Balance in Business

Sustainable high performance for senior leaders with Lawrence Mitchell & Rebecca Grainger

A 4-night immersive leadership retreat at SOMA Lorna Jane

The Retreat

Leadership today operates under sustained pressure. Complexity is increasing, AI is accelerating change, and the expectation to deliver continues to rise. The consequence is clear. Leaders are running high-performing systems on depleted internal capacity. 

This 4-night immersive retreat is designed to address that gap. Set within SOMA’s hinterland sanctuary in Byron Bay, the environment itself becomes part of the intervention. Surrounded by rainforest, with architecture intentionally designed for stillness, connection, and restoration, SOMA provides the ideal conditions for leaders to step out of operational intensity and into strategic clarity.  

The world’s most effective leaders share one thing in common: they perform sustainably. Not through more effort or longer hours, but by designing how they lead and live around the foundations of holistic wellbeing. This retreat is designed to shift the dial from reaction to design.

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SOMA Concept - Living Room
SOMA Concept - Living Room

This Retreat is For You If

It is a strong fit if you: 

Lead at a senior level with significant responsibility and decision-making load. 

Are noticing the impact of sustained pressure on energy, clarity, or performance. 

Want to operate at a high level without long-term personal cost. 

Appreciate structured frameworks grounded in science and real-world application. 

Are willing to step out of your environment to reset and recalibrate. 

Expect to leave with a clear, personalised operating model for sustainable performance. 

 

This retreat is not the right fit if you: 

Are seeking a passive, relaxation-led experience.

Are early in your leadership journey.

Require clinical or therapeutic intervention.

Your Educator & Facilitator

Lawrence Mitchell

Former CEO, Wellbeing at Work APAC · Global Leadership Advisor

Lawrence Mitchell is a former CEO of Wellbeing at Work APAC, with over 25 years of global leadership experience across FTSE-listed organisations and advisory work with companies including Google, Salesforce, Qantas, and the NSW Government. This retreat combines commercial insight with evidence-based wellbeing strategy. Lawrence’s sessions are grounded, rigorous, and immediately applicable — translating complex science into clear, commercially relevant insight, meeting participants exactly where they are.

Retreat Add on available - 1:1 session with Lawrence Mitchell

Rebecca Grainger

Transformational Breathwork Facilitator · Leadership Coach · Former Tech Founder

Rebecca Grainger is a transformational breathwork facilitator, leadership coach, and former tech founder whose signature work bridges the worlds of business and consciousness. With over two decades of experience across corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and deep inner work, Rebecca guides leaders back to their centre through breath, presence, and energy — creating the conditions for clarity, creative expansion, and lasting inner authority.

Retreat Add on available - 1:1 session with Rebecca Grainger

What You Will Take Home

Across four days, participants will: 

Understand what truly drives performance and what is quietly draining it. 

Identify patterns, habits, and environments that are reducing effectiveness. 

Reconnect with core values and leadership identity to improve decision-making. 

Learn practical tools grounded in neuroscience, behavioural science, and holistic health. 

Redesign daily rhythms to support sustained high performance. 

Develop a personalised Equilibrium Blueprint for long-term integration. 

 

Each participant leaves with a curated suite of practical frameworks: 

The Equilibrium Blueprint: A personalised, practical plan across the five pillars of Total Wellbeing, tailored to each participant’s leadership context, demands, and lifestyle. 

The Sustainable Performance Framework: Lawrence’s evidence-based model for aligning high performance with long-term health, applicable at both individual and team level. 

The Daily Rhythm Toolkit: Simple, high-impact practices for energy, focus, sleep, and recovery, designed to integrate seamlessly into a demanding executive schedule. 

The Psychological Safety Playbook: A clear, practical guide to assessing and strengthening trust, communication, and performance within teams. 

The 30-Day Integration Plan: A structured re-entry framework with weekly practices and check-ins to embed change and sustain momentum post-retreat. 

This retreat includes

All-inclusive retreat with meals, workshops, movement sessions, group experiences, and daily bathhouse access.
SOMA Concept Dining Room

All meals, snacks, and beverages throughout the retreat.
Our Approach

Every meal is a balance of nourishing macronutrients

One of the most powerful habits you can build is the way you eat, and every meal on this retreat is a quiet demonstration of what that looks like in practice. Seasonal, whole, and genuinely nourishing, the food here is not incidental to the program. It is part of the rewiring.

Breakfasts are protein-rich and grounding, designed to stabilise blood sugar and support the cognitive clarity needed for the morning’s learning. Lunches are generous and balanced, built around whole foods that sustain energy without the afternoon crash. Dinners are lighter and unhurried, an invitation to slow down, connect, and let the day’s insights settle. Snacks, elixirs, and teas woven throughout the day continue the same intention: every offering chosen to nourish the brain and body that is doing the work of change.

All activities, workshops, movement classes, and learning sessions.

Our Approach

Every moment on retreat is curated with intention

Every hour on a SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is part of the journey. The daily program includes ample leisure time alongside interesting activities and experiences that open the mind to new insights and possibilities.

Movement classes encourage strength, mobility, fitness, flexibility and conscious breathing that leave you feeling energised versus depleted. Our workshops provide practical tools that can be woven into a busy life; presented by qualified educators who have been carefully selected for their expertise, lived experience, and genuine desire to uplift and empower. While evening gatherings invite quality conversations, reflection, light celebrations or quiet meditative experiences. This is the time where the day integrates, and when connection with other women deepens.

Daily bath house access: sauna, warm soaking pools, and cold-water immersion.
Our Approach

Nature, bathing and spa therapies for deep restoration

Together, the day spa and bathhouse create an opportunity to deepen your connection to self and the natural surrounds. A small yet carefully curated menu of signature treatments has been intentionally created to deliver a deeply satisfying experience for your mind, body and nervous system. The bathhouse provides a sequence of hot, warm and cold hydrothermal therapies that further enhance your restorative journey.

Our therapists work with intention and care, creating space for the kind of deep rejuvenation that supports everything else you experience while on retreat. Whether you arrive carrying tension, fatigue, or simply the weight of a busy life, you will leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more present in your body than when you arrived.

Additional Day Spa therapies are available as an add on
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Invest in Yourself

Every SOMA Lorna Jane retreat is intentionally intimate. It is how we ensure every woman who joins is genuinely seen and supported. If this feels like your retreat, trust that. Places are limited and we would love to hold a place for you.

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King

Indulge in the luxury of silence and space; a king-sized bed and ensuite all to yourself.

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from $4400 per person

Twin Share

Enjoy the journey with a friend or loved one you are happy to share a king-sized room with.

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Local Day Guest

Join us for the full retreat immersion, including all your meals, and return to your own accommodation to sleep and shower.

from $3520 per person

Our Foundation

Every SOMA Lorna Jane Retreat is rooted in the same philosophy Lorna Jane Clarkson has lived and led for over 37 years: when a woman moves with intention, nourishes herself deeply, and truly believes in what she’s capable of, everything changes. This is not a wellness trend. It is a proven practice. And SOMA Lorna Jane is its most immersive expression.

Set within SOMA Lorna Jane's hinterland sanctuary, our retreats are designed so that the environment itself becomes part of the transformation. Surrounded by rolling hills and rainforest, with architecture intentionally shaped for stillness, connection, and restoration, SOMA Lorna Jane creates the ideal conditions for women to step out of life’s intensity and into calm and clarity.

Facilities include the beautifully appointed SOMA Residence with expansive views across the landscape, a day spa and bathhouse featuring sauna, warm soaking pools and cold-water immersions, two forest Domes, one for mindfulness experiences and one for active strength and movement, and 22 acres of peaceful nature to breathe, explore and restore in.

The daily program weaves together a supportive rhythm of movement, nourishing wholefoods, spa and bathhouse rituals, and deeply satisfying rest. Time in nature: fresh air, sunshine, forest bathing, and swimming; awakens the senses and quiets the mind. Throughout the retreat, quality conversation fosters genuine connection and friendship with like-minded women.

Our featured educators and facilitators have been carefully selected for their qualified expertise, lived experience, and a genuine desire to uplift and empower; always with warmth, depth and a touch of humour.

At SOMA Lorna Jane, we believe a pause can also be productive. Our retreats offer you the opportunity to recalibrate and rise, within an environment that is beautiful, unhurried, and deeply considered.

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