Alps Retreats

Alps Retreats We run mindfulness-based, transformative retreats in the French Alps, near Geneva. We give busy people time & space to stop, reflect and see more clearly.

And we offer tools and techniques to sustain this in everyday working life. On a rainy, misty day in April 2011, we found the home of our dreams. We'd been wondering what to do with the rest of our life. As the breath-taking view unfolded, we knew we had our answer. This place of inspiring beauty, peace and calm granted us the space to clarify what really mattered to us. Since then we’ve been crea

ting, building, developing, growing. Investing our heart, soul and all our money, we launched a massive project to renovate the 1830s Savoyard farmhouse we’d fallen in love with. Two years later we opened our chalet business and welcomed our first group of guests. Alongside all this, Sally-Anne’s established executive coaching business continued to grow. Then another question emerged:

What if we could create programmes for busy people to experience the positive impact of being here? To have time and space just to be with their own questions and to feel inspired to find their own answers? And so our retreats were born. We call them retreats because that’s what they are: a chance to step back from every day life, to have time and space to think and see more clearly. As one of our retreat participants said: “It’s a step out of reality, connected to reality.”

22/04/2022

Posting here for the first time in a while, to mark , I’m full of gratitude for the beautiful place we are lucky to live in.

This waterfall brings me home to myself. A few moments of here reminds me of what truly matters.

Love our new logo on our rebranded website, launched yesterday  😊Huge thanks to Story Crafters - Creative Agency for the...
27/02/2021

Love our new logo on our rebranded website, launched yesterday 😊

Huge thanks to Story Crafters - Creative Agency for their superb design and helpful advice - every step of the way.

Take a look and tell us what you think (link in About) 🤓

07/02/2021

Day 7 - Let time slow down // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this last video of our 7-day series to enjoy the mountain scenery, practise pausing and listen to me reading a poem by John O'Donohue: For One Who Is Exhausted.

I invite you to see pausing as an act of self-kindness, to give you what you need "in the race of days", to be able to pause and listen for what’s needed.

This video is dedicated to my father, who raced his way to an early grave, aged just 42.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

06/02/2021

Day 6 - Be Curious. Be Compassionate // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this video to enjoy the mountain scenery, practise pausing and reflect on how being too quick to judge - people and events - can stop us seeing the whole picture. Whereas pausing to look with curiosity and compassion, and asking the right questions, can reveal so much more.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

05/02/2021

Day 5 - Your Life’s Journey // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this video to enjoy the mountain scenery and practise pausing, while you reflect on where you are now in the context of the ups and downs of your life as a whole.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

04/02/2021

Day 4 - Feeling Awe // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this video to enjoy the mountain scenery, practise pausing and, against the backdrop of the largest glacial cirque in the Alps, call to mind a moment in which you experienced awe. And remember how it made you feel.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

03/02/2021

Day 3 - Where is the Light? // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this video to enjoy the mountain scenery, practise pausing and contemplate the positive in your life at the moment.

From a hamlet high above our village I reflect on the courage we all need to ‘be the light’ and bring it to others.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

02/02/2021

Day 2 - Allowing You to be You // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this video to enjoy the mountain scenery, practise pausing and reflect on how we serve others best: by allowing them to be, just as they are.

From a waterfall known as the Queen of the Alps, I encourage you to pause and do that for yourself.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

01/02/2021

Day 1 - The Power of Pause // 7 Days on the Winter Mountain

Watch this video to enjoy the mountain scenery practise pausing and learn why taking even one minute in your day - longer if you can - to make space and take a breath is essential to your mental and emotional wellbeing.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

29/01/2021

Hello again from our home in a small village at the end of a valley in the French Alps.

I’m excited to tell you that we’re making another series of videos - 7 Days on the Winter Mountain - as a sequel to the 21-day series we made in Spring 2020.

From Monday 1st February, I’ll post one video every morning from a different spot out in our local Alpine nature. You’ll revisit some of the same mountain landscapes you saw in the first series, this time covered in snow.

And I’ll teach you the same simple pause practice - of making space and taking a breath - that I gave you last year. Because this is a practice that takes practice. And the value of practice is never to forget.

My hope is that watching these videos gives you a few minutes a day of ‘you time’: to pause and reflect, and to develop the capacity to respond on purpose, saying what you mean, in the midst of whatever else is happening in your life.

I’m offering this series as a free resource, to help more people pause and consciously choose what to say and how to act in any situation.

For personal or professional leadership coaching, please contact Sally-Anne directly - link in the comments.

Just spent a great four days with this group of  leaders on the second retreat of our 9-month Evolving Leadership progra...
10/10/2020

Just spent a great four days with this group of leaders on the second retreat of our 9-month Evolving Leadership programme. Here we are spending a night in the Gite de Tré le Saix, during a 24-hour hike with AlpAdventures And thanks to Dailycieux for your delicious home cooking bit.ly/skilfulleaders

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