Inner Work Intensive Journey
A one-year inner journey in a small group of peers to radically upgrade your internal operating system. Become the authentic person you want to be, and the effective leader your business needs.
Update the hidden code behind how you lead
Over twelve months, a hand-selected group of peers embarks on a transformative journey inward.
We update the hidden code that shapes your being and leading: beliefs, values, thought patterns, reactive habits and emotional responses. And we bring compassionate awareness and healing to the life experience underneath our protective system. The outcome is a more authentic, centred and powerful self.
We begin with a foundational retreat at the chalet in Schliersee to build trust, open up our internal operating system and begin the deep work. From there you move through eight experiential online sessions, individual exercises and regular small peer-group meetings, designed to embody the changes, strengthen skills and unlock growth at every level. If the group wishes, a second retreat can be arranged to deepen the work.
A 12-month arc where practice creates durable change
Foundational retreat
Three days at the chalet to build trust, open up your internal operating system and begin the deep work.
Eight online sessions
Experiential 3-hour sessions that take each theme of the curriculum deeper.
Practice & peer groups
Individual challenges and practices, and regular small-group meetings for honest reflection and accountability.
Second retreat
If the group wishes, a second retreat can be arranged to deepen the work.
Twelve steps, from opening up to embodying the change
- Opening up my internal operating system
- Meeting my limiting beliefs and reactive patterns
- Introduction to the Internal Family Systems approach (IFS)
- Expanding emotional intelligence
- Meeting and updating my needs profile
- Integrating trauma to unleash future potential
- Uncovering essence, purpose and calling
- Transitioning from a socialised to a self-authoring mind
- Embodying the change in day-to-day life
- Managing my energy and resources on four levels
- Relational and conversation skills
- Embodiment and mindfulness practices
Unlike traditional leadership training, this goes to the root
You won't only learn new techniques. You'll reprogram the patterns that shape how you lead, love and live, supported by peers who walk with you.
Deep inner work
Therapy-grade depth that rewires beliefs, emotions and habits at the root, upgrading your internal operating system.
Upgrading
Redefining your identity, purpose and skills to express yourself authentically as a leader and as a person.
Cohort power & community
A hand-selected circle of like-minded founders and leaders: trust, honest reflection and structured accountability between sessions.
A year for real change
A 12-month arc in which consistent practice creates durable shifts in how you lead, decide and relate.
Priced by where you stand
Choose the tier that reflects your financial reality. Prices excl. VAT.
Founders of a profitable or well-capitalised venture. Leaders with an income above €200k a year.
Founders at an earlier stage with limited or no external funding. Leaders with an income of €120–200k a year.
Founders at a very early stage, building from personal means. Leaders with an income below €120k a year.
Fellows add a further €1,500 upon reaching their next financial milestone.
- 3-day retreat in a private luxury chalet in Schliersee
- Accommodation and vegan and vegetarian food
- Sauna, ice bath and mountain hikes
- 8 online deepening sessions of 3 hours
- Challenges and practices for individual work
- Small-group meetings between sessions
Dr. Jens Riese
Former Senior Partner at McKinsey and co-dean and core faculty of its senior leadership programs. For more than 25 years he has coached business and government leaders in over 25 countries, among them presidents, prime ministers, founders and CEOs. His work integrates ontological coaching, trauma-informed methods (NARM, IFS/IFIO), somatic practice, the Leadership Circle, complexity thinking and spiritual practice.
More about Jens →Apply for Cohort #002
The group is hand-selected. Write me a few lines about yourself, your work and what draws you to this journey. I'll reply personally and we'll set up a short conversation.