Four days away
Orobie Retreat, Italy
From €2,450 per person, travel not included
Four days away from your business. So you finally have time to think about it.
Why the mountains
Why walking produces better conversations.
This is not a page about views. It is the reason we do not rent a meeting room. Moving changes how people think, talk and decide, and that is the only argument we need.
Side by side instead of face to face
At a table you sit across from someone, with a sheet of paper between you and a pecking order around it. On a trail you look in the same direction. Eye contact becomes optional, which makes difficult things easier to say. A silence is then simply a silence and not an incident.
Pace does something to thinking
Walking is fast enough to stay awake and slow enough to think. There is no next agenda item and no screen. After an hour people are not more inspired, they are more honest, and that is what moves a conversation forward.
Stepping back is not postponing
Leaving your desk looks like lost time until you notice how much of your thinking is stuck to that place. Physical distance makes it easier to look at a choice without the habits that hold it back. Growth starts more often with slowing down than with one more meeting.
And why the Orobie Alps
Because three days without being able to go back to the office is something else than a day outside. Base in Spiazzi di Gromo in the Alta Val Seriana, everything through local businesses in the valley. No resort, but a village where you return to the same people.
This is for you if
- You wonder why we don't just have a meeting.
- You want to know what movement does to thinking.
- You doubt whether distance really brings progress.
This is not for you if
- You want a walking holiday without structure.
- You are looking for tourist information about the Alps.
Formats
Which format fits your question?
Frequently asked questions
Short and concrete.
- So is this a walking holiday?
- No. Every day there is a question, a facilitator and a result. The landscape is the workplace, not the programme.
- How much do we walk per day?
- In Belgium two to five hours, depending on a half or full day. In Italy four to six hours a day, at a pace the group can handle.
- And if it rains?
- Then we walk. In a thunderstorm we shift the route or continue indoors. We do not promise your walking shoes come back clean.
- Does this work for people who do not like walking
- Usually yes, because it is not about the walk. If you can walk for an hour you can join, and climbing experience is never needed.
So. What now?
Step 1
A thirty minute conversation
You describe what is not moving. We ask the question more clearly and say honestly whether we are the right party.
Step 2
A proposal that suits you
The right formula, the price, the duration, and what we need from you. No standard quote.
Step 3
A date and a checkpoint
A date that works for your agenda, plus a conversation after thirty days to see if the plan remains alive.