Fearless: A Guide to Living | POSTPONED due to C-19

Join us for 3 days in glorious Santa Fe for a retreat like no other. 

By women, for women. A chance to reground, recharge, and renew with other women in leadership.

For over a decade CEOs and leadership teams of Fortune 500 companies have been using the tools taught in this curriculum to radically re-inspire and enhance their work and their workplace culture. For the first time ever, it is being made accessible outside the corporate elite. To you.

Passion. Joy. Connection. Fire in the Belly. Purpose.

Remember how those feel? As women in leadership these things are vitally important. They are also the easiest to let fade away as we hold space for all those around us. We have moments of vibrant aliveness, perhaps fleeting, that we savor and then feel wistful as they recede into the demands of our day to day lives.

The Fearless: A Guide to Living retreat is designed by women, for women. Created by women in demanding leadership positions for women in leadership of all forms. Learn how mastering your “inner game” can be a game changer in all aspects of your life. Our curriculum is tried and true and comes out of years of leadership consulting rooted in the thinking of the likes of Larry Wilson, Amy Edmondson, Brene Brown, Daniel Goleman and Bob Anderson -- all woven together with our unique, engaging, and well-honed methodology. You will build skills around emotional intelligence, change readiness, resilience, confidence, voice, and the art of being guided by your deepest values and true purpose. It’s the stuff that makes leaders that people remember for a lifetime.

One of our favorite ways to teach this curriculum is to bring it to life by including some of our favorite improv veterans (it turns out it is a perfect marriage!) - so we are rounding out our team with beloved colleagues with whom we have taught many a joyful session, and who have performed on star studded stages like Upright Citizens Brigade and The Second City. Shazam!

This is not just a feel good retreat (although we promise that you will definitely feel good!) - it is a pragmatic game changer, taught by women with decades of experience in the leadership development and executive coaching field, living their talk in a real way. Designed to replenish and re-inspire you and also to give you the tools to keep that fire alive when you return home.

This retreat will likely sell out! Get first dibs on a spot and take advantage of early-bird pricing by registering before December 31, 2019.

Who we are.

Your hosts have been offering this unique alchemy of curriculum to rave reviews to leaders at all levels in the corporate and non-profit communities for over a decade (a version of this was the highest rated and longest running high-potential leadership development program at Kraft Foods for almost a decade), and are offering it in an open space for the very first time. This spring, this extraordinary team is opening their process to women leaders everywhere, no corporate sponsorship required!

WHAT WE’LL DO:

Re-ground.

WHAT: Emotional Intelligence. Learn the art of rising above it all, the science of mood contagion, and why it is so important to be able to choose growth over fear-- in work, and in life. We will spend our first day together getting grounded in the concept of EQ, and why it is such an important component to extraordinary leadership. We will then take a look at where some of our deepest fears arise from, how they at one time kept us safe, but how, left unexamined, they can quietly keep us living our lives very small. And we will learn tools for challenging the voice in our heads that gets in the way of living all the way to the edge of what we are capable of. These will be powerful leadership tools, but also powerful life tools. They are the core of all of the work that we do. You’ll be grounded in EQ and learn our core tools for increasing yours right away.

WHO: Linda Pedelty is a leadership development professional with over 20 years of experience working with high potential leaders at all levels, with a passion and focus on emotional intelligence and a gift for creating a relaxed, informal and light-hearted learning space. She also knows her stuff. A student of Daniel Goleman’s, Linda worked closely with Larry Wilson and his clients for several years, and has been running top rated, highly sought after leadership development programs with her colleagues at Culture Logic for 15 years.

Re-charge.

WHAT: Resilience. An over-used buzz word these days, it is so much more than the ability to “bounce back.” Resilience is the fuel of life. In our time together we will explore resilience with each of us ultimately staking claim to our own and crafting a real plan to nurture our own resilience.  We’ll learn about the biology of resilience and realize those areas we have choice and those biological responses that rule when the body has had “too much.”  We will learn about tending to self and our relationship with ourselves as the backbone of deepening our resilience, a key to thriving in this age of overwhelm and walk away with our own resilience plan for going forward.

WHO: Cyndi Harris is a leadership development professional with over 30 years of experience in the for-profit and non-profit arenas, and has brought her expertise for supporting leaders in developing resilience individually and in their organization to all aspects of her work. A student of Brene Brown, Cyndi is routinely referred to as one of the most insightful and compassionate consultants and executive coaches people have ever worked with.

WHAT: Remembering your core life Values, and your core life Purpose. It's like coming home. Our special guest, Nicole Polarek, COO of Nature’s Way, executive coach and all around amazing human will lead us through an exercise to excavate our most core values, and talk to us about how staying grounded in her Values has served her as a female executive in a male-dominated industry.

WHO: Nicole Polarek is the COO of Nature’s Way. She has led teams and developed leaders to maximize their performance and to be relevant in their industry and with their teams for 20 years. Known to be an exceptional developer of people in each of her various executive roles and a masterful executive coach herself, her voice will be a warm and welcome add to the mix as she helps us dive into the topic of identifying and leading from our core Values, as well as being a resource of real life experience throughout our retreat.

TIME OFF! We’ll wrap at 3:00 on Day 2 so that you can do whatever you most want to do to RECHARGE. Take a drive to Ghost Ranch, go for a hike, hit the spa, or reflect on our conversations so far. The afternoon and evening are yours!

 Renew.

WHAT: Reclaiming your swagger: Bring You to everything you do (a recipe for authenticity & spontaneity). Build character, write your own story and let your voice soar in this co-blended session by 3 good friends, Robyn Scott, Kate James and Colleen Murray Peyton, who are seasoned improvisors and professional facilitators with top-level leadership development and coaching chops to boot. With a dash of improv, storytelling and presence work, you'll discover your own personal recipe to spice up your creative flow and trust the moment. And laugh your butts off along the way.

WHO: Robyn Scott, Kate James and Colleen Murray Peyton are seasoned improvisors and professional facilitators who all cut their chops at the world-renowned Second City and now run their own experiential learning companies. With a dash of improv, storytelling and presence work, you'll discover your own personal recipe to spice up your creative flow and trust the moment, and laugh your butts off along the way. They are master facilitators and executive coaches.

WHAT: What it looks like in the wild. Artist Ranier Amiel Wood will close our session with a presentation and Q & A about her artistic journey: “What I have learned about fear, courage and magic.” Her still-unfolding story is a beautiful example of the magic that blossoms when you are living your life from your deepest calling, and the challenge of staying true to course through the noise of daily life. You’ll be inspired!

WHO: Ranier Wood is an internationally-recognized artist who will share our days, and help us close by sharing her own path to finding her calling, her voice, and her courage… and the magic that sprung up all around her when she did. 

WHAT: A taste of the Artist’s kitchen. We’ll close out our time together at the Santa Fe School of cooking where we’ll prepare an O’Keefe-inspired celebration dinner together, with special guest Margaret Wood, author of A Painter’s Kitchen: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O’Keefe.

WHY COME?

Great content, beautiful place, one-of-a-kind team.

Over 3 days and 3 nights in magical Santa Fe, NM, we'll provide you with all of the tools you will need to re-focus on becoming your most radiant and fulfilled personal and professional self: great content, taught in a beautiful place, shared with other wise and wonderful women.

Your job? Just get here. Bring an open heart and a readiness to laugh, learn, envision and practice cultivating your possibility! Whether you have been a part of one of our Leadership Development experiences in the past or not, this retreat is a chance to dig in to some of our most-asked-for curriculum, in an environment lovingly designed to nurture, challenge, enlighten and inspire.

This retreat is a just-right mix of inspiring content developed and taught by some of the industry's most experienced professionals, soul-feeding activities designed to inspire and renew, and a rare chance to meet and learn from other amazing women leaders from every industry. We designed it to be the cure to leadership burnout that we wanted to attend, ourselves. Please join us.

$1695 Tuition includes:

• 3-day workshop and all materials

• Breakfast and breaks all 3 days

• Al Fresco dinner Thursday night

• Farm to table cooking class and dinner Saturday night

EARLY BIRD pricing! Register and pay in full by March 31: $1495

• High season will just be beginning. Lucky us! We have rooms right downtown at the Inn at Loretto at a very special rate of $189 a night.

  • CLICK HERE to book your rooms, or call 1-866-582-1646

  • Mention the group code "FEARLESS2020" or tell them you are with the “Fearless: The Summit” group:

• Amazing news! Want to extend your stay? The Loretto will extend our special group rate for 3 days in either direction so you can really discover Santa Fe, while rooms are available.

 BRING A FRIEND and you each get $200 off.

We know that these things are so much more fun with your besties at your side! Bring a friend and you both get $200 off!

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