The Arc of the Retreat
In the quiet turning of seasons, The Becoming offers a rare and restorative space to step away from the demands of your role and reconnect with what truly matters.
This intimate, immersive retreat is designed for CEOs, founders, and senior leaders navigating defining thresholds, moments when fresh clarity is needed, when inner alignment calls, and when authentic leadership must evolve from within.
Held in a tranquil Ibiza sanctuary, The Becoming creates a powerful space for reflection, renewal, and growth. It is a space to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the deeper purpose that seeks to unfold through your leadership and life.
The retreat is held by senior Luminous practitioners. The work is part contemplative, part embodied, part dialogical. The intent is not to give you more to do, but to clear what is in the way of what you already know, and to become who you truly are.
Arrivals
Arriving, and gathering at the table.
- 12:00–18:00
Arrivals & Check-in
You are welcome to arrive and check in any time between 12:00 and 18:00 and settle into the villa. Time to land, unpack, and let the journey begin.
- 20:00
Welcome Dinner
The first gathering of the group around a shared table. Good food, easy conversation, and the quiet sense of something about to begin.
- 22:00
Sitting around the Fire
We gather around the fire as the night deepens. An unstructured evening of storytelling, silence, song, and sharing.
Letting Go
Awakening awareness and shedding what we have been carrying.
- 07:30
Breakfast
- 09:00
Welcome Circle
with Anthony VenusWe open our circle together. Each participant shares what has brought them here and what they are quietly hoping for. The invitation is to meet the people you are travelling with, and to name your own intention for the days ahead.
- 10:00
Break
- 10:45
The Unshaken Ground
with H.E. Khedrup RinpocheTrust, inner state, and leadership presenceA meditation to settle the body, soften the pace of the mind, and arrive fully into the days ahead. Followed by a teaching of ancient wisdom focused on the practice of seeing things clearly as they truly are, an investigation into the truth. We then turn to locating the place inside you that does not move, regardless of what is happening around you: how to find this ground, return to it under pressure, and lead from a place of truth rather than uncertainty.
- 12:00
Lunch
A nutritious meal in the villa’s gardens.
- 13:00
The Long Arc of Leadership
with Anthony VenusA developmental lens on how trust, inner steadiness, and leadership presence mature over time, moving from disruption and disorientation toward integration, embodiment, and transmission. The invitation is to see more clearly where you stand in your own arc and what the next chapter holds for you.
- 13:30
Threshold Work
with JL Moura, Susan Goldsworthy & Senior Luminous PractitionersDeep threshold workThe heart of the first day. We give the afternoon fully to the work of the threshold: naming what is being left behind, what is being carried across, and what is being stepped into. Working in stillness, in small groups, and in pairs, we slow down and let the crossing be felt rather than rushed. The invitation is to stand consciously at your own threshold and to see, clearly, what this next passage is asking of you.
- 16:00
Break
- 16:30
Breathwork
with Susan GoldsworthyWe close the working day through the body. A guided session working with the breath to move what the threshold work has surfaced and to let what wants to emerge come closer, often beyond what the thinking mind can reach. The invitation is to arrive at the evening lighter, more spacious, and more in line with yourself.
- 18:00
Break and changeover
- 18:30
Transfer to Benirràs Beach
The drive north to one of the island’s most alive and sacred bays.
- 19:30
Sunset Drumming Circle
A long-held local tradition. We gather with the community at the water’s edge as the sun sets and the drums begin. The invitation is to feel the day land in the body, and the threshold of the retreat to fully cross.
- 20:30
Dinner Out
A long table dinner at one of the island’s most extraordinary restaurants, above the sea.
Deepening & Embodiment
Moving from the head into the body and letting what we value reveal itself.
- 07:30
Breakfast
- 09:00
Meditation & Compassion
with H.E. Khedrup RinpocheA meditation to settle the body, soften the pace of the mind, and arrive fully into the days ahead. Learning the practice of skilful compassion and compassion for self.
- 10:00
Transfer to The Spain Horse Country Club
The drive to The Spain Horse Country Club, a sanctuary for rescued horses set in the island’s interior.
- 11:00
Morning Session
Group A · Equine Constellationwith Joki TimmermansHorses respond to what is true beneath the surface, not to what is presented. Working with them in a constellation format surfaces the values and patterns you are actually leading from, often more clearly than any conversation can. The invitation is to meet, in the body, what you most deeply value and where you may be out of alignment with it.
Group B · Meeting the Self Beneathwith Nikolai LadanyiWe each lead from an inner cast of parts, the different voices and drives that move within us. There is the part that pushes hard under pressure, the part that plays it safe, the part that performs, and the one we would rather not admit to. Beneath them all sits a calm, grounded self with the capacity to hold the whole system. Working in the Internal Family Systems tradition, a model of parts work rather than family therapy, we turn inward and meet these parts directly, seeing which of them tend to run the show when we lead, what they are working to protect, and how to lead from that steady self rather than from whichever part has been triggered. The invitation is to meet your inner world with compassion and to lead from a more integrated whole.
- 14:00
Lunch at The Spain Horse Country Club
A simple and nourishing meal under the trees at the sanctuary.
- 15:00
Afternoon Session
Group B · Equine Constellationwith Joki TimmermansGroup A · Meeting the Self Beneathwith Nikolai Ladanyi - 18:00
Return to Villa
An informal setting to spend some time with your fellow participants and practitioners and let the day settle before the evening gathers.
- 19:00
Free Time & Leadership Journeys
An open space to rest, swim, walk, write, connect one on one with fellow participants and practitioners, or simply be. The retreat trusts that what is needed will be found in the unstructured space. Or, pair up with a senior Luminous practitioner for a leadership journey session: a guided walk to metabolise what has surfaced, with prompts that draw out the shape of your leadership journey so far, the thresholds you are standing at now, and the next chapter that is asking to be lived.
- 20:30
Dinner at the Villa: Standing at the Threshold
with Susan Goldsworthy & Anthony Venus - 22:00
Sitting around the Fire
We gather around the fire as the night deepens. An unstructured evening of storytelling, silence, song, and sharing.
Integration & Emergence
Integration and Emergence. Gathering what has surfaced and shaping it into purpose and direction.
- 07:30
Breakfast
- 09:00
Meditation & Courage
with H.E. Khedrup RinpocheA meditation to settle the body, soften the pace of the mind, and arrive fully into the days ahead. Learning the practice of courage to stay present with what is difficult.
- 09:45
Break
- 10:00
The Eight Cloaks Within
with Susan GoldsworthyThe conditioned states that quietly lead usWe each carry conditioned states that can quietly take hold of how we think, relate and lead: superiority, indulgence, drama, distraction, victimhood, urgency, overwork and judgement. In this guided reflection, you identify the cloaks you wear most often, notice the situations and pressures that bring them forward, and explore what each may be protecting. The work is not to eliminate them, but to recognise a cloak as it arises and return to the body-mind, so that you can lead from conscious choice rather than conditioned reaction.
- 11:30
Break
- 11:45
Becoming our Purpose
with JL Moura & Senior Luminous PractitionersA facilitated space to sit with what is becoming. The work of the previous days does not arrive as conclusions but as movement, and this session is designed to listen for it. Working in stillness, in small groups, in pairs, and in writing, we turn toward what is emerging, what is asking to be released, what is ours to do now, and the purpose that wants to be lived through this next chapter.
- 13:15
Lunch
- 14:30
The Becoming Circle
with Anthony Venus & Susan GoldsworthyThe Becoming circle of the retreat. Space is held for each participant to speak freely to what has moved in them and what they are carrying forward.
- 16:00
Break and snacks
- 17:00
Transfer to Es Vedrà
- 17:30
Sunset Hike at Es Vedrà
A walk to the cliffs overlooking Es Vedrà, the small island off Ibiza’s southwest coast long held as one of the most energetically charged places on earth, representing vitality of the spirit. We arrive in time to watch the light shift and the sun fall behind the rock. A moment to let the body take in the close of these days.
- 20:30
Farewell Dinner
An evening at a beachfront restaurant, to celebrate our time together and our becoming.
Departures
Leaving well.
- Morning
Departures
The retreat closes with a slow morning and individual departures. Breakfast remains open until late. There is no formal programming, only the quiet of leaving well.
This programme is offered as a guide. The Luminous team may adapt the flow of the days where doing so deepens the experience. Outdoor activities such as the hike and equine constellations are subject to the weather.