Modern leaders face complex challenges. You are making decisions and solving problems every day in unpredictable, turbulent and uncertain environments. You must also focus on driving performance and meeting targets. You have a full schedule and you must respond to what’s urgent. But rarely do you get the time and space to consider deeply the bigger questions or more fundamental issues about your organisation, or about yourself as a leader.
These are the sorts of issues that cannot be decided in between phone calls or in the middle of a video conference; they cannot be decided by analysing data; they are not decisions that an external consultant can make for you. These are decisions that require you to step back from day-to-day management to look within yourself for ideas and vision. These are decisions that can result in radical change, but may take courage to implement.
At Roffey Park, we have listened to the participants on our programmes, and have realised that the most pressing need leaders have now is for some time and space to reflect deeply on critical issues, plus the skills to gain genuine insight. Particularly in tough times – with looming crises, shrinking budgets, rapid change, and increased pressure – you need to:
- find enough time and space to hear yourself think
- make decisions from a place of real calm
- move beyond traditional decision-making tools
- learn to make decisions with real insight
- develop breakthrough thinking and get new insights on old problems
- move beyond information-overload and knowledge-management to wisdom
- discern the most important aspects of an issue
Addressing these issues directly, we have created this event as the ultimate ‘inner space’ leadership retreat, bringing together some of our most experienced facilitators, as well as special guest Martin Boroson.
The Insight Retreat for Leaders isn’t a traditional leadership ‘course’ or a ‘programme’ that applies rational and systematic approaches to difficult issues. Instead it draws on contemporary and ancient practices that help you reflect deeply and think innovatively, connect intuitively with yourself and your potential and access your inner wisdom. Offering you space to truly think – and to think differently - this programme will enable you to find new insights and deeper clarity than you may ever have experienced before.
What happens on the Retreat?
We ask you to bring with you a personal question or difficult issue. This can be any issue that you have as a leader that needs quality time and attention.
Participant numbers on the retreat are deliberately kept low so that we ensure we can work with each of you at a personal level.
In our quiet location in seventy acres of woodland - with a group of peers – our team will lead you through a series of powerful and experiential activities supported by group discussion with time for personal reflection. All activities will be focused on giving you new perspectives on the issue you have brought.
Recent participants have said:
“I realised half way through the Insight Retreat that I hadn’t come with a question seeking an answer but more a plan seeking validation. That validation needed to come from within me and that is exactly what the Retreat gave me”
“It’s helped me to transform”
Benefits
You will gain:
- New insights into your issue – with clear commitment to what to do next
- New approaches to decision-making and specific tools and practices to further develop your insight
- A deeper connection with what’s important to you as a leader
- A sense of rejuvenation and renewal - with ways to keep connected to this when back at work
Content
- Training in meditation to improve clarity and focus
- Silence and time in nature to encourage deep reflection
- New models that help you think holistically i.e. from a ‘whole system’ perspective
- Visioning skills to access your deeper, intuitive knowledge
- Physical practices (derived from aikido) to gain insights from your body and to translate insight into specific and concrete action
Retreat Leaders
Helena Clayton, Director of Open Programmes
Helena's work has focused on leadership development and personal effectiveness across a range of sectors and levels. She is an experienced coach and also holds a Masters in Leadership and Learning. She has a long standing interest in helping organisations to take a more holistic and sustainable approach to working lives and in helping individuals be the best they can be.
Martin Boroson
Martin has spent over 30 years helping individuals and organisations make meaningful change. Martin earned a BA in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management, is an accredited psychotherapist, and is a faculty member of the Institute for Management Studies. He has recently distilled many years of meditation practice into a simple, short and powerful method of ‘momentary meditation’ described in his new book The One-Moment Master: Stillness for People on the Go, published internationally by Random House.
Come with an open mind – this programme has the power to transform…