Oya Leadership's Flagship Retreat At Calcot & Spa
Women’s Professional Leadership Retreat - English Countryside
Our 4-day Cotswolds retreat invites executives, entrepreneurs, senior managers, emerging leaders, and other change-building women to a rejuvenating, transformational experience in the English countryside. While many specific activities are customized to the needs and desires of participants, the retreat unfolds in two distinct and interdependent phases:
Phase 1: Relax, Reflect, Rejuvenate & Realign
Employing the tools of mindfulness and appreciative inquiry, the first two days emphasize wellness, self-reflection, and renewal as a holistic wellspring to help identify and align participants’ unique strengths, skills, and dreams.
Phase 2: Engage, Energize, Elevate & Execute
The final two days focus on the acquisition, refinement, and practice of vital leadership skills and the construction of a personalized playbook as a powerful guide for the planning, organization, and actualization of life and professional goals.
Throughout the retreat, we focus on wellness, connection to nature, and the support of a cohort of dynamic women to empower participants to expand and challenge themselves during the retreat and beyond as they embark on their designated dream path.
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Sample Retreat Agenda (Day 3)
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8:00 – 8:30 Light Breakfast - Theme: Making time
8:30 – 11:00 Wellness Activity: Highgrove Garden or Getting into Nature
11:00 –11:30 Travel back to Calcot
11:30 –12:00 Work Style & Communication Preferences
12:00 –12:30 How to identify and flex to the style of others
12:30 –1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Formal & Informal Communication
2:00 – 3:00 Assertion, Influence & Choices
3:00 – 3:30 Break - Tea Time/Reflection Walk
3:30 – 4:30 Deliver your POV & Insights (Case building, give and receive feedback)
4:30 – 5:00 Outline and framework for building your Life & Professional Playbook
6:30 PM Dinner
8:00 Fireside Chat: Gender Differences - Challenges & Opportunities
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Retreat Venue
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Named Pride of Britain Hotel of the Year for 2019, Calcot & Spa is set in a beautiful 220-acre historic estate in the heart of the Cotswolds in Southwestern England. Surrounded by manicured gardens and rolling farmland interlaced with bike, horse, and walking trails, the main manor building sits amid courtyards of lime trees, and ancient stone barns and stables dating back to the 14th century. Designed for recuperation and relaxation, on-site amenities include a full-service spa, indoor-outdoor heated pool, tennis court, state of the art Technogym, free bike usage, and a unique lavender-lined outdoor hot tub complete with open fire. The property features two exceptional restaurants serving locally sourced food, two bars/lounges, a variety of meeting spaces for collaboration, and quiet nooks for private contemplation with tea and a good book. https://www.calcot.co/
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