An immersive experience designed to transform how you lead

A focused 3-day retreat to understand your leadership style, strengthen your influence, and leave with practical tools to lead yourself and your team more effectively

Leadership from the Inside Out

This retreat is for senior leaders, directors, deputy directors, heads of function , entrepreneurs and founders who want to step back and take an honest look at how they lead, both others and themselves.

Wern-y-Cwm Farm, South Wales

24th - 26th March 2026

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You will be able to:

  • Revisit your leadership approach before pressure turns into burnout

  • Create high performance without exhausting yourself or your team

  • Reduce quiet disengagement and retain your best people

  • Move from constant reacting to confident, intentional leadership

  • Lead in a way that is sustainable, human and effective

Our approach

This retreat blends executive coaching, practical leadership development and wellbeing workshops plus time in the outdoors to create space for honest reflection and real change. Rather than teaching abstract theory, we work with your lived experience as a leader – the challenges, decisions and relationships you navigate every day.

You’ll learn through:

  • Structured team coaching workshops that give you a greater understanding of your leadership style and blind spots

  • A fireside chat with a successful business founder who built a multi-million pound enterprise from scratch

  • Lessons learned about leadership and personal resilience while leading an expedition to climb the 5th highest mountain on Earth

  • Reflections about managing task, teams, individuals and self based on a 35 year career leading people on operations across the globe and leading strategy in Whitehall

  • Practical tools you can apply immediately to improve the will and cohesion of your teams

  • Teachings on managing your own personal wellbeing, mental/physical health and resilience

  • Outdoor activities to include rock climbing/abseiling/walking to unlock new thinking and growth through challenge

  • Peer learning with other senior leaders facing similar pressures

  • Follow up one to one coaching session

This is not a wellness retreat, motivational event or corporate away day. It is an immersive series of workshops that will enable you to take stock of how you lead your people and manage yourself.

You will leave with tools that improve the performance, motivation and cohesion of your teams. That means greater productivity.

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What the Programme Involves?

  • Four young women sitting together at a table in a cafe or coffee shop, smiling and engaging with their devices and each other.

    A small, trusted group of experienced leaders (6 pax)

  • Group of women gathered around a table making holiday wreaths with greenery, ribbons, and decorative supplies in a cozy, well-lit room.

    Facilitated leadership workshops and structured reflection

  • Group of people hiking on a mountain trail surrounded by green grass with snowy mountain peaks in the background.

    Outdoor stretch activities (rock climbing, abseiling and walking)

  • A group of six people gathered in a well-decorated room with blue walls and large windows. Four of them are standing and two are sitting, engaged in conversation or working on their laptops and phones. The room features elegant furniture, large decorative vases, a chandelier, and a mirror with a golden eagle above it.

    A Collective Leadership Clinic focused on real leadership challenges

Retreat at a Glance

  • Time to settle in, followed by introductions and a facilitated session exploring leadership style and self-management.

    The evening includes a shared dinner followed by a fireside chat that focuses on Laura’s reflections about leadership, judgement, and responsibility based on her experiences founding and growing a successful retail business.

  • A gentle movement session run by Nancy offers some tools for self-management. This is followed by breakfast and a leadership styles workshop.

    Late morning and early afternoon are spent outdoors, using a facilitated climbing and abseiling experience to explore trust, communication, and managing self under pressure.

    The afternoon allows time for recovery and choice, including lake and sauna access, quiet time in nature, or optional massage (available on request at additional cost).

    The evening focuses on shared learning through a Collective Leadership Workshop, followed by dinner.

    Then, a fireside chat focuses on Dave’s leadership lessons learned leading an expedition to climb Makalu, the World’s 5th highest mountain.

  • The retreat concludes with an outdoor integration walk and a facilitated session focused on applying insights gained back at work.

Join Us on this Retreat

Meet Your Retreat Facilitators

  • A man in a blue jacket and safety helmet rock climbing on a steep cliff with a view of a river, road, and green landscape in the background.

    Dave Tait MBE

    RETREAT FACILITATOR

    Qualified and accredited executive coach, leadership mentor and mountaineering professional based in Bristol, UK.

    After 35 years in the Royal Air Force, including command, strategy leadership and operational deployments, Dave now helps leaders, founders and teams improve clarity, decision-making and resilience.

    His unique approach blends accredited coaching with outdoor reflection and stretch, because new thinking happens when we step outside routine.

  • A woman with long dark hair wearing a brown knit sweater, outdoors with snowy mountains in the background.

    Nancy Yeung

    YOGA TEACHER

    Nancy is a professional yoga teacher and former Partner at EY, with first-hand experience of leading in high-pressure, fast-paced corporate environments. After years in senior leadership, she understands the demands, expectations, and cumulative strain that often accompany executive roles.

    She brings a grounded, practical approach to yoga and embodiment, shaped by both her corporate background and her lived experience of burnout and recovery. Her work creates space for leaders to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and cultivate resilience, clarity, and sustainable energy—on and off the mat.

  • A smiling woman with short blonde hair wearing a red patterned blouse and black pants, sitting in a colorful, artsy room with paintings and hanging lights.

    Laura Tenison

    BUSINESS FOUNDER

    Our host at Wonderful Escapes, Wern-y-Cwm Farm was previously the Founder & CEO of the UK’s leading independent parenting brand. Set up from her flat share bedroom aged 25 with a £2k loan, she grew it into a global omni-channel retail brand with B2C businesses in the UK, US & Ireland, plus trade sales to over 50 countries.  

    In 2022 the UK business had sales of £71M and was acquired by Next Plc, leaving Laura free to concentrate on her farm & launch the retreat centre. 

    She will join us for an informal, yet candid, fireside chat with insights into her business & leadership ethos. 

Wern-y-Cwm Farm

Found on the slopes of the Skirrid in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons), this extensive farmstead is like a small village and includes the Great Barn, huge Farmhouse, spacious Dairy, cosy Cider House, eclectic Owl House & overflow glamping. With views across the Usk Valley to Gloucestershire, it is close to Abergavenny, (around 2 hrs train from London) or an hour’s drive from Bristol & Cardiff.

Learn More about the Venue
A peaceful garden with a white cottage wall, an outdoor seating area, a decorative birdcage, and lush green trees in the background.
A sunny greenhouse with a table set for a meal, surrounded by potted plants and flowers, with a view of the outdoors through large glass windows.
A cozy attic bedroom with a large bed on the left, featuring blue and gold patterned pillows and white linens. A bathtub is positioned near a small chest of drawers, with a floral blanket draped over a chair. The room has a bright fireplace with a mi
A spacious yoga studio decorated with white textured walls, exposed wooden beams, and large windows. The room is arranged with yoga mats, bolsters, and blocks on the floor, facing a modern black fireplace with a fire burning. There are colorful cushi
View of a garden with trees, purple flowers, and a wooden gate, seen from inside a sauna room with wooden walls.
Open kitchen with white cabinets, a colorful tile backsplash, and a view into a living room with yellow and pink chairs, a sofa, and large windows.
Garden path with brown metal arches overgrown with purple and pink flowers, leading to a small pond with lounge chairs and lush green fields under partly cloudy sky.
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Investment

3D2N Executive Retreat, 24th-26th March 2026, at Wern-y-Cwm Farm, South Wales.

Founding Cohort : £1,344 + 20% VAT

Includes:

  • En-suite/private bathroom accommodation in private rooms

  • All meals & complementary wine

  • All workshops, leadership programme and activities

  • One 60-minute post-retreat 1:1 coaching session

Places are intentionally limited.

No prior outdoor experience is needed. All activities are professionally facilitated and fully supported.

Pay in full or use code DEPOSIT25 to pay 25% to secure a place with the remainder to be paid 1 month prior (by 24th Feb).