Breakthrough Retreat Center

Unleash your and your team’s creative and innovative thinking at Strategic Action’s one-of-a-kind retreat center in Danville, California—30 minutes from San Francisco

Great Works Have Been Created Here

Located with only one other home on the original 40-acre estate of Eugene O’Neill, the only playwright to win three Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize. You can almost feel the creativity of this hallowed ground. Drive through O’Neill’s original stone gate to get to the retreat center. We can arrange a private tour of O’Neill’s home (the adjacent
National Historic Site) for individuals or groups.

Secluded Setting with Magnificent Views

  1. 180-degree view downhill of Mount Diablo (3,900 feet high), Danville valley, and the Carchinez Straits waterway to Sacramento.
  2. 180-degree view uphill of Las Trampas Regional Park and hill-tops with trees.
  3. Wildlife: deer, fox, bobcat, squirrels, raccoons, birds of all kinds (e.g. hawks, owls, wild turkeys, egrets, and vultures), cows in the open-space, and occasionally a mountain lion (don’t feed it). 
  4. Forest surrounding much of the property.

Seating Options for 2 to 20

  1. Outdoor seating on huge back deck with a panoramic view: Single table system for 16 people, or six breakout tables for 24. Numerous breakout group seating places throughout the property, in various gardens, and on 2,000 square feet redwood decks.
  2. Indoor seating: Meeting room with view and seating for 16 people (with large stone fireplace and pool table), plus second room with marble fireplace and seating for 10.
  3. Parking for 10+ cars on the private street in front of the property, plus more in the driveway.

Magnificent Gardens

  1. Dutch Garden (30,000 flower bulbs with various blooms from January to June).
  2. Japanese/Asian Garden: Two ponds, 40-foot stream flowing at 2,000 gallons per hour, waterfall flowing at 5,000 gallons per hour.
  3. Citrus and apple trees, grapes, blueberries, strawberries, etc.—to pick in season.
  4. Tropical Jungle in a ravine: Over 300 tropical plants and palm trees, ¼ mile of paths, with wonderful peacefulness. Campsite and bridge at the bottom of the jungle, with targets for archery and other sports.

Team Building Facilities

  1. Golf Games: chipping closest to pin, longest drive.
  2. Baseball pitching machine.
  3. Pool table and ping pong table.
  4. Hiking to the top of the ridge in the open-space for a spectacular high-level view.
  5. Archery and target shooting.

Your Breakthrough Facilitator:
Jim Bandrowski

(Bring your own, too - Jim loves to team facilitate)