For invited guests only
Rooms, rates and deposits are reserved for invited guests. Enter the access code from your invitation to choose your room and secure it with a 50% deposit, or settle it in one.
Prices in pounds · pay in your local currency at checkout
47 rooms · 100 places · 7–9 December 2026
Every booking includes retreat tickets, the room for three full days, meals and amenities for everyone in it. The Retreat is a non-profit experience: pricing is structured in partnership with Lakowe Lakes to keep it accessible while protecting the quality of the experience. Shared rooms are booked as a whole room: you pay for the room and bring the friends who share it with you. Prices are set in pounds; at checkout you can pay by card in your own currency and it converts automatically. Pay your deposit now and we will email you to confirm your room and arrange the balance.
The concept
This is not
a conference
For people building ambitious lives who need space to reset, reconnect and return stronger. The Retreat is for founders, entrepreneurs, executives, senior professionals and creatives building big things, who recognise that their wellbeing has to grow with their ambition.
This is not primarily a business retreat. Wellness is the organising principle: rest, movement, reflection, nourishment and genuine connection. The conversations, on ambition, wealth, leadership and mental wellbeing, are layered into the experience rather than being the point of it.
And the timing is the point: three days at the close of the year, when even the busiest people finally stop long enough to hear themselves. The conversations high performers postpone all year, held before the new one begins.
Composed on the outside. Stretched on the inside.
These three days are for you.
Three days, deliberately paced
Monday · Arrive
A curated welcome to Lakowe Lakes: check-in, wellness experiences and intimate first connections as the city noise fades behind you.
Tuesday · The Mainstage
The heart of the retreat. Morning yoga and grounding, afternoon mainstage panels on reinvention, the psychology of success, wealth and isolation, narrative control and sustainable ambition, then an evening private dinner with curated networking.
Wednesday · Restore
Recovery and reflection: guided meditation, journaling and integrative wellness sessions before a soft close and the journey home.
Five rooms worth flying for
Five mainstage conversations, and a headline speaker who embodies every one of them.
- Reinvention, Relevance & The Second Act: life after the peak, and identity beyond validation.
- The Psychology of Success: the hidden sacrifices, burnout and emotional debt of ambition.
- Wealth, Identity & Isolation: social mobility and building wealth without losing yourself.
- Attention, Perception & Narrative Control: fame versus ownership, and the systems behind sustained success.
- Rest, Sustainability & Opting Out: redefining productivity as a high performer.
Olamide Olowe
Founder and CEO, Topicals
Olamide Olowe is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and investor, and the youngest Black woman to raise $2M from investors, having raised $15M in venture capital before the age of 26. She co-founded Sheagirl in partnership with Shea Moisture, later acquired by Unilever, and in 2020 launched Topicals, currently the fastest growing skincare company at Sephora.
She has donated over $200K to mental health organisations. A founder who has put real money behind mental health, headlining The Retreat. More speakers to be announced.
Limited rooms
Request your invitation
The room is deliberately small. Tell us who you are and what you're building, and we'll hold your place while we curate the room.
Slow down. Without losing momentum.