Retreat Coaching

Our unique Retreat-Based Coaching program is designed to create truly inspiring and wise leaders who operate at the highest levels.

Each retreat is a once-in-a-lifetime experience customised to the individual client’s situation and needs.

Clients often come to us to address a specific leadership challenge or to make the next leap in leadership development. During their time at the retreat, they gain a deeper understanding of themselves. Based on these new insights, they will develop their own executive presence and leadership practice, allowing them to consciously shift behaviours that are no longer serving them or their organisation.

Leaders return to their organisation with a clear sense of purpose and an ability to lead from a powerful and authentic place. This style of more conscious leadership has a measurable impact on those around them.

Retreat-Based Coaching starts at one of our beautiful retreats centres in either Chiang Mai, Thailand; or Salt Spring Island, Canada. (Or at another high-end and curated location nearer to the client’s home).

This tailored coaching style results in two clear benefits:

Relationships: Transformational coaching requires open and candid communication in a genuinely caring relationship between the individual and the coach. The in-depth, one-on-one coaching at the start of the retreat ensures that the connection is strong and the work over the following months has the biggest impact.

Environment: The relaxed, idyllic, and isolated environment at our centres opens up the individual to new and creative ways of viewing themselves and their situation. The coach leverages this openness, helping the leader learn strategies to better manage the everyday stressors of executive life, especially for when they return to their regular environment.

The Retreat-Based Coaching program includes:

• Phase 1: Discovery
  • Before the retreat we conduct up to seven in-depth interviews with relevant stakeholders to identify specific leadership development areas. Each leader also completes a personal assessment to uncover interpersonal needs and understand how these needs might drive personal behaviours.

• Phase 2: Immersion
  • During the retreat, each individual will receive at least 15 hours of private coaching, as well as engaging in activities to de-stress and create an openness to new ways of thinking, such as gentle yoga practices, herbal steam baths, dips in a hot tub or saltwater swimming pool, eating organic meals, and massages.

• Phase 3: Follow-Up
  • At the end of the retreat, each individual will have a clear set of individual leadership practices to integrate into their day-to-day life. Follow-up coaching by phone over the next six months will reinforce the new behaviours on an ongoing basis. Both client and coach will continue to involve stakeholders as necessary to ensure their personal progress helps to improve their stakeholder relationships and needs.

Chiang Mai, North Thailand