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 · 9–11 October 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 weekend. 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
The Retreat is a high-curation wellness and ideas weekend for founders, creatives and operators building serious things. Restoration and reflection on one side; access to thought leaders and cultural icons on the other. Ambition and wellness, treated as partners, not competitors.
And the timing is the point: the Saturday mainstage falls on World Mental Health Day itself. A weekend built around the conversations high performers usually postpone, held on the one day the world agrees to have them.
Composed on the outside. Stretched on the inside.
This weekend is for you.
Three days, deliberately paced
Friday · Arrive
A curated welcome to Lakowe Lakes: check-in, wellness experiences and intimate first connections as the city noise fades behind you.
Saturday · World Mental Health Day
The heart of the weekend, on the day itself. 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.
Sunday · 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 on World Mental Health Day. 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 weekend.
Slow down. Without losing momentum.