WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP RERTREAT
A PLACE TO GROUND, CONNECT, AND UNFOLD
Co-Development Dialogue, Embodied Practices & Strategic Clarity
In a tranquil seaside villa, overlooking Arcachon Bay, this retreat offers women leaders a space to step out of urgency and into clarity.
Experience structured peer dialogue framing leadership challenges, combined with embodied practices designed to regulate the nervous system and support next-stage decision-making. This is for women who value depth, discretion, and thoughtful exchange.
Four days between ocean and forest, with a small group of peers who understand what it means to lead.
*Retreat facilitated in English and French
RECALIBRATE
Physical and psychological distance from daily demands creates space. A chance to pause. To recalibrate. To remember what matters most. Creating pockets of breath, detachment, and reflection to bring nuance, insight and clarity to what it is you’re facing.
RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Immersion through pockets of deep dialogue and listening, reflection, and thoughtful exchange. Through our dialogue structure, you’ll bring forward leadership situations and challenges supported by collective wisdom rooted in clarity, integrity and alignment of values.
REGULATION
The retreat follows a slower rhythm, inspired by the tides. Time in nature, beach strolls, sauna & cold immersion, moments of stillness, you are supported in connecting to inner alignment, confidence, and decision-making authority.
RESONANCE
Rather than offering answers or advice, it's about creating conditions for insight to emerge naturally through resonance, challenge, and reflection. Through guided conversations and shared experience, each woman remains fully responsible for her own direction, In the presence of peers who carry similar responsibility.
CONTINUITY
A sanctuary of support through the four days. For some these four days is exactly what's needed, complete. For others, it's the start of something longer. A leadership circle that runs for 6 months after the retreat. Monthly facilitated sessions. Individual coaching. A trusted group that continues to hold you as the work integrates into your real life.
THIS RESONATES WITH YOU IF
You're experiencing:
- Success by external measures, but sensing something needs to shift
- The weight of carrying strategic or emotional responsibility for others
- Decision fatigue from operating in constant urgency
- A need for reflection, nuance, and thoughtful exchange (not quick fixes)
- The desire to lead with more integrity, presence, and alignment with your core values
You're ready for:
- Structured peer dialogue that creates real insight
- A group that understands what you carry
- Space to reconnect with your authority and decision-making clarity
- Leadership work that honours both ambition and capacity
- The permission to lead from within, not just from what's expected
WHAT YOU'LL TAKE HOME
By the end of this retreat, you will have:
✓ Clarity on your most pressing leadership challenges - Through structured dialogue with peers who deeply understand your reality
✓ Concrete next steps you can hold - Not imposed advice, but direction that emerged from your own insight and collective wisdom
✓ A regulated nervous system - From embodied practices that restore your capacity to lead without burnout
✓ Strategic perspective - Distance from urgency, connection to what actually matters
✓ A trusted peer network - Women who've seen you at depth and can continue to support your leadership journey
✓ Optional ongoing support - Invitation to the Échelle Leadership Circle for continued facilitation and peer mentoring over six months
CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT (OPTIONAL)
THE ÉCHELLE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
For some participants, Échelle is a complete experience. For others, it becomes the beginning of an ongoing leadership relationship.
Following the retreat, selected participants may be invited to continue within the Échelle Leadership Circle - a facilitated peer space designed to carry forward the clarity, trust, and momentum established at Villa La Tosca.
What the Échelle Leadership Circle Includes (6 months):
- One facilitated group session per month - Deep leadership dialogue with your trusted peer group. The same structure and holding from the retreat, continued monthly.
- Weekly regulation practice calls - These calls help you tap into your needs and how to give it to yourself so you nourish you AND best support your teams.
- Three individual 1:1 coaching sessions with Leila Bodros - Personalized support for your specific leadership challenges and transitions.
- Private WhatsApp group Stay connected between sessions—ask questions, share wins, get support when you need it.
- Continued presence from Leila and Inès We don't disappear between calls. You have us throughout the six months.
- Membership benefits 10% off all future Échelle retreats at Villa La Tosca.
LEILA BODROS
Leila has spent 18 years working with leaders across public and private sectors, from probation officers to executives navigating high-stakes transitions. As an ICF certified coach and NLP practitioner, she creates conditions for leaders to think clearly, speak honestly, and reconnect with what actually matters. She also runs Côtes d'Armor Networking, supporting women growing businesses in rural France, and advises on luxury real estate in Brittany.
INÈS CASTAGNET
Corporate Wellbeing & Development Manager at Villa La Tosca, specialising in leadership co-development and transformational group work that fosters connection, collaboration, and shared growth. She is experienced in holding immersive, multi-day leadership experiences within hospitality settings, ensuring both depth of work and quality of presence throughout the retreat.
