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Embodied Leadership Retreat
Embodied Leadership Retreat
The Embodied Leadership Retreat by Doors Open
October 2 – October 3
09:00 – 17:00
The Hague
Calling all female leaders, executives, managers, entrepreneurs, career transitioners, and job seekers!
Do you feel that you’re constantly juggling high pressure, self-doubt, and the need to prove yourself? Do you often hear yourself saying ‘yes’ to things when in fact you want to say no? Do you walk out of meetings with your team or (possible) clients feeling unsatisfied with what you said, or did not say? Do you crave a (personal) leadership style that’s authentic, impactful, and sustainable, but you don’t know where to start?
Then this retreat is the place to be, where we help you transform your leadership through Embodied Leadership.
After this retreat you will be able to
Manage stress
Manage stress and improve your wellbeing and performance
Build connections
Build genuine connections with the people around you
Being confident
Take confident decisions, voice your opinion and take up space, even in high-pressure situations
Set boundaries
Set clear boundaries and stay true to your commitments
Lead yourself
Lead yourself and others more effectively
“A transformative experience that I highly recommend. Learning to trust the wisdom of the body and listen to what the heart is telling you has completely changed my approach to leadership. It gave me a new language to tap into and has deepened my self-awareness in ways I didn’t expect.“
– Marion Mulder, Embodied Leadership Retreat participant in 2025
Our ideal participants
- Corporate leaders and executives
- Team leaders and managers
- Entrepreneurs
- Women looking for a career transition
- Women who enjoy making a difference with others
This edition of the Embodied Leadership Retreat is exclusively for women.
By bringing together women with different roles and positions we are able to tap into the collective intelligence and gain valuable insights from each other’s perspectives.
How does the Retreat Program look?
We’ve crafted a comprehensive program spanning two transformative training days, designed specifically for women eager to enhance their personal leadership journey.
What sets us apart:
This retreat offers a unique blend of experiential learning, expert guidance, and self-discovery that traditional courses simply can’t match, as they focus solely on theory and cognitive knowledge.
The Embodied Leadership Retreat offers you somatic practices, and cutting-edge leadership strategies that connect your mind, body, and spirit, based on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience and the Japanese martial art Aikido. By physically experiencing situations, you’ll approach them with more confidence and will be able to skilfully guide your thoughts, emotions, and behaviour in a calm and collected way.
Instead of thinking our way into different behaviours, in this Retreat we act ourselves into new ways of feeling and understanding by using our body’s intelligence.
“One of my key takeaways was realizing how much we store in our bodies. By becoming more aware and learning to listen, I can now respond to my environment more consciously and responsibly. The body’s wisdom is powerful.”
– Riim Lagerswerf, Embodied Leadership Retreat participant in 2025
What you’ll learn:
This Embodied Leadership retreat is not a course on what you do and how you lead. It is a journey to self-discovery about who you are. You will discover the power of embodied leadership and will learn how to act with authenticity, resilience and impact.
This retreat will help you to:
- Really deal with stress and the risk of burnout – master new, practical strategies to manage high pressure situations, prevent burnout, and maintain resilience when things get tough.
- Work with complex power dynamics at work like stereotypes and unconscious bias and own your influence with confidence.
- Manage high-stakes decision-making and learn to set your boundaries, even in stressful situations.
- Overcome self-doubt and the imposter syndrome.
- Prioritise self-care by learning how to balance responsibilities and how to say “no”.
- Have effective conversations by learning how to pause your judgements and establishing a meaningful connection.
- Network effectively to benefit your career.
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