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Becoming the Observer
May 4 - 9, 2027 | Pézenas, France
Step back. See what is here. Let your life speak to you.
What if you could step outside the roles you occupy every day and see your life from an entirely different perspective?
Our lives are filled with responsibilities, relationships, ambitions, and expectations. As professional women, we often become so immersed in the lives we've created that we rarely have the opportunity to see them as a whole.
Becoming the Observer of Yourself is a five-night retreat in the French countryside, offering four full days to explore your personal and professional life with curiosity, awareness, and discernment.
Surrounded by nature, horses, and a small circle of women, you'll have the space to recognize what is present, appreciate what you've created, and consider what wants to happen next.
Step Outside Your Everyday Life
Imagine giving yourself permission to set aside your usual responsibilities and simply observe. Away from the familiar demands of home and work, you'll have time to explore the many roles you occupy, the choices you've made, and the relationship between your personal and professional life.
Through guided reflection, meaningful conversations, and individual coaching, you'll practice seeing your circumstances from a wider perspective, allowing curiosity and discernment to guide your discoveries.
Discover Through Experience with Horses
Horses bring a remarkable dimension to this retreat. Their sensitivity, social relationships, and responses to human behavior create opportunities to explore leadership, communication, boundaries, trust, and the ways we relate to others.
Through carefully facilitated, hands-on experiences, you'll discover how awareness can emerge through direct experience.
Each participant will have opportunities for individual equine-supported coaching, with the shared experiences of the group offering additional perspectives.
No previous horse experience is necessary.
A Place to Reflect, Connect, and Integrate
Our intimate gathering of women takes place at Château de Saint Matthew, a beautiful family estate in Southern France.
Each day begins with yoga and breakfast, followed by equine-supported experiences, personal coaching, and opportunities for reflection.
Delicious meals, a massage, time by the pool, and conversations with fellow participants are all part of the experience.
Throughout our four days together, three fundamental questions will guide our exploration:
- What wants to happen?
- Who is this asking me to be?
- What is this asking me to do?
Together, they offer a way to bring greater awareness to the present and discernment to the choices ahead.
The Agenda
Welcome Reception
Wednesday, May 4, 2027
Evening Gathering & Welcome Dinner
Our retreat begins with a warm welcome at Le Château Saint-Joseph, in the South of France near Pézenas.
We'll gather for a relaxed evening of introductions, conversation, and a shared dinner, giving everyone an opportunity to get acquainted and settle into the experience.
A lovely beginning to our time together in France.
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Day 1 | Reset
What Wants to Happen?
From Operator to Observer
Our first day invites you to step outside your familiar roles and responsibilities and begin seeing your life and business from a wider perspective.
Through systemic constellation experiences involving horses and participants, we'll explore relationships, patterns, and circumstances that influ
What Wants to Happen?
From Operator to Observer
Our first day invites you to step outside your familiar roles and responsibilities and begin seeing your life and business from a wider perspective.
Through systemic constellation experiences involving horses and participants, we'll explore relationships, patterns, and circumstances that influence your personal and professional life.
You'll practice becoming the Observer, noticing what is present with curiosity and discernment, allowing yourself time to see the bigger picture before deciding what it means.
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Day 2 | Reorient
Who Is This Asking Me to Be?
Exploring Leadership Patterns Through Herd Roles
Horses live within complex social relationships, where different roles contribute to the well-being of the herd.
Through experiential activities with the horses, we'll explore these roles and how they relate to leadership, communication, boundaries, responsibil
Who Is This Asking Me to Be?
Exploring Leadership Patterns Through Herd Roles
Horses live within complex social relationships, where different roles contribute to the well-being of the herd.
Through experiential activities with the horses, we'll explore these roles and how they relate to leadership, communication, boundaries, responsibility, and relationships.
You'll have opportunities to recognize your familiar ways of responding and explore which qualities may be most meaningful as your life and business continue to evolve.
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Day 3 | Realign
What Is This Asking Me to Do?
From Insight to Action
With new perspectives emerging, we'll turn our attention toward intention, choice, and action.
Equine-supported experiences offer opportunities to explore how we approach goals, respond to unexpected circumstances, and recognize possibilities along the way.
You'll begin considering pract
What Is This Asking Me to Do?
From Insight to Action
With new perspectives emerging, we'll turn our attention toward intention, choice, and action.
Equine-supported experiences offer opportunities to explore how we approach goals, respond to unexpected circumstances, and recognize possibilities along the way.
You'll begin considering practical directions for your personal and professional life through three perspectives:
- Now: What needs my attention?
- Next: What wants to develop?
- Horizon: What potential am I moving toward?
The focus is on making choices informed by your experiences, values, and growing awareness.
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Day 4 | Integrate
What Do I See Now?
From Perspective to Sustainability
On our final day, we'll revisit the questions and circumstances you brought to the retreat, this time with the benefit of four days of experience and reflection.
Additional experiential tools may include the Three Intelligences (Brain, Heart, and Gut), the Three Egos, or a Chakra Bo
What Do I See Now?
From Perspective to Sustainability
On our final day, we'll revisit the questions and circumstances you brought to the retreat, this time with the benefit of four days of experience and reflection.
Additional experiential tools may include the Three Intelligences (Brain, Heart, and Gut), the Three Egos, or a Chakra Body Scan, offering different ways to explore how you gather information and make decisions.
You'll complete your personal mandala, reflect on your discoveries, and consider how the Observer perspective can become part of your everyday life and leadership.
The intention is to leave with a deeper appreciation of the relationship between your personal and professional life, greater clarity about what matters to you, and meaningful possibilities for what comes next.
Sometimes seeing things differently changes our relationship with everything we're looking at.
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Departure
Sunday, May 9, 2027
From Perspective to Sustainability
On our final day, we'll revisit the questions and circumstances you brought to the retreat, this time with the benefit of four days of experience and reflection.
Additional experiential tools may include the Three Intelligences (Brain, Heart, and Gut), the Three Egos, or a Chakra Bod
Sunday, May 9, 2027
From Perspective to Sustainability
On our final day, we'll revisit the questions and circumstances you brought to the retreat, this time with the benefit of four days of experience and reflection.
Additional experiential tools may include the Three Intelligences (Brain, Heart, and Gut), the Three Egos, or a Chakra Body Scan, offering different ways to explore how you gather information and make decisions.
You'll complete your personal mandala, reflect on your discoveries, and consider how the Observer perspective can become part of your everyday life and leadership.
The intention is to leave with a deeper appreciation of the relationship between your personal and professional life, greater clarity about what matters to you, and meaningful possibilities for what comes next.
Sometimes seeing things differently changes our relationship with everything we're looking at.
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Your Facilitators
Deborah Draves Legg
Deborah Draves Legg is an experienced entrepreneur, retreat leader, transformational coach, and Advanced Eponaquest equine-facilitated practitioner whose work brings together leadership, personal awareness, and the art of living consciously.
With a professional background spanning more than 30 years in nursing, healthcare leadership, business ownership, and international retreat development, Deborah brings a practical understanding of the complexities of balancing professional responsibilities with personal aspirations. Together with her husband, she founded and operated a successful retreat center in Costa Rica for 14 years and continues to develop experiential learning programs internationally.
Her coaching approach combines the wisdom of horses, systems thinking, and experiential learning to help individuals explore their familiar patterns, relationships, leadership styles, and choices with curiosity and discernment.
Drawing on her diverse professional and personal experiences, as well as the philosophical themes explored in her forthcoming third book, The Inevitable: Live Like You Are Dying, Deborah invites participants to step into the Observer perspective, gaining a broader understanding of themselves and the relationship between their personal and professional lives.
Logistics and travel Planning
Dates
May 4 - 9, 2027
Travel Information
Please plan to arrive at the venue by 5 pm on May 4th.
Departure on May 9th is by 11 am
Departure Planning
On the final day
What's Included
✔ Lodging for the full retreat
✔ Meals according to the itinerary (B = Breakfast · L = Lunch · D = Dinner)
✔ Retreat materials
✔ All retreat sessions and activities as described
✔Professional facilitation
What is Not Included
Transportation to/from the hosting venue.
Retreat Investment
€2,950 per person
Deposit:
50% non-refundable deposit to reserve your space
Final Payment:
Balance due 60 days before the retreat
All payments are non-refundable.
Payment Options
Credit Card - PayPal - Bank Transfer
Group Size
To maintain a meaningful and intimate experience, the retreat is limited to:
6 participants