153 ACRES - ROUND OAK, GEORGIA
LEADERSHIP TEAM CONNECTION DAY
Reconnect Your Leadership Team to the Trust, Honesty, and Human Capacity Stronger Execution Requires.
Your team has been working hard. Really hard. Somewhere in the pace of it all, the human connection underneath the work got quietly set aside.
The Leadership Team Connection Day is a full-day immersive experience for teams, designed to reconnect your people to themselves, each other, and the way they want to lead together.
A customized experience for teams of up to 15 people, including:
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Pre-day organizational discovery and calibration
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Private participant reflections before the experience
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A fully facilitated day at The Florrest
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Honest conversation, nature immersion, nervous-system regulation, and embodied leadership practices
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Nourishing meal, snacks, thoughtful details, and space to be fully present
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A post-experience integration call to bring the work back into everyday leadership
You can feel it in meetings that move fast but never go deep. In conversations that stay professional because the real ones feel too risky right now. In the high performer who is still delivering but has gone quiet in a way you haven't been able to name.
The talent is still there. The intention is still there. The care is still there.
The connection went underground.
Connection is not separate from performance. The quality of the relationships underneath a team affects how people communicate under pressure, navigate disagreement, collaborate across roles, and tell each other the truth when it matters.
You may know something needs attention without knowing exactly what it is, or how to address it without making things worse.
Connection is not the end goal. It is the human infrastructure that makes stronger leadership and execution possible. That is what this day is for.
This May be for Your Team If:
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Your team is performing, but trust or openness has quietly diminished
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Communication becomes reactive when pressure rises
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Important conversations are being avoided
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People are coordinating work but not truly collaborating
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A high performer has become quieter, more guarded, or disengaged
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Your organization is navigating growth, reorganization, transition, or leadership change
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You are building a new leadership team and want to establish stronger ways of working together
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You have invested in strategy or leadership development and recognize that something in the human dynamic still needs attention
This work is for leaders who care deeply about both people and results, and understand that the two are not separate.
This is not a generic team-building day with a predetermined agenda. Every engagement begins with a conversation with the team leader and/or HR or Learning & Development partner to understand what the organization is navigating, what is happening within the team, and what this experience needs to support.
Two teams can arrive with the same stated challenge and need completely different things. My role is to understand both the business context and the human dynamics shaping the team, then calibrate the experience to the people actually in the room.
The experience is designed around your priorities, not pulled from a standard workshop agenda.
Designed Around What Your Organization Needs
A Different Layer of Leadership Development
Strategic offsites, leadership frameworks, communication training, and traditional development programs all have an important place. This work does not replace them. It reaches a complementary layer that can be difficult to access through frameworks alone: the guardedness that changes the quality of a conversation, the person who stops contributing before anyone realizes they've disengaged, the assumptions people begin making about one another, and the pressure people carry into a room before a meeting has even begun.
Those dynamics don't live only in our thinking. They live in our relationships, our patterns, and our nervous systems. And they affect a team's ability to execute.
That is the layer we work with here: not instead of strategy, but underneath it.
This is the ground. Everything grows from here.
The Leadership Team Connection Day takes place at The Florrest, a 153-acre leadership sanctuary in Round Oak, Georgia, created specifically to hold this depth of work.
This is not a conference room with better views. The change of environment is part of the intervention.
Something happens when people step outside the pace, routines, titles, and physical environment of their everyday work. The shoulders drop. The breath deepens. Conversations that can feel difficult or impossible inside the office become more accessible.
There are no manufactured moments here, and no choreographed vulnerability for vulnerability's sake. What happens at The Florrest is guided, intentional, and responsive to the people in the room. Nature immersion, honest conversation, reflection, nervous-system regulation, embodied leadership practices, and shared human experience create the conditions for people to see themselves and one another differently.
A New Space for Your Team
It Begins Before You Arrive
Before your team walks through the door, the work has already started.
The first input is organizational. I meet with the team leader and/or HR or Learning & Development partner to understand the context: what's happening inside the organization, where the team is experiencing friction, and what leadership wants to strengthen.
The second input is human. Every participant completes a private reflection before the day begins, designed to give me a glimpse into how each person is actually experiencing themselves, the team, and the work. Every response comes to me first, so when your team arrives, I already have a sense of what's present, what's been quiet, and what may be ready to move.
The organizational objective gives us direction. The individual reflections show us what's happening beneath the surface. My work happens at the intersection.
The Day Itself
The day moves through a natural arc. There is structure, but also space to respond to what's actually happening in the room.
From the moment of arrival, the environment begins doing what no agenda can: interrupting the pace and giving the nervous system permission to exhale. From there, we move through facilitated conversation, reflection, nature immersion, embodied practices, and experiences designed to deepen awareness, connection, and trust.
I pay close attention to what's happening beyond the words: where the dynamic shifts, what gets avoided, who becomes quieter, where assumptions are operating, what the team is ready to address, and what needs more space.
That doesn't mean forcing disclosure or turning the workplace into therapy. It means creating enough safety and skilled facilitation for people to be more honest, present, and available to one another than the normal work environment allows.
Clear agreements around confidentiality and psychological safety are established so participants understand how what is shared will be held.
This is not a day of activities. It is a day of coming back to yourself, each other, and the way you want to lead together.
Why the Body and Nervous System Matter
Leadership doesn't happen only in the intellect.
A person can understand intellectually that they should listen more carefully, delegate, or remain curious during disagreement, and still return to the same behavior when pressure rises. That's because under stress, we don't operate exclusively from what we know. We operate from patterns.
Creating space for the nervous system to settle gives people greater access to curiosity, perspective, creativity, empathy, and choice. It becomes easier to notice a reaction before acting from it, to hear another perspective without defending against it, and to have conversations that normally get avoided.
This is why the embodied dimension of the work matters: it creates the conditions from which more intentional leadership becomes possible.
What Happens When A Team Actually Reconnects
This is what one team experienced:
"This was an eye-opening experience personalized to not only our group but us as individuals."
— April Coley, Team Leader | Atrium Health
"The Florrest will leave you speechless and on a whole new level of calmness."
— Jennifer Peebles, Team Member | Atrium Health
"I didn't know what to expect. It fulfilled my need to feel relaxed and release. Mena helped me protect my peace."
— Cecilia Thaxton, Team Member | Atrium Health
What Becomes Possible When a Team Reconnects
The goal is not a team with no tension, disagreement, deadlines, or hard days. Healthy teams disagree. Organizations change. Pressure happens.
The opportunity is to increase a team's capacity to navigate those realities without losing connection to one another.
Imagine a difficult conversation happening earlier because someone feels able to name what's actually going on.
Imagine disagreement without immediate defensiveness, people asking instead of assuming, or a team member who has quietly withdrawn beginning to participate again.
You begin to feel the difference in the quality of meetings, the conversations people are willing to have, the way tension gets handled, and the team's ability to stay connected to the mission when pressure rises.
What Your Team Leaves With
Your team is not coming here simply to feel good for a day, nor leaving with a binder of concepts that never gets opened again.
They leave with a stronger understanding of one another, greater awareness of the patterns each person brings into the team, a shared language for what surfaced during the day, greater capacity for honest conversation, and a clearer sense of how they want to lead and work together going forward.
Where appropriate, the team identifies specific commitments or agreements to carry into everyday work. But some of the most enduring value is harder to put on a checklist: the experience of having seen each other differently.
That felt experience becomes a reference point the team can return to. Not because it was taught. Because it was lived together.
Integration: Bringing It Back to Work
The experience doesn't end when your team leaves The Florrest.
An integration call is scheduled when your day is booked and takes place one to two weeks after the connection day, once everyone has returned to meetings, deadlines, and decisions. This is where we examine what stayed, what became clearer, where old patterns may already be returning, and what the team wants to intentionally carry forward.
The goal is not a beautiful day your team remembers. The goal is for something about the way your people work together to be different because the day happened.
Who This is For
This work is for leaders who care deeply about both people and results, and understand that the two are not separate. It's a fit for teams that are technically performing but where something essential has gone quiet, and for organizations moving through growth, reorganization, or leadership change.
It is not entertainment, a reward day, or a checkbox team-building activity, and it is not for organizations looking primarily for the lowest-cost offsite option.
The leaders who say yes to this understand that how their team works together is not separate from what their team is capable of creating together.
Mena Teijeiro
Founder of The Florrest | Leadership Calibrator
Mena is an economist, University of Chicago Booth MBA, former PricewaterhouseCoopers professional, bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and leadership facilitator.
Her work sits at the intersection of business understanding, human dynamics, embodiment, intuition, and leadership development.
Born and raised across Latin American, European, and North American cultures, Mena brings an understanding of the different textures of trust, hierarchy, communication, and leadership that people carry into organizations. Her earlier career in business gave her firsthand experience of the environments leaders are expected to perform in; her subsequent years studying human transformation, embodiment, and the nervous system gave her a different lens through which to understand what drives human behavior underneath performance.
The Florrest began as a personal integration: business and human depth, each incomplete without the other. That same integration is what she now offers the leaders and teams who work with her.
Interview about Retreats & AI
with Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
What's Included
Organizational Discovery & Calibration: A pre-engagement conversation with the team leader and/or HR or Learning & Development partner to understand the organizational context and priorities the experience should support.
Pre-Day Individual Reflection: Every participant completes a private reflection before the day begins.
The Full Leadership Team Connection Day at The Florrest: A facilitated full-day experience incorporating honest conversation, nature immersion, reflection, nervous-system regulation, and embodied leadership practices, calibrated to your team's needs and not delivered from a standard agenda. Nourishing meals and thoughtful details are taken care of, and a personal journal awaits each participant.
Integration Call: One to two weeks later, we reconnect to revisit what surfaced and support the team in bringing the experience into everyday leadership.
Investment
The Leadership Team Connection Day is a flat investment for your entire team, not a per-person rate. The investment is shared during our initial conversation, once we understand your team, objectives, and whether this experience is the right fit.
Leadership Team Connection Day
This is not a day you plan and forget. It is a day designed to change the quality of what happens when your team comes back together on Monday.
The Florrest is not a venue. It is a leadership sanctuary held intentionally for this depth of work.
The land creates the space. I hold the process. Your team brings what is real.
And we begin there.
