Bespoke Leadership Progams & Retreats
Leading from Softness for leadership teams and organisations
You can tell how great a team is by how well they work together under pressure.
We help build leadership teams that don't just know and work to their targets. We build teams that know who they are and what really matters. Teams that stretch themselves and each other to create beyond what they think is rationally possible.
And we help them do this, not by working harder, but by leading from somewhere else entirely, what we call a softer way to success. Leading from Softness is not a process, it is a way of being that supports leaders and teams to be be awake, fully available, and using just the effort that is actually required to succeed.
Designed for you and your context, Leading from Softness offers Space to step out of the noise and discover what becomes possible when you stop defaulting to force or habitual reaction and change the way you lead.
Enquire about our retreats & Programs
Tell us who you're leading and what you're navigating right now. We'll build a retreat or program around it.
Softness Practice
Space for leaders to experience the physical power of Softness rather than just discussing it conceptually. They feel the difference between leading from Softness and leading from force, discovering how the body reveals leadership patterns before the mind can explain them. It creates immediate, undeniable insight into how they respond under pressure, and what becomes possible when they shift.
Equine Assisted Leadership
Where the setting allows for it, working with horses creates some of the most powerful learning of a retreat. Horses respond only to authenticity, congruence and presence, not to hierarchy, title or performance, giving leaders immediate, honest feedback on how they show up and how their internal state affects connection and influence. The unfamiliar environment creates a powerful opportunity to practise new leadership behaviours outside a normal context, accelerating both insight and integration. No horse experience is required.
Guided Reflection and Team Learning
Through facilitated reflection, group discussion and structured exercises, leaders create clarity around themselves, their leadership, and the vision they're building together. Often the most valuable insight comes not from the formal sessions, but from the quality of conversation between peers, strengthening trust and a shared sense of leadership.
Spaciousness
Time to think, reflect and reconnect to purpose. In high performing environments, constant motion is often mistaken for effectiveness. Leading from Softness challenges that assumption: space improves productivity rather than reducing it. Leaders experience firsthand that clarity, creativity and better decision making emerge when there's room to receive insight, and the connection built beyond meetings, targets and operational demands creates stronger trust and deeper relationships and benefits collaboration long after the program or retreat ends.
Your Retreat facilitators
Ellen Coomber
Ellen Coomber
Ellen Coomber
I support my clients to create a business and life they don’t need a vacation from, their Lush Life.
Using intuition, structure, and self-mastery, I help clients tap deeper into their joy and create a life of magic and meaning beyond what they think is rationally possible.
Paula Jones
Ellen Coomber
Ellen Coomber
Passionate about human behaviour and helping leaders and organisations to create beyond what's rationally possible.
Through the principles of self, structure, spirit, space, synergy, and softness, I support my clients to access their own richly rewarding inner wisdom and truly shine with their own brilliance in all aspects of work and life.
Six principles that will change how you lead
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Self
Leadership starts with you, and how you relate to yourself and the world. Creating is an inside out job. Developing Self-awareness, Self-responsibility, Self-leadership and Self-mastery is what makes a great team.
Structure
The backbone of creativity. The right structures don't constrain leadership, they liberate it. Structure gives form to intention and is essential to unlocking the potential of success.
Spirit
Creative Spirit - the deep inner knowing that is always present. Guided by our own resonance of truth rather than the noise of expectation, we find a clearer, more certain path for ourselves and our teams.
Space
The pause that changes everything. Internal and external. Only when our teams have Space are they present enough to see what's really going on, connect to deep intelligence and creativity.
Synergy
We are inherently relational. In synergy with others, a quiet intelligence emerges that multiplies what we bring, making the impossible suddenly possible for a team.
Softness
Not weakness. The most powerful force available to us. When we stop forcing and start allowing, transformation becomes inevitable.