"Journeys bring power and love back into you  ...Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet  ...And you? When will you begin [or take your next big step in] the journey into your self?" ~ Rumi

This intensive 4 day journey (retreat) is designed around the most effective practices and principles of vertical leadership development that I have learned over the last 20 years of focused attention in this direction.

My experience is that if you want to become a more powerful leader in and of your own life, then the most effective approach is through a process that is embodied, experiential, and highly interactive.

This invitation is to a psychological workout, not a school course focused on mental learning.  If you want mental knowledge, you can read a book.  The main focus of this work is on building new inner skills and strengthening existing ones.  In particular we'll be focusing on inner skill development in 3 areas:

(1) Head => Deeper and wider interior and exterior awareness. Seeing more deeply is one of the foundations of more effective and powerful action.

(2) Heart => Increasing capacity for intimacy with self, others and the world in general.  Intro to emotional aikido.

(3) Hara => Stabilizing physical presence and strengthening personal will, connecting more deeply to your power to create: both on your own, and in collaboration with others.

The structure and process is based on a wide range of influences (scroll down to 'Inspirations' here); notably including the field of Integral psychology and the practice of Action Inquiry.

Jesse Mckay will co-lead (in collaboration with everyone present) through a blend of collaborative and directive ways of being.  You can count on an experience that is both highly structured, and very much alive and emergent.  The process will be managed such that each person present will affect the course of events.  In other words, if you decide to join us, the collective journey of the group will somehow be different than it would have otherwise been.

Our commitment is that everyone who joins us for this intensive journey will have multiple opportunities to develop more capacity to (A) see more and deeper, (B) experience more intimacy, and (C) live with more felt sense of connection to one's core.  

Ultimately this retreat is about getting better at creating the life that we want for ourselves.