After the success of our first sold-out business wellness retreat, we’re planning to create and bring you more in 2020.
JOIN US FOR A GENTLE LIVING, EMBODIED LEADERSHIP RETREAT IN 2020.
Getting away from your usual way of working and living will allow you to reflect, pause, review and plan how you’re going to be in your business and how your business is going to bring you what you truly deserve.
Where we’ll support you to set the goals YOU love and want, plan the way YOU want to work to meet them, and to design the life and business that best suits YOU.
For 4 days you’ll be immersed in the private and idyllic setting of La Verger, in the Dordogne Region, France with just 9 other guests, your hosts (us – Emily and Frou) and the group’s own private chef.
In this unique retreat, we bring you our combined 30 years of experience in supporting people’s minds, bodies, work and businesses.
With us on hand to guide you in coaching sessions, workshops and mindful activities, this will be an entirely transformational business wellness retreat.
We won’t show you how to scale-up. We’re not going to help you reach for some arbitrary revenue goal (like that magical six-figure income).
We’re here to support you to set the goals YOU love and want, plan the way YOU want to work to meet them, and to design the life that best suits YOU.
In these unique retreats, your hosts Emily and Francesca bring you their combined 30 years of experience in supporting people’s minds, bodies, work and businesses.
Here’s what our 2019 retreat participants experienced
IF YOU…
Are craving time to make genuine shifts for you to re-emerge back IN to your life, business or career with more vigour, alignment and flow…
Are craving time to make genuine shifts for you to re-emerge back IN to your life, business or career with more vigour, alignment and flow…
Would love to spend some time away working ON your mindset, habits and beliefs whether that’s in business or your career in a way that doesn’t leave you continually feeling like you’re just treading water or simply doing enough to get by…
Are wondering when you’ll get to start enjoying being self-employed or this career you’ve worked so hard to achieve and create…
We get it, we’ve been there too, and that’s why we’ve created this retreat. So together we can enjoy the freedom and space to plan a business and career future that is gentle, joyful and fun.
OUR BUSINESS WELLNESS RETREATS ARE IDEAL FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
- You’re the business owner who’s been going but is not always sure how to keep yourself going.
- You’re middle management and an aspirational CEO, CMO, and leader of tomorrow.
- You’re a part of the team. You go all in. You dream big and commit yourself to your goals.
- When you started, you were passionate, determined and full of fire to share your message and make your mark on the world.
- But a few years in, even with success (on someone’s scale), you find yourself exhausted and maybe even slightly embarrassed that you haven’t gotten everything clear yet.
- Your strategy, your mindset, your confidence, your desire to grow even bigger but the fear it’ll mean just more hours and more of your soul.
- You tell yourself if only you could dig a little deeper and get over the line, have more self-discipline and tick one more thing off your list. If you could achieve more and have more hours of the day. You question if you should attend that other self-development or leadership workshop. Do you need another qualification? Is that what’s missing? Is that why you feel stagnant?
- Life feels like it’s on hold, in the way or ‘I’ll just be a minute’ and it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of the success you want right now.
- Perhaps you’re not always clear on how things work, and maybe you’re still trying too many things.
- You feel stuck and maybe even a little overwhelmed.
- The negative self-talk of should’s, could and would weigh you down.
- You begin to question if you’re cracked up for this life and the dreams you hold so tightly to your chest.
- But deep down, you know something is out of alignment. You don’t feel in alignment with your purpose and what you’re here to do on this earth.
- Questioning whether you’re experiencing signs of burnout, wishing to not carry on building your business or climbing the ladder in this way.
- Feeling ready to grow and learn and step boldly into a new way of living you’d like to see business and life together in more integration.
- Feeling that you want focused change out of the everyday trappings of “normal” life.
- Ready and willing to step into the vision of your future self, business and career.
The retreat was a hugely uplifting experience. I went into it with few expectations but knowing that I needed time to reflect and the support to think and act differently in my business and life. Emily and Francesca created a space for just that. Through the coaching sessions, I was able to gain clarity on my goals and values and start to work through the blocks which were in the way of achieving them. They brought together a group of women with different backgrounds and outlooks but a shared desire to create a gentle and successful life. The retreat was perfectly paced to include time for wellbeing, time alone, and time to connect with others and the impact of that will be long-lasting for me.
— Jo Williams, Business Owner, Chapter & Verse Marketing & Social Media
I’d been searching for that missing element in my business all year. The thing that was going to change how I felt about my business and powered me forward. The Gentle Living Embodied Leaders business wellness retreat helped me find it!
— Cat Hase, Creativity Coach, Imagine If
It was simple things, simple questions asked in the most open and thought-provoking ways that made me rediscover what was important and what was inside me all along. Team that with a wonderful group of participants, lovely location & delicious food and the whole thing was a dream that I didn’t want to leave!
The best way to describe this retreat will be to put Simon Sinek, Joe Dispenza and Eckhart Tolle together and ask them to create a 4 days miracle course that will be approved by Louise Hay! Emily and Francesca created the most wonderful space for you not only to reconnect with your purpose and get clarity for your business and life, but to heal your old wounds that may be holding you back in the first place. This retreat may be about the baguette, cheese, wine, oracle card pulling and lovely surroundings, but not with Emily and Francesca. You can be assured you will work your sh*t out first so you can enjoy all above afterwards.
— Aga Kehinde, EFT Therapist and Coach
Core Coaching Activities
We’ll use the time to work differently so you can make great decisions, release doubts, get confidence in your business choices and direction and feel supported by an amazing community of others in the same space.
Additional Activities:
There will be plenty of opportunity during the retreat for time out and additional activities including:
- Yin & Restorative Yoga
- Movement Classes
- Sound Healing Therapy
- EFT
- Mindfulness & Meditation
- Swimming
- Relaxation
- Journalling
- Walking
Dietary Requirements:
All dietary requirements can be catered for with our private in house chef to ensure you are nurtured and nourished.
JOIN US FOR A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF FREEDOM WITHIN YOUR BUSINESS, CAREER AND SENSE OF SELF, TO BECOME THE BUSINESS LEADER AND OWNER YOU TRULY DESERVE TO BE.
We believe in … Clarity
We believe in … Connection
We believe in … Community
We believe in … Collaboration
Latest news on our forthcoming 2020 retreats here:
YOUR HOSTS
About Francesca Elizabeth
Francesca Elizabeth is an entrepreneur, and an internationally certified life and business psychology coach. She works with wellness professionals, creatives, and those championing businesses with a conscious pulse to become embodied leaders.
Her work is primarily focused on empowering others to become the leaders they were born to be. Using embodiment methodology, psychology, mindfulness, bodywork practises and a specialist interest in the mind-body connection, to bring clients home to themselves and the world of their businesses.
She is the founder of wellness company, The Death By Lycra Collective using a bespoke framework she has developed and continues to evolve with clients over time to truly enable people to achieve the lives that they dream of.
FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS & CPDS:
- BSc Psychology
- Member of the British Psychological Society
- Transpersonal Psychotherapy Foundation
- Practitioner in Brain and Behaviour Change
- Internationally Certified Life Coach
- Google Change Management
- Eating Psychology Coach Certification
- Emotion Code Practitioner
- Yin Yoga Teacher Training
- Sound Healing Teacher Training
- Professional Certificate in Food and Nutrition Coaching
- Genetic Testing for Fitness & Nutrition
- Level 3 & 4 Personal Trainer
- Pre & Post Natal Specialist
- PinkBelt Kickboxing Instructor
About Emily
Emily founded and runs the Gentle Leadership Programme supporting private individuals and business owners to gain momentum and change in their lives and work, to work better for them all round.
In the last 3 years she’s worked in her own coaching business with hundreds of people through their own stressful life moments through to success – defined by them.
However, over the last 20 years in total, through the NHS and privately she’s helped people prevent and manage health and life issues, dealing with burnout, anxiety, serious illness and unwanted change, supporting them to live in greater alignment and move forwards even when they felt it may not be possible.
She wanted, and continues to want, a more gentle (but still empowered) life and a more mindful (but still bold) business. She brings this passion to all the work she does with you too.
Achievements in her business include having over 2000 hours of one to one coaching with clients, setting up the world’s first medical coaching collective, numerous television, radio and podcast appearances spreading the gentle life message, and hundreds of successful client stories many of whom continue within her community to this day.
FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS & CPDS:
- MSc and BA Hons in Health Psychology, specialising in the impact of understanding risk and trauma on our behaviours
- Over 15 years experience in the NHS and charity sector
- Additional 5 years supporting people to move forward from health and life challenges in both private and contracted practice
- Diploma in coaching and NLP
- MBPsS status membership of the British Psychological Society
