Team Retreat
Your team is busy, eager to perform and constantly chasing the next big wave. Or perhaps your team is in a rut, or even underperforming. To get your team ahead, it may be time to take a moment to reflect and reconnect. Listen and be heard. And finally get to the issues that really matter in order to reach the next level.
The Team Retreat is ideal for this. It will take your team on a unique, experiential process of discovery that will engage the mind, body and the heart. It will:
Encourage deep and genuine conversations that enhance trust and connectedness
- Create space for the thoughts, feelings and beliefs at the heart of your team
- Uncover the underlying dynamics affecting your team’s performance
- Identify the team’s hidden limitations and growth potential
- Enable reconciliation where necessary
Schedule
The Team Retreat takes two days and runs as follows:
Day 1
| 08:30-09:00 | Arrival, coffee and tea. |
| 09:00-10:00 | Check in: settling in, determine expectations and rules, introductions. |
| 10:00-12:30 | Personal stories: participants look back on the previous 12 months and share the main themes/issues from their personal lives. Deep listening creates intimacy and generates valuable insights. |
| 12:30-13:15 | Lunch, downtime. |
| 13:15-17:00 | Professional stories: participants look back on the previous 12 months and explore the main themes/issues at work. This gives the team a better understanding of each person’s strengths and learning path. |
| 17:00-19:00 | Team dynamics: we explore the underlying dynamics of the team as a systemic whole. This identifies key issues effecting the performance of the team. |
| 19:00-21:00 | Team dinner: no work, private time. |
Day 2
| 07:30-08:30 | Breakfast, personal time. |
| 08:30-09:30 | Connecting in movement: we wake up the body and the mind by exploring team connections using principles from martial arts. |
| 09:30-12:30 | Team Identity Matrix: we build on work from day 1 by exploring six key aspects of the team’s core identity. This identifies (hidden) limitations and areas of growth at a very deep level of functioning. |
| 12:30-13:15 | Lunch, downtime. |
| 13:15-17:00 | Designing the Future: using the personal, professional and team-related insights from both days, participants work a on a team roadmap for the next 12 months. |
| 17:00-17:30 | Conclusion: take-aways, commitments and future needs. |
Day 1
08:30-09:00
Arrival, coffee and tea.
09:00-10:00
Check in: settling in, determine expectations and rules, introductions.
10:00-12:30
Personal stories: participants look back on the previous 12 months and share the main themes/issues from their personal lives. Deep listening creates intimacy and generates valuable insights.
12:30-13:15
Lunch, downtime.
13:15-17:00
Professional stories: participants look back on the previous 12 months and explore the main themes/issues at work. This gives the team a better understanding of each person’s strengths and learning path.
17:00-19:00
Team dynamics: we explore the underlying dynamics of the team as a systemic whole. This identifies key issues effecting the performance of the team.
19:00-21:00
Team dinner: no work, private time.
Day 2
07:30-08:30
Breakfast, personal time.
08:30-09:30
Connecting in movement: we wake up the body and the mind by exploring team connections using principles from martial arts.
09:30-12:30
Team Identity Matrix: we build on work from day 1 by exploring six key aspects of the team’s core identity. This identifies (hidden) limitations and areas of growth at a very deep level of functioning.
12:30-13:15
Lunch, downtime.
13:15-17:00
Designing the Future: using the personal, professional and team-related insights from both days, participants work a on a team roadmap for the next 12 months.
17:00-17:30
Conclusion: take-aways, commitments and future needs.
