LEADERSHIP SAILING – "MY RETREAT"
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LEAD & SA!L – "MY RETREAT" / 2 bunks available
Back to clarity – a retreat that truly reaches you. For leaders who carry a great deal – and want to feel again what sustains them.
There are moments when even the strongest leaders sense: things cannot go on like this. Constant availability, decisions by the minute, responsibility without pause. What's missing is not competence – but space to breathe. This retreat deliberately takes you away from everything that otherwise drives you.
OFFLINE. On board you leave behind not only everyday life but also every form of digital distraction. No phone. No laptop. No emails. And the vessel itself navigates without electronic aids: reading the wind, chart, compass, craftsmanship. Here, what matters again is the essential.
Daily tasks are successfully tackled as a team, and the topics arising from the tasks and situations are discussed together and in individual sessions. Systemic competence is developed.
You experience days at a decelerated rhythm. You feel what it's like to rely on natural forces – and in doing so regain access to your own inner orientation. Conversations arise without agenda. Silence gains meaning. Thoughts reorganise themselves.
The aims of this sailing week are twofold:
1 - Away from digital exhaustion and the resulting symptoms
2 - Towards a new approach to/in the digital world in which we all find ourselves.
The exact programme and schedule depend on wind and weather conditions, and include systemic leadership skills that are reflected upon and learned afresh in concrete situations.
It's about your self-leadership skills, and how you can redesign them in your everyday life.
You'll learn to sail too – exactly as much as you like.
Only four places, guaranteed single cabin: A small crew in close quarters is not a constraint, it's the method. What hides behind appointments in everyday life becomes visible at sea. Plenty of time for reflection, for the sailing itself, for one-to-one conversations. The crew is deliberately assembled so that each member can grow.
This retreat is aimed at executives, CEOs, owners, managing directors, ... who are prepared to take an honest look at themselves. Those who are not just seeking distance, but direction.
Three questions almost always arise at this point:
1 - Can I really be offline for a week?
Yes – and that's precisely the point. Your team, your family, your company have done without you for a week more often than you think, without anything collapsing. What usually collapses is only your own notion of it.
2 - Do I need to know how to sail?
Not a problem either – most on board didn't know how either. You don't need to be a sailor to be right for this, only willing to let go for a week.
3 - What about being contactable?
No phone. No computer. No watch. That's important for this week.
Our safety standards, however, guarantee that we as a vessel are reachable 24/7, for all the people who matter to you.
Many book this week through their professional development or coaching budget – ask your company whether that's possible for you.
Included in the package: guaranteed single cabin, yacht charter, SK!PA & trainer, insurance, permit & final cleaning, early check-in (13:00), all harbour and mooring fees, diesel consumption, dinghy, bed linen, professional buoyancy aid & lifebelt, and SK!PAs galley essentials.
Only travel to and from, plus food and drink, are additional.
"I've earned this week. And these principles apply in every system – privately too." — Participant, Kvarner Gulf 2024.
Only four places per trip, the next date is 3–9 October 2026. If you feel this week is yours: drop me a brief message via the contact form here on this page – no sales pitch, just a short, no-obligation chat to see if it fits. I look forward to our time together – wind, waves and Croatia.
Frank Waltritsch · SK!PA, Trainer & Coach · RYA Yachtmaster Offshore
RYA CERTIFIED: Yachtmaster Offshore (commercial endorsed), Cruising Instructor. MSVÖ: FB3 / ICC.
51521 Punat
Croatia
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