Field Notes About Retreats
Vol. I · 2026
Chris McCann

Retreats

Most leadership development happens in conference rooms. PowerPoint slides. Breakout sessions with name tags.

This isn’t that.

These are curated, private retreats. Multiple days. No agenda decks, no trust-falls or fire walking, no certificates of completion.

What happens instead: you work directly with Dr. Carlos Warter, a physician who has spent fifty years studying consciousness and the human promise. And with me, fifteen years in sales leadership, applying what Carlos studies to what actually happens inside organizations.

The work is personal. It’s about how you show up in the systems you lead. The patterns you carry. The signal you put out without knowing it.

Some of it will be uncomfortable. Most of it won’t look like what you’d expect.

Up to 12 people. 3–5 days. Location varies. We’ve run these in Latin America, the US, and Europe.

Leaders who’ve done the usual development work and know something’s missing. People who’ve felt the difference between a team that’s alive and one that’s going through the motions, and who sense that the shift starts somewhere inside themselves.

It’s not a coaching program or a certification. It’s an experience that changes how you perceive the systems you’re part of. What you do with that is up to you.

These run a few times a year by invitation and referral. If you’re curious, the best next step is a conversation.

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