🌿 THE LIVING UNLAYERED MOVEMENT

From a Spark to a Sanctuary

A visionary invitation to support building a transformative retreat center that cultivates environments for reflection, growth, and authentic living. Your generosity helps create sacred spaces where individuals and leaders can unlayer what no longer serves them and reconnect with who they were created to be.

Our Vision

To create spaces where people can breathe again — places designed for rest, clarity, and honest growth. The Living Unlayered Movement is about helping individuals remove the pressures, expectations, and emotional weight that keep them from living as God designed.

Your support helps:

  • Create environments where people feel safe to unlayer
  • Provide access to coaching, retreats, and leadership development
  • Make transformation possible for those who can’t afford it
  • Build the foundation for a future retreat center

This isn’t just about building a facility; it’s about building people — one unlayered life at a time.

🌱 Contribution Levels

  • Seed Supporter — $10 Your name added to the Field of Faith donor wall (digital or on-site)
  • Planter Partner — $50 Receive a commemorative keepsake + invitation to the Living Unlayered blessing ceremony
  • Cultivator — $500 Recognition as a key supporter + a signed copy of Slaying the Onion + exclusive leadership session
  • Circle Contributor — $5000 Sponsor a community event or retreat + weekend retreat for two + recognition in campaign materials
  • Legacy Builder — $75,000 Sponsor a major retreat or initiative + full-week Immersive Unlayered Experience + featured legacy story + engraved recognition

💛 Why Partner?

Supporting this movement is more than a donation — it’s joining the transformation of leaders, families, and communities.

  • ✔ Tax-deductible giving Your gift is processed through Church Mission Network, an established 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
  • ✔ Inspire personal growth & emotional clarity You help individuals break through layers of stress, identity pressure, and past pain.
  • ✔ Empower sacred experiences Your support creates environments where people reconnect with purpose, find healing, and experience transformation.
  • ✔ Strengthen leaders who influence others When a leader heals, entire communities shift.
  • ✔ Deepen community connection You help build a network of leaders who live with integrity, intention, and faith.
  • ✔ In-Kind Donations Welcome Some gifts aren’t written as checks. We welcome in-kind donations — including properties, land, retreat locations, and resources — that help bring the Living Unlayered retreat sanctuary vision to life.

🌄 Living Unlayered Leadership Program

These retreats invite participants to:

  • Explore values and unlayer personal barriers
  • Reconnect with purpose and clarity
  • Experience guided reflection, coaching, and renewal
  • Build courage to live authentically
  • Step away from noise and return grounded

Every retreat is designed to make space for deep growth and lifelong transformation.

🕊 April’s Vision Begins in 1999

This movement didn’t start as a campaign — it began as a calling. In 1999, April wrote down a dream for a retreat center where people could gather, breathe, reset, and awaken to the life God designed for them. Since then, the journey has unfolded through:

  • 2006 — The first recorded seminar
  • 2009 — April’s first executive coaching role
  • 2011 — Founding One Light Ahead
  • 2021 — Expanding impact through One Light Academy Inc.
  • 2022 — Publishing Slaying the Onion, 2nd Edition
  • 2023 & beyond — Living Unlayered retreats changing lives
  • 2026 — Unifying everything under AprilBallestero.com

This legacy is decades in the making. The nonprofit partnership is the next faithful step toward the retreat center that was envisioned long ago.

🔥 Why This Work Matters Now

Because the world is full of leaders who are exhausted, overwhelmed, and carrying layers that keep them from clarity and calling. This movement exists to:

  • Create consistent, accessible spaces for unlayering
  • Make transformation available to more people
  • Build long-term sustainability through a dedicated retreat center
  • Strengthen leaders who influence families, teams, and communities
  • Cultivate renewed purpose and ground
Your gift directly fuels transformation.

🌟 The Legacy of April Ballestero

April is a leadership coach, author, speaker, and founder who has spent over two decades guiding leaders through personal and professional unlayering. Her work has touched thousands through:

  • Leadership coaching
  • Team development
  • Retreats and in-person experiences
  • Speaking events
  • The Leadership Academy
  • Slaying the Onion
  • Living Unlayered Circles
  • Life-changing one-on-one coaching
Now, through the 501(c)(3) partnership, her legacy expands beyond what private coaching alone can reach.
This movement ensures her life’s work becomes accessible to many — not just the few who can afford it.

🌿 What Your Donation Makes Possible

Your contribution helps provide:

  • Subsidized retreat spots
  • Free resources for individuals in hardship
  • Scholarships for students, ministry leaders, and nonprofit teams
  • Community renewal events
  • Future retreat center development
  • Coaching programs for underserved communities
This is how transformation becomes a movement — not just a moment.

💛 Join the Movement — Donate Today

Your generosity helps build sanctuaries where clarity, courage, and calling can take root.