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About the Retreat
Theme: SHINE - Stillness, Horizon, Insight, Navigation, Engagement
This leadership-for-change booster is designed to equip professionals and leaders with the skills and mindset needed to navigate complexity, foster resilience, and drive impactful change. The 2025 Leading the Change retreat invites you to reconnect with your inner self, nature, and a like-minded community, building the foundation for impactful and sustainable leadership.
This retreat follows the SHINE framework—Stillness, Horizon, Insight, Navigation, and Engagement—guiding participants through a structured experience that fosters mindfulness, systemic thinking, and actionable leadership growth based on the INNER DEVELOPMENT GOALS.—covering Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting—and emphasizes mindfulness, empathy, and systemic thinking. Through guided activities, self-reflection, and group dynamics, participants will leave with enhanced leadership skills and a renewed sense of purpose.
SHINE Framework Highlights
Mindfulness Practices - Stillness: Mindfulness practices include meditation, visualization, and a deep connection to nature.
Ontological Learning - Horizon: Expanding perspectives through possibility creation, exploring moods, language and deep listening for enhanced leadership communication for effectiveness.
Systemic Problem Solving - Insight: Applying systemic thinking tools to understand and address complexity in leadership and sustainability.
Empathetic Leadership - Navigation: Strengthening trust and collaboration through conflict resolution, effective communication, and co-creation techniques.
Call to Action - Engagement: Translating insights into a committed action plan, using creativity, and mobilising tools for impact.
WHO Should Attend
This retreat is tailored for:
Leaders and aspiring leaders committed to personal and professional growth.
Individuals ready to explore their inner compass and embrace new leadership methodologies.
Those seeking a supportive community of changemakers.
WHY Attend
Effective Leading Self-Awareness: Connect with your inner self and nature, fostering resilience and clarity.
Enhanced Leadership Skills: Acquire tools to lead with empathy and innovation.
Consequential Collaborative Foundations: Develop trust and connection with others.
Setting Up Action: Translate insights into practical steps for impactful leadership.
Small Group - Personalized Coaching - Group Discussions
Why Join the 2025 Edition? What's New in 2025?
This year’s retreat builds upon the success of the 2024 edition with several key improvements:
1. A Streamlined Structure: The SHINE Framework
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2024: Focused primarily on mindfulness, leadership skills, and nature connection.
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2025: Introduces the SHINE framework—Stillness, Horizon, Insight, Navigation, Engagement—a progressive journey from self-awareness to purposeful action. Each phase builds on the last, ensuring participants leave with a clear path forward.
2. Expanded Ontological Practices
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2024: Introduced the fundamentals of empathetic communication and relational leadership.
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2025: Deep dives into ontological moods, ontological language, and empathetic listening. new workshops on conflict resolution and trust-building.
3. Enhanced Focus on Systemic Problem-Solving
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2024: Included general leadership exercises with a focus on mindfulness and resilience.
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2025: Adds systemic thinking tools and cognitive methods for tackling complex problems. Participants will engage in practical frameworks to address real-world challenges.
4. A Call to Action: From Insight to Implementation
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2024: Participants reflected on their learnings but left implementation up to their own initiative.
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2025: Concludes with Engagement, where participants translate insights into action through creativity, commitment, and mobilization strategies.
5. Tailored Mindfulness Experiences
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2024: Standard mindfulness sessions combining meditation and nature walks.
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2025: A more diverse mix, including guided visualization, immersive nature-connectedness practices, and body movement exercises aligned with the SHINE phases for deeper impact.
From Evolution to Elevation: The 2025 IDG Leadership Retreat Improves
Records and Takeaways
Booklet and Journaling
The participant booklet will include:
Daily Journaling Prompts: To capture insights and reflections.
Nature Connection Activities: Guided instructions for immersion exercises.
Tools and Frameworks: On ontological moods, language, systemic thinking, and visualization.
Commitment Page: A structured section for participants to outline their personal and professional goals post-retreat with an outlined plan.
Inner Development Goals: Insights and tools overview and links.
Inspirational Quotes and Space for Free Writing.
Non-Profit Philosophy - Intimate Setting - World-Class Facilitation - IDG Framework
Simplified Agenda (subject to adjustments and changes)
Day 1: Arrival and Stillness (skills of mindfulness, self-awareness and nature connectedness enhancing the Being and Relating dimensions)
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Arrival, Lunch, and Welcome
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Opening Session: Journaling and booklet instructions and setting intentions
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Mindfulness Activities: Guided meditation and nature-connection practices
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Group Reflection: Introducing the WOOP framework
Day 2: Stillness, Horizon, Insight (skills of perspective, dialectical and complex thinking, relating and collaborating approaches and language enhancing 4 of the IDG dimensions)
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Morning Movement and Meditation
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IDG Overview: Exploring Being, Thinking, Relating, and Collaborating dimensions.
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Ontological Moods: Reframing limiting Moods for leadership growth
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Ontological Language: Exploring effective communication for leadership and collaboration
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Collaboration Tools: System thinking, dialectical methods, and scaffolding frameworks
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Conflict Resolution: Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and empathetic language in combination with ontological language practice
Day 3: Stillness, Navigation, Engagement (skills of creativity, mobilization enhancing the Acting dimension)
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Morning Movement, Mindfulness and Goal Setting
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Creativity Tools: Drawing for purpose (guided art exercise) followed by storytelling in connection with the WOOP Design
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Mobilization Techniques: Planning with SMART goals and actionable commitments
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Closing Circle: Art-Expo Feedback, reflections sharing and commitments.
2 Nights / 3 Days retreat for professionals and leaders of the now.
Main Facilitators / Organisers
David
Karime
Our retreats are non-profit
Why do we do that then?
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Because we can.
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Because we believe it to be our mission.
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Because we believe we need conscious and resilient leadership to transform our world for a better future.
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Because change starts from within.
What does that mean?
This means that AdvantiKA, the organising company, is not making any money from the retreats.
The retreat is offered as part of AdvantiKA's Designed to Give mission, and we only charge for costs, expenses, and fees.
What do you pay for?
You pay for the overall costs, including:
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Your accommodation and meals at an appropriate comfort and quality level at a pleasant location within sustainable parameters
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Fees paid to platforms and websites where our retreats are announced
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Workshop materials
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VAT and any other taxes that may apply
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Marketing and logistics expenses
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The moderator's expenses
What is sponsored for you?
We, the organisers and moderators, are providing as means of sponsorship:
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Our work in organising all of this (full hours)
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Our work to prepare the workshops and activities (full hours)
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Our time and effort
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Hosting licenses and general fixed costs
What do we do with any extra money that come in?
We offer free or sponsored workshops and pay for their location and other costs.