Whether you're part of a leadership group, a project team, or a growing start-up, the olive harvest provides the ideal environment to align your goals and strengthen your dynamic.

This retreat is designed for teams ready to:

- Build authentic connections through shared purpose.

-Develop trust through collaborative challenges.

- Discover innovative approaches through nature-based learning.

Over the course of 3 full days, immerse yourselves in an extraordinary blend of nature, teamwork, and growth:

- Collaborative Practice: Work side by side in the olive groves, strengthening bonds while learning the traditional art of olive oil production.

- Team Development: Participate in systemic team-building exercises that enhance agility, problem-solving, and leadership.

- Strategic Vision: Tap into the stunning landscape to unlock intuition and foster innovative thinking.

You will conclude the journey with a tangible outcome: your team's premium organic olive oil. Liquid gold a as symbol of your collaboration and growth.

Transform your team through lessons drawn from the ancient practice of olive cultivation:

- Communication Culture: Like olive trees sharing nutrients through interconnected roots, develop robust networks of dialogue, feedback, and mutual support.

- Sustainable Team Practices: Learn from nature's cycles to establish enduring patterns of collaboration and renewal within your team.

- Collective Innovation: Just as each harvest season brings new challenges, strengthen your team's ability to adapt and innovate together.

- Natural Leadership: Following the olive grove's example of interdependence, cultivate shared leadership and collective responsibility.

Your team leaves with both tangible results—premium olive oil—and intangible growth: stronger bonds, proven collaborative practices, and renewed purpose. Like the ancient olive trees, your team will develop deep roots for lasting success.

Egbert van Wyngaarden is a certified business coach, dialogue practitioner and futures thinker. He combines expertise in sustainability with deep leadership insights. Fluent in English, German, French, Dutch and Italian, Egbert leads you through a transformative journey that links systemic coaching with the power of the Mani landscape. As a mountain guide he knows the hidden paths and the local natural secrets.

Ioannis Kentzeas is a historian and archaeologist. Driven by his passion for olive farming, he revitalizes his family’s ancestral traditions in Thalames. With a deep background in gastronomy and sustainable agriculture, Ioannis brings a wealth of cultural authenticity and nature-based expertise, enriching the retreat with immersive experiences that connect participants to the land, its history, and its timeless wisdom.

The olive trees were planted by our ancestors, some as far back as 500 years ago. Sustained by rainwater and nourished by wild herbs, they stand as living symbols of resilience, connection, and growth. With deep roots and thriving ecosystems, they inspire enduring strength, collaboration, and renewal. Beneath their leafy branches, your team will uncover wisdom to grow together and achieve lasting success.