Living and Leading with
Freedom of Spirit
1:1 Executive Growth Retreat
Authentic Leadership means being true to who you are.
But ... do you really know yourself?
When we feel truly free and alive inside, it translates to a magnetically engaging air of confidence on the outside. One that speaks of truth and authenticity, coming from a deep sense of knowing, and a profound acceptance of who you really are.
When you shift your attention away from what you intellectually know and sit in the stillness of your experience, you can embrace the feeling of finally getting to know and understand you.
This one to one retreat provides the space and guidance to explore the principles behind all human experience. This deep understanding has the power to transform the way you work, the way you lead and inspire others, your love of life and your connection to yourself.
When you shift your attention away from what you intellectually know and sit in the stillness of your experience, you can embrace the feeling of finally getting to know and understand you.
This one to one retreat provides the space and guidance to explore the principles behind all human experience. This deep understanding has the power to transform the way you work, the way you lead and inspire others, your love of life and your connection to yourself.
Leading and Inspiring from Heart and Spirit
If you want to grow as a person and as a leader, it can feel like there's a lot to do. When it seems like a strenuous and enduring uphill battle, it often keeps us in our head and returns us back to the lower levels of consciousness. Sometimes the more we try to find ourselves, the further from ourself we feel.
In this ever more complex landscape, there is a key ingredient; a simplicity that is often missed, but once realised will prevent you from spending years looking in the wrong place.
People talk about being resilient, being present and ‘in the moment’ most often without a deep sense of having embodied the experience, or appreciating what it can truly mean for your career, your future and your life.
This three day leadership retreats focuses solely on this ingredient and how to bring yourself fully to everything you do, with observable and life changing results
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
Practical Implications from the Profound
Inner strength in any situation
Inner strength in any situation
It’s time to bring down the walls, remove the façade and let go of illusion and pretence as a deep acceptance of self allows you to show up and be seen as you are, with unshakable confidence. High level meetings, speeches and presentations with no prep time will be met with strength, openness and clarity of mind.
It’s time to bring down the walls, remove the façade and let go of illusion and pretence as a deep acceptance of self allows you to show up and be seen as you are, with unshakable confidence. High level meetings, speeches and presentations with no prep time will be met with strength, openness and clarity of mind.
Raising consciousness
Raising consciousness
By shifting your focus away from what you think you know, into the source of limitless potential, you will see truth unfolding. As you transcend old ideologies, ones that may well have got you to where you are but most likely will not get your any further, you will know how lead and inspire others from completely new level of understanding.
By shifting your focus away from what you think you know, into the source of limitless potential, you will see truth unfolding. As you transcend old ideologies, ones that may well have got you to where you are but most likely will not get your any further, you will know how lead and inspire others from completely new level of understanding.
Presence in this moment
Presence in this moment
The only time that truly exists is now and while we know this, we often find ourselves mentally reliving past experiences, questioning yesterdays' decisions or anxiously anticipating the future. We have often become so accustomed to the ‘concept’ of time, and we don’t even see when we aren’t being present to it. Through greater awareness of our fluctuating states, we become fully alive in the moment and able to spend more time in our natural flow state for greater ease, effortlessness and meaningful productivity.
The only time that truly exists is now and while we know this, we often find ourselves mentally reliving past experiences, questioning yesterdays' decisions or anxiously anticipating the future. We have often become so accustomed to the ‘concept’ of time, and we don’t even see when we aren’t being present to it. Through greater awareness of our fluctuating states, we become fully alive in the moment and able to spend more time in our natural flow state for greater ease, effortlessness and meaningful productivity.
Awareness of mind
Awareness of mind
All life has an energy, a lifeforce that flows through us from our moment of creation until we take our last breath, yet we can become so caught up in the circumstances and challenges we face every day at work and at home that we forget to truly live. Learn to transcend stress, worries and anxieties to make decisions with clarity, embracing the feeling of aliveness (even in the mundane) and bringing yourself to each day with fresh eyes.
All life has an energy, a lifeforce that flows through us from our moment of creation until we take our last breath, yet we can become so caught up in the circumstances and challenges we face every day at work and at home that we forget to truly live. Learn to transcend stress, worries and anxieties to make decisions with clarity, embracing the feeling of aliveness (even in the mundane) and bringing yourself to each day with fresh eyes.
Awareness of self
Awareness of self
The majority of the mental hurdles we want to overcome only exist because of the relationship we have with thought itself; as though our thoughts are, or represent who we are. With 'I think therefore I am,' Descartes described our existence relating to our awareness of ourselves, yet if we think our thoughts are who we are, we tend to become deeply affected by the tough times, by our failures, our low points and bouts of insecure thought. With awareness of how we experience thought itself, we get to experience ourselves as so much more than that, meaning these struggles become mere ripples in a larger ocean of life.
The majority of the mental hurdles we want to overcome only exist because of the relationship we have with thought itself; as though our thoughts are, or represent who we are. With 'I think therefore I am,' Descartes described our existence relating to our awareness of ourselves, yet if we think our thoughts are who we are, we tend to become deeply affected by the tough times, by our failures, our low points and bouts of insecure thought. With awareness of how we experience thought itself, we get to experience ourselves as so much more than that, meaning these struggles become mere ripples in a larger ocean of life.
Working with Michelle has helped me feel in flow
"I started working with Michelle in June 2018 at a point where I was significantly expanding responsibilities at work. During a private retreat with Michelle, I started the journey of understanding the power of thought and how it shows up (& hindered me) in my work and interactions.
Michelle’s approach is transformative. Her ability to listen, empathise and empower me to see things within myself has been hugely impactful not just at work but in my personal life as well. In the last 5 years, I have been able to exploit my career potential. I can say without a doubt, Michelle’s coaching has contributed significantly and positively to my performance at work which has led to growth and promotions. What’s more valuable for me is that it feels effortless most of the time and I feel like I am thriving. On the days that it doesn’t, I have developed (through Michelle’s coaching) the right patterns that support reflection.
Working with Michelle has helped me feel in flow, avoid over-thinking that took away from my enjoyment of work/life experiences, helped me connect with and understand my thoughts in a way I never thought possible. I value Michelle’s coaching so much in both my professional and personal life.'
- Retreat Client, Financial Services, London
How The Retreat Works
The Preparation
We want you to get the most out of your time with us, as this is not your average executive retreat, so please work with us to tailor this to you as much as is helpful.
- We’ll start with a zoom call to get to know each other and understand your greatest opportunities that will make the biggest difference to your career and life overall.
- You will then have access to the Elite Academy of Development and Wellbeing resource library so you can begin exploring as soon as you wish.
- You will be given suggested areas to focus on that will be most useful to you, based on our initial discussion.
Arrival
- Arrive at Upper Barns on Tuesday evening and check to your private suite.
- Upper Barns is located in rural North Essex, within easy access from London.
Your Suite
Your private retreat suite is along a separate and secluded wing at Upper Barns and includes:
- Kingside bedroom and en-suite shower room
- Private lounge including TV with access to our online Academy medications and resources.
- Private kitchen with stocked fridge for you to cater for yourself (we will discuss your preferences in advance of your arrival.)
- Everything you need to press pause on your busy schedule and immerse yourself in the retreat.
Coaching Sessions
As much as it's lovely to get away, this retreat is really about the exploration that takes place in the coaching sessions. There will be three sessions held on the first two days, with a final session on your final morning, which takes the following themes:
Wednesday
- Deepening your understanding of the human condition’
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Exploring the power of the implications of this understanding
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Establishing resilience from a solid foundation of self
Thursday
- Coming 'Home' to yourself
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Using the gift of Thought wisely and effectively
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Loving life and navigating it with presence of mind
Friday
- Creating opportunities through flow
While you are here...
- In between sessions, you have time to reflect, read, rest, renew, recharge and regenerate.
- In your lounge you will have access to recordings and meditations via our Elite Academy of Development and Wellbeing site.
- This is a rural area and here are plenty of countryside walks to go on, or you can sit in the gardens of Upper Barns.
- We strenuously recommend you do NOT bring work with you, because your work will benefit from having you take a step back.
- On Friday, head home at your leisure after your morning coaching session, ready to fully integrate everything you have discovered.
- 2024 RETREAT DATES
- Tue 17th – Fri 20th September
- Tue 8th – Fri 11th Oct
- Tue 19th – Fri 22nd Nov
- Tue 3rd – Fri 6th Dec
The Continuation
Integration and application is fundamental, ensuring your experience doesn't end when the retreat does.
We will get together for four coaching sessions by zoom to:
- Explore what has changed since the retreat, and what you see differently.
- What further implications this may have: Can you apply this to areas you are not currently noticing? What blind spots can we bring to light?
- What challenges this is posing for you and what will help you to move beyond this.
- How we can deepen this understanding in the weeks that follow.
Your Retreat Coach
Michelle Chapman
Transformative Coach, Trainer and Director at
Elite Partnership Ltd, Owner of Upper Barns
Michelle is a Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming, a Master Hypnotist and Instructor of Hypnosis, a Trainer of Time Line TherapyTM, a Certified Coach Trainer, a qualified Medical Intuitive and a Transformative Coach with a BA in Business and a few other weird things she tends to not put on a CV.
She had a successful early career in marketing before being drawn to the world of mental, emotional and spiritual growth, initially opening a training company as the first English speaking NLP Trainer in Hong Kong in 2007.
Michelle now trains and coaches for numerous corporate and private clients, as well as being Trainer and heading up the coaching team on The Warrior Programme, a veterans mental health charity where she has now trained over 1000 veterans, serving personnel and family members.
Michelle lives in rural Essex with her husband, children, dogs and cat and when not coaching or training is most often found on her vegetable patch covered in mud.
Questions?
If you have questions about our coaching and retreats, schedule a free introductory zoom using the booking system below or email us at info@elitepartnership.co.uk
Introductory sessions can be booked (Subject to availability) by clicking the link below:
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Tailored Agenda
A 1:1 retreat allows you to be the focus, with every aspects geared to your needs and your personal outcomes.
Private Space
You will stay in your own private suite with lounge, kitchen and king sized bedroom with en-suits shower room.
Rural Retreat
Bring your boots if you want to get out and enjoy some of the local walks across the fields or in woodlands while here.
What to Eat?
Whether you are foodie who likes to cook for yourself, a 'food is fuel' and easy eating type or more suited to a visit to the pub, you can choose how to nourish yourself.
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