Are you an executive feeling overwhelmed by the daily grind and struggling to remember how strong you really are? Do you yearn to find some time and space to reflect and reconnect with your true self and rediscover your full potential?
It's time to embark on a transformative journey that will reignite your passion, boost your confidence, and remind you of your innate resilience.
Rediscover your inner strength in Norway's winter wilderness with a program of one-to-one and group coaching combined with a Norwegian cross country ski experience in the wilderness.
2025 Dates: 16th-22nd March
Cost: 35,000NOK
Embrace the Experience, Unleash Your Potential
Our exclusive coaching and adventure retreat in the breathtaking Norwegian mountains is designed for executives like you who need to step away from the familiar and rediscover their inner strength. Here, amidst pristine snow-covered landscapes, you'll push your boundaries, conquer new challenges, and unlock the dormant potential within you.
We spend 6 days together taking you on a journey to rekindle the confident fire in your belly. With a combination of one to one and group coaching sessions, time learning new skills in the wilderness around us and coziness and reflection at the cabin in the evening, you will come away having rediscovered your inner badass and ready to shine brightly.
What awaits you
Join us on retreat in Norway to experience:
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Personalised coaching
One-on-one coaching sessions before, during and after the retreat, will give you the space and time to think, reflect and rediscover that you have everything you need inside you . Gain clarity, develop strategies, and cultivate a growth mindset that will serve you long after the retreat ends.
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Connect with companions
Connect with like-minded people who are in the same boat and facing similar struggles to you. Support one another as you share experiences, insights, and unlock your inner strength.
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Beautiful, peaceful, snowy wilderness
Experience magical snowy scenery that can feel like being in another world, as if you have just stepped through a portal into Narnia.
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Cross country ski adventures
With an expert instructor, learn the art of Nordic skiing and embark on exhilarating journeys through Norway's winter wonderland. As you glide across snowy trails, you'll discover a newfound sense of freedom and accomplishment. A peaceful way to travel in the mountains.
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Mindful Reflection
Immerse yourself in the serene beauty of the Norwegian wilderness. Use this time to disconnect from technology, reflect on your journey, and reconnect with your core values and aspirations.
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Cozy Norwegian mountain hospitality
Good food, shared space and time to experience the Nordic traditions of hospitality which, in Winter, are very focused on warmth and comfort.
Outcomes you can expect
By the end of this transformative retreat, you will:
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Feel refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to tackle life's challenges with renewed energy
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Gain a fresh perspective on your personal and professional life
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Develop greater self-reliance and confidence in your abilities
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Build lasting connections with fellow retreat guests who are going through their own journeys
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Acquire new skills and experiences that translate into both personal and professional growth
Your retreat journey
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Pre-retreat coaching session with Lucy
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Journey into the mountains of Norway
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5 days of coaching and adventure
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Rediscover your inner strength
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Post retreat coaching session with Lucy
Meet your coach, Lucy J. Reyn
Lucy is a qualified and accredited coach with extensive experience working at C-level. She is an advisor to multiple charities through the Pilotlight programme and is a Trustee of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Network UK.
Lucy believes in the value of nature to help us through times of transition and its ability to help us remember who we are and the strengths we have inside ourselves. She is also, in our opinion, a generally lovely, empathic person who cares and wants to help people.
What's included?
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Pre-arrival coaching session with Lucy
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Single one to one coaching sessions with Lucy during the week with more available on request at no extra cost
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Group coaching sessions
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Action planning for after the retreat with Lucy
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Post retreat coaching session with Lucy
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Full board accommodation in a shared twin room (private rooms available for a supplement)
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Ski, boot and pole hire
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Ski instruction and wilderness guiding from qualified Arctic Nature Guide Jen
What's not included?
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Flights, transport or tickets on the Bergensbanen mountain train
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Travel insurance including medical and rescue cover
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Day time snacks: Bring your favourites snacks with you because there are no shops in Finse
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Winter clothing. We will send you an equipment list when you book.
Your journey awaits
Don't let another day pass feeling stuck or unfulfilled. Take this opportunity to invest in yourself, push your limits, and rediscover the powerful leader within. Join us in Norway's majestic wilderness and embark on a journey that will transform your outlook on life and work.
Spaces are limited to ensure an intimate and impactful experience. Reserve your spot today and take the first step towards a more confident, resilient, and inspired you.
2025 Dates: 16th-22nd March
Cost: 35,000NOK
What's the plan?
Before you even arrive you have a one to one coaching session with Lucy. She lives between Switzerland and London if you want to meet in person otherwise online. With her you will run through what to expect, what you want to achieve and to get you into the right mindset to get you started in your reflection.
As you arrive in Norway, you will take the historical Bergensbanen mountain train from Oslo or Bergen up into the mountains to the remote village of Haugastøl. Enjoy the amazing views from the train before joining your companions and coaches in the cozy, community focused hotel at Haugastøl 100moh and have dinner and drinks together (alcohol never compulsory).
The next morning we get to know each other some more and make some group agreements of how we would like to be together. Over the week together the group will play a key role in helping each other remember how badass we each actually are. We also pick up our skis and head out for some gentle instruction and begin exploring the beautiful wilderness around us.
The next 5 days are spent immersing yourself in the wilderness, coaching and reflection. A combination of one on one and group coaching, punctuated by forays out to experience the beauty and majesty around us.
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Throughout the week we start knocking down the barriers to your confidence and replacing them with strong memories, actual evidence of your competence and confidence, encouragement from each other. Importantly, you will also leave with an actual plan of how you’re going to proceed in the world with your restored confidence.
On the last night we will celebrate with a final meal together before, on the final morning, getting back on the Bergsbanen to leave the magical mountain world of Haugastøl behind and return to civilization.
But when you leave you are not alone! Throughout the week we encourage you to journal and write your thoughts, feelings, breakthroughs and plans and we help you craft a plan you can walk away with.
We also schedule another post-retreat coaching session with Lucy some weeks after to help you with any further nudges or to help you celebrate victories achieved.
How did this retreat begin?
Lucy and Jen met in Antarctica where both had taken time out from their normal lives to do something different. Lucy was setting off about to ski to the south pole expedition and Jen had just started working in the camp where Lucy would depart from. The two bonded over a shared sense of humour and wonder of the crazy place they found themselves in.
Over the years since, Lucy trained, alongside her corporate job, to become an accredited coach air Henley Business School (ranked 3rd Best Business School in the U.K. (Financial Times, 2023)) and Jen trained and became an Arctic Nature Guide with UiT (Norway's Arctic University) on Svalbard and started Snowstorm Adventures.
In her coaching, Lucy noticed a common theme: highly competent and experienced clients who were having their confidence eroded either by unhealthy workplaces or other things life threw at them and who were now beginning to doubt their abilities.
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This resonated with Lucy and she realised that what had helped her most with her own inner confidences was coaching, of course, but also a time and space to think that was outside of her everyday life. For Lucy, that was 53 days in the cold, snowy wilderness of Antarctica. But she also knew, from her annual cross country ski trips to Norway, you don't have to go all the way to Antarctica to get that time and space.
Lucy's experience of having the time to reflect in the cold, snowy wilderness of Antarctica combined with her own experiences coaching and being coached told her that a similar approach would help other people in the same boat. Jen had some experience of using adventure to give people time to reflect and also herself had good experiences where adventure had helped coaching she had received develop.
They were having a gin and tonic in Haugastøl one night discussing these separate but similar experiences, an idea was sparked and so the Winter Resilience Retreat was born.
