Unplugged

In a year marked by funding freezes, shrinking civic space, and quiet exhaustion across the sector, the Leaders’ Experience Wellness Retreat at Country Lake Resort, Garuga (2025) offered something rare: permission for leaders to pause, breathe, and come home to themselves. Over four days, participants unplugged from their gadgets and titles and reconnected to their bodies, stories, and inner landscapes through ritual, movement, fire-side release, and deep conversation. They explored what it means to hold both power and powerlessness, journeyed through the rainbow energy centres, named the “thieves of joy” they carry, and reclaimed wellness as a revolutionary act rather than a luxury. What emerged was a shared conviction that a well leader is a wiser, more grounded leader, and that rest, therapy, and community rituals are not optional add-ons but core to sustainable leadership.

Read more: Unplugged – Reflections from the Leaders’ Experience Wellness Retreat.