THE TEAM COACHING
ANNUAL RETREAT
TRANSFORM • RESTORE • CONNECT
RISKING BEING ALIVE
Four days of deep personal development, courageous practice, and renewal.
Join leading team coaching experts Georgina Woudstra and Allard de Jong for an immersive four-day retreat created for experienced team coaches, OD practitioners and leadership development professionals who recognise that the greatest leverage in team coaching is not what we know, but who we are Becoming.
The quality of our presence determines the quality of our impact. Yet most professional development focuses on doing more rather than becoming more. This retreat invites a different journey.
Our 2027 retreat explores vertical development: expanding your capacity to hold complexity, uncertainty, paradox and yourself. Together, we will explore what it really means to risk being fully alive in service of teams: less defended, more present, more able to work with what is emerging, both within yourself and within the living system before you.
Through dialogue, embodied practice, reflective inquiry, peer coaching and restorative time together, Georgina and Allard will create the conditions for deep developmental work that continues long after the retreat ends.
IN A NUTSHELL
Corporate rate: £3,995+VAT
Self-funded: £2400 +VAT (£2200 if booked before 31st December 2026)
When: Monday, 12th to Thursday, 15th July 2027
Where: Careys Manor, Brockenhurst (New Forest), Hampshire, UK
Hosts: Georgina Woudstra & Allard De Jong
WHY CHOOSE THE RETREAT?
As experienced practitioners, we eventually discover that our biggest limitations are rarely technical. Instead, they are the limits of our own awareness and the conversations we avoid.
They are the uncertainty we rush to resolve, the parts of ourselves we protect and the assumptions we cannot yet see.
This retreat offers something increasingly rare: protected space to slow down, examine your own meaning-making, challenge familiar ways of seeing, and expand your capacity to meet whatever emerges.
You'll return not simply refreshed, but changed.
MEET YOUR RETREAT HOSTS
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Georgina Woudstra is the founder of Team Coaching Studio.
Georgina has been coaching since the 1980s and is the author of the industry acclaimed book, Mastering the Art of Team Coaching. Georgina passionately believes that teams need to work together brilliantly for organisations to thrive today and in the future.
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Allard De Jong is a Senior Faculty member and Director at Team Coaching Studio
Allard has been coaching internationally since 2001, believing that we are slowly forgetting how to be together, think together and work together.
His mission is to help people think and work together better through cultivating the instrument of self. One team at a time!
THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF…
You've realised that becoming a better coach is less about adding tools and more about expanding yourself.
You find yourself increasingly drawn to emergence, yet sometimes notice your own habits pulling you back towards certainty.
You're curious about your own developmental edge as much as your clients'.
You value rigorous practice alongside genuine human connection.
You believe the most powerful intervention is often the quality of your presence.
WHO SHOULD JOIN US…
Experienced team coaches ready to deepen their practice beyond tools and frameworks.
OD practitioners and facilitators wanting to refine their capacity to work with emergence.
Executive and leadership coaches expanding into team coaching with sophisticated awareness.
Anyone working with teams and committed to developing their most powerful coaching instrument: themselves.
THE DETAILS
Hosts: Georgina Woudstra and Allard De Jong
Venue:Careys Manor, Brockenhurst (New Forest), Hampshire, UK
Dates: Monday 12th to Thursday 15th July 2027
Times: Monday 1000 - 1730. Tuesday 0900 - 1730. Wednesday 0900 - 1730. Thursday 0900 - 1600
Format: In person
Investment: £3,995+VAT (corporate). £2400 +VAT (self-funded) (£2200 if booked before 31st December 2026)
What's included: The retreat learning experience, refreshments throughout the day and lunch.
What's not included: Accommodation, travel, breakfast, evening meals and evening drinks.
Good to know. The venue has set aside a number of rooms for our delegates. If you would like to stay at Careys Manor, please contact them directly and let them know you are part of the Team Coaching Studio event. There are plenty of self-catering options, hotels, and even campsites in the local area if you prefer to explore other places to stay.
WHAT YOU’LL TAKE HOME
A deeper relationship with yourself as instrument.
Understanding how your own history, assumptions, identity and patterns shape every intervention you make.
Greater capacity to stay present under pressure.
Remaining open and responsive when uncertainty, conflict, emotion or complexity arise, rather than moving too quickly towards certainty or resolution.
More developmental range.
Recognising the difference between adding new skills (horizontal development) and expanding the way you make meaning (vertical development).
Increased courage to work at the edge.
Finding greater freedom to speak what you notice, trust your experience and stay with what is alive, even when it feels uncomfortable.
A renewed sense of purpose and community.
Reconnecting with why you do this work alongside fellow practitioners committed to their own ongoing development.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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We’ve created a space for up to 20 people. This provides the right balance for the numbers needed for interactive sessions and the feel of an intimate group able to be open and to connect.
We are not offering day passes and we kindly ask that participants join us for the whole four days to preserve the integrity of the experience for everyone
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The retreat learning experience, refreshments throughout the day and lunch.
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Carey's Manor is located in Brockenhurst, Hampshire and is part of the beautiful new forest.
The venue itself has a selection of restaurants and bar areas and is walkable from the pubs, cafes and restaurants that are in Brockenhurst. Brockenhurst has a train station well connected from London and Southampton. -
We will confirm the Retreat is running when we reach minimum numbers and no less than 30 days before the event start.
If you make any travel or accommodation plans before the programme is confirmed, please ensure you are familiar with the provider’s cancellation policy.
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The venue has set aside a number of rooms for our delegates. If you would like to stay at Carey’s Manor, please contact them directly and let them know you are part of the Team Coaching Studio event.
There are plenty of self-catering options, hotels, and even campsites in the local area if you prefer to explore other places to stay.Still got a question? Email us at hello@teamcoachingstudio.com and we’re happy to help.
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If you cancel more than 95 days before the Retreat start date you will get a 100% refund. After that, the percentage refund decreases in line with our cancellation policy. You may also transfer your space to a colleague or peer, for a small admin fee. For full cancellation details head here.
RISKING BEING ALIVE
Being alive isn't comfortable. It asks us to let go of certainty, to notice ourselves more honestly and to remain present when we'd rather withdraw or perform.
We invite you to trust that who you are becoming matters as much as what you know.
The deepest work of team coaching begins long before we enter the room.
It begins with the person we bring into it.
We look forward to seeing you in summer 2027
Georgina and Allard
