The Mangrove

Retreat, Refocus at The Mangrove

"I must say that I was slightly apprehensive when booking to attend The Mangrove Retreat as I had all sorts of misconceptions in mind as to what it was all about having never attended something like this before. The founder of the Mangrove, Damon Newman was able to answer my many questions and by the end of it all, I was really looking forward to the event. One thing I do recall is telling my colleagues about the weekend retreat. It had been a manic week working on a national project within the Health Service and we were all look forward to a lazy well earned rest over the weekend. They chuckled when I told them I was going away on a retreat which started at 9am with a 6pm finish over the weekend. “Sounds more like hard work to us” they said. How wrong they were...

The venue was absolutely out of this world. I could actually spend the rest of this article telling you about the lovely surroundings, but that in itself was not the highlight of the weekend. The retreat also gave us weary souls from across London and as far a field as North Yorkshire an opportunity to step aside from the 'madding crowd' and to review our life goals...[providing] us with expert facilitators, the tools, and the support to help navigate us to where we want to be.... The group of delegates really 'gelled' and it was easy to share dreams, achievements and aspirations with each other. One key to this was the excellent ice breaking and team building exercises organised for us.

Damon and [co-founder] Marie had clearly done their research well and put together a first class programme which perfectly balanced work, rest and play for all of us. It was not a random set of activities thrown together to while away the time, but all were carefully selected to teach us profound life lessons.

When you think it all done and you're going back to the rat race and hard grind on Monday morning, The Mangrove goes one step further and provides a follow up coaching session and access to an exclusive and secure retreat attendee area of their website including a personal space where one is able to keep an online journal and many personal development resources.

I was absolutely thrilled to have attended this unique retreat, for me it was timely, relevant, and enjoyable and I left inspired and refocused."

Case Study by V. Thomas - Retreat Attendee, June 2008

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