​​Included
- 7 nights accommodation (Sunday – Friday)
- All breakfasts
- Lunches Mon-Fri
- Retreat dinner – Wednesday evening
- Daily transport to and from accommodation and retreat venue
- Return transport for planned trips to local tourist attractions (Refer to question 8)
- And even a massage from my own favourite masseur

Not included
- Trips planned during the week to local tourist areas. Daylight saving hours make it possible to include these trips and leisure time.
- Return transport is provided for all of these and is included in the retreat cost. HOWEVER participants are responsible for their own costs once at the location. (e.g. refreshments, food, meals, entry to exhibitions, museums concerts, etc.).

My definition for resilience is ‘Adapting and NOT Breaking.’ In our day to day life in the 21st century, we all need to constantly embrace and manage change.  Accountable leadership is not enough. Paradoxically, streamlining and complexity are requiring leaders to be more hands on.
Resilience skyrockets when everyone pulls upwards collaboratively and leaders are confident.

Leaders drive engagement. A leader’s ability to lead and influence is leveraged by their ability to engage different people in diverse situations. Leaders need to be able to focus and have a capacity for empathetic, emotional intelligence in order to build capability in their teams and across their organisation. They can only deliver on this if they are themselves resilient.  Time to focus, strategies for doing so, reflection and ‘Le Silence’ all strengthen resilience.  

Venice is itself a symbol of resilience.  Founded   in approx. 800BCE in the watery marshes of the lagoon, its foundation was itself an act of resilience and adaptation to survive.  The lagoon an ambiguous area, neither sea nor land, was formed more than 6000 years ago. Meanwhile a city, and then a ‘global’ merchant republic thrived.  And the city has reinvented itself many times. Venice s  is a part of my DNA.
 It’s precisely these aspects that makes the Venetian territory a natural choice for deep reflection and learning with uninterrupted focus,.

Join me  to grow one’s inner wisdom, face new challenges with resilient solutions by ‘adapting and Not  breaking ‘.

Resilience was part of my DNA almost without my realising it. It’s been part of my life’s journey from my birth and early days as a migrant child, growing up in an almost exclusively in Anglo-Saxon, strong, rural community. From the start learning to embrace two identities, multiple languages and cultures I learnt to embrace it. Later adapting to moving overseas and back again several times, navigating different education systems, job markets, problem solving in life, and in business, in order to be able to quickly recover from changes, from challenges and difficulties; these are all part of my own personal journey of resilience.

It’s this background, I believe, that paved the way for my distinct career paths. Diverse career paths, from helping to run my parents’ farms and other businesses to owing my own first business while still at university, a passionate educator and later a global consultant specialising in HR and L&D.  My ability to ‘Adapt and Not Break,’ to focus, problem solve, analyse quickly and effectively, with empathy, these opened opportunities, lessons and lived experiences on 7 continents, I could not have foreseen.  

I’ve led, designed coordinated a range of projects in:
•    Leadership for multinational companies
•    Change Management for global international organisations across operational hubs, and for government, NGOs and not for profit entities
•    Learning and Development for global international organisations and for specialised fast response teams
•    Ethics – for international organisations
•    Start-up

I can support, guide and collaborate in your growth and potential to success, in this retreat by mentoring and coaching you on your journey, because I have lived the journey and continue to do so.

This retreat has a mentoring and coaching (MAC) focus.
•    There will be 3 sessions running from 8.30am to about 15.30 with breaks, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Tuesday is a half day.
•    Sessions: Short content focused inputs at the start of each session - practice – one on one and peer coaching/mentoring - discussion - individual or shared quiet time to work on own ideas or projects
•    Forward facing critique - peer coachin

We try to keep the group size to a minimum to ensure we have the opportunity for one on one, as well as enough people encourage group participation. We will have around 10 people in the group, depending on their roles and backgrounds.

Yes, one on one sessions are available each day.

This depends on which country you are coming from and it is recommended you speak with a travel agent who will be able to advise you on the appropriate visa, if required based on your passport and background.

​​Typically, we finish the day around 15.30 hrs. Afterwards we have organised trips to local
Return transport is planned for each of these trips –i.e. included in cost already.

Example of trips: 
Visit to famous​ Noventa di Piave, Designer Outlets
Visit to​ Coarle
Visit EITHER to​ Sirmione on Lake Garda OR
Verona,​ (synonymous with Romeo and Juliette
Visit to​ Jesolo & Jesolo Beach