Agenda:

Arrivals | Monday 7th December 2026

You are welcome to arrive any time after 1pm. Settle, connect, walk the grounds, enjoy the setting and begin to step out of the pace of everyday life.  Dinner at 6pm and an opening conversation to set the tone for the days ahead.

Retreat Day 1 | Tuesday 8th December 2026 

We will explore integrated health, vitality and sustainable performance as foundations for effective leadership, better decision-making, resilience under pressure and long term personal and professional impact.

We will focus on the part of leadership many people avoid because it is so close to home. We look at the mental, emotional and social patterns that quietly shape our performance, work and our lives. We explore the invisible contracts many women have made with themselves. To be strong all the time. To be available all the time. To prove themselves repeatedly. To put everyone else first. We examine what those patterns have given us and what they may now be costing us.

We will explore integrated health, vitality, sustainable performance and how we resource ourselves to hold ambition, love, laughter and joy at the same time. This day is about creating a stronger foundation for the life, work and world contribution you are here to make.

• Restore and sustain physical, emotional and cognitive energy levels for work performance, health and longevity.
• Transform emotions of guilt, fear, worry, boredom, loneliness or irritation that hold you back.
• Navigate workload and competing demands, restore energy, reduce tiredness, exhaustion and burnout.
• Develop mastery in time leadership and prioritisation.
• Build a rhythm of work that is aligned with your biology, life stage and personal values.
• Connect with yourself again and find a sense of balance that is not static, but dynamic, free and responsive.

Retreat Day 2 | Wednesday 9th December 2026

The second day turns to your work, stepping into greater leadership, influence and visibility or recognising that you are at a turning point and need to think differently about your work, business or career future. We will figure out what that looks like, what is in the way and the gap between what you are capable of and what you are currently doing. We will also ask bigger questions. Do you want to advance? Pivot? Build something new? Move into work that is more aligned with what matters most to you? This is where you get clearer on your direction and determine the decisions needed to move forward.

• Gain clarity on your next bold leadership, career or business step and identify opportunities to increase your strategic impact, influence organisational culture, drive innovation and contribute at a higher level within your organisation.
• Define success beyond expectations and shape a future work life that reflects who you truly are.
• Explore the possibility that the next level of success may not come from working harder but from becoming more visible, more courageous and more fully yourself.
• Uncover the patterns that limit your growth and replace them with conscious, expansive choices.
• Lead from radical authenticity, ethics and inner authority and shift how others experience and respond to you.
• Connect with your purpose and transform your work or business into a source of meaningful and purpose driven impact.

Retreat Day 3 | Thursday December 10th 2026

The final day widens the lens. Many leadership programmes ask how women can succeed within existing systems. We ask a different question: what systems need to change and what role will you play in changing them?

We are living through a time of business and global complexity and fragility. We feel a deep pull towards change but do not always know how to translate that into action. Together, we explore the causes and issues that matter most to you, the future you will help shape and the practical role you can play within that. Not as a fantasy, not as a distant idea but something real, thoughtful and possible. The retreat ends with tangible plans, commitments and a knowing of how your life, work and world connect to the change you want to create. We will close with a fun time of celebration drinks and food at Cafe Habana in Malibu.

The day will be formed around three questions:

1. What is actually happening in the world (truth)
2. What could be possible for you (vision)
3. What can you do about it (agency)

• Pursue a calling towards changing cultures and systems, not just succeeding within them.
• Influence corporate culture, equity and inclusion at a deeper level and engage with wider societal issues.
• Challenge existing norms and ask better, braver questions.
• Develop your bold points of view, platform of influence and ability to challenge the status quo.
• Determine what meaning, contribution and legacy really is for you and future generations.
• Become a credible, resourceful change agent who influences people, culture and systems over time.

Departures | Friday 11th December 2026

Breakfast, enjoy the grounds or visit the beach or shops. Time to leave thoughtfully, with way more clarity, new friends and peace than when you arrived. Leave the retreat by 1pm.

All payments are processed in pounds sterling.

Self-funding your place? We understand that investing in yourself is a significant commitment. To make attendance more accessible, we are pleased to offer the option of spreading the cost over instalments. If this would be helpful, please contact team@drsamcollins.com who will be delighted to arrange this for you.

You’re very welcome to join us with others. If you choose to come with a friend, family member or colleague, we offer additional discounts as a way of supporting that experience – 10% for 2 people and 15% for 3 people.

The registration fees covers the full retreat experience, which includes the three day workshop, four nights accommodation (private room with shared bathroom with one other adjacent room), all meals and tea/coffee. Please note that vegetarian options are available but other dietary needs cannot be catered for at this venue. Participants can bring and store own food if needed. The registration fee does not include the final event drinks and dinner at Cafe Habana in Malibu or any other excursions.

WIFI is available at the retreat but limited mobile/cell reception.The retreat does feature disability access. It includes a wheelchair accessible entrance, a wheelchair accessible car parking, accessible paths and walkways and accessible accommodation and meeting space.

Flights and transportation to retreat not included. Closest airports are LAX and Burbank. Transportation to venue would need to be arranged separately (taxi, Uber, private car, car hire). Parking is available at the retreat at no cost.