What is a retreat? There are many definitions but the one that we will focus on is creating a place of refuge, seclusion, or privacy. A place to make long-term directional steps to get an entrepreneurial board moving toward the future. During entrepreneurial board retreats, you can struggle with decisions, look at decisions, and have dissension among the ranks. But when you come out of your board meeting – any of them - you should have a Condition of Consensus.