Reharnessing Your Wisdom:
A Leadership Retreat for Women
A five-day leadership immersion for clarity, calm power, and embodied authority
Anchored Leader Retreat
What You Will Leave With
Upon completing this 5-day intensive Women in Leadership Retreat, you will:
1. Possess a Crystalline Self-Diagnostic Map:
Understand your core motivation, hidden drivers, and the specific patterns that create both your leadership genius and your blind spots.
2. Master Your Internal Triggers:
Identify the specific situations, words, or dynamics that automatically activate your defensive patterns, and develop a somatic "pause button" to choose your response rather than being controlled by it.
3. Reclaim Your Full Intelligence and your State of Flow:
Balance access to your fluid state of flow and your multiple intelligences
Illuminate Your Instinctual Blind Spot:
Transform a source of recurring problems into a new area of mastery.
5. Access Your Built-In Resources:
5.Learn to consciously draw upon your strengths and follow with clarity your growth path in order to lead effectively under both stress and opportunity.
6. Craft Your Personal Leadership Protocol:
Depart with a bespoke, one-page leadership protocol - your unique "operating system" for navigating high-stakes leadership with greater presence, resilience, and authenticity.
7. Connect to Essence:
Develop with guidance your own toolkit for leading from serenity, integrity, and courage - beyond the reactive patterns of self- sabotage, unlocking a new dimension of calm, impactful authority.
8. Forge a Confidential Pod of Peer Strategists:
Build profound trust and shared language with other senior leaders participating in the programme, creating a lasting council for ongoing reflection, challenge, and support beyond the retreat.
9. Translate Insight into Immediate Impact:
Equip yourself with concrete practices to apply from your very first meeting back at work, ensuring the retreat is not an isolated event but the catalyst for tangible, sustained evolution in your leadership and life.
10. Detox your body and mind:
Ultimate Outcome:
You will shift from being unconsciously competent in your success to being consciously sovereign in your leadership, able to harness your full wisdom and choose how you show up to meet any challenge.
Location:
Rondebosch, Cape Town
Participants:
Minimum 3, maximum five participants. This is a high-touch deeply transformative programme.
Pre-Retreat Preparation:
Minimum 3, maximum five participants. This is a high-touch deeply transformative programme.
Daily Flow and Structure
Day 1: Arriving and Connecting
Theme: What are the Gifts and Hidden Costs of Leadership
9.00 -10.00: Arrival, Registration and Tea at the main venue in Rondebosch
You will receive an emotional compass card listing more than 200 different emotions. Please review the card and select all the emotions you experienced during the 5 to 7 days leading up to the retreat.
10.00 – 13.00: Navigating our Invisible Architecture
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch at the Main Venue in Rondebosch
14.00 – 15.00: Afternoon Reflection and Journaling: Reflect on the following questions:
(1) What is the hidden tax I pay for relying on my Ennea type?
(2) What are the Gifts of my Ennea type
(3) How have I used/ignored my gifts in leading my team?
15.00 – 16.30: Discussion reflecting on our gifts and hidden tax we pay for relying on our Ennea type
16.30 – 18.00: Silent meditation walk from the main venue through the Liesbeek River trail park
Day 2: The Centre of Gravity – Exploring the Centers of our Multiple Intelligences
Theme: Balancing our energy centers of intelligence
7h30 - 9h00: 5km silent meditation walk focusing on our breath from the main venue in Rondebosch through the Liesbeek river trail to the Table Mountain National Park
9h00 – 12h00: Theoretical framework – exploring the energetic anatomy of a leader and the three Enneagram Centers. The 7 Energy Centres will be introduced, not as esoteric concepts, but as somatic "command centres" for different aspects of leadership. Each participant explores their type’s dominant and repressed center.
12h30 – 13h30: Lunch
14h00- 17h00: Private Coaching Session (1:1): Each woman leader has a 60-minute session to explore her personal centre strengths/imbalance and craft one "centering practice."
Evening Reflection and Journaling: As you prepare to rest, bring your awareness to the base of your spine, your legs, your feet - your root chakra energy. Ask yourself: Where and what made me feel grounded in my calm power today ? Where and what made me feel like an outsider/ or made me feel uprooted? What is one breath I can take right now to feel the solid earth beneath me again?
Day 3: Instincts and Blind Spots – The Subconscious Drivers
Theme: Illuminating the Creativity and Relational Flow Center, as well as Leadership Blind Spots
8h30 - 9h00: Guided meditation focusing on root and sacral energy center
9h00 – 12h00: Exploring Ennea type blind spots and Self-Sabotage Behaviour.
Discussion on how blind spot manifests as a recurring leadership challenge
12.00-17.00: A guided tour from Rondebosch train station to Muizenberg and a walk to Kalk Bay where we will have our lunch. Task: to observe your instinct in action.
Share insights: what did my blind spot instinct teach me today?
Evening Reflection and Journaling to be done individually at your accommodation. Reflect on this: Was there something today that your body genuinely wanted to accept or embrace, but your mind decided otherwise? Conversely, was there something your body wanted to refuse or decline, but you went along with it anyway?
Day 4: The Path of Integration
Theme: Accessing your Gifts and your Somatic Wisdom. Moving to energetic fluency to guide decisions and presence. We learn to sense, clear, and channel these centres to lead from a state of Calm Power & Flow.
7h30 - 9h00: 6km Silent walk from the main venue in Rondebosch to Newlands Forest focusing on solar plexus and heart energy centers
9h00 – 12h00: Discussion on how each woman's Enneagram patterns likely manifest as over- or under-activity in specific energy centres
12h30 – 13h30: Lunch at the main venue in Rondebosch
14h00- 17h00: Each participant spends 30 minutes learning a practical tool for a key centre relevant to her leadership:
18h00 – 20h00: Evening Circle and Dinner at the main venue at Rondebosch:
Sharing insights: What did my solar plexus and heart energy centers teach me today?
Evening Reflection: Individually at your venue before your sleep, recall a moment this week you felt in 'flow.' Which energy centres were most active? Journal the somatic signature of that state.
Day 5: Essence & The Unique Transformation Programme
Theme: Synthesizing the journey. Designing the forward path
7h30 - 9h00: 6km Silent walk meditation from the main venue to the Table Mountain National Park, focusing on the center of Intuition, Purpose and Systemic Connection
9h00 – 12h30: Each woman leader crafts a present-tense statement: I am Serenity/Flow/Courage/whatever Essence that will be the theme of each participant’s leadership in 2026.
Using a structured workbook provided, each participant designs her Personal Leadership Protocol incorporating
o Awareness triggers
o Somatic reset
o Instinct practice
o Resource access
o Essence Anchor
12h30 – 16h30 Working lunch and finalisation of the writing up of the leadership protocol
Each woman leader shares her Essence Statement and one commitment from her Leadership Protocol with the group
A ritual to seal each participant’s Leadership Protocols
Return to Emotional Compass card for further instructions
Post-Retreat Integration Support
Three 1:1 integration coaching calls (one per month) and a private group for the triad for continued peer support
Wondering if this retreat is the right next step for you?
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