“This has been such an incredible experience and in only 5 days my life has truly been changed. Sam is an excellent teacher, friend, coach and peer, who instantly makes you feel welcome and holds space for you until you are ready. It has been an intense few days but I can’t believe the amount I have learnt about myself and my inner critic and even the self management tools I have learnt and can take away to ensure I am living my best life.”
— Kirsty Davies, General Manager (workshop attendee)
“I would recommend the Emotional intelligence retreat to anyone and everyone. It was the perfect mix of self-reflection, self development, connection with like minded individuals, comfort and discomfort. Samantha is the perfect host and the perfect coach who ensured attendees pushed themselves to achieve positive outcomes, truly focused on themselves, and had fun.
Samantha also engaged her passionate and talented network to support the retreat with focused sessions on yoga and getting back to nature.
The retreat was everything I did not know I needed!”
— Ana-Marie Lockyer, General Manager Wealth Products ANZ New Zealand (retreat attendee)
“I left this retreat with a deep sense of love and gratitude, feeling nourished in mind, body and soul. Samantha delivered new knowledge to me on emotional intelligence and also a heartfelt experience of what it really is, and how it feels in practice. I now feel more in tune with who I am and my contribution to this world. I highly recommend Sam and this retreat to anyone!”
- Frida Kabo- Business Owner (retreat attendee November 2019)
“Sam would be someone who both lives authentically, in every way every day, and leaves her clients (individual or team) with more possibilities to perform than before. Sam has an instinct for people beyond her years, and has often left me speechless with her observations and rationales of an individual's unique driver or and organisation's sub-optimal performance and the reasons for it. In short Sam can see through the small and big picture, synthesise them and help bring meaning and energy to the way forward. Make no mistake, whilst Sam is a specialist in human behaviour, and what is regarded as the softer side of people performance, she has a tough steely side to hold people and progress to account. If you really want to perform better as an individual, team or organisation then Sam will be a cornerstone for truth, accountability and responsibility. In addition to the professionalism on offer Sam also brings a great sense of natural fun and light to sometimes challenging proceedings.”
— Adrian Hutchinson, Director, Culture Capital
“A transformational journey of love and personal acceptance. A true gift! Thank you so much Sam.”
— Jacqui Ramsay- General Manager Operations (retreat attendee Nov 2019)
“Insightful and life changing!
I came feeling exhausted with physically and mentally, I’m leaving feeling relaxed and energised. I couldn’t have asked for more of a supportive caring group to spend 5 days with.”
— Naomi Mitcheson- Business Development Manager (retreat attendee March 2019)
“Sam ran the emotional intelligence course for the Ballance Agri-Nutrients Finance team in 2014 and presented leadership coaching in 2015 to Ballance leaders. It was game changing for me in both instances. The message was not only clear but more importantly was conveyed in such a way that made it very practicable to implement. Interestingly what I gained not only assisted in the work situation but just as importantly closer to home with my adult children. My son of 33 said he noticed a huge change and was very thankful for it as I am. Thank you Sam.”
— Francois Barbeau, Accounting Manager, Ballance Agri-nutrients
“These days away with Sam and a bunch of incredible women has had a profound effect on me being able to see my real potential. Not just understanding but fully accepting what I can and need to do to fulfil my potential has had a huge impact on how I see myself and others as a leader, mum, friend….as me!”
— Fiona Scadden- Environmental Manager at Coastwide Resource Consultancy (retreat attendee March 2019)
“The Emotional Intelligence in Practice retreat was a wonderful opportunity to step away from the busyness of everyday life to make an investment in myself. Sam’s facilitation skills are excellent – she guided us through a journey of discovery in a truly supportive environment and helped us create action plans to continue the learning and development back in the “real world”. I cannot recommend this retreat highly enough.”
— Daria Williamson- Business Owner Potentiate Consulting (retreat attendee March 2019)
“I came to the retreat with a deep desire for learning and self acceptance. I no longer wanted to live in my pain body. I left after 5 days rested, well equipped and full of skills to welcome the women I had always been chasing.”
— Marie Purcell- General manager Child Cancer Foundation (retreat attendee March 2019)
“Sam facilitated a fantastic weekend full of learnings and laughter. Her wealth of knowledge meant we took away insights into emotional intelligence, the body-mind connection, analysing the impacts of our past and how to influence our future. My biggest personal learning was to recognise that resilience does not mean soldiering through challenges by ignoring my emotions - instead Sam taught us how we can accept emotional challenges and work with them to become truly resilient.”
— Dr Hannah Mueller- Ecologist (retreat attendee)
