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Proving to Presence

A WanderWomen Retreat

3-days to recognise the season you’re in, reconnect with yourself, and return home with clarity for what comes next.

Can Buch, Catalonia | 13–15 November 2026

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By the Author of WanderWomen

Founder of Thrive with Mentoring

Coachees in 40+ countries

Trusted by global organisations

  • "The WanderWomen Circle touched me deeply. I felt empowered. It was a permission slip to take up space, listen inwardly, and trust what was already stirring."

    — Andrea Born-Cristancho, Impact Strategy Consultant

  • "Shivangi’s voice feels like she is sitting across the table from me. The audiobook is so engaging and action-oriented that I need to go back to some chapters.”

    — Raj Bhogal, Senior Director, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

A stone house with large windows surrounded by trees at sunset, featuring a swimming pool with lounge chairs and a patio area with seating and umbrellas.
Rustic balcony with stone walls, wicker and wooden furniture, cushioned seating, potted plant, outdoor scenery with trees, a house, mountains, and a pond.
Bedroom with a wooden bed, pillows, two bedside lamps, a wicker chair, a window with white curtains, views of mountains and greenery, a beige and brick wall, and a vaulted white ceiling.
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Indoor spa area with a small pool, illuminated by warm lights, featuring a stone arched ceiling and tiled floor.
Indoor spa room with stone walls and arched ceiling, a window in the back, towels on a small bench, water flowing into a pool, and warm lighting.
A cozy room with stone walls, two wooden armchairs with gray cushions, a small table with flowers, and a large arched window overlooking a green landscape.
A breakfast table with assorted jams, juices, and fruits in a cozy dining room with natural light and wooden decor.
A cozy living room with wooden walls, rattan furniture with cushions, a round woven rug, large glass doors with curtains leading to a balcony, and a visible bathroom with a bathtub and toilet.
Scenic view of a rustic countryside estate surrounded by lush green trees and rolling hills during sunset.
Cozy balcony with rustic stone walls, a wooden table set with bowls and a tray, white cushioned chairs, and scenic mountain views with trees and hills in the distance.

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 fit call.

Who is it for

High-achieving immigrant 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 1149

Full details on room options, deposit, payment schedule, cancellation terms, and travel timing are shared in the private retreat PDF after your interest call.

Book Fit Call

A short, no-pressure conversation to explore whether this is the right room for you.

1. Book a fit call: We begin with a short conversation to understand fit and answer your first questions.

2. Receive the private PDF: You receive full details on pricing, room options, deposit, payment schedule, and travel.

3. Confirm your place: Your place is held once your deposit is received.

4. Share your details: You complete a participant form with dietary needs, room preferences, and travel information.

5. Prepare to arrive: You receive final Barcelona-El Prat shuttle timing, packing suggestions, and arrival details.

A sacred pause for the woman
who has outgrown proving.

You may recognise yourself here if...

  • You are used to being the capable one.

  • You have built a life across cultures.

  • Your work looks successful, but something in you wants more truth.

  • You want to be an inspiring leader in your own life and for others.

After The Weekend

  • Boundaries you can feel in your body

  • Language for your next chapter

  • Your Leadership Manifesto

  • A version of success your body can sustain

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Book cover titled "WanderWomen" by Shivangi Walke, featuring illustrations of two women's profiles with flowers in their hair, accompanied by birds.

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.

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.

Not every transition begins with a dramatic decision. Often it starts with a quiet question you’ve been carrying for months.

Friday is about leaving behind the pace of everyday life and arriving fully. Through reflection, conversation and your first WanderWomen Circle, you’ll begin to notice what has been asking for your attention beneath the surface.

You leave the evening with one question:

What season of life am I truly in?

Saturday morning

See your story differently.

Many accomplished women assume that restlessness means something is wrong. More often, it signals that you’ve outgrown an old definition of success.

Drawing on the WanderWomen book, guided coaching and group reflection, you’ll explore the identities you’ve built, the expectations you’ve carried, and the subtle ways you’ve adapted to belong.

Rather than rushing to the next answer, you’ll learn to recognise the season you’re actually living.

Saturday afternoon and evening

Release what no longer belongs to you.

Nature doesn’t bloom all year. It also sheds. This is where the deeper work begins.

Through guided coaching, breathwork, reflection and honest conversation, you’ll begin letting go of the expectations, invisible labour and old stories that have quietly shaped your leadership and your life. The evening closes around the fire, where stories are shared without performance, advice or fixing. Just women witnessing one another with honesty and care.

One question guides the evening:

What am I ready to stop carrying?

Sunday

Return with clarity.

When we stop trying to force the next chapter, clarity arrives more naturally.

Sunday is about integration.

You’ll create your personal New Success Script and your Leadership Manifesto, turning the insights of the weekend into practical decisions you can carry home.

You leave with more than inspiration.

You leave knowing what matters now, what boundaries will protect it, and what your next season is asking of you.

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.

What You'll Leave With

More than memories.
You leave with language.

Clarity on the beginning that is calling you now.

A stronger, truer voice for what you want next.

Boundaries that can hold under pressure.

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

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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

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

  • This retreat is for accomplished women who have led, adapted, carried, built, achieved, and may now be asking a more honest question: what does success need to look like now? It is designed especially for high-achieving immigrant women and women who have built lives across cultures, but if the themes of reinvention, voice, visibility, belonging, and self-trust speak to you, you are welcome to book a call and explore fit.

  • It is the shift from performing strength to inhabiting your own truth more fully. Many women do not have a capability problem; they have learned to make themselves smaller in certain rooms. This retreat creates space to notice where you over-carry, soften your voice, negotiate your needs, or retreat from your own knowing, and to practice returning to yourself with more presence.

  • No. This is not a conference, seminar, or networking weekend. It is a carefully held retreat for real conversation, reflection, embodiment, story, rest, shared meals, and being witnessed without needing to perform, impress, or arrive polished.

  • Being witnessed means being met beyond what you achieve or hold together. It means having space to speak honestly, listen inwardly, and be received without needing to translate, justify, or make your story more acceptable. Sharing is always invitational; silence is respected as participation.

  • The retreat will be held in English.

  • No. This is a reflective reinvention retreat. It includes facilitated conversations, coaching-led reflection, story, embodiment, voice work, and integration practices, but it is not therapy and does not replace therapeutic or medical support.

  • The retreat includes gentle, optional embodiment practices such as grounding, breath, movement, voice, stillness, body awareness, and reflection. These practices are not about performance, intensity, or forcing release. They are designed to help you notice what your body has been carrying, where proving has lived, and what a more sustainable version of success might feel like.

  • There will be a mix of private and shared room options. Private rooms are limited. Room availability and pricing will be clarified on the call before you confirm your place.

  • Yes. We will collect dietary needs in the participant form and coordinate with the venue. We will do our best to accommodate common dietary requirements, including vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and allergies where possible.

  • Your place is confirmed with a deposit. Because this is a small retreat with accommodation commitments, deposits are non-refundable once your place is confirmed. If you need to cancel, we will do our best to offer your place to someone on the waitlist. If your place can be filled, we may be able to refund part of your payment.

  • No. Any movement, yoga, breathwork, or embodiment work will be gentle and optional. You are invited to participate in a way that feels right for your body.

  • No. You do not need prior experience. Everything will be guided, accessible, and choice-led.

  • No. Sharing is invitational. You will never be forced to speak, disclose, or process anything publicly. Quiet participation is respected.

  • Yes. Many women will. The retreat is designed to create connection gently, without forced intimacy or performance.

  • The retreat takes place at Can Buch, a restored Catalan farmhouse in Girona. It offers nature, shared meals, quiet spaces, and a private setting that supports the pause and depth of the weekend.

  • Can Buch is around 75 minutes from Barcelona. Group transfer arrangements will be organised, and final shuttle details and recommended arrival windows will be shared with registered participants closer to the retreat date.

  • Included: two nights’ accommodation at Can Buch, full-board meals for the entire stay, facilitated retreat sessions, guided reflection, circle conversations, story work, voice and embodiment work, yoga or breathwork, and all retreat materials. It also includes transfers from Barcelona airport and city to Can Buch and back.

  • Not included: flights, travel insurance, extra nights in Barcelona, personal expenses, and any transfers outside the arranged group shuttle.

  • We will have a conversation to explore where you are in your life today, whether the retreat is the right fit for you, answer practical questions, and talk through room options, pricing, and next steps. The call is informational; there is no pressure to decide on the spot.