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restoration week
A 5-day leadership wellness retreat for arts and cultural professionals
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Leadership Restoration
Leadership restoration is the deliberate process by which a leader recovers the cognitive clarity, emotional availability, and purposeful energy that sustained organizational responsibility progressively depletes.
Restorative Practice
Restorative practice is a structured, evidence-based engagement through which a leader emerges with capabilities they did not have before. It is distinguished from passive recovery by three characteristics. First, it is intentional: each element of the experience is designed to address a known dimension of depletion, not simply to provide comfort or distraction. Second, it is integrated: the restorative experience engages the whole person, rather than treating fatigue as a purely physical or purely psychological phenomenon. Third, it is generative: effective restorative practice does not merely return a leader to the state they were in before burnout; it produces new insight, new connection, and new relationship to their work.
Restoration Week is a direct response to the fact that today’s leaders need to be more resilient than ever. The week offers time for independent reflection, shared activity and social connection, three critical components of evidence-based leadership renewal.
The DRAMMA Model
Six Dimensions of a Useful Restorative Experience
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DETACHMENT
Mentally disengaging from work and daily responsibilities.
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RELAXATION
Allowing the mind and body to rest and recover.
AUTONOMY
Making choices, deciding what serves you best.
MASTERY
Engaging in activities that sustain your attention.
MEANING
Finding the value in experience by harvesting lessons through reflection.
AFFILIATION
Spending time with others in ways that foster connection.
A Typical Day
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7:00 –11:00 Breakfast & Morning Gathering
11:00 –1:00 Self-directed Time
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 Group Activity
4:00 – 5:30 Guided Self-reflection
5:30 – 8:00 Break/Dinner
Example Self-directed Time: kayaking, working out at the gym, strolling around town, working on your own craft, or just relaxing
Example Group Activities: flower arranging, bracelet making, cooking together, exploring the National Forest, boat trip along the Scuppernong River
About IBX, Columbia, and Blue Juniper Inn
The Inner Banks (IBX) region of North Carolina is a tranquil and ecologically rich area, offering a harmonious blend of natural beauty and cultural heritage. IBX is characterized by its unhurried pace and uncrowded landscapes, making it an ideal destination for those seeking serenity and connection with nature.
The Blue Juniper Inn is located in the tiny town of Columbia, NC — the heart of the IBX — situated along the slow-moving Scuppernong River, as it merges into the Albemarle Sound, just 45 minutes from the Hatteras Seashore on the wild Atlantic coast. Earning all 5-star reviews since opening in June of 2025, the Inn has hosted writing retreats, cooking weekends, and nature getaways. Guests enjoy five sun-filled en suite rooms, bright and cheery common areas filled with regional art, and around-the-clock access to coffee, tea, wine, beer, and snacks.
To get to Columbia, fly into Greenville, NC or Norfolk, VA, get a car, and drive approximately one hour to the town, or you can take a well-deserved road trip!
Future Restoration Weeks
$999 covers everything for the week — lodging for 5 days/4 nights (Sunday - Thursday), all sessions, all materials, all activities, and all food including a nourishing continental breakfast each morning. All you’re responsible for is getting here! We take care of the rest. Each Restoration Week is limited to 5 people.
Complete this form to receive early bird registration information for our next Restoration Week.