
We'd run the same leadership programme three times in a hotel conference room. The fourth time, we moved it to a farmhouse outside Madrid. Same content, same facilitator, completely different result.


We'd run the same leadership programme three times in a hotel conference room. The fourth time, we moved it to a farmhouse outside Madrid. Same content, same facilitator, completely different result.

I built this after a venue let me down badly enough that I had to restructure a programme mid-session. Twelve questions. I don't skip any of them.

We had a solid agenda, a good group, and a venue that looked great on the website. Two out of three isn't bad — unless you're the one who booked it.

After ten years of running residential yoga programmes, I've stayed in a lot of spaces. These are the five I return to — and the specific, unglamorous reasons why.

I ran a four-day retreat that nearly collapsed — not because of the programme, but because of the ceiling. It took me two years to understand what had actually gone wrong.
