An immersive executive retreat in New Mexico where leaders can reconnect to their natural operating system, restore energy, deepen awareness, and learn to lead with greater presence and performance.
Modern leadership often pulls you out of alignment with constant pressure, reactivity, and information overload. This experience is designed to help you return to a more effective way of operating.
In this experience, you’ll reconnect to your natural operating system—a state of clarity, responsiveness, and grounded energy—and learn to lead in alignment with both your behavioral patterns and the core BE principles that guide nature: presence, relaxation, and interconnectivity.
Most leadership programs are cognitive. Ours is rooted in natural experience.
In this experience, nature is not a backdrop, it is the primary teacher.
You’ll be introduced to core BE principles, then step into nature to experience them, moving beyond intellectual understanding into meaningful shifts in how you think, decide, and lead.
Why? Because nature operates in a state of continuous presence, sustainability and interconnection: the same conditions required for effective leadership.
Through a combination of personalized behavioral insight and experience in nature, you’ll identify what’s been holding you back, see how it shows up, and begin integrating a more aligned way of thinking, deciding, and leading.
Cultivate deep awareness of your self and your environment to lead with greater clarity
Learn to relax your mind and body to restore energy and sustain high performance
Identify and shift the behaviors that are holding you back through personalized assessment and experience
Learn to operate in alignment with natural principles for clearer, more effective leadership
Develop a deeper connection with yourself, others, and the natural environment.
Experience the openness of the New Mexican landscape, and the space it creates within your mind and body.
You do enough as a leader. This experience is designed to give you space to be, creating the conditions for clarity and more sustainable performance when you return to the office.
We also intentionally cap each experience at nine participants to foster a more intimate, inner-circle environment.
Day 1: Arrival + Reset
Step out of constant motion and cognitive overload, settle in, and arrive before joining the group.
Day 2: Awareness + Insight
Develop awareness of core natural principles through guided practices in the mountains and mesa.
Day 3: Experience + Alignment
Restore energy and clarity by learning to relax the mind and body, supported by natural hot springs. Experience interconnectivity in action through guided practices.
Day 4: Integration + Departure
Reinforce practices for daily leadership and leave with clarity on what’s been holding you back, and how to move forward.
Forget the fancy fluff of a luxury resort. This is real, raw and rustic.
Set in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, this experience takes place in a landscape known for its natural beauty and deep cultural history. Surrounded by mesas, mountains, and expansive desert vistas, the setting invites a slower pace, clearer thinking, and a more grounded way of being.
You’ll stay in a historic mountain inn and hang with the locals at a saloon that has been part of the community since the early 1900s. You’ll also experience traditional New Mexican cuisine, prepared with care by our family, and feel the warmth and connection that runs deep in the region.
Shared or private Rooms available. Discounted retreat rate offered for shared accommodations.
Rick Breden is an executive coach, strategic advisor, and clinical psychologist with decades of experience guiding CEOs and leadership teams through transformational growth. He has helped scale complex organizations, including leading a university’s online expansion from $300M to $3B and advising SSA Group’s growth from $100M to $500M.
His work sits at the intersection of human behavior, systems psychology, and the natural principles that drive leadership and performance. Drawing on a background in clinical psychology and a long-standing practice of mindfulness, meditation, and T’ai Chi, Rick helps leaders strengthen presence, regulate energy, and operate more effectively under pressure.
Influenced by the teachings of ecologist and Way of Nature founder John P. Milton, Rick incorporates nature-based immersion into his work, creating experiences that move beyond theory into deep awareness and lasting behavioral change.
This is not a traditional retreat. It’s an opportunity to reset how you think, lead, and perform. If you’re ready to move beyond constant pressure and reactivity and operate with greater clarity, energy, and natural alignment, this experience is for you. Reserve your spot using the form below.
