Waiheke Horizons:
Rest, renewal, and transformation


A two to five day retreat experience designed personally for you.

Come prepared to shift your horizons. Leave emboldened with practices to equip you for the complexities of life and leadership.

A mix of spacious solo time and guided coaching, conversation, walking in the forest, playing on the beach, and lounging at home base.

Add yoga, massage, sauna, and mindfulness meditation to suit your intention.

The purpose

This is a space naturally inviting us to breathe, to rest and renew, away from our current routines. Transformation flows naturally from here – a physical place of ease. Here, an experienced guide accompanies you to intentionally prompt movement in your current horizons and shifts in your life trajectory. This is the guided mahi of this place.

With courage and support together:

  • We ask: ‘what if’ questions about your desired futures – tuning into wonder.

  • We inquire about ‘what is’ to discern your current state.

  • We play with ‘how come’ questions about patterns and habits to better see the past, its influence on you and face the choice to break unhelpful patterns while also considering how you might do this.

I offer the place and the space, enriched by an enabling structure for transformation.

The transformation experience may feel intensive and at the same time is planned and supported to be smooth. You will leave with a map (very much an organic one) of adult development (called Shifting Horizons). You will identify where you currently tend to operate, how well that serves you, and where you are growing. Importantly, you will also have new tools and awareness for your journey ahead.

The likely rhythm of the day

Mornings are deliberately designed to guide depth of inquiry and insight plus to test out or experience tools for self, relational and system awareness, for fitness in complexity, and to hone up intentions. Mornings are at the Loft or elsewhere - weather dependent.

Afternoons will be as guided or solo as you wish to meet your intent. Some people may choose a silent guided process, others a more energetic and interactive one. They may include activities such as walking, kayaking, beach or forest bathing. They may include mindful walking and meditation practice, breathing and snoozing with or without a book.

Evenings provide a space for check in and integration via conversation and journalling.

At times that best suit, we encourage the integration of local experiences of massage, yoga, sauna, ayurvedic treatments. Some will come to you at the loft, some are elsewhere. We design this together.

Change and transformation

The elements that become alchemical enabling change and transformation:

  • Being – letting go, listening to your inner voice of calm and letting whispers be heard

  • Awareness of pathways for shifting your horizons

  • Spaciousness of time and place

  • Beauty and wisdom of nature - the forest, the sea, the sky, the earth, the sun

  • Spending time alone

  • Rich conversations and coaching

  • Time and accompaniment in practising complexity and ‘street-smart’ tools

  • Deep reflection, listening, writing and learning to journal, speaking

  • Breathing and mindful meditation

  • Fresh organic food

  • Massage, sauna, yoga

  • Movement

Details

Your accommodation is sorted – luxury detached loft style accommodation a short 600m walk to Palm Beach.

You will be picked up off the Island Direct Ferry arriving from Auckland, unless you come with a vehicle. You will be taken on all other trips around the island planned.

Dietary needs will be supported as much as possible. All our food is organic and mostly local. Generally, we offer vegetarian and dairy free. We can easily cater for gluten free. We make our own breakfast muesli, accompanied by seasonal fruit – often from either our own garden or that of friends. We offer High Culture nut cheese and seedy bark which we hand make in our commercial kitchen. This is available for sale on the island only – and complimentary to you on arrival.

If you’d enjoy a visit to a local vineyard for a meal or tastings or just a tour somewhere this can be arranged.

Rates – rates vary from $1800 per day for 2-5 days and depend on intentions and bespoke design.

If you wish to engage with such a experience then let’s chat about how we design that to meet your needs.