Join the IRG for a six-day retreat! For CMOs who have navigated complexity, driven growth, and built careers and who now feel a deeper call to reflect on purpose, presence, and legacy.
Set in the vast and ancient landscapes of Cappadocia, Turkey, this retreat offers a rare pause. A space to step out of constant motion and into a more essential conversation with yourself, with others, and with life.
The IRG retreat creates a safe space to guide participants through their personal journeys for both their current and future paths.
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This retreat is not about acquiring new tools or frameworks.
It is about inner development, the foundation of authentic leadership.
Participants will:
The journey is experiential, reflective, and relational. It unfolds at a human pace, in a small and carefully curated group.
Created with the foresight of an award-winning French architect in the 1990’s, “Les Maisons de Cappadoce” offers their guests a combination of an impressive hotel atmosphere and individual accommodation packed with creative details complimenting the natural architecture, wonderful scenery, fauna and colours of Cappadocia.
Program in Istanbul. Unwinding, connecting with ancient wisdoms.
Travel from Istanbul to Cappadoccia
Presence & awareness
We begin by arriving — fully.
This first day is about stepping out of habitual acceleration and into presence. The hum of constant thinking softens, awareness widens, and attention returns to the body, the senses, and the moment.
Through simple practices, silence, and shared reflection, participants cultivate awareness of:
- Their surroundings
- The group
- Themselves
-And ultimately, awareness itself
This creates the ground from which the journey unfolds.
Listening to the inner voice
When the noise quiets, something else becomes audible
This day explores the inner voice — not the voice of ambition or expectation, but the voice of deep longing. The quiet intelligence that knows direction before strategy forms.
Participants are invited to:
- Create conditions for genuine inner listening
- Distinguish ego-driven desire from deeper longing
- Explore trust in intuition
- Reconnect with what feels meaningful and alive
This is not about answers, but about alignment
Being at home with yourself and others
True belonging begins within.
On this day, we explore what it means to belong — physically, socially, emotionally, and existentially. Participants reflect on identity beyond role and title, and on what it takes to feel at home in oneself, in relationships, and in life.
Themes include:
- Belonging versus fitting in
- Safety, grounding, and emotional presence
- Authenticity in relationship
- Leadership as a space of belonging
Integration into life and leadership
Insight only matters when it is lived.
The final day focuses on integration — gently translating inner shifts into everyday leadership and life. Not as action plans, but as embodied choices, new ways of showing up, and sustained practices
Participants explore:
- What has shifted
- What they choose to carry forward
- How leadership changes when grounded in presence and belonging
What kind of legacy they wish to leave
- Travel back to Istanbul
Roland is passionate about raising the level of consciousness in business and unpotential of leaders, teams, and organizations. Over recent years, he has helped the IRG community reconnect with their human nature to unlock positive, enduin the world. Roland has guided IRG retreats in both Panama and Mexico.
He is a former founder and managing partner of Aberkyn, and a partner at McKCompany.
Estimated program fee
€4,000 – €4,500 (final fee depends on the number of confirmed participants)
Including the hotels, travel, food & beverages, retreat program, facilitation, curated experiences, and local guidance.
What’s not included: international flight to Istanbul, Turkey.
Deposit
€1,000 non-refundable deposit required to secure participation. This deposit will be deducted from the final program fee.