For creators
Only five-star reviews from past guests
Kene and Maisie, the founders

Become a founding creator of Libélula.

On a few set days of our campaign, between 22 October and the end of November, share our retreat center in the Costa Rican rainforest with your people. Earn from every sale through your link, and join a small group of creators who meet here, in the rainforest, once a year.

I’d love to join
Kene and Maisie on the deck at Libélula, with the rainforest behind them
Kene and Maisie, the founders of Libélula
The yearly gathering5 days in the rainforest with other creators The Libélula Collective20% off our retreats, for life Paid for every sale5%, then 10%. And 10% for life after the campaign. Rainforest, protected in your nameA quarter-acre, when your sales reach $5,555

Libélula is open. Help build what comes next.

We’re already welcoming guests. From 22 October to the end of November, we’re running a campaign on Indiegogo to raise $222,000 for the next phase, in four stages, each with a clear outcome:

$50,000Two accessible cabinsSo guests with disabilities can stay here too
$100,000Solar powerClean energy for the whole center
$150,000Food from the landA garden that feeds guests and team
$222,000Homes for our local teamAnd a reception to welcome every guest

Your people can take part from $5, or enter a free draw with 54 prizes, including a retreat for two. Every contribution makes them founding members of Libélula, with a discount on every future stay, for life.

And while we build, we look after the land around it.

Helping the rainforest grow back.

Hands planting a young native tree in dark soil, with rainforest and a stream behind

“In Brazil, we drove for a day and a half through what was called the Amazon rainforest, and we didn’t see a single section of forest. It was pasture land on pasture land. It completely broke my heart. One day, I’d love almost everything we earn from Libélula to go back into protecting and restoring nature.”

Maisie

Today, most of our 46 hectares is still rainforest, and 30 of them will be protected. Part of the land was cleared before we arrived, so we’re planting native trees there to help the forest grow back. We’ve planted 300 so far.

What we give back

20% of our profitsTo environmental and community projects.
Nearly 3,000 menstrual cupsReusable, for Indigenous women and girls in Brazil.
Work for local familiesMore than 50 people from the area have worked with us here.
A free place on every retreatFrom 2027, for someone who couldn’t come otherwise. Guests who can give more make it possible.
Your people can be part of it, whatever they can give. From $22, they can plant a native tree where the forest is gone. Like everything through your link, it counts toward your sales.

How it works.

  1. 1

    You join

    Fill in a short form and choose your link. You get it right away, with your own page to see what you earn. Maisie sends you your creator kit: ideas, photos and clips.

    Tell us a little about you. If it’s a fit, Maisie sends you your own link and your creator kit: ideas, photos and clips.

  2. 2

    You share

    2 or 3 stories with your link, in your own words, on set days of the campaign: your posting days. You choose 3 of them, or all 4.

  3. 3

    You earn, and you’re part of Libélula

    A share of every sale through your link. And something we care about even more: you become one of our founding creators, part of Libélula for life.

Your posting days.

A posting day is a day we ask you to share Libélula. Ideas, photos and clips for each one are in your creator kit. The words are yours.

On Instagram: 2 or 3 stories that day, with your link.
On YouTube, a podcast or a newsletter: talk about Libélula in what you publish that day, and add your link.

Maisie and I want Libélula to give back far beyond the people who come here, so 20% of our profits goes back out. We’re planting native trees where the forest was cleared before we arrived. We’re supporting the people from the area who are building this place with us. And we’re helping Indigenous families in Brazil build what their villages need, and they’re the ones who decide what that is.

We’d love you to be part of this. Kene
What you get The Libélula Collective The yearly gathering, when your sales reach $2,222The yearly gathering, if you reach $5,555 in sales
  1. 122 to 26 OctThe free draw opensA free draw for your people
  2. 25 or 6 NovWe open on IndiegogoWe’re open, at founding prices
  3. 322 or 23 Nov2 days before we close2 days left
  4. 424 NovThe last dayWe close tonight
  5. A date we agreeWith Kene or MaisieA live session, a podcast episode or a video
  6. +29 or 30 NovThe extra weekOnly if we open it

Maisie looks at your stories on the first day. After that, you post freely, as often as you like, on your posting days and in between.

The Libélula Collective.

Our founding creators stay connected to Libélula, and to each other, for life. Post on 3 days or more, and you’re in. Only the creators of this campaign join it.

20% off our retreatsFor you and a plus one, for life.
First access to new datesYou hear about them before anyone else.
A private groupWith the other founding creators.
Host your own retreats here10% off, and first pick of dates.
Two women laughing as they hug each other
A group of creators talking in a circle on an open-air deck over the rainforest

For our founding creators

The yearly gathering.

Once a year, 10 to 12 creators come for a 5-day retreat with us in the Costa Rican rainforest. Living, making, eating, exploring and figuring things out together.

Maisie
A note from Maisie

Being a creator can be a funny thing. You spend so much time making things, filming, editing and sharing little bits of your life online, but you don’t always get to share the experience with people who really understand it.

Kene and I have been talking for a while about bringing a small group of creators to Libélula once a year, for a few days. Somewhere we can all spend time together, get creative, share ideas, swim in the river, eat good food, explore the rainforest and sit around the fire in the evenings.

Libélula is our home in the mountains of Costa Rica. We have 46 hectares of rainforest here, with rivers, waterfalls, natural pools and so much wildlife. It’s a pretty special place to live, and I’d love to share it with people who are doing things we admire.

The idea of having you all here, creating together and getting to know each other beyond a screen, is something I’m genuinely so excited about. I really hope we get to share this magical little corner of the world with you!

Maisie

What happens there

Three creators talking over dinner under a thatched roof, one holding a small recorder
Make things togetherThe best ideas start as a conversation over dinner. A collab, a podcast, a series you film together, and it keeps going long after you fly home.
A creator films a friend laughing on the deck, the rainforest valley behind
Storytelling and cameraSmall, practical workshops on telling a story well, with honest feedback from people who do what you do.
Four creators around one laptop at a wooden table under a thatched roof, one explaining, a dog asleep underneath
We all have something to teachEveryone arrives knowing something the rest of us don’t. One of you is brilliant with light, someone else with sound, someone else with words. You show us, we all try it, and by dinner it’s been passed around the whole table.
A small group meditating on the open-air yoga deck over the rainforest
Inner workBreathwork, HeartMath and sound healing in the yoga shala, to gently look at what holds so many of us back: being seen, money, using our voice.
Bare feet walking along a soft earth path through the garden, a basket of bananas ahead
Back to the earthWalking barefoot through the gardens, picking fruit from the trees, following the trail down to the waterfall. Time to reconnect with the earth.
Friends at a natural pool below a waterfall in the rainforest, one jumping in, one floating
Don’t forget how to playSwimming in the natural pools, jumping in the river, laughing around the fire until late. You don’t need to post a thing while you’re here.

A day at the gathering

  1. MorningWaking up with the birdsBreathwork or movement in the yoga shala, then a slow breakfast from our kitchen.
  2. MiddayA workshopStorytelling, camera, sound, or whatever someone came to teach.
  3. AfternoonMake something, or exploreFilm together, or follow the trail down to the waterfall.
  4. EveningDinner, and the fireLong conversations, and the stars over the valley.

Every part is an invitation. Join what you like, and rest when you need to.

After a few days of living, cooking and swimming together, the masks come off, and people meet each other as they really are.

“I want people to arrive here feeling like guests, and leave feeling like they’ve found another home.”Maisie

Two ways to be there

Post on every posting dayAnd reach $2,222 in sales: about 1 or 2 retreats booked through your link.
or
Reach $5,555 in salesAbout 4 retreats booked, with any posting plan.

Your stay, meals and workshops are on us. You arrange your travel. For our founding creators, the gathering is a gift. After this campaign, it becomes a paid event.

You leave with new skills, people to make things with, and ideas for the year ahead.

We’d love to see you in the rainforest.

I’d love to join

Every sale pays you.

Whatever your people choose through your link counts, from your first sale.

What your people can choose

Come and stayA retreat, a stay for two, or a day or a night with us.From$1,555
Dedicate a tree, or a piece of rainforestFor someone they love, or in their name.From$22
A Human Design readingTheir full reading, on their own page.Only$22
A donation, with our thanksAny amount, with their name on our Founders’ Wall.From$5
A Pillar of LibélulaA Jungle Suite, our chef and their name on the land.From$5,555
The whole valleyAll eight cabins and the land, for their group.From$11,111

What you earn

1For every sale

Your commission, from your first sale
5%10%

of every sale through your link

5% on your first $2,222 in sales

10% on everything after

A $1,555 retreat: $78 for you, then $156.

Paid in December, when the campaign funds reach us.

2After the campaign

10% of every booking, for lifeWhen someone books with us through your link, even years from now, we pay you 10% of their booking.

And on the way

  1. Your first saleA native tree, planted in your nameOn the land at Libélula. And when the campaign closes, your name goes on our Founders’ Wall, with a thank-you video from Kene and Maisie.
  2. At $5,555 in salesA quarter-acre of rainforest, protected in your nameWith an official certificate, and your place at the yearly gathering.
  3. The top creator in salesA couples retreat with usFor you and your partner.

Late sales count. They came through your link and left their email? The sale is yours, even weeks later. No email? Indiegogo remembers your link on their phone or computer for 28 days, so if they buy in that time, the sale is yours.

The heavy part is ours.

Your link

One link for the whole campaign. It always takes people to the right place.

Your creator kit

Dates, ideas, photos and clips, from the day you join.

Their questions

Send your people’s questions to us. We answer them.

Your numbers

Ask us any time: your sales so far, and how close you are to each reward.

Kene and Maisie on a deck above the rainforest
Kene and Maisie, at Libélula

We left everything to build this.

We’re Kene and Maisie.

Kene had been dreaming of creating a retreat center for many years. After losing his dad to cancer, he became increasingly interested in health, nutrition and natural approaches to wellbeing.

Maisie had always been drawn to nature. During a difficult period in her life, she travelled alone to Costa Rica, and that trip stayed with her.

Costa Rica kept calling. In 2023, we went there together. We weren’t actually looking for a retreat center. We were looking for a holiday home. Then an estate agent asked Kene what his dream property would look like, and told us she had exactly that place.

For Kene, making it happen meant letting go of what he had built in England. Everything had to be sold to put it all into the dream. So we decided to trust, and make it happen.

We wanted to build the kind of place we had searched for ourselves, spiritually open but grounded, and held by people who understand the responsibility of being trusted with someone else’s vulnerability.

We feel more like guardians of this piece of rainforest than owners of it. Everything we’ve built so far has been in open spaces that already existed, without cutting down trees. We employ local people, and twenty percent of our profits goes towards charitable, environmental and community projects.

And we’re only just getting started.

Only five-star reviews from past guests
★★★★★

A calming and grounding sanctuary

The land on which Libélula is built has an amazing, calming and grounding effect. I felt it within seconds of arriving.

Sunny · March 2026
★★★★★

A beautiful and thoughtfully designed space

The setting is absolutely beautiful: calm, well-maintained, and clearly designed with intention. You can feel that it’s been created to support rest, reflection, and a deeper connection with nature.

Nick · April 2026
★★★★★

One of the best retreats I have been to

What an experience. From the moment you set foot on the land you know this is a place where magic can happen.

Harold · April 2026

Quick answers.

Do I say it’s paid?

Yes. Use the platform’s partnership label, and say it plainly: “I earn a commission if you book through my link.”

Who owns what I post?

You do.

What’s the extra week?

On the last day, we decide whether to open one more week on our website. If we do, it’s a surprise for everyone else, so keep it between us.

We’re looking for creators who feel something when they see this land.

And who’d love to help build something that will be here for generations.

I’d love to join Or write to Maisie: maisie@libelularetreatcenter.com

Libélula · Costa Rica

Kene and Maisie at LibélulaKene and Maisie
Kene and Maisie

Join us as a founding creator

Tell us who you are. Maisie looks at every one.

A few lines help Maisie get to know you.

Thank you.

I go through each one myself, and if it feels right for both of us, you’ll hear from me.

Maisie