Embodied Leadership Retreat

A Boutique Retreat for Women Ready to Lead Differently

Energetics First. Always

Sunshine Coast, Australia

MAY 7-10, 2026

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This retreat is for women who lead

In business, in leadership roles, in families,

and in life.

You are reliable, capable, and accustomed to being the one others turn to. You make decisions, carry responsibility, and keep things moving.

Over time, the way you have been operating has started to take a toll.

The fatigue you feel is not simply from being busy. It comes from constant pressure, staying switched on, and holding everything together without pause. The urgency rarely eases, the responsibility rarely lifts, and beneath it all is a quiet awareness that something needs to change.

Not at a surface level. Not through another strategy or system.

What you are seeking is a different internal state to lead from.

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What this retreat is really about

This retreat is designed to support a shift in how you lead, not just what you do.

It is about understanding how your internal state shapes your capacity, decisions, leadership, and life.

Change does not happen through effort alone.
It happens when the way you are operating internally shifts, and everything else reorganises around that.

This retreat creates the conditions for clarity, alignment, and a new way of leading to emerge.

The core of the retreat

The Energy Audit and Alignment Journey

with Kathleen Davidson

This is the central experience of the retreat.

The Energy Audit and Alignment Journey is a three-part workshop series led by Kathleen Davidson, grounded in her lived experience of restructuring her life and leadership from the inside out.

This work forms the foundation of the retreat.
Everything else supports and integrates what unfolds here.

Community

  • A consciously curated space where women support and uplift one another
  • An environment that encourages collaboration, openness, and mutual respect
  • Shared experiences that build trust and connection beyond surface interaction
  • Being part of a collective of women committed to growth, integrity, and change
  • A sense of belonging grounded in support, resonance, and shared intention

Breakout Sessions

  • Guided walks that support quiet self reflection alongside shared conversation and perspective
  • Time in the studio for grounded practices that help participants come back into their body
  • Shared use of the steam room as a space to decompress, reset, and release mental load together
  • Pool time that allows for ease, clarity, and informal connection within the group
  • Unstructured group time that supports thinking, reflecting, and being together without distraction

Activities

  • Conscious art workshop informed by Indigenous perspectives and creative expression
  • Guided feminine energy session using sound and voice for presence and inner alignment
  • Gentle yoga session supporting grounding and embodied awareness
  • Sound bowl session for deep rest, nervous system reset, and mental clarity
  • Optional massage and facial treatments for relaxation and restoration
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Session Breakdown

at the heart of the retreat

Session One

Awareness

Understanding your current energetic state

This opening session invites participants to slow down and take an honest look at where they are operating from right now.

Kathleen guides participants through an energy audit process that brings clarity to how internal state is shaping work, relationships, leadership, and daily life.

This session supports participants to:

  • Understand energy as a practical and personal leadership lens
  • Identify current patterns of effort, pressure, and depletion
  • Recognise how internal state is reflected in external reality
  • Clarify intention and purpose for the retreat

This session establishes the baseline.
Nothing is changed yet. Everything is seen clearly.

Session Two

Alignment

Seeing where life is out of sync

This session deepens the work and moves into truth.

Participants are guided to explore where they are no longer aligned with themselves, where they may be operating from obligation or habit, and where energy is being compromised.

Drawing on her own experience, Kathleen offers grounded insight into how misalignment shows up and why it persists.

This session supports participants to:

  • Identify areas of life and leadership that are out of sync
  • Recognise the cost of over-responsibility and self-abandonment
  • Notice where energy is leaking or misdirected
  • Develop clarity without judgement or self-criticism

This is where honesty replaces autopilot.

Session Two

Integration

Choosing how you move forward

The final session brings everything together.

Participants integrate the awareness from session one and the clarity from session two, and consciously decide what needs to shift internally for life to change externally.

Kathleen shares how she has embodied this process in her own life, modelling what it looks like to move from insight into aligned action.

This session supports participants to:

  • Clarify the internal shifts that matter most
  • Identify what is no longer sustainable
  • Make a clear personal commitment to a new way of operating
  • Anchor intention into leadership, work, and daily life

This is not about pressure or perfection.
It is about clarity, responsibility, and choice.

 

Your Stay at Amara Retreat

a calm, comfortable place to rest and recharge during the retreat

Accommodation Details

paradise awaits

The Setting

Amara Estate

Nestled in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, Amara Retreat offers a private and peaceful setting surrounded by nature, creating the space to slow down and step away from everyday demands.

The Experience

Calm Environment

The natural surroundings and considered design of the property create an environment that supports reflection, ease, and a different pace. With access to a steam room, pool, and lake for swimming, the space invites rest, integration, and a deeper sense of presence, allowing the retreat to unfold with depth and intention.

The Comfort

A Place to Settle

Thoughtfully designed spaces and simple comforts throughout the property create a sense of ease and familiarity. With many areas across the property to pause, rest, or enjoy quiet downtime, you are able to relax, settle in, and fully engage in the retreat experience.

What's included

  • Three nights accommodation at Amara Retreat
  • Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout the retreat
  • Exclusive workbooks for breakout groups
  • All workshops, sessions, and retreat activities
  • One private 60-minute coaching session with Kathleen following the retreat

NOT included

  • Your round-trip flights
  • Transportation to and from the hotel 
  • Optional massage or facial treatments, available at an additional cost
  • Alcohol, however you are welcome to bring your own
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What's My Investment?

The real question isn’t what this retreat costs.
It’s what it’s costing you to keep operating the way you are.

Staying switched on, carrying constant pressure, and managing everything from an unsustainable internal state doesn’t resolve itself. It compounds.

This retreat creates space to pause, see clearly, and consciously shift how you are leading your life before burnout forces the change.

Choosing not to invest is choosing to continue as you are.
Choosing to invest is taking responsibility for your internal state now.

This is not just an investment in a retreat.
It’s an investment in how you want to be living and leading a year from now.

The choice is yours.

ours.

Twin Room Share

$2,299 (NZ)

All the Savings

  • Three nights twin-share accommodation at Amara Retreat
  • 16 Spaces available
  • All meals during the retreat, including daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  • Full access to the Energy Audit and Alignment Journey with Kathleen Davidson
  • All workshops, activities, and retreat materials
  • One private 60-minute post-retreat coaching session with Kathleen

Single Supplement

$2,899 (NZ)

Limited availability

  • Three nights twin-share accommodation at Amara Retreat
  •  2 Rooms available
  • All meals during the retreat, including daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  • Full access to the Energy Audit and Alignment Journey with Kathleen Davidson
  • All workshops, activities, and retreat materials
  • One private 60-minute post-retreat coaching session with Kathleen
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Early Booking Bonus!

Book and pay in full by 31 January 2026 and receive:

  • 30-minute Massage at the retreat
  • One additional private 60-minute coaching sessions with Kathleen
  • Personalised post-retreat support to integrate insights and decisions
  • Continued guidance as you implement the shifts identified during the retreat

Valued at $320 (NZ)

This incentive is offered to support deeper integration and is available until 31 January 2026.

Kathleen Davidson

Founder, Awakening Meraki

Kathleen Davidson is a mentor and facilitator for women in leadership who are ready to move beyond burnout, over-functioning, and the pressure to constantly push.

Her work is grounded in lived experience. Kathleen has consciously reshaped her life from the inside out, learning through her own journey how internal state, capacity, and alignment directly shape the way we lead, work, and live. Rather than teaching strategies to do more, she supports women to understand how they are operating, where they are out of alignment, and what needs to shift internally for life to change externally.

This retreat exists because Kathleen has lived the cost of doing everything “right” while slowly disconnecting from herself. She has experienced what it is like to hold responsibility in many areas of life, to be relied upon, and to keep going long after something inside knew it was no longer sustainable.

Through her own process of slowing down, recalibrating, and taking responsibility for her internal state, Kathleen learned that real change does not come from pushing harder. It comes from clarity, honesty, and choosing a different way of showing up.

She is hosting this retreat to offer women the space she once needed but could not find. A space to pause, look honestly at how they are operating, and reconnect with their capacity without pressure or performance.

Kathleen’s presence is calm, grounded, and direct. She creates environments where clarity emerges naturally, responsibility is reclaimed without force, and meaningful change becomes possible.

This retreat is held within Kathleen’s lived wisdom, embodied alignment, and deep commitment to a new way women lead, support one another, and move through the world.

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Client Testimonials

"Working with Kathleen every week has been grounding and transformative."

Her guidance has helped me reconnect with my inner clarity, regulate my energy, and live from a place of greater alignment and calm.  The intention of this retreat reflects the same honesty and authenticity I experience in our work together, and I am genuinely grateful for her presence and guidance.

Lara da Gama

"I was looping in unconscious patterns for years before I started this work."

Kathleen creates a safe, supportive space that has helped me recognise long-standing patterns and gently transmute lower frequencies with clarity and ease.

Her guidance has been invaluable, and I wholeheartedly recommend working with her to anyone seeking deeper awareness, healing, and alignment.

Dhruti Patel

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