ARA’s Retreat Camp transforms leaders, helping them to gain the right body-mind set and productive state to navigate high-speed pressure with multiple complex challenges, restore personal energy in the moment and take time out for active recovery as a daily hygiene to sustain healthy performance at its optimum.

When in a leadership position, it can feel challenging to take time out for a Retreat Camp, but we see it as an investment that delivers quick and invaluable results.  Combining both indoor and outdoor training offers a fresh environment to boost one’s overall healthy outlook when coming back to work.

From the experts, participants will learn what orchestrating healthy performance means to them when it is right, apply new in-demand skills for their business world, transform fragility causes into antifragility to grow stronger and remain effective through adversity, pressure and uncertainty, learn feel the essence of excellence of the body and mind energy being in synch at its best.

As you have participated in the Booster Camp which has defined your present state, needs and areas for improvement and where to develop more competence and skills to meet work-life challenges.

The Retreat Camp is designed to build on these needs and develop your personal strength to master mission specific techniques and tools for your purpose.

The Retreat Camp brings applied learning to cultivate, transform and endorse training during 5 ½ days surrounded by breathtaking mountain sceneries.

As a participant you will learn how to recognise early work-life challenges, apply the right in-demands skills to stay on track, practice active recovery in yourselves and with your teams.

You will gain insight of behavioural physiology, learn unique techniques for preventing and as well as recovery from signs of fatigue and early burnout to reverse any risks.

The Retreat Camp is transforming maladaptive unproductive responses you experienced before to become trained automated responses to surf out with required in-demand skills and high healthy performance while continuing doing what they are doing is the goal.

This will be a fascinating experience for how you will learn from real-life examples and experts by acting ahead in the game and not by reacting from the tip of the nose.  

You will also receive a comprehensive set of skills to Master Active Recovery and how you can make it become a beneficial strategy to promote healthy performance, drive a productive mindset under high stress and build human capital within your organisation. 

The Program is conducted by ARA’s expert team and outdoor guides at Hotel Rougemont & SPA in Rougemont.

The 5 ½ days Retreat Camp and its remote post program guarantees you high-impact transformation and learning with sustainable results. Be ready to go:

A testimonial from John, marketing director

One day in a meeting I just saw myself sitting inside a glass box watching the world passing by without the energy and ability to interact with colleagues around me. I was a shadow of myself and found it hard to concentrate, I was physically exhausted, my muscles tight, shallow breathing, a feeling of high blood pressure, and I felt anxious and worried.  After the Retreat Camp and 8 weeks post training and coaching came a clear answer. I felt purposeful, peaceful, powerful, and confident with full engagement in what I do. I implement active recovery after an effort like an eagle as one of the skills learned during the Retreat Camp. Working with a team of experts and peers having a similar situation as me was very rewarding and provided new friends.

Tuesday – arrival after lunch

• Warm up with an easy active recovery session
• Welcome to the ARA Retreat Camp
  • Program objectives: to help meet your identified needs, signs and master mission specific skills
  • Be ready to apply in-demand skills…

Thursday – daily program

• • Set the pace for the day – ARA morning routine
  • Morning workshop
    • Applied behavioural physiology, energy, heart, breath and mind coherence.
    • In-demand learning techniques and skills training
    • Introduction to the better breathing clinic sessions
  • Guided active “Walk and Talk” paced breathing training with capnotrainer devieces and mission specific outdoor sessions
  • Better Breathing Clinic 1 – Biofeedback training with specific breathing skills for self-regulation
  • Tai chi and mindfulness
  • Rest
  • Debrief and dinner

Saterday – daily program

• Set the pace for the day – ARA morning routine
• Morning workshop
  • Heart of life – essential of heart care and recovery
  • Beyond the calories. How to fuel your body and mind
  • Introduction to the 3P’s to build Human Capital and personal thrive
• Guided active “Walk and Talk” recovery – mission specific outdoor sessions
• Human Capital is to raise the bar for talent acquisition, realise own potentials and human capital growth in the organisation
• Debrief and dinner

Post-program training is an essential part in anchoring new skills and is critical in ensuring successful implementation of self-regulation techniques in challenging situations.

The post-program is really to make sure that you “walk the talk” and act as a role model for yourself and others by applying successfully multiple work-life-health solutions with optimal outcomes.

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• Master your action plan and achieve your health, life and work goals.

2.

• Online courses

  • Follow pre-assigned learn2master online courses, instructor managed or off-the-shelf with remote coaching sessions.

3.

• Weekly interactions with your personal health coach who remotely monitors and interacts with you via a chat box on

  • • Collected weekly health data, trends review, motivational inputs on progress and suggested action on abnormal patterns. 
    • Active Recovery journal, your documented stress perceptions and challenges, overall progress, tangible improvements, and risk factors 

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• Monthly instructor managed sessions together with peer members

  • This type of session with your instructors and interaction with peers ensures an immersive and interactive learning experience.
    • 3 sessions total – each session is 90 minutes.

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Workshops are tailored to the group to ensure mission specifics are integrated into the workshops.

• Be your own leader
• Active Recovery targeted learning skills
• Healthy Performance Zone
• Functional Health and Behavioural Physiology
• Performance under pressure and threat
• Stress and Burnout proof
• “Walk the talk” be a role model for yourself and others – leadership development

POST PROGRAM ONLINE

The post-program length is 3 months with biweekly coaching session and ends with an examination to give you a nice diploma in Master of Active Recovery.

 Program is totally personalised related to your identified needs and topics, to solve your challenges and requirements. You develop a set of trained natural in-demand responses and strategies that you can implement to master your daily work-life challenges.