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She Who Leads

A Three Part Leadership Retreat Series

Three Transformational 2-Day Retreats | January–September 2026Waiheke Island Resort | Accommodation Included

A professional leadership reset for women navigating complexity, growth and change in business, in work, and in life.

This retreat series is not entry level leadership work. This is for women who feel they are carrying big things, for their teams, their families, their communities. It is for those who lead with care and capacity, but are feeling the cost of holding it all.
She Who Leads is a three-part series of transformational two-day retreat for women ready to reconnect to their leadership clarity, presence and power, without losing themselves along the way.
Each retreat is a complete experience. Attend one, or commit to all three to transform how you lead, relate and show up in every part of your life. While core frameworks will be led by Melanie, select retreats may include additional facilitators to deepen the space.
Does this sound familiar? You are carrying what most people don't see:
  • Growing professional or business responsibilities
  • Constant emotional labour in relationships or teams
  • Big decisions, conflicting roles, invisible load
  • A desire for more clarity, space, and alignment
As your leadership expands, so does what you are holding. This results in:
  • Ongoing mental load and decision fatigue
  • Feeling responsible for everyone, all the time
  • Quiet self-doubt or resentment creeping in
  • A sense of being "always on," but never fully present
You have likely outgrown traditional leadership development. This work is different.

What is covered in this series?

Across three transformational retreats, you will unpack the hidden patterns, nervous system strain and internal structures that quietly wear down your leadership over time. You will learn how to lead with rhythm, presence, and strength across every domain of life.

Part 1 | Leading Under Pressure

The Pattern Quadrant | Sat 24 - Sun 25 January 2026
When pressure rises, so do our patterns. You will learn to recognise how over-functioning, control, detachment or withdrawal show up in your and others, and how they affect relationships, teams, and personal wellbeing.
You may see it in your team: control tightening, emotions escalating, or withdrawal when things get hard.You may see it at home: a partner checking out, a child pushing back, or yourself moving into overdrive to hold it all together.
The Pattern Quadrant offers a powerful formula for making sense of these moments. It maps the four reactive leadership responses that surface under strain, control, over-functioning, detachment and withdrawal, and gives you a clear way to lead others through them.
This isn’t about fixing people. It is about understanding what sits beneath behaviour and leading in a way that brings others back to clarity, connection and trust.What you will discover is this: the same patterns live in you. In the heat of pressure, your own nervous system follows a path. You will learn to recognise it, lead through it and return to a place of grounded presence, in the boardroom, at the dinner table, or during the moments that matter most.
This retreat session lays the foundation for the entire series. It is the lens that brings clarity to complexity, and is a leadership anchor you will use again and again.

Part 2 | Leadership Rhythm & Capacity Management

The Flow Circle | Sat 23 - Sun 24 May 2026
Most leadership fatigue doesn’t come from failure — it comes from overload.More roles. More decisions. More people depending on you.This second retreat focuses on rhythm: how to build a sustainable leadership model that protects your energy, clarity, and nervous system.
At work, you may be the one people lean on to stabilise, catch the gaps, or keep momentum when others drop out. At home, the energy is the same, you are the organiser, the steady one, the keeper of rhythm. When you look around, you may notice others starting to lose pace. They are tired, distracted, overwhelmed or silently shutting down. You feel the ripple effects: missed details, emotional spill over, disengagement, and decisions made from urgency rather than clarity. You hold the weight of that and more.
The Flow Circle is a foundational system that helps you understand what happens when internal and external leadership loads become unsustainable. It maps how stacked responsibilities, blurred boundaries, and nervous system strain quietly wear down your performance, clarity and presence, before burnout ever arrives. You will learn how to recognise when you are moving out of leadership rhythm and how to reset it.
This is not time management. This is about capacity architecture, building the internal scaffolding to lead from a regulated system, protect your energy and hold growing complexity without losing yourself.
Whether you are managing an expanding team, holding the emotional weight of family, or simply needing to reclaim space for your own clarity, this session gives you a structure to lead from strength, not survival.

Part 3 | Leading Complex Systems

The Unity Triangle | Sat 19 - Sun 20 September 2026
At this level, leadership is no longer about ticking boxes it is about holding complexity with grace and structure. You will learn how to build a system that supports growth, relationships, innovation and purpose.As your world expands, the simple stuff gets louder and the complex stuff gets heavier.
You may be leading multiple people, projects, or business functions... but you are also leading culture, energy, expectations and emotions, all at once. At home, you are likely doing the same, holding together family dynamics, schedules, values, needs and futures. The more moving parts there are, the harder it is to manage competing priorities.
The Unity Triangle is a high-level leadership framework that helps you navigate this kind of complexity with clarity. It shows you how to build a system that hold growth, performance, people and wellbeing, without collapsing under the weight. You will learn how to create structure that contains complexity, so that pressure doesn’t always land on you. And you will see how to shift your role from doing and holding, to designing and guiding.
Whether you are leading a growing team, managing multiple life roles, or holding vision for something bigger, this retreat will help you architect your leadership to last.This is where advanced leadership lives: not in doing more, but in leading from the centre of coherence, clarity and unity.

Attend One. Attend All.

Each two-day retreat is a complete experience.Choose based on what you need right now, or complete the full series to reconnect with your full leadership presence, across work, business, and life.
Designed for women. Protected space.
Each retreat runs Saturday–Sunday to honour both your work rhythm and your life.
Held on the stunning Waiheke Island at the Waiheke Island Resort, these weekends are created to help you step back, reset and return with clarity.
Ferry over Saturday morning, settle in and return Sunday evening restored, aligned, and reconnected to your leadership.
This series is for:
  • Women leading in business, teams, families or all three
  • Founders, professionals, creatives and change-makers navigating growth
  • Leaders managing emotional labour, invisible load, or quiet strain
  • Women ready to reconnect with their clarity, presence and personal power
You will walk away with:
  • A deep reset of your personal leadership patterns
  • Systems to sustain energy and clarity under pressure
  • Tools to navigate complexity and growth with ease
  • A leadership rhythm grounded in nervous system safety
  • Structures to support long game leadership, without the burnout

The Professional Development Invitation

2025 Launch Pricing

Available Until 30 September 2025

Book before 30 September 2025 to access the special launch rate of $1,900 per retreat (normally $2,150), or $5,250 for the full 3-part series (save $600+). After this date, standard pricing will apply.

Pricing Summary

Booking Option
Standard Price
2025 Launch Rate
Any Single Retreat
$2,150
$1,900
Full Series (All 3)
$5,850
$5,260 (save $600)

Ready to Book?

Book an Individual Retreat

Choose the one most aligned with your current leadership needs. Launch rate of $1,900 is available until 30 September 2025. Standard pricing after 30 September: $2,150.

Part 1 | The Pattern Quadrant | 24–25 January 2026Part 2 | The Flow Circle | 23–24 May 2026Part 3 | The Unity Triangle | 19–20 September 2026
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Book the Full 3-Part Series

Commit to your full leadership reset and save $600.
Full Series Package – $5,250 (normally $5,850)Includes:- All three retreats - Accommodation at Waiheke Island Resort- Priority access and bonuses
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The Rhythm & Structure - She Who Leads

These are not conferences. They are immersive leadership experiences, grounded in real-world frameworks, held in beautifully curated environments, and paced to support both clarity and personal restoration.
Each series follows a rhythm that blends learning, integration, reflection and connection, with full immersion and minimal distractions.
Saturday 9:30AM – Sunday 4:00PMWaiheke Island Resort | Accommodation & all meals includedFerry transfers are coordinated and included in your retreat experience. We will be in touch to book your preferred departure time. The retreat format is designed to support not just leadership clarity, but nervous system reset, personal alignment and space to breathe. You will experience a gentle rhythm of insight, application, and nervous system restoration, with guided centering tools woven throughout.These tools become anchors in your everyday life, helping you return to clarity when things get busy, noisy, or overwhelming.
Expect to leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more connected — to yourself and to how you lead.
Saturday begins gently, with space to arrive, connect, and step out of urgency. The day blends focused learning sessions with guided reflection, small-group conversation, and quiet moments for personal integration. Afternoon sessions dive into powerful frameworks and tools, with space to explore how they apply to both your leadership and your life.
Saturday evening includes a beautifully catered dinner, light connection, and the option to rest or continue processing in community. No pressure. No posturing. Just real space to think, feel and reset.
Sunday invites depth, moving into applied integration, giving you the tools and structure to bring this learning back to your day-to-day reality. You’ll close the experience with grounded clarity and a renewed sense of leadership alignment, professionally and personally. What is Included- One night of accommodation at Waiheke Island Resort- All meals included and designed to support energy and clarity- Printed materials and reflection tools to take away and apply- A calm, professionally held space with real-world leaders who get it.

Neuroscience-informed frameworks to bring out the best in how we think, lead, & grow.

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