ability - The gifts you deploy effortlessly that others experience as extraordinary.

We'll identify them — because you've likely been giving yours away for free your whole life without realizing the great value that lives within you.

M — Meaning - What matters most to you?

What would make the years ahead feel genuinely lived? This is the north star that orients everything that follows.

By the close of the day, you will hold a completed, written DREAM Design — a personal document that is entirely yours and from that you will have begun to find yourself again…and your way forward into an aligned next chapter.

Your Day at the Retreat

The retreat takes place in Brad and Karen Johnson's Southern California home — a warm, beautiful, intentionally prepared space designed for the insightful, reflective and meaningful work of this day.

You'll arrive to coffee, light refreshments, and a room of people who understand exactly where you are. No strangers here — only fellow travelers at the same crossroads.

Throughout the day Brad will teach, guide reflection, lead you through written exercises, and create space for the kind of quiet work that produces real clarity.

Karen's presence and warmth are woven throughout the entire experience.

And you will not be a passive listener. You will be an active architect — building your own DREAM Design, piece by piece, through guided exercises and reflection that go deeper than any retreat you've attended before.

By 2:30pm you will leave with:

A completed, written DREAM Design document — your personal clarity document
Named desires you hold without guilt
A clear picture of who you are in this season
A mapped path forward aligned with your values, your faith, and your God-given abilities
A community of people navigating the same season
Clarity, direction, and the momentum to move

Your Guides for the Day

Brad Scot Johnson is a pastor, doctoral-level theologian, and life design guide who has spent four decades helping people navigate the crossroads moments of their lives.

He knows this territory from the inside. At 50, after losing everything — career, reputation, marriage, network — Brad rebuilt his life from absolute zero. The DREAM Framework didn't emerge from a textbook. It emerged from the rubble of a rebuilt life and decades of walking alongside others doing the same.

Karen Johnson, Brad’s wife, is a partner in this work. She’s been guiding women for 30 years. Her warmth, her wisdom, and her presence in the room create the safety that makes the day's work possible.

When you come to this retreat, you get both of them. Together they have hosted retreats, coached individuals, and guided people through the same crossroads you are standing at. This is not a side project. This is their calling.

Your Guides for the Day

Brad Scot Johnson is a pastor, doctoral-level theologian, and life design guide who has spent three decades helping people navigate the crossroads moments of their lives.

Karen Johnson, Brad’s wife, is also a partner this work. She’s been guiding women for 30 years. Her warmth, her wisdom, and her presence in the room create the safety that makes the day's work possible.

Your Investment

$997/person

The Dream Design Retreat is $997 per person. This includes your full day experience, the guided DREAM Framework process, your printed DREAM Design workbook, all materials, food and refreshments throughout the day, and access to Brad and Karen for the full retreat.

Spots are limited to 10-12 participants to protect the intimacy and depth of the experience. When the spots are gone they are gone.

This is not a conference. This is not a seminar. This is one of the most intimate and intentional experiences available for people in this season of life — and it happens in a living room and outdoors beside a pool with mountain views, not in a convention hall.

Reserve My Spot → ($997)

Questions before registering? Email [email protected] — Brad responds personally.

What Others Have Experienced

“Brad gave me guidance and positive motivation to start again. With his help, I am growing my business and growing as a person“

— Christine

CEO/Owner, Private Medical Practice

Do you have a dream? Do you even know what your dream is? Well I do....now. At least it's becoming more clear. Before Brad's class I was struggling with direction in my life and what it was that I wanted for me and my family. My husband struggled with direction in starting his own business or not. I spoke with Kyle about taking Brad's class and with his encouragement it was a go. NEVER did I realize what we would both receive from joining this class. EVERY class EVERY quote EVERY direction was a blessing from God. The class could have not been more spot on for every step that we have taken not only in life but with the business.

—Kristi Lamb

ER Trauma Nurse

“Brad is as an amazing, ENGAGED listener…his FOCUS makes me feel like I am the only person in the world…he also provides me with FOCUS…he converts that to a STRATEGY to surmount the issue(s), which I face…Brad affords me the tools to combat past, present and future challenges.”