“Meta” Retreat
Dates and location for the next gather coming soon!
For what question are you most longing an answer?
Discover an answer in this weeklong retreat
Location: Encanta La Vida on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Date: October 11- 25
An intentional journey that will deepen your capacity to lead meaningful change in times of transition and untold possibility.
A week of leadership insight, natural beauty, and leadership questing on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, in the lush rainforests of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
This gathering is about healing, but it is well beyond healing. It is about leadership, but well beyond that too. It’s a pause — a timeless moment away from the noise. A step into deeper questions about who you are, why you are here, and how you wish to meet the world’s call for greater leadership and authenticity.
The world is calling for leaders who are deeply rooted, awake and alive. This retreat is your invitation to step past the edge and to begin again.
Lead Facilitators
John Kobara
Eric Martin
John Kobara
John is the wildest American dream of his immigrant grandparents who came to this country with nothing. A third generation Japanese-American. Married over his head to a woman he met on a plane. A proud father of three college graduates with no student debt. An activist who still is trying to change the world and not grow up.
John considers himself a facilitator of change. He founded Random Acts of Progress, to assist and coach organizations and individuals to align their work to their passions to fully express their potential to build a more joyful, equitable, just, and compassionate world.
His quest took him on a career traversing all sectors with an emphasis on education, equity, and equanimity. He survived three start-ups in three different decades. He worked in what he calls the “for-purpose” field, interrupted by for-profit and public-sector jobs. He held many big titles and important positions but usually not at the same time.
Eric Martin
An Adaptive Leadership expert, speaker and author, Eric Martin’s quest to democratize leadership spans the globe—from the White House to the Himalayan foothills. After a brief stint as an engineer, Eric spent five transformative years in Japan as an international diplomatic liaison. This path eventually led him to The Synergos Institute, a Rockefeller-affiliated nonprofit based in New York focused on global human development and systems change.
After a decade working with Harvard faculty Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, Eric founded Adaptive Change Advisors (ACA), the premier mission-based Adaptive Leadership organization worldwide. ACA puts leadership tools that drive change into the hands of anyone seeking meaningful outcomes.
Eric's academic background complements his practical experience in leadership and change. Despite living away from his hometown of Detroit for years, Eric remains grounded in its grit and resilience, underscoring his belief that true leadership transcends identity, history and conventional access to power.
Dates and location for the next gather coming soon!