Annual Leadership Retreat (Mindfulness)

Lead a life you can sustain

Ultivate’s Mindfulness Leadership Retreat is an enriching professional development experience designed to support flourishing in leaders, professionals and innovators. Blending psychological science, mindfulness, reflection and leadership development, it creates space to deepen self-awareness, restore perspective, strengthen relationships and cultivate more intentional, sustainable and enriched ways of living, working and leading.

[South-East Queensland]

Enrolment

Make space for the year ahead.

Places are intentionally limited to protect the quality and depth of the experience.

Individual place

Annual Retreat

$1950

Two-day Mindfulness retreat experience
Ultivate Leadership Retreat Workbook
Lunch and refreshments
12-month enrichment plan
Post-retreat implementation resource
Boutique glamping accommodation
Facilitated leadership development
Sensory-rich experiences for nervous system regulation
Guided peer discussion, strategic thinking and collaborative activities
Individual leadership reflection and goal-setting time
Optional: follow-up accountability check-in or team review session

Private team retreat

Team & Partner Places

$19,500

Bring a small group of leaders, collaborators or future leaders to build a shared language for psychological health and sustainable performance.

Group booking options
Includes boutique accommodation
Pre-retreat consultation
Optional: post-retreat team debrief
Suitable for boutique teams and enterprises

Enquire for your team

Step out to make space for what matters.

Many capable people become so focused on carrying responsibility that they lose contact with their health, values, relationships and direction. The Ultivate Leadership Retreat creates space to work upstream: before stress becomes crisis, before leadership becomes isolation, and before success starts costing too much.

Retreat format

Two intentional days of psychology-based learning, guided reflections, nourishing connection and a practical 12-month plan.

Who it is for

For people who carry a lot—and want to carry it well. You do not need a formal title to benefit. You need a willingness to reflect honestly, learn actively and shape a more intentional future.

Retreat Day Plan (Sample)

10:00 AM - Arrival & Mindful grounding

Settle into the day, meet your cohort and step out of the momentum of everyday work.

10:45 AM - The psychology of sustainable leadership

Seminar to understand the evidence-informed foundations of health, motivation, recovery and long-term contribution.

12:15 PM - Your personal leadership audit

Workshop reflecting on values, energy, stress patterns, strengths, blind spots and the season of life you are in.

1:15 PM - Assertiveness & healthy boundaries

Group activity to build clear language for needs, decisions, difficult conversations and protecting your capacity.

3:45 PM - Psychological safety & relational leadership

Explore how everyday behaviours shape trust, respect, collaboration and the culture around you.

4:45 PM - Your 12-month enrichment plan

Turn reflection into a practical personal and professional pathway for the year ahead.

Think deeply.
Leave with a plan.

A carefully paced experience combining psychological education, reflective practice, practical leadership tools and meaningful peer connection.

The psychological conditions for sustainable leadership

What we are cultivating

01/
Self-Leadership & Psychological Health

Notice the beliefs, habits and patterns that bolster—or quietly drain—your capacity. Build practical strategies for recovery, stress regulation, boundaries and sustainable performance.

02/
Relationships & Contribution

Develop the assertiveness and relational intelligence required for healthier conversations and stronger teams. Clarify how you want to use your strengths, experience and influence in the year ahead.

03/
Environments & The Future

Design future-ready routines, social supports and working conditions that make flourishing more likely.

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Beyond the retreat

Your annual enrichment plan

This experience is not about insight that fades by Monday. You will leave with a clear, workable framework for the next 12 months.

Top three priorities

Name what matters most this year—and what must be protected for it to happen.

Leadership practices

Choose small, repeatable actions that build capacity rather than rely on willpower alone.

Relationship strategy

Identify the people and conversations that keep you accountable, connected and resourced.

Recovery design

Make health, creativity, rest and renewal part of how you lead—not a reward after burnout.

“Leadership is not only what you achieve. It is the conditions you create around you.”

Andrea (Andy) Solange Sarmonikas

Founder | Psychologist

Your retreat hosts

Andy Solange Sarmonikas

Founder, Managing Director

& Psychologist

Dr Thierry

Peynot

Co-Director & Professor

of Robotics & AI

Collaborate with us

We invite values-aligned sponsors, facilitators and innovators to collaborate on transformative Ultivate retreats that cultivate psychological health, meaningful connection and future-ready leadership.