Living your leadership, through all of life’s transitions. Exhale first, growth is next.
Ebb & Haven supports thriving lives and stepping fully into leadership.
Ebb & Haven is a professional leadership development retreat designed for women in leadership roles across sectors who are navigating complexity, transition, and increasing responsibility.
This is not a wellness retreat. It is an evidence‑informed developmental experience that integrates leadership capability building, somatic intelligence, and systems thinking to support adaptive, resilient, values‑aligned leadership.
Participants are supported to pause, reflect, and develop in ways that translate directly back into their organisational roles, strengthening confidence, clarity, and leadership effectiveness during periods of change. Ebb and Haven acknowledges the whole person and the interconnectedness of work and life.
Impact.
Organisations thrive when leaders are adaptive, resilient and values-aligned. Yet, many women experience significant life and work transitions that impact confidence, identity and leadership effectiveness. These transitions can feel like a crisis, but they are also a growth opportunity.
Sponsoring participation in Ebb & Haven delivers tangible benefits:
Retention & Engagement: Reduce the risk of losing talented women during critical life and career transitions.
Leadership Effectiveness: Equip leaders to hold complexity, lead adaptively, and make grounded decisions.
Culture & Wellbeing: Foster psychological safety, trust, and inclusion—key drivers of high-performing teams.
Strategic Impact: Translate personal insight into organisational outcomes through post-retreat coaching and integration.
Why it Matters.
Many women lead crowded lives within complex systems. Without intentional space, reflection, and support, leadership during times of transition can shrink confidence, increase reactivity, and contribute to burnout or attrition.
Ebb & Haven was designed to address this gap. It brings together leadership development and wellbeing to support women to thrive, not just cope, and to step more fully into their leadership capacity.
Leadership Outcomes for Participants.
Embodied Leadership & Self-Regulation: Manage stress, increase clarity, and respond rather than react in high‑pressure contexts.
Adaptive Capacity & Systems Thinking: Sense patterns, hold complexity, and lead effectively in dynamic environments.
Relational Intelligence & Psychological Safety: Strengthen trust, collaboration, and courageous conversations.
Emotional Agility & Inner Leadership: Navigate transitions with confidence, self‑trust, and values alignment.
Sustainable Leadership & Wellbeing: Model practices that support long‑term capacity and resilience.
Retreat Inclusions.
Pre-retreat:
A personalised executive coaching session to clarify your leadership goals and set a powerful intention for the retreat.
During the retreat:
Intentionally designed daily workshops for shared development and meaningful growth.
Daily embodiment and mindfulness practices delivered by an exceptional guide (yoga, mindful walks, guided meditations, etc.).
Accommodation and all nutritious meals.
Post-retreat:
A follow-up executive coaching session aimed to integrate and sustain your growth at work and in life.
An online community and resources to keep the momentum and support going long after the retreat ends.
Dates
Monday 26 – Friday 31 October 2026
Location
Bells at Killcare, Bouddi Peninsula, NSW
Facilitators
Sheree Paterson & Sara Hartley
Cost
Early Bird Rate: $5,950 ex GST (Early Bird ends on 30 June 2026)
Regular Rate: $6,850 ex GST (Regular Rate Registration Begins 1 July 2026)
Registration Closing Date: Friday 22 August 2026
Our Signature Retreat.
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The Elements.
This isn’t just time away and it isn’t just leadership work. It is a return to your whole self. Every element of Ebb & Haven has been carefully curated to stretch and support the whole of you.
We weave deep learning, leadership growth, an intentional daily rhythm, community connection, and soulful exploration into each day you are with us. Our intention is that, by the end of the experience, you have a new container to hold your leadership alongside the other roles you embody with greater clarity, integration, and choice.
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The Flow.
Each day of Ebb & Haven is designed with care and intention, offering enough structure to support learning and enough spaciousness to allow insight to unfold. Together, the days create a rhythm of grounding, reflection, insight, and integration that supports sustainable leadership development.
No one walks completely alone in their journey through mindset growth and change. Each day offers shared learning and practice to enhance how you show up, lead, and relate to yourself and within the systems you inhabit.
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The Setting.
Set upon the ancestral lands of the Darkinjung people and nestled just outside of Sydney, Bells at Killcare is surrounded by the majestic Bouddi National Park. It is one of Australia’s most unique retreat settings, blending coastal charm with a serene bushland environment.
The retreat is spread across lush, landscaped grounds, rich with native flora, flowing streams, a peaceful lake, and access to coastal bushwalks. Bells at Killcare offers an immersive experience in nature that supports reflection, restoration, and integration.
Your Team.
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Founder/Facilitator
Sheree is a leadership coach, guide, and companion in change, with over two decades of experience walking alongside leaders as they navigate growth, transition and the complexity of being human. A quietly confident presence, Sheree brings a grounded blend of deep expertise and soulful curiosity. Her career spans executive coaching, leadership development and systems thinking, but it’s her lived experience of personal transformation, caregiving and creating a life by the sea that now shapes her work in powerful new ways.
Ebb & Haven emerged from a question that has long called to her: Who are we, beneath the roles we play? And who are we becoming as life shifts around us? Sheree brings decades of experience, but shows up not as an expert, but as a companion in change, co-creating space for deep reflection and grounded insight. She offers frameworks, practices, and invitations drawn from research, real life and years of holding space for courageous growth. With her, nothing is forced. Everything is an offering. And everyone is invited to show up fully, held by community, grounded in wisdom, and open to what's next.
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Founder/Facilitator
Sara helps leaders navigate complexity and change by anchoring in what matters most, their own inner wisdom. Her leadership coaching and program design and facilitation is rooted in being fully present, guided by connection and flexible structure. She does not believe in “fixing,” she believes in becoming. Clients describe her coaching as a calm, courageous space where their truth becomes visible, central and actionable.
Sara blends many years of executive-level experience along with her ICF certificate in executive coaching through Georgetown University, deep study in adult development theory, somatic awareness, and a deep reverence for the human story. She walks with leaders as guide, as they reframe challenges, reclaim agency, and remember who they are beneath the complexity and noise.
Whether working with nonprofit executives, business owners, public leaders, or changemakers at a crossroads, she supports transformation that is both tenacious and tender. Sara embraces the “messy grace” - a belief that our most authentic, sustainable growth emerges not from seeking perfection, but from sitting in the mess of it all with presence, reflection, and practice.
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Embodiment Facilitator
Anne is a guide of the soul, a nurturer of wholeness, and cultivator of embodied leadership. With over two decades of experience weaving ancient wisdom with modern psychological science, she walks beside others as they navigate life’s unfolding with grace, resilience, and authenticity. Her approach blends heart and intellect—drawing from yogic philosophy, mindfulness, Reiki, psychological insight, and the healing arts. Through nurturing practices, Anne gently invites each person to return to their essence, awakening self-awareness and deepening self-compassion.
As a retreat facilitator, Anne holds space with reverence and warmth, creating sanctuaries where women can rest, replenish, and reconnect with their wholeness. Her grounded presence is inclusive and infused with gentle humor and deep respect for the human journey.
Anne’s intention is that each person leaves with more than just memories—they carry living wisdom, embodied practices, and a sense of both soulful and community connection that continues to nourish their journey long after the retreat ends.
Your Haven Awaits.
When you choose an Ebb & Haven retreat, you step into a carefully curated week of immersive learning held in community, shaped by developmental dialogue, and designed to meet the complexity of life and leadership as a woman today.
Through facilitated learning, coaching, and embodied practices, you will be invited to engage deeply, with yourself, with others, and with the questions that matter. You will be supported and challenged, invited to grow in ways that feel both expansive and grounded. Throughout the retreat, you will also have space to create your own personal haven wherever it is needed.
Each day is designed with care. We will begin with mindful movement and grounding practices to calm the nervous system and arrive fully in your body. Our ‘Anchor Sessions’ will invite you to learn, share and grow together in both life and leadership each day. Time in nature will offer space to restore, whether through solitude or shared experiences. Quiet moments for individual reflection will be consistently offered throughout the week to help you integrate and deepen your learning and experiences in your own way.
What makes our retreats special is the way we will invite you to pause and shift perspective. To explore new practices, insights and rituals that sustain you. Together, we will co-create a new kind of leadership community, one which you will carry with you long after this experience ends.
Everything is an offering. Nothing is a requirement.
