A WanderWomen Retreat
Proving to Presence
You have proved you can succeed. What does success mean to you now?
A three-day retreat near Barcelona for high-achieving women at a meaningful point of transition, professionally, personally, or both. Step away from the roles and responsibilities you carry every day and make space to decide what you want your next chapter to be about.
Can Buch, Catalonia | 13–15 November 2026
This retreat is
for you if…
You've built a life you can be proud of.
You may still be successful in it.
But something is changing.
Perhaps you are moving into or out of a role, considering a different direction, taking a sabbatical, starting something new, navigating a personal transition, or simply noticing that the life that once fitted perfectly no longer gives you a clear answer about what comes next.
You don't need another achievement. You need enough distance to decide what matters now.
That is the work of these three days.
By the Author of WanderWomen
Founder of Thrive with Mentoring
Coachees in 40+ countries
Trusted by global organisations
What you will leave
clearer about
Over three days, you will work through four questions and turn your reflections into decisions you can take home.
01 · RELEASE
What am I ready
to stop carrying?
Clearer decisions about the responsibilities, expectations and habits you want to leave behind.
02 · PROTECT
What do I want
to protect?
A clearer sense of the values, relationships and boundaries you want your next chapter to honour.
03 · PRIORITISE
What deserves
my energy now?
Practical priorities and a 30-day plan for beginning to act on them.
04 · DEFINE
What do I want this
next chapter to stand for?
Your own definition of success, captured in a Personal Leadership Manifesto.
Three days. One return.
The Weekend Flow
The retreat is shaped by the three movements of WanderWomen: Braving, Building, Becoming. Each day gives you a different way to look at your next chapter: what is calling you, what you have carried, what you are ready to say, and what you now know.
Friday
Arrive. Slow down. Begin.
Leave the pace of everyday life behind through reflection, conversation and your first WanderWomen Circle.
Ask yourself: What season of life am I truly in?
Saturday morning
See your story differently.
Through the book, coaching and group reflection, explore the identities and expectations you’ve carried. Recognise the season you’re living, before deciding what comes next.
Saturday afternoon and evening
Release what no longer belongs to you.
Coaching and breathwork help you loosen old stories and invisible labour. By the fire, share without performance, advice or fixing.
Sunday
Return with clarity.
Create your New Success Script and Personal Leadership Manifesto. Leave with practical decisions and boundaries for the life ahead.
Life doesn’t move in a straight line. Neither does leadership. This weekend is designed to help you recognise the season you’re in, honour it, and return home with greater clarity about what comes next. Every day includes guided journaling, shared meals, unhurried conversation, and space to rest: nature, stillness, circle work, story, and reflection. No networking. No performance.
Everything held, so you can arrive fully.
Your retreat place includes the core experience, accommodation, meals, materials, and a planned group shuttle from Barcelona-El Prat Airport at set times. Full details on room options, payment schedule, travel timing, and next steps are shared after your application call.
Who is it for
High-achieving women who have led, adapted, carried, and succeeded, and are ready for success that feels true.
What you experience
Circle, story, nature, voice work, gentle movement, breathwork, shared meals, and spacious conversation.
What shifts
You begin to name what you have been carrying, what you are ready to stop proving, and what wants to lead the next chapter.
What you leave with
Boundaries you can feel in your body, Language for your next chapter, Your Leadership Manifesto, A version of success your body can sustain
Included
Everything essential is held so you can arrive fully, without having to manage the weekend yourself.
Stay, Meals & Travel
✓ Two nights at Can Buch, Catalonia
✓ Full-board meals from Friday to Sunday
✓ Planned group shuttle from Barcelona-El Prat Airport at set times
✓ Retreat materials and arrival information
Retreat Sessions & Integration
✓ Facilitated retreat sessions with Shivangi
✓ Guided reflection, story, and circle conversations
✓ Voice, boundaries, and leadership integration work
✓ Gentle movement and breathwork led by professionals
✓ WanderWomen book-based prompts
✓ Your New Success Script and Personal Leadership Manifesto
What you need to manage
You’ll need to arrange your own flights, travel insurance, and personal expenses. If you choose to arrive earlier, stay longer, or travel outside the arranged group shuttle, those costs will be separate.
Recommended airport: Barcelona-El Prat Airport. Final shuttle timing and travel guidance are shared after your place is confirmed.
The embodied practices are gentle and optional. Through breath, grounding, movement, voice, and stillness, you will begin to notice what your body has been carrying, where proving has lived, and what a more sustainable version of success might feel like.
Investment
Founding Member Price starts from
CHF 1349
Full details on room options, deposit, payment schedule, cancellation terms, and travel timing are shared in the private retreat PDF after your interest call.
A short, no-pressure conversation to explore whether this is the right room for you.
1. Book an application call: We bring this group together with care. Start with a short, relaxed conversation so we can get to know each other and both decide whether the retreat feels right.
2. Explore the details: If it feels like a fit, we’ll send you the retreat guide with room options, pricing, payment terms and travel information. You’ll have space to ask questions before deciding.
3. Confirm your place and get ready: Once you’re ready, we’ll help you confirm your place and share a short form for your room, dietary and travel needs. Then you can arrive knowing the practical details are taken care of.
Why Shivangi
A lived, shared, human experience.
Shivangi Walke is the founder of WanderWomen and Thrive with Mentoring (Switzerland). She has coached and trained leaders across 40+ countries, worked with global organisations, and brings 25 years of leadership work alongside lived experience of reinvention, belonging, and visibility across cultures.
I created WanderWomen because I kept meeting extraordinary women who had done everything right and still felt strangely far from themselves.
— Shivangi Walke, Founder
The book inside the retreat
WanderWomen: How High-Skilled Immigrant Women Thrive is the narrative backbone of the weekend. Before you arrive, you’ll receive selected prompts from the book to help you begin reflecting on your own story. During the retreat, we work with the Braving, Building, and Becoming framework through circle, voice, reflection, and integration.
You do not need to have finished the book before you come. It becomes a companion for the questions we explore together.
Meet Briony Gunson
Breathwork & Embodiment Facilitator
Briony Gunson is a mindset coach and breathwork facilitator with 900+ hours of training and seven years of full-time facilitation experience. She has co-facilitated 11 retreats internationally and worked with organisations including EY, The Telegraph, Santander, WeWork and the NHS.
As a third culture kid who grew up in Hong Kong, Briony also connects personally with WanderWomen’s themes of identity, belonging and finding home.
At the retreat, she will guide a gentle, trauma-aware Conscious Connected Breathwork experience designed to help you soften out of striving, release mental load and create space for deeper clarity, truth and authentic expression.
What You'll Leave With
More than memories.
You leave with language.
Clarity on the beginning
that is calling you now.
Boundaries that can hold
under pressure.
A stronger, truer voice for
what you want next.
A Personal Leadership Manifesto
"I did not need more advice. I needed a room where I could hear myself again."
What women often say after this work
A sacred pause
You don’t need another room where you have to be impressive.
You don’t need another version of success that costs you your body, joy, or truth.
You may simply need a pause.
A circle. A weekend where you can stop proving and start listening again.
Come as you are. Leave with a clearer voice, a softer body, and a braver relationship to the woman you are becoming.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you may want to know before joining us in Catalonia.
The WanderWomen Retreat is for accomplished women who have led, adapted, carried, built and achieved, and may now be asking a more honest question: What does success need to look like now?
It is designed especially for high-skilled women and women who have built lives across cultures. If the themes of reinvention, voice, visibility, belonging and self-trust speak to you, this may be the right room for you.
It is the shift from constantly demonstrating your capability to inhabiting your own truth more fully.
Over the weekend, you will have space to notice where you may be over-carrying, softening your voice, negotiating away your needs or continuing to live according to a definition of success that no longer fits, and begin exploring what you want instead.
Expect circle conversations, guided reflection, storytelling, nature, voice work, gentle movement, breathwork, shared meals and spacious conversation.
This is intentionally not a packed conference agenda. There is room to think, walk, rest, connect and hear yourself again.
No. There are no badges, networking breaks or pressure to introduce yourself through your job title.
You will be surrounded by accomplished women, but the intention is connection rather than networking, and presence rather than performance.
You will leave with clearer language for the chapter you are entering, greater clarity around the choices you want to make, your Personal Leadership Manifesto and a New Success Script that helps you define success on your own terms.
You will also have a 30-Day Integration Guide to help carry the work beyond the weekend.
Absolutely. You do not need to know anyone before you arrive.
The retreat is deliberately small, and connection develops naturally through shared meals, conversations, reflection and experiences together.
The retreat takes place at Can Buch, a restored Catalan farmhouse surrounded by nature near Girona in Catalonia, Spain.
The setting has been chosen deliberately. It gives us enough distance from everyday life to genuinely step out of our routines, without requiring a long-haul journey.
The WanderWomen Retreat takes place from Friday 13 November to Sunday 15 November 2026.
We are planning group transfers from Barcelona-El Prat Airport and Barcelona city to Can Buch, with return transfers on Sunday.
Confirmed participants will receive final pickup locations, timings and recommended flight arrival and departure windows well before the retreat.
Both shared and private room options are available. Private rooms are limited and carry an additional single-room supplement.
We will talk through current room availability and your preference before you confirm your place.
Full-board meals during the retreat are included, along with afternoon tea.
We will collect dietary requirements from participants before the retreat and coordinate them with the venue. We will do our best to accommodate common dietary requirements, intolerances and allergies.
Your retreat experience includes:
- Two nights at Can Buch
- Full-board meals and afternoon tea
- All facilitated retreat sessions
- Guided reflection, story and circle conversations
- Professional gentle movement and breathwork
- WanderWomen-based prompts and retreat materials
- Your Personal Leadership Manifesto
- Your New Success Script and 30-Day Integration Guide
- Planned group transfers between Barcelona and Can Buch
Flights, travel insurance, personal expenses, additional nights before or after the retreat and transfers outside the arranged group shuttle are not included.
Not at all. You do not need previous experience with breathwork, retreats or other forms of reflective practice.
Everything will be introduced and guided for the group.
No. Movement and embodiment practices are designed to be gentle and optional.
There is no expectation of a particular level of fitness or flexibility. You are always invited to participate in a way that feels appropriate for your body.
No. Sharing is invitational.
You will never be required to disclose something personal or process something publicly. Listening, reflecting and quiet participation are equally welcome.
It means being met beyond what you achieve, solve or hold together.
There is space to speak honestly, listen inwardly and be received without needing to justify, fix or polish your experience.
No. WanderWomen is a leadership, reflection and reinvention retreat. It is not therapy and does not replace therapeutic or medical support.
The weekend includes facilitated conversations, coaching-led reflection, storytelling, embodiment, voice work and integration practices.
The retreat will be held in English.
Begin with a short fit call with Shivangi.
It is a genuine conversation about where you are now, what you are looking for and whether this particular retreat feels like the right room for you.
There is no pressure to make a decision during the call.
If the retreat feels like a good fit, you will receive the information you need to confirm your place, including current room options, pricing, payment details and practical information.
Your place is confirmed once the required payment or deposit has been received.
Current pricing and available room options are shown in the Investment section of this page.
Private-room availability is limited and carries an additional supplement.
Because this is an intimate retreat and accommodation, food, facilitators and other commitments are secured in advance, cancellation terms apply to all bookings.
Please refer to the cancellation terms provided with your booking information before making payment.
Once your place is confirmed, we will collect your travel and dietary information.
Final Barcelona pickup points, shuttle timings, recommended travel windows, packing suggestions and arrival information will be shared with participants before the retreat.
Still have a question?
Sometimes the easiest way to know whether the WanderWomen Retreat is right for you is simply to talk.
Book a Fit Call