CORPORATE WORKSHOPS
Through BeSoulful corporate workshops, leadership teams embark on intentional collaborative journeys to enhance their self-awareness, self-management, self-motivation and self-governance. We explore soulful organisations, energy, purpose, accountability and responsibility. Workshops include 6 sessions of 90 minutes each, alongside your leadership team.
Read more about Soulful Leadership workshops here.
Testimonial:
“The Soulful Leadership process is an inward journey that challenged our leadership team to find inner motivation to lead authentically. The
process was well planned and the structured, yet informal to allow space for creativity to flow. The benefit to our leadership team was evident
immediately. Teamwork and collaboration has improved and team member actions come from a deeper place of meaning than before.”
RENIER KRIEL, CEO at 4i
LEADERSHIP RETREATS
Our leaderships retreats foster contemplative spaces for individuals and teams to soulfully reflect towards purpose and impact.
Christmas in November is a unique leadership retreat with space for purposeful reflections on the year and soulful planning for the next year, which include guided reflections, mind-maps, space in nature and intentional rest. As we approach the end of the year, we tend to rush towards the December break, tired, exhausted and disengaged. With this I want to challenge you to schedule your own Christmas in November – whether it’s your own day of reflection or whether you want to join the Leaders Retreat we’re facilitating, just make sure to pin down a date as soon as possible! During the retreat we’ll partake in guided reflections, energy audits, draw up mind maps and soulfully engage with the beautiful environment of Zorgvliet Estate, close to Stellenbosch.
Why Christmas in November?
In 2017, I started battling with deadlines, pressure, time and a lack of capacity. As the 2nd part of the year started the feeling of pressure just kept on piling up. My coach then advised me to just set out a day in November – a day that would allow time and see what emerge. I didn’t think much of it really, but decided to schedule it anyway.
On that day in November I took the opportunity to intentionally stop, take stock and finish the year well. It was like an early Christmas gift to myself! Needless to say I dubbed it Christmas in November…I realised that we often push so hard towards the end of the year that we crash into our break, disengaged.
This day in November turned into a leadership habit. One I now cannot do without. Since that day, I’ve been celebrating Christmas in
November on an annual basis. So instead of just crashing into my summer break, I’m now mindfully closing off each year, to rest well
and purposefully enter the new one.
And for the past 8 years, Christmas in November has evolved into an annual Leadership Retreat within my community.
CHRISTMAS IN NOVEMBER COUPLES RETREAT 2026
Over the last 9 years I conducted an annual leader’s retreat called Christmas in November. Time to pause, reflect and plan for the next year. But when thinking about leadership and life it is impossible to exclude our core relationships. Every year some of the leaders brought their partners (couple) with and we realised there is a real need to do the same for couples in the context of life and work (work-life integration). We know that core relationships suffer the most due or our multiple juggling of activities and responsibilities.
This year we’ll do the first Christmas in November Couples retreat. It is time for couples to create space and time to re-align with what matters most to them. We’ll use mind maps to look back on the year, think about rest and capacity, but also look ahead to the next year with practical rhythms to stay aligned. There will be ample time together. We’ll use guided reflections to ensure that there are structured thinking and planning with simple practical responses.
Don’t wait for Christmas to reflect on the year. Create time to stop early, plan, reflect and start 2027 aligned as a couple. This retreat will include overnight accommodation, lunch, dinner and breakfast. Friday 10am until Saturday 10am.
THE SOULFUL LEADERS’ JOURNEY
Some executive leaders spend time and energy to lead their teams in an extraordinary way by focusing on the total wellbeing of every person including themselves. The remarkable outcome of this counter-intuitive approach is teams that find meaning in their work, in one another and, contrary to corporate culture, outperform their peers.
Be part of a small group of executive leaders and business owners who is on this journey of soulful leadership. Leaders who treasure the human being inside every person in their team. Leaders who understand results are only sustainable in a culture where you balance doing with being. Leaders that look after themselves as well.
The Core Themes:
The Core of Soulful Leadership – space and time to explore the core of soulful leadership and create goals for yourself
Self-Awareness – discovering the inner conversation between ego and soul.
Self-Management – explore the way that you manage your energy and capacity to find sustainable habits of renewal
Self-Motivation – reconnect with your unique purpose and what it means for your organisation
Self-Govern – learn what it means to lead a soulful organization
My Leadership Manifesto – guidance on how to continue on your own by making a few core choices and creating structures
Join us on this journey of purposeful reflection on soulful leadership. You will spend a half-day (6 mornings) away from the office in a beautiful setting with guided reflections and exercises. The main benefit is space and time. The half-day group gatherings (6) will be hosted
over a 12-month period.
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DAY RETREATS
Day retreats is a pro-active way to manage your own energy, find silence, do reflective walks and return to what matters most.
Our day retreats foster contemplation through the lens of Christian spirituality – offering individuals a silent space for rejuvenation, reflection, and reconnection. Day retreats booked per request. If you’re part of a group and want to organise a retreat, it is possible to customise it to your group’s needs.
LABYRINTH WALKS
Our labyrinth walks, a walking meditation to reflect towards purpose and impact, foster contemplative spaces for individuals and teams.
A labyrinth is a single winding path from the outer edge in a circuitous way to the center. Labyrinths are used world-wide as a way to quiet the mind, calm anxieties, recover balance in life, enhance creativity and encourage meditation, insight, self-reflection
and stress reduction.