This service is for group retreats: offsites, leadership retreats, board meetings, kick-offs, ecosystem gatherings. For personal creative retreats, go to
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Maximize your offsite transformative power.
Financial costs, environmental impact, and stakes are too high to improvise. Leverage our role-based methodology.
Next level team retreats.
Any team experience you want to be more intentional with:
Offsite, Sales Kick-off, Board Meeting, Leadership Meeting, Strategic Planning
For remote, hybrid or office based teams

Because of physical logistics, team retreats are a massive investment: both financial & environmental.


Though, until VR steps up, physical gatherings are the only way to connect deeply. Indeed, whether you need to create a new relationship, improve it, or ask for support to get things done, you will get way better results face-to-face.

Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person?
Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance. By M. Mahdi Roghanizad, Vanessa K. Bohns. December 27, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211063259

Face-to-Face (FtF) wins vs:
Video Call (VC) and
Audio Call (AC) refer to synchronous communication utilizing video or audio features (e.g., Skype call, Phone call), respectively, while
Video Message (VM) and
Audio Message (AM) refer to asynchronous communication utilizing these features (e.g., WhatsApp, voice message).

By the time you pay for the venue, accommodations, and transportation, costs stack up and you get the attention of your CFO, already. Though, the only thing that this buys you is to gather everyone in the same physical space, that's it.


Given the high financial and environmental cost of the offsite, we have the responsibility to maximize its transformative power. Experience design & delivery enables that, it is the investment with the most leverage.


Through this website, we share our methodology and the opportunity to work with us.

What's so special?
  • i - we - it
    We take care of your people as individuals (i), the teams & organization they form (we), and the business (it).
  • Co-created
    By engaging your whole team in the co-creation of the offsite, its transformative power is fully unlocked.
  • Science based
    Our programs are built on top of the latest research: physiology, psychology, and social sciences.
  • Embodied
    We don't forget the body, we leverage it.
  • Play
    Why so serious? Have fun, (role) play, learn. Make full use of the offsite as a liminal space, a sandbox.
  • Flow
    We offer activities to support each of the 4 stages of the cycle of Flow: Struggle -> Release -> Flow -> Recover
Liminal what?

The anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep shared how humans transition from one stage of their life to another through rites of passage. Rites of passage have three moments:

1) We separate from the world and from what we used to be (old identity)

2) We transition from what we used to be to what we are becoming (identity is suspended)

3) We return to the world as what we have become (new identity)


The transition happens in liminal space. The offsite has this liminal quality.
What do you mean by "sandbox"?

In a computer system, a sandbox is a testing environment in which new or untested software or coding can be run securely. The offsite is a place where you can switch from performance mode (where you want to avoid mistakes) to development mode (where your mistakes are expected, and welcome as deep learning opportunities)

Magic, yet Affordable.
Magic happens when we are more intentional with each element of the retreat, grounded in a clear and deep understanding of the organization's mission, vision, values, and where you stand today in regard to these.

Enlightened by intention and execution excellence, ordinary and seemingly trivial aspects become extraordinary and transformative.

This is what our Methodology and Support are all about.
Also cheap
Your CFO will thank you.
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