Uncovering the Places We Go to Hide

A day-long leadership retreat for leaders ready to uncover the places they go to hide. Sometimes what limits your leadership is not a missing skill. It is something you are not yet willing to see. Underneath good intentions sit blind spots, old beliefs, and quiet stories that shape your choices and ripple out to your team, your family, and your community. This retreat is an invitation to look inward with honesty and self-compassion. Together we will: See your blind spots: Recognize the unconscious patterns that are quietly shaping how you lead. Meet your shadow: Stop hiding from the parts of yourself you would rather not look at, and learn to integrate them. Unlock your potential: Build the kind of self-awareness that ripples outward into greater trust, authenticity, and growth. You will leave understanding that real leadership starts with looking inward, and with the practices to keep doing it. Join us as we uncover what is hidden, work with it, and free up the potential that opens once we are brave enough to see ourselves clearly. Who Should Join This retreat is best for leaders who are ready for honest self-reflection and want to understand the patterns, blind spots, and old stories shaping the way they lead. This experience is especially useful for those who: • Sense that something deeper than skill is limiting their leadership • Want to build greater self-awareness and authenticity Are ready to work with blind spots and shadow without shame • Want to strengthen trust with themselves and others • Know that real leadership starts with looking inward What’s Included A day-long, in-person leadership retreat at The Encounter. Date: Thursday, February 25, 2027 Location: The Encounter Format: In-person retreat with reflection, facilitated conversation, practical frameworks, and space to integrate. Pricing Sponsor: $500 Support another leader while deepening your own leadership experience. Supporter: $450 An intentional investment in your own leadership growth. Rising Star: $400 A supported rate for leaders who could use a little boost. About "Lead Like It Matters" Lead Like It Matters is a series of leadership development programs for thoughtful, values-driven leaders navigating growth, change, pressure, and uncertainty. Through immersive leadership retreats, Wisdom Circles, workshops, coaching, and community, leaders strengthen the clarity, steadiness, self-awareness, and courage required to lead well. This is not traditional management training. It is a space to step outside the pace of daily work, examine the patterns shaping how you lead, and reconnect with what matters most. Each experience combines guided reflection, meaningful dialogue, practical leadership tools, and the wisdom already present within the room. Designed for executives, founders, managers, and emerging leaders, Lead Like It Matters helps you build trust, navigate conflict, practice accountability, make aligned decisions, and lead through complexity without losing yourself in the process.