Dating back to the early Greek philosophers and sages the maximum of “know thyself” has and always been an almost archetypal wisdom saying suggesting that to know thyself on a very deep and honest level and to be able to put that knowledge into action whether one is a king or tradesman is an essential ingredient to personal and professional success.

HIGH PERFORMANCE COACHING AND LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGY- INDIVIDUAL AND INTENSIVE RETREAT PROGRAMS.

🔹 “The higher you rise, the more your inner architecture determines whether you plateau - or ascend.”

PNEUMA Executive coaching and Clinical leadership individual coaching and consulting programs are built for leaders who are already winning. Visionary founders. Boardroom warriors. Senior partners. C-suite decision-makers. People who are respected—sometimes even revered—but who sense that their internal operating system is out of date, or that something unconscious is limiting their next evolution.

They're not in failure - but they feel friction.

Maybe they’re repeating patterns. Or secretly exhausted. Or no longer satisfied by achievement alone. Or simply wondering: what am I still not seeing about myself?

At PNEUMA, we specialize in guiding elite performers through deep psychological introspection that unlocks the next tier of strategic power, clarity, and inner freedom.

We don’t “coach.” in a traditional “out of the box sense” We transform. Using a clinical-depth lens grounded in psychodynamics Jungian and Existential psychology, and executive performance, we help leaders master the invisible forces that determine whether they ascend, plateau, or unravel.

Working from a systems-psychodynamic, clinical leadership and organizational role analysis perspective PNEUMA Consulting engages both our individual as well as group executive coaching clients at a depth level that extends well beyond surface dynamics. We serve corporations and executives in Ottawa,Toronto and Internationally and Virtually.

Our goal is to provide a safe confidential space where our clients can mindfully reflect on their own specific intra-personal and relational selves that are primarily driven by unconscious dynamics that very typically operate well below the surface. Working within a psychodynamic coaching domain the executive/leadership coach facilitates a pathway to what has been described as the individuals’ subconscious “inner theater” where leaders / executives are symbolically playing out in a sub-conscious manner a self-other psychological drama based on their early developmental and historical experiences and for which intra-psychic conflicts, complexes, identity and self-esteem issues, defense mechanisms, personal blind spots, prejudices, negative emotions as well as decisional weak spots can reside without any significant level of awareness. While the goal of our leadership and executive coaching programs is not to provide psychotherapy, becoming aware of and working through our sub-conscious psychological inner and relational dynamics is vital from the perspective of emerging as psychologically sophisticated, healthy and effective leaders. The ultimate goal being to create highly effective leaders, leadership teams and ultimately organizational cultures and systems that produce desirable corporate bottom line results.

Not developing personal insight can severely prejudice an emerging high potential, executive or senior leader and can significantly effect both intra as well as inter-personal functioning both in one’s personal and professional and corporate life. For the executive to remain unaware of the dynamics, conflicts, needs that drive their outward relational behavior, decision making, cognitive perceptual templates and blind spots makes effective decision making at individual / team / organizational levels, difficult and self-limiting at best and can de-rail an otherwise promising upwardly mobile career and have a negative impact on overall corporate performance.

In conducting our coaching and developmental work with our clients in the final analysis our goal is to through a process of challenge and deep introspection to create executives and leaders who are deeply self-reflective, have the capacity  and willingness to not only be aware of their own beneath  the surface dynamics but have developed the capacity to apply the same reflection in their decision making relative to professional peers, executive teams, key stakeholders and the organisation as a whole. Becoming more authentic in one’s personal, professional and corporate life, increasing one’s emotional, relational and even spiritual intelligence, being able to apply one’s mentalization strategies to others, coming to recognize one’s personal blind spots and personal limiting or de-railing negative cognitive and psycho-emotional internal schemas, being highly aware of one’s own “inner theatre” or potentially limiting cognitive / emotional / perceptual and decision making schemas and to be psychologically adaptive and resilient and to have a lifestyle that promotes a high degree of psychological health, resilience and flexibility.

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Intensive Transformational Retreats for Executives & High‑Performing Professionals

Private. Clinical. Transformational.
Psychologically rigorous retreat experiences for leaders who have mastered the outer game—and are now called to confront the inner one.

Locations: Ottawa · Toronto · New York · Miami · London · Zurich · Select International Destinations
Format: Residential | Highly Curated | Strictly Confidential

PNEUMA IN‑SIGHT™ PROGRAM

Intensive Psychodynamic Reflection Retreat for Senior Executives

Limited Annual Cohorts

The PNEUMA IN‑SIGHT™ Program is a ten‑day intensive residential retreat designed for senior executives, founders, and high‑responsibility professionals seeking deep psychological insight, leadership renewal, and sustained personal integration.

Several times per year, a highly selective group of leaders are invited to participate in this immersive experience. Admission is by application only.

Program Overview

• Duration: 10 Days (Residential)

• Follow‑Up: 12 months of monthly 1:1 executive coaching

• Setting: International wellness resorts and discreet executive retreat centers

• Participants: Senior executives, founders, high‑impact professionals

The retreat experience is deliberately intensive, combining depth psychology, Deep inner transformational exploration, Executive coaching, Leadership development, and relational learning within a protected and confidential container. Daily time is also reserved for restorative practices, spa‑based health modalities, and holistic wellness activities that support nervous system regulation and integration.

Purpose & Psychological Focus

The IN‑SIGHT™ Program focuses on the personal and relation deep human core of leadership—the unconscious dynamics that shape decision‑making, authority,perception, decision making, psychological resilience, mental toughness, relationships, ethics, and leadership resilience.

Participants engage in a structured exploration of:

• Intra‑psychic conflicts and unconscious leadership drivers

• Early developmental narratives shaping identity and authority

• Relational patterns with teams, boards, and key stakeholders

• Emotional blind spots and stress‑based regression patterns

• Psychological factors underlying derailment, burnout, or ethical drift

This work enables leaders to move beyond adaptive performance personas and toward integrated, authentic leadership presence.

Assessment & Preparation Phase

All participants complete a comprehensive leadership and psychological assessment battery prior to the retreat.

• Pre‑retreat evaluation review (2‑hour 1:1 session)

• Clarification of personal, professional, and organizational goals

• Individualized retreat focus and developmental objectives

Core Outcomes

The IN‑SIGHT™ Program targets the same outcomes as our highest‑level executive advisory work:

• Advanced reflective capacity and psychological mindfulness

• Deep understanding of unconscious schemas and relational templates

• Resolution of leadership blind spots and emotional triggers

• Increased emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual intelligence

• Strengthened authenticity, adaptability, and resilience

• Development of mature mental toughness and executive presence

Group‑Based Depth Advantage

The residential group format intensifies learning through:

• Real‑time relational feedback

• Witnessing parallel psychological processes in peers

• Developing a psychologically sophisticated coaching and character based leadership style

• Enhanced capacity to read organizational culture and human systems

This experiential depth significantly accelerates insight, integration, and leadership maturity.

THE INNER CAMINO™

A Psycho‑Spiritual Pilgrimage for Executives & Founders

“You cannot lead others until you have truly met yourself.”

The Call to Journey

The Inner Camino™ is a threshold and deeply transformative experience—a guided descent into the psychological and spiritual architecture of identity, leadership, and legacy.

Designed for outwardly successful individuals experiencing inward dissonance, fatigue, or existential unrest, this program invites participants into a modern Hero’s Journey—clinically guided, psychologically contained, and deeply transformative.

Why Leaders Need the Inner Camino

High‑performing professionals often carry unseen internal structures:

• Identity narratives forged through early relational injury or trauma

• Adaptive personas that once enabled success but now constrain growth

• Shame‑based perfectionism, imposter anxiety, or emotional detachment

• Compulsive achievement cycles driven by unresolved grief or fear

• Leadership styles rooted in defense rather than authentic choice

Left unexamined, these forces distort relationships, erode meaning, and precipitate burnout or derailment.

Who This Is For

• CEOs, founders, and senior leaders at a personal or professional crossroads

• Executives experiencing burnout, relational rupture, or identity fatigue

• High performers repeating self‑sabotaging leadership patterns

• Individuals navigating ethical, existential, or legacy‑level questions

• Leaders ready for psychological depth—not surface solutions

The Hero’s Journey Framework

1. The Call to Adventure – Success no longer satisfies

2. Crossing the Threshold – Withdrawal from roles, optics, and personas

3. Descent into the Depths – Shadow, trauma, and unconscious drivers

4. Revelation & Re‑Storying – Identity clarified beyond pathology

5. Return with the Elixir – Integrated leadership re‑entry

Clinical & Philosophical Foundations

• Depth Psychology & Jungian Individuation

• Attachment Theory & Trauma‑Informed Leadership

• Kohutian Self Psychology

• Narrative & Archetypal Identity Work

• Existential and Psycho‑Spiritual Formation

Format & Experience

• Duration: 5–7 Days

• Format: Solo Executive or Curated Group (6–8 participants max)

• Setting: Luxury retreat environments selected for silence and containment

• Facilitators: Clinical psychologists, psychodynamic consultants, executive mentors, Clinical leadership consultants.

• Confidentiality: Absolute discretion; optional NDAs

Tangible Executive Outcomes

• Expanded self‑awareness and emotional intelligence

• Release from outdated compulsions and identity constraints

• Enhanced ethical clarity and decision‑making capacity

• Recovered creativity, vitality, and purpose

• Executive presence grounded in integrated identity

THE INNER CAMINO™ II

Wounded Boardroom Warriors – Recovery & Reintegration

A clinical‑transformational retreat for executives and professionals who have experienced collapse, derailment, addiction, betrayal, or reputational injury.

This program is not about image repair. It is about identity recovery, psychological stabilization, and leadership integrity.

Philosophy

Crisis exposes the fault lines created by buried schemas, unresolved attachment injuries, and compensatory overachievement. The fall—public or private—is a decisive psychological moment.

This retreat provides a structured path to meet that moment with honesty, clinical depth, and spiritual maturity.

Integrated Clinical Frameworks

• Schema Therapy for Executive Derailment

• Attachment‑Based Identity Repair

• Inner Theatre & Parts‑Based Crisis Integration

• Jungian Archetypal Vision Quest

• Adlerian Analysis of Overachievement & Inferiority

• 12‑Step Recovery & Transformational Humility

• Transgenerational and Shadow Work

Outcomes

• Psychological stabilization and emotional resilience

• Restoration of dignity, trust, and relational capacity

• Integration of failure into coherent identity

• Strategic re‑engagement with leadership, purpose, or legacy

• Healing of shame, trauma, and moral injury

Structure

• Duration: 10–14 Days

• Setting: Secure, discreet international location

• Trauma‑informed clinical intake and diagnostics

• Daily 1:1 psychodynamic and transpersonal sessions

• Ritualized container for grief, rage, shame, and repair

• Optional post‑retreat executive reintegration services

Summary

Private executive retreats integrating clinical psychology,Deep Psychodynamic exploration, leadership development, and psycho‑spiritual transformation. Designed for CEOs, founders, and high‑performing professionals seeking deep identity integration, ethical clarity, and sustainable leadership excellence. The inner camino-2 designed specifically for wounded boardroom warriors whose careers as a result of burnout, Behavioral or Pschological health issues have derailed or are close to derailing. The inner Camino-2 is specifically designed as a depth oriented period of reflection, personal evaluation and the working through of intra-psychic and relational issues which led to the issues in the first place and moving in a healthy manner back to a place of high performance.

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