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Disconnect and focus fully on yourself and your business.
What it is
When you really want to focus, we head for our basecamp in the Orobie Alps. We disconnect from the familiar and give ourselves over to a three- or five-day retreat: full focus on ourselves and on the business.
Why the Orobie Alps? Because almost nobody drives there. No resort, no conference hotel, one base in Spiazzi di Gromo where you unpack once and the valleys come to you. Above 1,200 metres there is no reason left to hold your phone.
Three days without a phone sounded like a luxury. It turned out to be the only way to finally think about where the business had to go.
The rhythm
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Arrival in Spiazzi, a short walk to the ridge, and in the evening the context and the first question on the table.
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A full day on the trail: W on the first climb, A on the plateau, lunch in a rifugio, and a first model in bricks in the evening.
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L and K, with a silent stretch and a buddy check. What do we leave behind, and what do we choose?
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A second high walk, or a slow day: village, water, reading, and a one-to-one walk.
05
Breakfast, a morning walk, the action plan on paper, and a long lunch with the people of the valley.
Who it's for
Three to five days away from the meeting room, with one question and one harvest a day.
A small group of entrepreneurs from different sectors, each with one question worth days of walking.
What you take home
Practical
The right price depends on your group and question; in the first call you get a concrete proposal straight away.
Honest about the hurdles
You don't have to be. No climbing experience is needed and the pace adapts to the group, not the other way round. The slowest day sets the rhythm.
Then there's something worth five days of thinking. And if three days is more honest for your calendar, we choose three.
For an existing team that works. Smaller isn't less; the pace gets more intimate and the conversation reaches the core faster.
Local commitment
The Alta Val Seriana is not resort country. We work only with people who live here, and with initiatives that create work for those who struggle to find it.
Every bed, every meal, every guide and every transfer comes from someone who lives in the Val Seriana. No tour operator in between, no commission chain.
What a retreat costs here pays for a rifugio's roof, a trattoria's kitchen and a guide's winter. That's the difference between visiting a region and keeping it alive.
We work with initiatives that create jobs for people with few options here: trail maintenance, catering, transport and retreat logistics.
Our retreats fall in spring and autumn, exactly when the valley is quietest. Work in the months that would otherwise be empty.
Thirty minutes is enough to know whether this works. We discuss the question, the group and the right length.
