“You cannot lead people unless you know them. You can give them tasks, but that is not yet leadership.”
Step into the peace of Valamo Monastery to deepen your leadership. Here, questions can breathe without performance pressure, and you have time to hear your own voice. The retreat invites you into a deeper current of leadership. Away from task lists towards meaningful encounters. Valamo is a unique place, whose environment invites you to calm down and find stillness. In Valamo, you can find a space where it is easy to approach essential questions. The atmosphere of the monastery, nature, and being together create a space to reflect on values, meanings, leadership, and of course, yourself.
Why come?
Deepen your self-understanding – find the roots of your leadership.
Update your thinking – resolve value conflicts, don't just polish processes.
Strengthen your volition – unleash the power of accomplishment and meaning.
Relieve ethical stress – learn practical recovery methods.
Listen and share – constructive peer discussion without pressure for results.
What do we explore?
Leadership is a constantly changing encounter. When the framework of working life changes daily, ready-made recipes are rarely enough. We therefore delve into the core questions of leadership through knowledge, experience, embodiment, and silence. How do you build social security: do you feel desired, valuable, welcome – and what about your team? Who in you makes the decisions and bears the consequences? How do you lead so that every day at work is a meaningful part of your life? In Valamo, you get to explore these questions in a way that is difficult to achieve anywhere else. The rhythm and nature of the monastery support us in a special way.
Instructors
Matti Henttinen – organizational and supervisor coach, philosophical practitioner, non-fiction writer. More information: www.mindbodypartners.fi
Pia Houni – working life expert, coach, trainer, researcher, and non-fiction writer. She holds an M.Ed., D.A., is a philosophical practitioner, work ability coordinator, pedagogue, and expert in sports and wellbeing. More information: www.piahouni.fi
Price 1400 € including teaching, accommodation in the monastery hotel and meals including the Valamo tea table.
