Retreats 

“Our mission is to inspire connection, innovation, and growth through unforgettable, exceptionally executed retreats, rooted in nature.”

 


Planning 

Your Concierge Service

We know the challenge of planning an event like this and making sure all the pieces are in place for an amazing and stress-free experience for everyone involved. To do this, we’ve created a process for collecting information, needs, and goals from key team members, providing expert guidance on budgets, activities, and amenities, and services that take care of every need.

Facilitating

Creating a safe environment

As a neutral, third-party professional, our facilitators bring an unbiased view to your retreat, allowing for open and honest discussions. This objectivity helps participants focus on the company's goals without being influenced by internal politics or biases.

Impacting

Making a difference

Our retreat offers a powerful opportunity for your company to step away from daily routines, rejuvenate, and reconnect with your vision. It inspires innovation, aligns teams, and drives strategic focus, providing fresh perspectives and actionable plans that will leave a significant impact on your team.

 

Why invest in a Retreat with your leadership team?

 

  • Strategic Reflection and Planning
    A retreat pulls your leadership team away from the daily operational distractions, allowing them to focus on strategic growth objectives. In the tranquility of a different environment, fresh perspectives emerge, paving the way for innovative strategies and long-term planning.
  • Strengthen Team Cohesion

    By engaging in structured activities and informal interactions, your team will break down silos, enhance interpersonal relationships, and strengthen their ability to work cohesively towards common goals.

  • Re-energise and Motivate
Retreats provide a much-needed break from routine, re-energising your team and reigniting their passion and motivation. This renewed energy is infectious, often translating into improved morale and productivity across the entire organisation.
  • Align Vision and Values
Use the retreat to revisit and realign with the company’s core values and vision. This alignment ensures that every leader is on the same page, driving forward with a unified purpose and a clear understanding of the company's strategic direction.
  • Foster Innovation
Away from the constraints of the office, creative ideas flourish. Retreats encourage thinking outside the box and can lead to innovative solutions that have a lasting impact on your company's operations and market presence.

 

Our Location

  • Located in the Wye Valley an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,  The Re-treat is only 2 1/2 from Central London and sixty minutes from Birmingham. Our purpose built coaching studio can comfortably host up to eight team members and benefits from super fast broadband and high standards of audio visuals. 

  • Accomodation is available close by whether you are looking for Country House Hotels, Country pubs with bedrooms or Tipis and Shepherds Huts.  Our team can work with you to design a great experience that is aligned to your budget.
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The importance of nature and the beautiful Wye Valley 

Re- Energise, Re-Focus , Re-align

  • As you approach our Retreat, set against the backdrop of rolling hills, ancient woodlands and the serene Wye River, you are greeted by an atmosphere of tranquility and possibility.

  • The Retreat has been designed to harmonise with nature, offering spaces that invite reflection and spaces that energise and inspire.

  • From the tranquility of the riverside meadows to the invigorating trails through the countryside, every element has been crafted to support the journey of re-energising, refocusing, and realignment.

     
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The Wye Valley - An area of outstanding natural beauty

Retreat Activities 

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Paddleboarding

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Cycling

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Hiking

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Wild Swimming

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Foraging

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Cooking on Fire 

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Fishing

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Wine tasting

Great places to stay 

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Tipis

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Cabins and Shepherd's Huts

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Coaching Inns

Retreat Topics and Programmes

Business and Strategy 

 

  • Vivid Vision 
  • Annual Strategic Planning
  • Quarterly Planning 
  • Talent Management Strategy
  • Value Propostion Design 
  • Sales Training 
  • Discovering Core Values 
  • Process Mapping 
  • Financial Projections/Modelling
  • Preparing to Exit 

Leadership and Teams


  • DISC Profiling 
  • Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • Team Cohesion/Bonding

  • Radical Candour and Feedback

  • Topgrading 
  • Coaching Skills
  • Create a high performace culture 
  • Developing Talent
  • Conflict Resolution

Personal Development

 

  • Gaining Clarity and Focus
  • Goal Setting and Vision Planning
  • Leadership/Management Skills

  • Relationship Building

  • Time Management and Productivity

  • Self Discovery and Personal Values

  • Resilience and Stress Management

  • Overcoming Limiting Beliefs

     

An empowering space to hold your Retreat 

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As Easy as 1,2,3

1.

Connect with you

First, we learn your vision and goals for your company retreat. In our introductory call, your Retreat Specialist will learn as much as we can about your company, brand, culture, goals and aspirations. Once we understand some basic parameters, and what success looks like for you, we'll get to work.

2.

Design your Retreat

Working with your budget and your desired outcomes, our team will develop a programme that will include the agenda for the workshop sessions as well as the extra curriculum activities.

Then we share this with you and refine to ensure that it tightly meets your objectives.

3.

Delivery and Impact

Our goals are to create an amazing experience that is also learning-focused and impactful to the participants. Through our facilitated sessions to our customer service team everything is focused on delivering an exceptionally executed Retreat.

Resource Library 

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"This is a wonderful place to hold a team event, in a spectacular setting overlooking the calm, swirling waters of the River Wye….

a great meeting space which allows participants to escape the noises and distractions of a normal day….more likely to lead to a productive outcome…."

Simon Townsend 

"We Recently held one of our strategy meetings at this amazing location which has recently been built. It really is one of the most amazing locations overlooking the river wye.

It’s beautifully peaceful and enabled us to focus on the job in hand, away from all the hustle and bustle of daily life. Great facilities, good internet, and great hospitality – Will definitely use again."

Nic Snell

"Our recent Strategic Retreat was nothing short of exceptional. From the moment we arrived, the experience was seamless, inspiring, and rejuvenating.

The peace and beauty of the surroundings inspired our discussions and added a sense of clarity to our decision-making process.

The structured sessions, combined with the tranquil environment, allowed us to realign on our strategic priorities and leave with a clear, actionable plan for the future. It wasn’t just a productive few days—it was transformative for our team."

Mark Gannon

 2025 Annual Strategic Planning Process 
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We have a special Introductory Offer to organisations looking to held their 2025 Annual Strategic planning meeting at our Retreat in Herefordshire.  For the first five companies that book their meeting before the end of December 2024, we are offering a 25% discount.
    • Clarify your 2025 vision with structured guidance.
    • Align your leadership team around key goals and priorities.
    • Drive growth by identifying high-impact strategies and avoiding common scaling pitfalls.
    • Develop an actionable plan to manage growth efficiently using the Scaling Up framework.

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