Elevate Your
Leadership Potential
LEAD WITH CLARITY & PURPOSE
Our facilitation techniques yield deep transformation. The comfort of our tropical retreat center supports corporate and non-profit groups with the journey. We also specialize in peer group forum retreats for Entrepreneurs Organization, Young Presidents Organization, Vistage and Chief.
Forum Retreats For
BREAK FREE, DETOX, AND RECHARGE
Reconnect to yourself, nature and life purpose as a leader!
Step away from the responsibilities of executive life. Detox from stress, devices, unhealthy food choices, and other energy-draining habits. Learn unique mindset shift techniques to release these burdens, rejuvenate your well-being, and embrace a lifestyle that supports sustained vitality and focus.
THE ALTERNAVIDA METHOD:
Our unique facilitation method fosters deep learning and growth. Centered around four core components
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Conscious communication (unlock limiting beliefs, learn what you don’t know about yourself)
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Whole body intelligence (align head, heart and body wisdom through somatic coaching )
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Optimal well-being (experience the foundational elements of self-care for vitality)
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Nature- based Learning (receive inspirational insights from ecosystem designs applicable to life and business)
THE ALTERNAVIDA METHOD
Conscious Communication
Explore the power of conscious communication as a forum, practices that transform your internal dialogue and external interactions. Our methods leverage the wisdom from the Hendricks Institute and the Conscious Leadership Group, for a forum of trust, connection, and mutual respect.
Nature Based Learning
Inspired by the natural world, our retreats encourage you to adopt nature’s principles—adaptability, resilience, and interconnectivity—in your leadership. Shift your perspective and problem-solving strategies by asking, “How would nature do it?”
Whole Body Intelligence
Authentic leadership begins with unlocking the wisdom of your body through somatic intelligence. Learn to trust your intuition, manage stress effectively, and boost your creativity and productivity—all while immersed in the natural beauty of Puerto Rico.
Optimal Well-Being
Prioritize your self-care as a critical foundation for showing up as the best version of yourself. Each retreat includes organic farm-to-table meals, healthy hydration, stress reducing breathwork, powerful mindfulness techiques, and daily movement out in nature to enhance your physical and mental well-being.
SAMPLE RETREAT TOPICS
We customize all retreat experiences, often creating a unique theme, meeting our guests where they are at adjusting content as needed. The following retreat themes are examples of common topics.
Mental Resilience & Burnout Prevention
Description: Many executives face burnout from constant pressure, isolation in leadership, inability to disconnect, high responsibility with lack of support, lack of self-care and no work-life balance. This retreat is designed to help leaders recognize and address the unconscious root causes of burnout—like their harsh inner critics, impostor syndrome, and comparison. Through introspection, practical tools, and a supportive environment, participants will regain personal strength and clarity, returning to their roles feeling recharged and ready to lead with renewed energy.
Why it’s ideal: Addressing mental health and preventing burnout are crucial for sustaining high performance. This retreat equips leaders with actionable strategies for self-care, clear agreements, and stress management, ensuring long-term success and resilience in leadership.
Healthy Lifestyle Reboot
Description: Ready to move beyond your limiting beliefs and design a healthy, vital lifestyle? This retreat
invites executives to immerse themselves in a holistic reset, focusing on eating nutritious food, improving sleep habits, engaging in daily movement, and reconnecting with nature. We’ll help leaders step away from unhealthy habits, stressors, and distractions, creating a space for deep personal renewal. By integrating these essential healthy lifestyle practices, participants will leave feeling rejuvenated and better equipped to lead with vitality and clarity.
Why it’s ideal: Leaders who prioritize their health create a ripple effect that extends to their teams and organizations. This retreat provides a blueprint for a healthy lifestyle design, ensuring executives return to their roles with more energy, focus, and balance.
Empowered Leadership Mastery
Description: True empowerment comes from within. This retreat will guide leaders in tapping into their intuition and body intelligence, helping them create clear and impeccable agreements with themselves and others. We’ll explore how to overcome fear, trust the natural pace of leadership, and align more deeply with personal and professional values.
Why it’s ideal: Empowered leaders inspire empowered teams. This retreat helps executives unlock the next level of leadership by grounding their decision-making in intuition and emotional intelligence, which leads to clearer communication and stronger, resilient, more agile leadership.
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Access Unlimited Creative Flow & Innovation
Description: This retreat focuses on the science of quieting the inner critic and uncovering the authentic pace and rhythm of your own leadership style. Through reflective practices, revealing exercises, and body-mind alignment, executives will learn powerful tools to tap into their innovative potential and find sustainable, effective ways to drive their organizations forward.
Why it’s ideal: In an era where innovation is the key to success, leaders need to learn how to access and
maintain creative flow. This retreat empowers executives to move beyond constant busyness and embrace the behaviors and mindset required to foster groundbreaking ideas and solutions.
CHALLENGE YOURSELF, TRANSFORM YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE
Our retreats are more than just a getaway—they’re a challenge to grow. With digital detoxes, nutritional reboots, stress reduction practices, and personal growth activities, you’ll leave Casa Alternavida ready to lead with deeper authenticity, vulnerability and passion.
Visit yancywright.com to learn more about our facilitation approach and casaalternavida.com to explore our retreat location.
PERSONAL
TESTIMONIALS
“It's been about six weeks since our EO forum retreat and I wanted to share how much it's impacted me. I've lost 15 pounds—not that the number matters—but I've completely changed my diet for the better. I'm now stretching daily, exercising three times a week, and my body feels amazing! In an unexpected way, you might have even saved my life. I fell through the ice last weekend, and instead of panicking, I remembered our ocean floating breathing exercises, calmed myself, and got out safely!”
MARK SIGEL
CEO Sophia’s Cookies – EO, Minnesota
“I have been in EO for 14 years and this forum retreat was the most inspirational/impactful as Yancy guided us through several transformational exercises that helped me better connect with myself and my EO forum mates. He curated our entire retreat agenda and supported us with one of the deepest forum gatherings to date. Historically, we just have a speaker come for an hour, but it was much better having Yancy the whole time and we all agreed it was our best forum retreat EVER!"
SHANNON SWIFT
Swift HR Solutions - EO, Seattle
This is a very special place with wonderful setting, food, amenities, rooms, art, and best of all...people.
We took a retreat with 8 professional musicians with wide range of ages and personalities and abilities, and EVERYONE loved Casa Alternavida. There is a special vibe to this place and the people who have created it are generous, welcoming and very creative. The rooms very very comfy and beautiful, the chef incredibly talented, yoga instruction and eco-adventures were amazing and deeply respectful to the ecosystem, culture and history of the island.
HILARY PERKINS
Founder & CEO -
Whippoorwill Arts (non-profit)