ElevateHER Womens Executive Retreat
Monday 23rd September to Thursday 26th September
Recharge, Refocus and Rise
In our fast paced world the demands on leaders continues to grow. Our exclusive 4 day retreat for busy women executives seamlessly integrates rejuvenating wellbeing practices with professional development. Everything is carefully chosen from the latest thinking in leadership development and wellbeing to help you achieve better flow, balance and success. At our exclusive venue you’ll be nurtured, supported and equipped with new practices to apply in your work life, helping you be more balanced, well and effective as a leader.
OutcomesUnleash Your Leadership Mastery
Elevate your team to their highest potential with proven coaching strategies.
Shift pressing workplace issues by gaining insights into problem-solving and making critical decisions swiftly.
Acquire relational tools to strengthen and invigorate your professional connections.
Develop key leadership skills through the art of storytelling and attentive story listening.
Develop Your Wellbeing Wisdom
Understand and master your nervous system and human energetics for sustained balance.
Immerse yourself in body movement practices for rapid energy revitalization.
Calm the voices in your head, including the persistent self-attack and imposter syndrome.
Align yourself with your core values for authentic and purpose-driven living and leading.
Leadership Values Assessment
Comprehensive 360 diagnostic providing insights into your core operating values, strengths, personal impact, and areas of growth. Gain a better understanding of your team by learning what drives them, how they work together, and what they want to build on or develop for the future.
“The LVA’s simplicity is it’s secret. We have found that LVA yields greater insights, more consistently, for top executives, than any other psychometrics. We regularly get feedback that it is the most effective 360 a senior leader has ever experienced.”
David Reimer, CEO, Merryck and Co.
THE EXPERIENCEPrepare:
2 Weeks before the Event
We mark the beginning of your supported journey by gently arriving you into a space for transformation. During this time we guide you to:
Reflect on inner challenges you’re experiencing at work
Think about a key relationship you’d like to strengthen
Consider a pressing work problem you’re facing
Explore unparalleled insight into your personal style and impact by completing a Barrett Leadership Development Assessment, which includes a 90 min private coaching session with our accredited Leadership Coach.
Immerse:
4 Day Retreat
Away from everyday life and amidst tranquil landscapes and kindred souls, the retreat offers a potent opportunity for profound personal growth. Arrive late afternoon for the opening ceremony, yoga session (optional) and a delicious nutritious dinner.
Day 1:
Starting around the campfire, the first day focuses on connection. With yourself and with your context for being here. And also with the location, with us, and with each other. This ensures you:
Drop into the energy of the experience. One of nurture, self-care, curiosity, compassion, and love.
Engage with your ‘why’ of being here, and embody what it would be like to reconnect with your highest potential.
Co-create the safe space and confidentiality amongst us to bring our whole selves (work problems and all!) to the experience.
Start your enquiry process whilst experiencing new wellbeing practices, ensuring you are energised, soothed, and nourished for your time with us.
Day 2:
The second day focuses on your individual context. The challenges you might be facing and the opportunities available to you for a greater expression of your fullest self. After breakfast we’ll take you through some light movement practices and grounding exercises; supercharging your mental clarity and energy levels for the day.
Take a walk in nature and explore the transformational power of storytelling
Learn how to quieten the voices and negative self-talk in your head
Take a deep dive into our NeuroFlow method to boost your resilience, mood, and creativity at home and at work
Unpack, look anew, and begin to shift the organisational and relational blocks to flow that you arrived with
Day 3:
On the third day we broaden your repertoire of Leadership Mastery and Wellbeing Wisdom techniques and practices, loop back on any areas the group wishes to revisit, and reflect on the transformations you have started to create in your world. Although the schedule will be more fluid on day 3 according to the needs and wishes of the group, we will close the programme as we opened it - around the campfire with a beautiful ceremony. Honouring all that you brought, all that you are leaving behind, and all that you are taking with you.
Throughout your time with us there will be plenty of time to rest and to make use of any of the optional extras you are drawn to.
Integrate:
6 Weeks after the Event
Build new habits and make lasting changes in our 6 week integration program.
Our integration program includes optional group sessions, short daily practice prompts, and powerful techniques to help you sustain and integrate your retreat experience. We know that community is invaluable for our growth, so we offer opportunities for you to nurture a lasting connection with your fellow retreat participants. Supplementary 1:1 coaching is also offered and recommended.
SAFETYThe Facilitators
The Organisational Alchemy team brings a unique combination of senior organisational experience and personal wellbeing expertise. We have extensive qualifications in a wide range of therapeutic modalities, and are supervised by a professionally licensed psychotherapist. Many of our team have firsthand experience of burnout and we have completed significant amounts of personal trauma work. We have the lived experience of existing in high stress organisational life and have invested deeply in our inner worlds to arrive at a more peaceful heart-centred way of living and being. We are honoured to be able to share this with others.
Fiona Hiscocks
Katharine Williams
Melissa Connor
Richard Tyler
Embodiment Alchemist
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ISUMUTAQ
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Chief Alignment Alchemist
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Founder
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Nicky O’Malley
Transformational Alchemist
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Dedicated Care
There is a minimum of one facilitator for every 4 participants. Typically, however, the ratio is closer to 1:3. This ratio ensures direct care before and after the experience, and with plenty of space for personal support throughout the retreat.
Suitability Screening
Our application process has been designed to ensure proper screening. We carefully assess each applicant’s personal, emotional, and contextual suitability for our deeply profound methods.
THE VENUEWe use two venues for our retreats. Both our venues are beautifully appointed and provide:
Delicious, home-cooked, nourishing food
Woodland walks, foraging and lake bathing
Luxury bedrooms, immaculately designed and presented
Optional extras such as Yoga, ice baths, sound baths and foraging
Dunford House
Throughout history, powerful and wondrous things happen when women come together. And Dunford House has already played a historical role in these defining moments. In the 1940s it was a cradle of feminism, being a home for the Cobden sisters, a suffragist and suffragette. The house is set in 60 acres of private woodland in West Sussex at the foot of the stunning South Downs. With a yoga studio, ice baths, sauna and outdoor biogym this luxurious venue will nourish your soul. You’ll also have the optional extras such as vitamin drips, live blood analysis and personal healing session.
42 Acres
Living within seven hundred acres of ancient forest, host to a variety of wild meadows and vast open fields and the source of four different rivers, this space was inspired by the divine wisdom of nature. With woodland sauna, ice bath and wild swimming you'll be nourished by their ‘soil to gut’ organic menu. 42 Acres was founded to foster holistic ways of living that nurture people and the planet.
