Something is shifting. The old structures are under pressure — the ones built on competition, control, and the relentless push forward. You feel it. You’ve probably felt it for a while.
And yet here you are: leading, making things happen, creating impact. You haven’t stepped back. But somewhere, quietly, you’ve been asking yourself: Is there another way to do this?
What does it look like when a woman leads from the full depth of who she is — not softer, not gentler, but more grounded, fiercer and entirely herself?
This is not a retreat to escape your life. It is a retreat to remember what your life is for.
Set in the wild landscape outside Cape Town — mountains, open water, ancient trees, the kind of nature that holds you without asking anything in return — The Well is five days of deep immersion for women who are at the top of their game and ready to lead differently.
You will come as a leader. You will leave as a leader. What changes is the source you lead from.
The Well: A Retreat for Female Leaders
With Tanja Meyburgh and Barbara Hoogenboom
23 to 28 February 2027
Bodhikhaya
WHAT AWAITS YOU
This is not a programme of panels and presentations. It is an encounter — with the land, with yourself, and with a circle of women who are done with the performance of leadership and ready for something more true.
Solo immersion alone in nature: No phone. No book. Just you, the land, and whatever needs to surface.
Constellation work: Explore the deeper patterns shaping how you lead and how you live.
Embodied movement: Come back into your body — the seat of feminine wisdom and power.
Sacred walks: in South Africa no one walks alone. We walk each other to our own thresholds, and back.
Stillness: Not as absence. As practice. As the ground from which clarity rises.
Sisterhood: Not networking. Not competition. Women in genuine service of each other’s becoming.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You are already doing the work in a patriarchy dominated environment. You have built something real — a career, a practice, a movement, a company. People follow your lead. You are not here because you are lost. And yet, you do feel that part of old leadership systems are hindering your evolution as a female leader. You want to contribute to the unfolding of new ways of leadership and seek reconnection to collective matriarchy leadership wisdom.
You are here because you know that the way you’ve had to operate — driven, armoured, always performing — has a cost. And because you sense, deeply, that there is a more powerful way forward. One rooted not in masculine momentum but in feminine strength: in presence, in intuition, in the kind of leadership that changes rooms without raising its voice.
You are ready to find like-minded travellers — women who walk their own path and know, when the moment calls for it, how to walk together and how to stand their ground.
Five days. A place that feels like a spring. A circle of women who are ready to support each other in the movement from the powers as we know it, to co-create the art of true female leadership.
WHO WE ARE & WHY WE CREATE THIS TOGETHER
Tanja and Barbara recognized themselves in each other the moment they met — two highly experienced systemic facilitators, each with decades of work supporting leaders, organizations and communities through transformation. What began as recognition quickly became connection, and connection became collaboration.
Beyond their professional depth, they share something harder to put into words: a love of movement, music and embodiment. A rooted relationship with nature, with ancestral wisdom, with the ancient feminine ways of knowing. They swim together, dance together, and yes — they once got the same tattoo on a spontaneous impulse, because sometimes the most meaningful things happen when you stop planning and simply say yes.
This is also how they lead.
Both Tanja and Barbara know intimately what it means to hold space as a woman in male-dominated environments — as founders, mothers, leaders and the many other roles life asks of them. They have felt the weight of performing leadership in ways that don’t quite fit, and they have done the courageous work of finding their own way back to something truer. That shared understanding is not a background detail — it is the heart of why they created this retreat together.
What you will experience with them as your facilitators is leadership in relationship. A striving for excellence that lifts rather than competes. Vulnerability from a grounded, secure place. Two women who take their work seriously, but never themselves too seriously — and who believe that joy, laughter and a little wildness are not distractions from deep work, but essential to it.
When you step into this space, you are held by both of them. Not one voice, but a dance between two.
Near Cape Town, South Africa · 5 days · Small group · Applications open
Applications and bookings: www.tanjameyburgh.com
Pa@tanjameyburgh.co.za
10% down payment to secure booking. If for global reasons etc we need to cancel in the 30 days, no refund of the 10%. Also no refund of 10% when you cancel. Pay full amount 90 days advance.
People must get their own travel insurance incl cancellation protection.
Euro 3250
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