153 ACRES - ROUND OAK, GEORGIA
LEADERSHIP TEAM CONNECTION DAY
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.
This is a day to go deeper than your team has ever gone together.
Full day Immersive Experience - Teams of 6 to 15.
The heartbeat got faint because the anxiety got louder.
Something real was built here.
A team that chose to come together, not because it was the safe option, but because the mission meant something. Because working on something that matters felt worth showing up for fully. That's still true. That hasn't changed.
What's changed is the air in the room.
You can feel it in the meetings that move fast but never go deep. In the conversations that stay professional because the real ones feel too risky right now. In the high performer who's still delivering, but who went quiet three months ago in a way you haven't been able to name. In the gap between what your team is technically capable of, and what's actually flowing between them.
The talent is still there. The intention is still there. The care is still there.
The connection went underground.
They're not broken. They're carrying more than they're showing, and they don't yet have the conditions to put it down.
That's what this day is for.
Something is missing underneath the work.
Not the talent. Not the intention. Not the care. Those are all still there.
What's missing is the felt experience of actually knowing the people you work with. Not managing them. Not reading them. Not anticipating their reactions in a meeting.
Knowing them. The human underneath the role. The person behind the output.
You can feel the gap. In the meetings that move fast but never go deep. In the conversations that stay professional because the real ones feel too risky right now. In the high performer who's still delivering, but who went quiet three months ago in a way you haven't been able to name.
You want to bridge it. But you don't know how to do it inside the pace of the work. And you're right to be thoughtful, this isn't something you hand a facilitator and hope for the best. It requires someone who knows how to hold the depth without letting it spill. Who can read the room, move with what's real, and create the conditions for something genuine to happen, safely, intentionally, and well.
That's what this day is.
Not an exercise. Not a workshop. A guided experience in a place that was built for exactly this, where the land does half the work before anyone says a word, and a skilled guide does the rest.
You just have to be willing to come.
There is one thing that almost every leadership retreat, workshop, and communication framework has in common.
None of them work at the level where the disconnection actually lives.
They work at the level of words, frameworks, and ideas.
But what's happening between your people, the tension, the guardedness, the energy in the room that everyone feels and nobody names, that lives somewhere much deeper than a slide deck can reach.
Strategy retreats live in the head. Communication frameworks give people new words for the same old patterns. Team-building exercises create a moment and then the drive home happens, and by Wednesday you're back where you started.
None of it reaches the place where connection actually lives: in the body, in the nervous system, in the felt experience of being genuinely human with another person under real conditions.
You cannot think your way into trust. You cannot workshop your way into honest communication. You cannot slide-deck your way into a team that actually feels aligned.
Presence isn't built in meeting rooms under deadline pressure. It's built when someone creates the conditions for people to be real with each other.
This is the ground. Everything grows from here.
The Leadership Team Connection Day is a full day at The Florrest.
Not a conference room with a catered lunch and a whiteboard full of action items.
A nature sanctuary. Held specifically for this kind of work.
The kind of place that does something to people before the day even begins. Before the first conversation. Before anyone has said a word about what needs to change.
Something just shifts. The shoulders drop. The breath deepens. The part of a person that has been quietly bracing for months finally gets the message that it is safe to set down the weight.
You step out of the pace. Out of the title. Out of the version of yourself that has to hold everything together every single day.
People don't have to say much. Something shifts anyway. A new light comes in. And the person sitting across from you in Monday's meeting is not quite the same person they were before.
There are no manufactured moments here. No choreographed exercises designed to simulate vulnerability without creating it.
What happens at The Florrest is guided, intentional, and real.
Nature immersion. Honest conversation. Reflection that reaches the parts of a leader that quarterly reviews and performance metrics were never designed to touch.
Shared human experience that becomes the invisible infrastructure of how your team operates, long after the day ends.
A New Space for Your Team
It Begins Before You Arrive
Before your team walks through the door, the work has already started.
Every individual receives a private reflection form before the day begins. Not logistics. Not preferences. The questions that don't usually get asked. The ones that reach the parts of a person that weekly check-ins and performance reviews were never designed to touch.
Every answer comes to me first.
So when your team arrives at The Florrest, I already have a glimpse into the roots underneath each person, what's present, what's been quiet, what's ready to move.
The transformation begins the moment they say yes.
The day itself moves through a natural arc.
From the moment of arrival, when the land does what no agenda can, gives the nervous system permission to exhale — through honest conversation, nature immersion, and depth work that reaches what no strategy session ever could.
This is not a day of activities. It is a day of coming back to yourself.
What makes this different from every other leadership development day you've considered?
It works at a level that strategy can't reach.
Before anyone speaks a word about the team, the land is already doing something. Nature doesn't let people perform. It doesn't reward busyness or protect carefully managed personas. It simply reflects, honestly, without judgment, how each person is actually moving through the world right now.
From there, the nervous system gets what it almost never gets inside a workday: permission to exhale. Because you cannot access honesty, creativity, or genuine trust from a state of chronic pressure. The body has to open first. In that opening, in that safety, each person becomes present to themselves again. To what they're actually feeling. To what's been there underneath the work all along.
Nature has a way of reminding people what they have in common.
What your team carries home isn't a framework. It's a felt shift. A new way of being in the room together. The meeting after this day is not the same meeting, because the people in it aren't the same people.
To make sure that shift lands and stays, the integration call is scheduled the moment your day is booked. One to two weeks later, your team returns to the real world with new awareness, and a guide who already knows what they're carrying.
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
This is what becomes possible when a team stops coordinating and starts connecting.
Imagine opening your next team meeting not with an agenda, but with a question.
What's really on your mind?
And watching your team actually answer it. Not performing. Not managing. Present.
Imagine the team member who has been quietly carrying something, not disengaging from the mission, but from the felt experience of the work, finally having language for it. And the room opening around them instead of contracting.
Imagine a culture where honesty doesn't threaten the relationship. It deepens it.
This is not a team that suddenly has no tension, no disagreement, no hard days.
This is a team that has reconnected to something real underneath the work. And that changes the quality of everything built on top of it.
You feel it in the energy that returns to the room. In the meetings that slow down enough to go somewhere. In the way people show up for each other when it matters.
Not because it was taught.
Because it was lived.
What Your Team Leaves With
Not a PDF. Not a post-event survey. Not a list of action items that lives in someone's inbox until it doesn't.
What transfers is harder to hand someone, and far more durable.
Each person leaves more present to themselves. With a felt sense of what it means to exhale, fully, outside the pace of the work. And with a shared experience that no meeting, no offsite, and no team building exercise has ever created.
They saw each other differently for a day. In a place that made it safe to just be human.
That stays.
Not because it was taught. Because it was lived together.
Who This is For
If you read this page and felt something shift, not just in your mind, but somewhere deeper, this is probably for you.
This experience is for you if:
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Your team is technically performing, but something essential has gone quiet, and you know the difference matters.
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Communication has become reactive under pressure, and you can feel trust quietly eroding even when nobody says so.
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You're moving through growth, change, or transition and you want your team to move through it together — connected, not just coordinated.
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You've tried other approaches and felt the impact evaporate within a week, or you haven't tried anything yet because nothing has felt right until now.
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You care about your people as much as you care about the results and you're ready to invest in an experience that honors both.
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You're ready to lead the kind of culture you've always known was possible — not someday, but now.
This experience is not for you if:
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You need a checkbox, not a shift.
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You're looking for the most affordable option, this is not that, and it was never designed to be.
If you're still reading, you already know which one you are.
The leaders who say yes to this are the ones who trust that how their team feels together is not separate from what their team creates together.
That's who this was built for.
Mena Teijeiro
Founder of The Florrest | Leadership Calibrator
Mena Teijeiro is an Economist, holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, trained at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, and is a bestselling author and TEDx speaker.
Born and raised across Latin American, European, and North American cultures, she understands not just what teams need, but the specific textures of how trust, hierarchy, and communication show up differently depending on where in the world people learned to lead.
She created The Florrest because she couldn't find a space that could hold this depth of work. So she built one.
This is what she was built for and it shows.
Interview about Retreats & AI
with Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
What's Included
The Leadership Team Connection Day is designed for teams of 6–15 people.
The full day takes place at The Florrest, a nature sanctuary that exists specifically to hold this depth of work. This is not a conference room with better views. The land, the stillness, the living presence of nature is woven into every moment of the day.
Your team receives:
Pre-Day Individual Reflection Intake: Every team member completes a private reflection before the day begins. When they arrive, the real work starts immediately.
The Full Connection Day Experience at The Florrest: A guided full day of presence, nature immersion, nervous system regulation, and embodied leadership practice, facilitated by Mena with the full depth The Florrest was built to hold. Every detail is taken care of. Nourishing meals and thoughtful snacks prepared with care. A personal journal awaits each participant. Your team's only job is to arrive and be present.
Integration Call (1 to 2 Weeks After): The call that brings the shift home. A dedicated space to revisit what shifted, anchor it into daily leadership, and make sure what was felt at The Florrest doesn't get swallowed by the pace of the week.
This is a flat investment in your entire team, not a per-person rate. The investment is shared in our conversation.
The first step is an application. Once submitted, we'll schedule a brief conversation to confirm fit and get your day on the calendar.
Leadership Team Connection Day
This is not a day you plan and forget.
It is a day your team will still feel on Monday and the Monday after that.
The Florrest is not a venue. It is a living, breathing sanctuary held with intention for exactly this kind of work. When your team arrives, the land is already ready for them.
You just have to be willing to come.
