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Guided
Journeys & Retreats

(W)holistic Leadership

Inner Exploration
Through Outer Adventure

Sustainability alone is no longer purpose enough – the deeper calling is for regeneration. What we learn through lived experience we can then share in service of what matters most.

For this, we look to Nature as our container, our source and our guide.

Remarkable landscapes and wild pauses become increasingly rare. They offer protected time and space for precious self-exploration, discovery and transformation.

In a world of increasing external expectation, it is the inner world that offers expanse and possibility, the unknown yet-to-be-revealed.

‘Journeys & Retreats’ are for impact leaders, whether in peer groups or small teams, with a deep yearning to refresh, to re-energise, to re-member their essential nature and true purpose.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious Life?”

~ Mary Oliver

Preparing purposefully
for the unknown

Expecting the Unexpected

Whether rugged and remote landscapes, or ceremonial style wild retreats, for immersion experiences to be fully appreciated and absorbed, they need an expert’s eye and calm hand to guide. Individuals need to be held with respect, compassion and discipline in order to travel well.

In both cases, there will be a mix of both inner and outer exploration and experience, albeit with a different emphasis and style.

Embracing uncertainty is the most important ingredient, as well as:

  • this is an adventure, with a profound impact on your life
  • expect unexpected activities & choices as we go
  • sharing your experience with other like-spirited, inspiring individuals
  • you may well be tested, physically, emotionally, mentally
  • you will learn a lot about yourselves & each other…as well as have fun!

“You are searching for a crown which is already on your head. But search is necessary. You will look at yourself only after you have looked everywhere else.”  ~ Shunya

 

 


You’ll Discover

An inter-woven web of wandering & wondering

presence

be still, slow down, sense more

breath

inhale clean air, exhale and let go

movement

move, stretch & feel your body

connection

walk & talk with peers or with self

quiet

listen deeply to Nature & within

edge

learn & embody through lived experience

Feeling held to allow self expression
“A mountain guide takes you to places you’d never find on your own, a great guide lets you discover places you never knew existed, and allows you to perform and express yourself in and as part of that unique environment. I love climbing mountains, I love climbing Life’s mountains too and for that adventure I can’t think of a better guide than Richard.”

Seeing beyond the immediate horizon
“Richard’s passion is for discovering (leadership) systems that draw on and combine both ancient and modern wisdom to bring about unity thinking. This is not always easy, so he’s a highly valuable fellow travelling companion in this ‘volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous’ world where the challenges we meet can test the strength of the bonds and boundaries that exist between us. He helps us to find the pathways to our core essence that may be hidden from our normal five senses.”

Julian Read
International Exec & Team Transition Coach, Facilitator, Experienced Blue Chip Director

 

 

Ongoing support, lasting change

Integration

Many are drawn to the thrill of adventure. Few continue the journey once they return…

Inspiring travels, programmes and other experiences can get left as photo albums or training manuals on dusty shelves of the mind. Ongoing integration is where the full value of experience can be realised.

Fellow ‘coddiwomplers’ will receive 9 months of integral follow up support and accountability.

Following your return, you will:

  • receive individual coaching and facilitated peer group mentoring sessions to continue guiding you with your new ideas, dreams and perspectives
  • integrate through practice what you experienced for yourself and learned from the group
  • embed new empowering behaviours and make them ‘stick’
  • do what it takes to keep those promises you will have made to your dreams, yourself and to each other out in the wilderness
  • nourish a diverse support group of trust forged through the power of shared experience

If you seek a profound, lasting, learning experience that you will remember, value and apply for life contact me here.

Step out to go within

New Horizons

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

~ Ryunosike Satoro

Our now local-global societies and economies need those who dare to be courageously heart-centred, with the humble awareness to think systemically and act strategically – inter-weaving whole systems within local ones and vice versa.

What if you could reclaim more of yourself in the next 9 months than in the previous 9 years? What if you could give more of yourself than ever through this next decade, one year, one day, one step at a time?

A modern maxim says: “People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years.”

Imagine the ripple effect you could create in this inter-connected world, by reclaiming the truth of who you are and what you believe in.