For what question are you most longing an answer?
Discover an answer in this weeklong retreat
Date: October 11 - October 25, 2025
Location: Encanta La Vida on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Join us on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, in the lush rainforests of Costa Rica
For a retreat — a journey of reconnection, exploration and discovery. A walk to the threshold of change, opportunity, becoming...and beyond.
This gathering is about healing, but it is well beyond healing. It is about leadership, but well beyond that too.
What it's not is a routine reset with yoga and scenic views. Nor is it self-improvement, strategic plans or SMART goals, though all of these may be desirable byproducts of your time away.
Rather, it's a sacred pause — a timeless moment away from the noise. A step into deeper questions about who you are, why you are here, and how you wish to meet the world’s call for greater leadership and authenticity.
Here, in this remarkable place — on the Osa Peninsula, at Encanta La Vida — you'll be guided not only by skilled facilitators and kindred spirits but also by the vibrant faculty of the land itself. The rainforest, the land, the ocean, the wildlife, flora, fauna and other inhabitants of the land, and the silence will be your companions in self-discovery and self-healing.
You know well enough that there are no easy answers or simple steps on the path. You know the limits of playing the game. You also know that your existence is not an accident but a mysterious miracle. Mystery not as an unknowable riddle, but as infinite knowability within and around you.
The world is calling for leaders who are deeply rooted, awake and alive. This retreat is your invitation to step past the edge and to begin again.
Before arriving, you receive high-touch executive coaching and structured guidance for deep self-reflection. This will help clarify your intention for the retreat and your professional or personal transition.
You’re also welcome to join optional, monthly virtual gatherings tailored for each stage of the journey. These are intimate conversations cultivated over many years by a community of leadership, change practitioners, and other people living and leading on the cutting edge of possibility.
Why the Meta Retreat?
Are you feeling a call to:
Transition to a new path in your professional or personal life?
Take the next courageous step toward that breakthrough your heart knows is possible?
Deepen your sense of belonging and purpose?
Discover, or rediscover, your unique gifts?
The quiet pull of an inner knowing?
Reawakening to the untended, neglected truths and untapped possibilities shaping the next season of your life?
Open your eyes to the horizon, to the great, infinite possibilities?
Listen and to be deeply heard in community?
Shed the illusions keeping you from fully inhabiting your truth and purpose?
What to Expect
The flow of our time together will be easeful and free of judgment. Short talks and curated experiences in the morning by leadership experts serve as a foundation for the day's conversation and self-guided activities, followed by shorter intimate evening dialogues. Days and evenings will be infused with play, creativity and exploration. You may go through moments of intense emotion, inspiration, or epiphany, but do not expect an intense didactive workout.
Schedule
Day 1 arrival and check-in followed by an Evening Session 7-10pm. Tuesday through Thursday follow a rhythm and cadence of: 8am-10pm Morning Session, lunch and then plenty of open space for personal integration, self-directed activities (above), conversations and sessions hosted by other participants, sunsets and deep stillness. Evening Sessions culminate each day starting shortly after dinner. The final Morning Session is followed by departure from Encanta La Vida.
Who’s Coming
The "Meta" Retreat is open to all edge-walkers. People who exercise leadership on the edge, who abide in the outposts of normality, and glimpse something exciting beyond the horizon. Retreat-goers include, but are not limited to, people who’ve previously participated in workshops, retreats, and other gatherings hosted by Adaptive Change Advisors.
Fees
Fees are all-inclusive of program participation and three daily gourmet meals. Fees do not include airfare, transportation, or extra-curricular activities. US $4,000 - $5,000, depending on accommodation preference.
Accommodation options
Single, double, or inquire for other options that fit your comfort level.