Deepen Your Development
Single day or multi-day facilitated sessions designed around your situation, challenges, opportunities, and team.
How It Works
Your team has been running hard and there is no doubt a lot of work is happening, but underneath the productivity something feels off. The important conversations—the ones about what’s actually slowing you down, what matters, where you’re headed together—aren’t happening. Everyone is tired and reactive.
You know your team needs space to step back and reconnect, to work on the how of working together, not just the what. You want an offsite that’s tailored to your team’s reality, that creates space for what’s needed, facilitates the conversations that matter, and helps you build genuine capacity for working together in new ways.
A few common approaches to offsites I’ve seen (and experienced):
- Generic team-building activities that feel disconnected from actual work. Trust falls, escape rooms, ropes courses that are “fun” but don’t address actual team dynamics. Everyone goes through the motions, has some laughs, and then returns to the same patterns on Monday.
- Strategic planning sessions that produce documents no one remembers. Two days of PowerPoint presentations about vision, mission, and goals, covered in sticky notes that get photographed and filed away. The plans feel good in the moment but have no grounding in how the team actually functions, so the “strategy” becomes a deck that sits in someone’s drive, disconnected from daily reality.
- Outside consultants who talk at the team instead of with them. Expert-driven sessions where someone tells the team what they should do, with frameworks and models imposed from the outside that don’t fit the team’s context. The team feels lectured to and there’s no space for the team’s own wisdom or experience to emerge.
The challenge with these approaches is that they keep people in their heads analyzing everything. They fill everyone with information, but don’t do much to impact the real interactions and patterns that get in the way of the team’s fullest potential.
Teams need time to slow down and think together—not in the margins of a Tuesday meeting, but in a dedicated space where they can step back from the daily grind and see the bigger picture. They also need permission to get real: to name what’s really going on, surface the tensions that usually stay buried, and work with what matters instead of dancing around it.
This can’t happen through lectures or generic exercises—it requires experiential work that engages people fully, gets them out of their heads and into their bodies, and creates the conditions for discovery rather than telling people what they should think.
I support teams to design offsites that combine structured exploration, shared inquiry, and embodied practices in order to create new understanding, new ways of working, and the capacity to remember why the work matters in the first place. The offsite becomes a catalyst for expanding your team’s ability to navigate complexity, respond to change, and show up as the connected, aligned, and creative team you’re capable of being.