DIRECTIONS, NOT PACKAGES
Retreat directions
These are directions, not fixed packages. Every retreat is built around your team, your organization and the questions on your table. Below are the most requested starting points.
We work along five retreat directions — strategic planning, leadership alignment, foresight, AI adoption, strategy and creativity — plus a custom retreat built from scratch. These are not fixed packages: the agenda is built after the discovery interviews with your team. The one fixed format is “The Decision on One Page”, three hours of prioritisation for teams that already know what is on their list. The direction follows the decision you have on the table, not a theme.
The facilitation compass
Where facilitation helps you
Every organization is a network of teams. Everything they do when working together falls into four categories. Rotate, click, explore — the compass shows you where the roadblock in your organization is and which methods unblock it.
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Strategic Planning & Direction
Who it's for
Boards, C-level and leadership teams that need to choose a direction, not add another one.
What you clarify
Where you're heading in the medium term, what you prioritize and what you set aside. From forty 'urgent' initiatives to a few owned choices.
What it looks like (indicative)
- We start with confidential interviews to bring reality into the room.
- We map the situation and choose prioritization criteria together.
- We bring the big decisions to a close and outline a 90-day roadmap.
Indicative — not a fixed agenda. We build everything around your team.
What you take home
A clear direction, owned by the whole teamChosen priorities, with owners and deadlinesA report with decisions and a follow-up check-inLeadership & Team Alignment
Who it's for
Top teams under tension, in transition, or after a reorganization or merger.
What you clarify
Who owns what, what you expect of each other, and the real tensions under the surface. The truth in the room, said safely.
What it looks like (indicative)
- Confidential 1-on-1 interviews to learn what's said in the hallway, not the meeting.
- We work on psychological safety and surface what's been avoided.
- We clarify roles, expectations and an agreed way of working together.
Indicative — not a fixed agenda. We build everything around your team.
What you take home
Rebuilt trust and honest conversationsClarified roles and responsibilitiesExplicit collaboration agreements + follow-upForesight & Future
Who it's for
Leadership teams operating in volatile markets that want to be ready for multiple futures.
What you clarify
Which future scenarios are plausible, what signals announce them, and which decisions hold across several of them.
What it looks like (indicative)
- We identify the forces and uncertainties shaping your market.
- We build a few future scenarios and test your strategy in each.
- We set signals to watch and moves prepared in advance.
Indicative — not a fixed agenda. We build everything around your team.
What you take home
Several future scenarios, not just the hoped-for oneDecisions that hold under uncertaintySignals to watch and prepared responsesAI Adoption & Transformation
Who it's for
Leadership teams that want a shared position and a real plan for AI adoption, beyond hype or fear.
What you clarify
Where AI creates real value in your organization, what you change in how you work, and how you bring people with you, not against you.
What it looks like (indicative)
- We start from your reality: processes, data, people, risks.
- We identify where AI creates value and where it's just noise.
- We outline an adoption direction and how you communicate the change.
Indicative — not a fixed agenda. We build everything around your team.
What you take home
A shared leadership position on AIAdoption priorities, with clear valueA plan to bring people with you through changeStrategy & Creativity
Who it's for
Companies that want both strategic results and an experience that bonds the team.
What you clarify
Which ideas hold when you test them, how you decide under uncertainty, and how you work better together under pressure.
What it looks like (indicative)
- We work the strategy side: choices, scenarios, decisions.
- We use applied improvisation to test ideas and break patterns.
- We integrate: what you carry forward and what you change in how you work.
Indicative — not a fixed agenda. We build everything around your team.
What you take home
Tested ideas and decisions practiced under uncertaintyA more connected, more adaptable teamAn experience the team remembersThe Decision on One Page — short format, 3 hours
Who it's for
Management teams that already know what is on the list and cannot bring themselves to cut it. Also works as a first step, before committing two days.
What you clarify
What stays on the list and what comes off it. Not the direction — we assume that is clear — but the order and the trade-offs.
What it looks like (indicative)
- We ask for the list in advance: everything in progress or on the table, unfiltered.
- We place each item on two axes, impact and resources, until the room can see where everything sits.
- We force the cut down to three priorities and put a name and a date on each.
Here the agenda really is fixed: three hours, the same three steps. What changes is your list.
What you take home
Three priorities, not eightAn owner and a deadline for eachThe explicit list of what you are droppingOne page, photographed at the end of the sessionCustom Retreat — Built around you
Who it's for
Any team whose challenge doesn't fit cleanly into a single direction — which is, most often.
What you clarify
Exactly what's on your table. We define the questions that matter together before designing anything.
What it looks like (indicative)
- We start with a discovery conversation about your context.
- We define the real goals and questions of the retreat.
- We build the process from scratch, combining what's needed from the other directions.
Indicative — not a fixed agenda. We build everything around your team.
What you take home
A retreat designed exactly for your situationClear goals, defined togetherThe right process, not a templateLooking for a specific format?
The directions above are working themes. If you already know who's in the room, start here.
Executive Team Retreat
Two days in which the team that decides steps out of day-to-day operations and closes the decisions that have been on hold for months.
See this formatLeadership Offsite
When a decision can no longer be made in the executive team alone, and the next level needs to leave with the same understanding, not a summary of it.
See this formatBoard Retreat
A board that meets rarely needs a better process, not a longer meeting.
See this formatFacilitated Strategic Planning
Strategy doesn't stall for lack of ideas. It stalls because nobody agreed on the criteria for cutting them.
See this formatHow much does a management team retreat cost?
Every retreat is designed around your needs, so we don't work from a standard price list. Packages adjust based on complexity, preparation time, facilitator team, duration, number of participants and logistics.
For teams that want continuity, we also offer a strategic facilitation retainer: quarterly reviews and access to a facilitator between retreats.
Request a quoteFrequently asked questions
What teams ask us most often before a retreat.
How long does a management team retreat take?
Most often one or two days. One day is enough when the team has a single clear decision on the table. Two days are needed when, beyond the decision, the way the team talks about hard things also has to be rebuilt. We set the length after the discovery interviews, not before.
How much does a management team retreat cost?
We do not work from a standard price list, because every retreat is designed around the team. Pricing depends on four things: the number of participants, the days of facilitation, how many facilitators are in the room, and how much preparation the team needs. Send us a short brief and we come back with a budget range.
Who should take part?
The team that actually makes the decisions — the board, the management team, or the extended leadership team. If the decision-makers are not in the room, the retreat produces recommendations, not decisions. Groups work well with one facilitator up to around 25-30 people; above that, a second facilitator joins.
What do we leave with?
The decisions made in the room, with an owner and a deadline for each, and a report within 72 hours. At six weeks we run a check-in session, so the decisions do not stay on paper.
How is this different from team building?
Team building works on relationships and energy. A facilitated retreat works on decisions: strategy, priorities, ways of working. We do use playful exercises and applied improvisation, but as a way into candour and creativity, not as the point of the day.
Can it be run in English?
Yes. We work in Romanian and in English, including with regional teams where not everyone speaks Romanian.
Let's talk about your team.
A 30-minute conversation, no strings attached, where we understand what you need to solve and tell you honestly if and how we can help.
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