7 to 10 days, in person, in nature
Gather
A private retreat. We map all five spheres and workshop the plan with expert support, with good food and time outside to think. We hold your vision while you shape the plan around it.
- Four doors
- The Intensive
The Intensive: a private retreat in nature, then a year of support.
Seven to ten days in nature, where challenge and stillness meet, to map your whole life and workshop the plan with expert support. Then a year of working it into your business, your family and your team, with Ellie between calls.
Built around you and your system.
A bespoke engagement for people with a lot going for them who want the whole of it to work together. It is private, and it is designed around how your own life and work fit together, not around a template.
That includes what it is like to lead as you are. We work with women leaders and with leaders of every background, and we design around your actual experience, including being the first or only one in the room.
- Who it is for
- Executives, founders, rising leaders and athletes leaving sport.
- Format
- Seven to ten days in nature, then remote support.
- Length
- About one year, renewable.
- Investment
- We talk investment through on the first call.
Four stages, each lighter than the last.
At every stage the effort it takes falls, while everything you are building rises.
1 month, remote
Build
We work alongside you as the plan lands in your business, your family and your team.
Weekly, tapering to monthly
Sustain
Check-ins until monthly is enough. Ellie, free for retreat clients, covers the space between, privately. How Ellie keeps your conversations yours.
Yearly, optional
Renew
Come back if it is useful.
What you leave with, in every sphere.
Self
A self that connects with the rest of life with more ease.
Family
Real integration between work and home.
Business
Leadership that resonates and creates a clear culture.
Team
A collective, collaborative culture with a shared vision, which leads to real accountability.
Community
The capacity to create and hold community.
Challenge and stillness, both found outside.
Why in nature.
Nature gives you both. The challenge wakes you up and shows you what you are made of. The stillness lets you hear what you actually think. Away from the room where the current system was built, the next decisions get made from still ground.
Guided time in nature is part of our team’s background: Ben Porchuk spent twelve years living off the grid and is Canada’s first certified forest therapy guide.
Who you work with.
Four people with different strengths, and one aim: a life and a business that fit together.
Dr. Romola Porchuk
Psychology, culture, transition and crisis.
Paul Dugsin
Strategy, funding and technology, steady through large-scale change.
Joa Dugsin
Teams, coaching and elite team building.
Ben Porchuk
Nature as challenge and stillness: an ecologist, twelve years off the grid, and Canada’s first certified forest therapy guide.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what you are working with. A person reads every request and will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Confidential. No pitch. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.