Mopane leadership Retreat 2021 stories

It is a little over a month since my Experience Retreat! This surprise invitation for female leaders came very early one morning. The minimal content was irresistible: “an opportunity to rest, reflect and recharge”! I needed this badly! I imagined minimal lecture-based sessions for our time together.

To my surprise, the retreat was, simply put, a demonstration of tools. Gifts. Sleep. Exercise. Mirror. Meditation. Nature. Visualisation. Questions. Gratitude. Affirmations. Ceremonies, and many more. The difference between a lecture and a demonstration site, is that all the senses are engaged by the latter. See more

The times we live in today is very unpredictable. I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to the experience retreat team for giving me an opportunity to rest, relax, reflect, and rejuvenate amidst the pandemic. The retreat was exactly what I needed.

I was/have been pushed to think beyond surviving, I now look at pushing for wellness of my mind, spirit, and body. A lot of who I am has been struggling for acceptance and swirling through living with rejection for survival thus affecting my work, and social wellbeing, plus I have run away from myself long enough. See more

I came for the Mopane retreat with great expectations, because someone I know had shared with me about their experience, and I have been following her positivity in life.

I came beaten by the world, feeling rejected, a failure and non-achiever. These had eaten me up because all I was seeing were many unaccomplished tasks and projects, a political journey gone bad, and these had grounded me.

Not to get your readers bored, my coming for this retreat has got me back onto my feet and nothing excites me like knowing that I have a ‘KEY’ to my life and that my life is constantly under construction. Knowing that am under construction and that there’s always something to improve comforted my soul, spirit, and body. I learnt that I need be me, whether things do not go the right way in my life at any one moment but keep myself in check for a balanced body, spirit, and soul. Read more

‘A kingly life is your birthright. Embrace it now!’

‘You deserve good people and good things. And they deserve you too.’

Those have been my thoughts and meditations from the time I crossed Lake Victoria from Lakeside Escape Resort, back to Kampala.

For a long time, I have lived my ideal life in my head and always postponed it for later, ‘when I get there.’ At the Mopane retreat, I had the luxurious opportunity to pause, disconnect from the hustle and bustle of life so I could meet with all of me, body, soul and spirit. And I am grateful to God that I could afford such a luxury of time. Read More

I was not sure what to expect. My expectations were neither here nor there. I wondered if this was going to be another one of those trainings where they lecture you about leadership.

Well Mopané Leaders’ Experience Retreat, was a surreal, out of this world experience. Rather than lecture you on how a leader should behave, they help you find and empower the leader in you. Read more

I had always wanted to be part of the Mopane Leadership retreat. So, receiving an invitation email from CivSource Africa was exciting.

I really had a good experience at the retreat as I interacted with inspiring women from all walks of life, different backgrounds, different ages, different professions with lots of knowledge to share. Trust me, I learnt a lot from them as many challenged and inspired me to be a better version of myself. I loved the challenge. Let me share my testimony. Read More

The wonderful journey started with blessings from the Almighty with a shower of rain while I and my colleagues waited for the boat to a destination across the waters that would be a turning point in my life.

It is so easy to just live in this life with a lot of self-blame, resentfulness hate, unhappiness and insecurities owing to what you experience in life. Circumstances keep you bondage in your own body and you become a prisoner in your own body. See more

I healed! Let me tell you about this healing. Grab a chair sit calm, hear yourself breathe, catch your breath and on your third breath read along. (chuckles away)

The Mopané leadership experience retreat was nothing short of my expectations. I follow CivSource Africa online and the moment they announced the Leadership retreat, I sighed and promised myself that I would be a part of it one day. See more

My Testimony:

Stepping into that threshold was the most amazing thing about joining a whole bundle of cheerleaders.

Through the three days journey, I learnt to appreciate the laughter, the serene vibe, the home, and the sisterly roll. It was indeed worth the journey. See more

This retreat was something I really needed. I had the much-needed alone time. I was craving to sift through the stuff in my "basement". I was able to see things through a much clearer lens and make sense of them. In a nutshell, the retreat helped me offload and recharge myself. See more

The retreat was a great opportunity for me to unplug. Since the (Covid19) pandemic struck, I had not taken a minute out for myself without being a wife, mother, or accountant. For the first time in a long time, it was about Matama. See More

The general retreat experience for me was out of this world. It was so intense emotionally but by the final day I felt so light. I felt like I had shaded a lot of what has been weighing me down physically and emotionally. The ambience, location, sitting arrangement, trainers were such a breath of fresh air and perfect for the healing process. See more

When I knew I would be attending this retreat, I had determined to begin the journey with an open mind. I walked into a fire-side introduction that crafted a mysterious beginning to an unknown journey. With a clear start time for the next day, I went back to my beautiful room feeling the nerves of what is to come. See more

My experience at the retreat was almost too good to articulate but I want to; so that if someone reading this will benefit as much as I did, and they will not think twice. See more

The Mopane leadership experience program retreat 2021 convened by CivSource Africa has been a life changing experience for me. My hope was that it would go on for at least a few more days or even hours and that simply attested to how much of a good time I was having. More

When you see the title (Mopané Leadership Retreat), it sounds quite intriguing but then you hear leadership

retreat and think…urggggh it is one of those structured boring retreats that keep you busy from the time you wake up till you drop! However, the complete opposite happened to me. More