For what question are you most longing an answer?
Discover an answer in this weeklong retreat
Date: October 11 - October 25, 2025
Location: Encanta La Vida on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Join us on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, in the lush rainforests of Costa Rica
Location
Here, in this remarkable place — at Encanta La Vida on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica — you’ll be guided not only by skilled facilitators and kindred spirits but also by the vibrant faculty of the land itself. The rainforest, the land, the ocean, the wildlife, flora, fauna and other inhabitants of the land, and the silence will be your companions in self-discovery and self-healing.
Who’s Coming
The “Meta” Retreat is open to all edge-walkers. People who exercise leadership on the edge, who abide in the outposts of normality, and glimpse something exciting beyond the horizon. Retreat-goers include, but are not limited to, people who’ve previously participated in workshops, retreats, and other gatherings co-hosted by executive leadership experts Eric Martin and John Kobara.
Why the Meta Retreat?
We will experience and explore questions of personal leadership and growth that go well above and beyond the typical retreat. The lead-up involves not only a journey to a place of great beauty. It’s an internal procession through thresholds of experience every person goes through toward any hard-won leadership edge.
Are you feeling a call to:
Transition to a new path in your professional or personal life?
Take the next courageous step toward that breakthrough your heart knows is possible?
Deepen your sense of belonging and purpose?
Discover, or rediscover, your unique gifts?
What to Expect
Before arriving, you receive high-touch executive coaching and structured guidance for deep self-reflection. You’re also welcome to join optional, monthly virtual gatherings tailored for each stage of the journey.
While at Encanta La Vida, short talks and curated experiences in the morning by leadership and change experts serve as a foundation for the day’s conversation and self-guided activities, followed by shorter intimate evening dialogues. You may go through moments of intense emotion, inspiration, or epiphany, but do not expect an intense didactive workout.
The flow of our time together will be easeful and free of judgment. There will be plenty of time to choose from a variety of activities in support of well-being and, most importantly, time for contemplation.
Schedule
October 11-17
Arrival and check-in at Encanta La Vida followed by an Evening Session 7-10pm. Daily sessions follow a rhythm and cadence of: 8am-10pm Morning Session, lunch and then plenty of open space for personal integration, self-directed activities, conversations and sessions hosted by other participants, sunsets and deep stillness. Evening Sessions culminate each day starting shortly after dinner. The final Morning Session is followed by departure.
A second set of dates may also be offered October 18-24 – stay tuned.
Fees
Fees are all-inclusive of program participation and three daily gourmet meals. Fees do not include airfare to/from Costa Rica. USD$5,000. Inquire for financial assistance.