calm in the storm
A One-Day Team Retreat to Build Trust, Resilience, and Connection
In today’s fast-paced world, leaders/organizations are navigating an overwhelming storm: overlapping crises, economic instability, AI disruption, climate emergencies, and more. It’s “everything, everywhere, all at once” and it’s reshaping how teams work, connect, and lead. Stress, burnout, fear of the unknown, and chronic urgency are now part of the landscape. In the urgency and busyness, essential conversations are often skipped over or avoided altogether. But sometimes prioritizing these uncomfortable conversations is the thing needed to move forward in alignment with our values and purpose.
This experiential one-day retreat offers a pause.
Grounded in neuroscience, systems thinking, and experiential leadership development, this one-day immersive retreat offers teams an immersion into emotional resilience and relational intelligence. Participants walk away with practical tools needed to lead through uncertainty with courage and care.
Calm in the Storm offers a space to step back from the busyness in order to reconnect with one another and lean into the deeper purpose that drives our work.
This powerful pause from business-as-usual gives teams an opportunity to:
Strengthen relationships by remembering the unique humans they work alongside and how colleagues can be a source of resilience
Build discomfort tolerance by practicing staying connected when things get challenging, which is a critical skill for giving and receiving feedback and addressing issues head-on.
Identify personal edges and learn strategies to safely stretch beyond their comfort zones, training the nervous system to stay grounded under pressure.
Address burnout through practices that build community support and self-regulation skills.
This retreat is not just a day away from work — it’s an investment in a healthier, more resilient, and more effective workplace culture. It’s a hands-on, experiential day that can shift how your team shows up for one another.
Details
Who: Teams, organizations and schools
Length: Full day
Format: Experiential sessions, reflection practices, partner work, micro-teaching, and group dialogue
Location: In-person. We work with you to find a off-site location with access to nature
Program Facilitators
With combined 40+ years of facilitation experience from the fields of intercultural leadership, psychology and experiential education, Emily Braucher, MA, MA, and Eva Jahn, MA, LPC, bring a rare depth of expertise to resilience-building for leaders and teams. Emily, Founder of ReFresh Communication, has spent over twenty years helping professionals and organizations build trust across differences, navigate conflict, and transform culture through courageous conversations. Eva, Executive Director of the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, is a licensed psychotherapist and leadership consultant who equips teams with neuroscience-informed tools for regulation, connection, and sustainable performance. Together, they blend cultural anthropology, climate psychology, and experiential facilitation methods so that groups not only withstand disruption, but also grow stronger, more connected, and more effective because of it.
