Being EKTE Retreats · 69° North
You built the business. But did you lose yourself along the way?
A deliberately small retreat in Northern Norway for the people who succeeded, and quietly wondered who they became in order to.
01 The Problem
Somewhere between the first hire and the exit, a gap opened between who you really are and who you learned to become.
You got very good at being the person the work demanded. Composed. Decisive. Always a step ahead. It was rewarded, so it became permanent.
The cost is rarely loud. It arrives as a faint distance from your own life. A sense that the self who started all this has been waiting, patiently, to be heard again.
02 The Experience
Four days built around six questions most leaders never make the room to ask.
- 01
Identity
Who you are underneath the title, the company, the version of you the work required.
- 02
Vulnerability & Connection
The quiet strength of being known. What becomes possible when the armour comes down.
- 03
Nervous System Awareness
Learning the language of your own body, and what years of pressure taught it to do.
- 04
Truth
The things you already know but have not let yourself say out loud, even to yourself.
- 05
Values
Not the ones on the wall. The ones you would defend when no one is watching.
- 06
Nature & Reflection
The fjord asks nothing of you. In that silence, your own thinking finally has room.
03 Why Northern Norway
Above the Arctic Circle, the midnight sun does not set for weeks. Neither does your thinking.
We chose Senja for a reason. Vast, quiet, indifferent to your inbox. A landscape that gives you nowhere to perform, and so much room to simply be.
04 About Lisa
She built and sold a search agency. Then she went looking for the harder thing.
After the exit came the question no spreadsheet could answer. Lisa turned to neuroscience, psychology and the study of how leaders actually change, not the version sold on conference stages.
Being EKTE is what came of it. A retreat with the rigour of someone who has run a company, and the depth of someone who has done the inner work herself.
05 The Retreat
Small by design. Considered in every detail.
One cohort. One lodge at the edge of the fjord. Everything handled, so the only thing left to do is arrive.
- Location
- Senja, Northern Norway
- Duration
- Four days, three nights
- Group
- Ten participants, maximum
- Investment
- £4,500 per person
The £4,500 includes
- Private lodge accommodation
- All meals, locally sourced
- Guided outdoor activities
- Full facilitation by Lisa
By application only
The work that built the company was the easy part. This is the other half.
Places are limited to ten, and we read every application ourselves. If something here landed, that is usually the sign.