Evolead
OUR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Program
EVOLEAD is a 4-day immersive personal and leadership development retreat specifically designed for leaders, decision-makers and entrepreneurs. It includes a 2 week preparation and 2 month aftercare phase with multiple virtual group and individual coaching sessions.
With EvoLEAD we help leaders unlock their creative powers, connect with their innermost purpose, and catalyze their personal and professional growth. In a setting of carefully selected participants, tailored content, and with the help of experienced facilitators, we employ consciousness-altering technologies together with reflective, contemplative and experiential practices.
EvoLEAD Profile
Clientele
Leaders
Main Technology
BreathWORK, Psilocybin-truffles
duration
4 days on-site + prep & integration
Group Size
8-10
Mode
online & On-site
location
The netherlands
accomodation
Private Retreat
meals
all inclusive
Time
August 9-12, 2022
INVEST
EUR 5.900*
* discounted rates available
evolead Highlights
- Embark on an unforgettable journey with carefully selected and like-minded leaders from various fields
- Experience the power of a psychedelic ceremony with legal psilocybin truffles
- Gain a new perspective on yourself and your questions during our 4-day on-site immersion in the Netherlands
- Deepen the impact of your experience through our 2-week digital preparation curriculum (2 group sessions + one 1-on-1 coaching)
- Translate your insights into your life with our 2-months digital integration curriculum (3 group sessions + one 1-on-1 coaching)
- Benefit from 1-on-1 sessions with our experienced personal and leadership coaches
- Benefit from our science-backed curriculum: psychology, meditation, body- and breathwork, leadership capacity building
Overview
EVOLEAD was designed for leaders and decision-makers who wish to take the next step in their life: personally and professionally.
We offer an intense multi-week curriculum that specifically applies the power of altered states of consciousness (ASC) to do transformational work. ASC are conditions that are significantly different from an ordinary waking state. These states temporarily change the overall pattern of subjective experience and allow us to perceive ourselves as well as the world around us from an entirely different perspective. We can take a step back from our routine ways of thinking, feeling, and sensing and hence become emotionally, intellectually and viscerally more receptive to the present moment. ASC can be experienced through a wide range of modalities, e.g. mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, some forms of bodywork, prolonged deliberate physical exertion, or psychedelics. Many of these practices have long traditions of use to promote growth and healing.
At EVOLEAD, we carefully curate a selection of these modalities to create a unique and experiential leadership development program. Cornerstones of the program are insights into consciousness development & leadership mindsets, the training of mindfulness & emotional intelligence, and the direct experience of altered states of consciousness through psilocybin-containing truffles in a safe and legal setting with experienced guides. All of this takes place in a trusted environment of peers, building a community of leaders that accompany and support each other during and after the EVOLEAD program.
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
We use different technologies to induce altered states of consciousness, in particular breath- and bodywork, meditation, and psilocybin truffles for peak experiences
MINDFULNESS CAPABILITIES
We train our participants with different techniques of contemplative practice (e.g. with the ACT framework and HAKOMI-style mindfulness) to become grounded and aware of oneself
LEADERSHIP COMMUNITY
We assemble a coherent yet diverse group of like-minded leaders who will support each other during and beyond our programs
MINDSETS FRAMEWORK
We employ frameworks that help you understand what leadership mindset you are usually operating from and explore how you can access higher-level mindsets, such as the systemic-autonomous mindset
To maximize your benefit from the program, we have structured the curriculum into three phases:
I. Preparation
The better you are prepared for our intense immersion, the deeper will be your experience. You will get to know your leadership cohort and learn what's important for the upcoming weeks.
Organization: 2 weeks, part-time, virtual sessions
II. Immersion
This is where you will meet your leadership cohort in-person. You will be prepared for your psychedelic ceremony with psilocybin-containing truffles and will have the chance to dive deeply into unchartered territories of your mind. You will do challenging but highly rewarding individual and group exercises to better understand yourself and your leadership.
Organization: 4 days, full-time, on-site sessions in the Netherlands
III. Integration
After you return from the immersion into your day-to-day life, now is the time to solidify your insights and ensure that you put into practice what you have learned. You will receive the necessary support from your leadership cohort and from our coaches.
Organization: 2 months, part-time, virtual sessions
How LEADERS BENEFIT FROM OUR PROGRAM
Personal level
- Self-knowledge: Explore your own depths like you never did before to understand who you truly are.
- Potential: See what you are capable of and start tapping into your full potential.
- Purpose: Connect with that deep yearning inside of you to find your unique path in life.
- Growth: Face your blind spots and blockages (e.g. fear, shame, anger) to unchain your life from their limiting grip.
- Connection: Experience how a deepened connection to yourself, to other people and to your environment changes the way you live and lead.
Leadership level
- Clarity: Learn how to remain centered, playful and clear in environments of ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Resilience: Lead from your core and become less affected by the stresses and pressures of everyday life.
- Mindsets: Experience what leadership mindset you are usually operating from and how you can access higher-level mindsets of systems thinking and emotional awareness.
- Vision: Build a more authentic and meaningful vision for yourself as an individual and as a leader.
- Impact: Learn how to lead from a position of competence and intuition: calmly, compassionately and effectively.
our Retreat Center
Ground YOURSELF IN the ideal setting: Our PRIVATE RETREAT CENTER in the DUTCH nature
Itinerary
(19:30 – 22:30 CET via Zoom)
- Getting to know each other
- Current scientific understanding of the mind and consciousness
- Current scientific understanding of psych. and their effects
- Guidelines for a safe journey
- Cultivating a beginner’s mind (mindfulness practice)
- Homework: thinking about your intentions, meditation
(19:30 – 22:30 CET via Zoom)
- The importance of set & setting
- Sharing your intentions
- Personal and leadership development
- Your leadership story
- 1130-1300: Arrival & check-in at retreat center
- 1300-1530: Welcome + lunch with leadership story-sharing
- 1600-1730: Resistance & Acceptance
- 1730-1900: Breathwork
- 1900-2030: Dinner
- 2030-2130: Meditation & wisdom
- 0800-0830: Meditation / Yoga
- 0830-0930: Breakfast
- 0930-1600: Perspectives on (leadership) mindsets
- Lunch
- 1400-1600: Values work + individual journaling
- 1600-1800: 1-on-1 preparation session for ceremony
- 1800-0000: Evening ceremony with legal psilocybin-containing truffles
- 0800-0830: Meditation / Yoga
- 0830-0930: Breakfast
- 0930-1130: Ceremony debrief and sharing
- 1130-1230: Reflection exercise
- 1230-1430: Lunch + 1-on-1 integration sessions
- 1430-1500: Leadership mindsets revisited
- 1500-1800: Group exercises (embodiment, compassion, paradoxes)
- 1800-1930: Dinner
- 1930-2030: My gift to the world
- 2030-2130: Movement Practice
- 0800-0830: Meditation / Yoga
- 0930-1030: Committed action
- 1030-1230: Brunch + Give & receive groups
- 1230-1330: Closing circle
- 1400-1500: Departure
(19:30 – 22:30 CET via Zoom)
- Integrating the experience back into everyday life
- Update with give&receive groups
- Group check-in and connecting
- Zooming in on values-based / committed action
- Sharing your insights / lessons about yourself and your leadership
- 1-on-1 remote coaching session
Essential Information
We have two guiding criteria for the admission of applicants to our program: safety and quality of our cohort.
Safety:
- Because we want to maximize your safety, we require all applicants to fill out a screening questionnaire on their mental and physical health prior to admission. While we strive to adhere to the best known therapeutic practices and professional standards, we currently do not treat mental illnesses. This is why we do not admit participants with e.g. diagnoses of depression, PTSD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or anxiety disorders.
Quality:
- Group dynamics are paramount for a powerful experience – hence, unfortunately, we cannot accept every applicant that passed the mental and physical health questionnaire.
- We aim to assemble a coherent yet diverse group of participants who can support each other during and after the program. We designed the EVOLEAD program for people who are aware of their potential to influence others / their environment / the state of the world and want to responsibly act upon it.
- While many of our clients have a leading role in their organizations (C-level, team leads, directors, founders), we judge the appropriateness of our applicants not by their job title but by their willingness and potential to assume responsibility for themselves and for others. Our clients must be willing to enter into an honest and sometimes challenging dialogue with themselves and with others.
- This is why, prior to final admission, we have individual video / phone calls with every applicant to ensure participant-program fit.
We would like to highlight that taking psychedelics (psilocybin-containing truffles) is not the primary goal and intention of EVOLEAD. Rather, we perceive psychedelics (psilocybin-containing truffles) as an instrument for insight and development, an extraordinarily powerful “consciousness technology”. Given the right mindset, ceremonial setting, preparation and integration, psychedelic experiences can potentially catalyze profound development. To induce a deep state of altered consciousness, our participants consume legal psychoactive psilocybin truffles on the day of their guided psychedelic ceremony.
These truffles contain the psychedelic molecules psilocin and its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. Once ingested, psilocybin is metabolized by the body into psilocin, and then unfolds its serotonergic effect – what people usually refer to as “the trip”.
The dose of ingested truffles can be adapted to each participant’s individual profile and preferences.
In the Netherlands, psychedelic truffles are legal, while psychedelic mushrooms were classified as a scheduled substance in 2007. The legal truffles are sourced from authorized and quality-controlled manufacturers in the Netherlands.
We maximize your safety by the right assessment, preparation, facilitation, and integration.
Assessment:
We undertake a physical / mental health screening via an online questionnaire and a phone call to minimize the risk of any potentially adverse health-related outcome. Clinical evidence shows that psilocybin from truffles is a physiologically safe substance with no known addictive effects (e.g. see here).
Preparation:
Participants will learn about a responsable approach to working with psychedelics (risk and harm reduction). Latest scientific evidence will be presented about the potential upsides and downsides of using psychedelics. In addition, they will receive guidance in how to navigate during states of altered consciousness.
Facilitation:
The psychedelic ceremonies with legal psilocybin-containing truffles we offer are guided by world-class, experienced facilitators. Our experts give you enough freedom to make your own steps and will be always at your side in case you need their support.
Integration:
Psychedelic experiences with psilocybin-containing truffles can be very profound and feel seismic. Journeyers can go through intense emotions days and weeks after their ceremony. This is why we crafted an integration program that will help you incorporate your insights into your life in a sustainable manner.
We know very well how important privacy is to most of our clients. We will never share any information about our clients publicly or to any third-party. We will never post photos of participants from our retreats without the prior explicit written approval from the affected participants.
We process personal data (e.g. name, email address) in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
The EVOLEAD 4-day immersion will take place in the Netherlands.
Our exclusive retreat center is located in a calm and green spot 90 car minutes away from Amsterdam.
The facilities offer a relaxing and private atmosphere with ideal conditions for deep work.
All participants will be housed in simple but high-quality private rooms.
We will offer fresh and healthy drinks and vegetarian food.
To reduce your burden of planning, we offer pick-up services from and to Amsterdam Centraal (train) and Schiphol Airport.
We will get in touch with you regarding your logistics as soon as you have been admitted to EVOLEAD.
Our highest aim is to provide a safe environment for profound self-exploration and transformation. Participating in our program is an investment into your personal development and probably a “once in a lifetime” experience.
The full price for the EVOLEAD 5-week leadership development program is EUR 5.900. This includes all costs for the entire program (screening, prep & integration group sessions, 1-on-1 coaching sessions, ceremony, curated content, facilitators and coaches) as well as accommodation, food, and drinks. Your travel costs are not included in this price.
In case your financial situation doesn’t allow you to pay the full price please reach out to us – there is a limited number of stipends available for low-income and non-profit leaders and we will discuss your options with you on an individual basis.