153 ACRES - ROUND OAK, GEORGIA
Where Leadership Teams
Come Back to Each Other
A day can create a shift, but there's a depth that only comes after a team truly slows down, when the nervous system resets, and what's underneath has room to surface.
That's what a retreat makes possible. More time on the land. More space between conversations. A single day can open the door. A retreat is what walks through it.
Teams up to 14.
Whatever your team builds, makes, or delivers, there is a question underneath the work that doesn't get asked enough.
Are the people who show up together every day truly connected to each other?
Not just functioning. Not just coordinating. Actually connected, in a way that brings out the best in each of them and makes the whole stronger than the sum of its parts.
AI will handle more and more of the work. That's not the threat, that's the reality.
In this reality, what becomes the true differentiator is not who has the best tools. It's who has the most coherent, connected, trust-based team operating them. The tools are accessible to everyone. The technology changes constantly. The processes can be copied by anyone willing to do the research.
What cannot be copied is a team that actually knows each other, that communicates honestly when the pressure is high, that shows up fully because people feel genuinely seen inside the organization they've given their time to.
That quality doesn't come from hiring and strategy alone. It comes from leaders who are willing to invest in the human layer of their organization, not because it looks good on a culture deck, but because they can feel the cost of what happens when it's missing.
The friction. The quiet disengagement. The decisions made from pressure instead of clarity. The talent that leaves not because of compensation, but because something essential had gone silent.
Human capital is not a line item. It is the foundation everything else runs on.
The leaders who act on that, not someday, but now, build organizations that are not just more productive. They build organizations that are more alive.
In environments where people feel genuinely safe, something even deeper becomes possible: each person comes alive into their unique gifts, and the diversity of the group stops being a talking point and starts being a real source of strength.
You already know this. The question is what you're doing about it.
You've probably done the other versions.
The conference room with the projector and the catered lunch. The presenter with the slide deck who flew in and flew out. The golf outing where the same dynamics played out on a different surface. The open bar that loosened things up for a night, left everyone with a slight buzz and exhaustion, and changed nothing by morning. The spa day where everyone disappeared into their own session and came back relaxed but no closer to each other.
None of it was wrong. It just didn't reach the place where the real work lives.
Because you cannot think your way into trust. You cannot drink your way into honest conversation. You cannot relax your way into genuine connection if you're doing it alone, in parallel, in separate rooms.
What happens at The Florrest is different in kind, not just in quality.
Teams arrive carrying the pace of everything they left behind. Within hours, something shifts, not because we told them to slow down, but because 153 acres of Georgia land, open sky, and genuine stillness make it almost impossible not to. People start talking differently. More honestly. The conversations that had been circling for months finally land somewhere.
That's not a program outcome. That's what happens when you remove the noise and give people enough space to actually find each other again.
Together. Not in separate rooms. Not performing. Not networking.
Present with each other, possibly for the first time in a long time.
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Want to come back to coherence, to remember what they're building together and why.
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Have gone quiet in ways that are hard to name, and know something needs space to surface.
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Are spread across locations and need real, in-person time to actually become a team again.
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Are heading into a big change, a transition, a new chapter, a shift in direction, and want to move through it connected, not just informed.
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Are already functioning well, and know there is a deeper level of trust, honesty, and collective strength still available to them.
If any of these are true for your team right now, this is for you.
This is for Teams who:
Private access to the whole property. Up to 14 people.
2-Day, 1-Night Retreat: A focused immersion. Arrive in the morning, move through two full days together, depart in the evening of Day 2. A strong fit for teams within driving distance who are ready to go deep without a long time away.
3-Night Retreat: More time to go deeper. Arrival evening day 1, two full days of depth and integration, departure morning of day 4. A natural fit for teams traveling from farther away, and equally valuable for any team wanting a fuller reset.
Both are shared accommodations on the land, designed to be lived in together, not just visited.
Investment details are shared during our application conversation.
Two Formats Built for Different Needs
What's Included
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Pre-Retreat Application & Reflection: every participant completes an individual reflection before arrival.
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Accommodations: shared lodging on the property for the full retreat up to 14 participants.
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All Meals: nourishing, thoughtfully prepared meals throughout your stay.
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Facilitation: guided sessions led by Mena, drawing on the land, embodied leadership practices, and honest group reflection.
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Full Use of Facilities & Trails: private access to the entire 153-acre property in rural Georgia.
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The Anchor Set: a curated collection for each participant to carry home. Simple objects to bring a piece of the stillness back into the pace of daily work.
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Integration Call (1–2 weeks after): to anchor what shifted into how your team leads going forward.
This is a flat investment for your group, not a per-person rate.
The first step is an application, followed by a conversation to confirm fit and find your dates.
What This Team Experienced
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)
Leadership Team Retreat
What happens here travels back with them.
It becomes a reference point: the moment they return to when things get hard, when the room goes quiet, when someone needs to remember what this team is actually capable of.
That's what The Florrest gives them. Not a memory. An anchor.
