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Rooted & Alive

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Rooted & Alive is an immersive and psychologically informed retreat experience designed to help participants slow down, reconnect with themselves and others, and explore embodiment, creativity, emotional wellbeing, reflection, play, and authentic human connection in a grounded and…

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Minimum Duration 1
Maximum Duration 6
Attendees 6–16
Locations Primarily operating across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Romania, with openness to other European locations (such as Italy, Spain, and similar destinations) depending on the retreat format. Retreats are ideally hosted in calming, nature-connected, and psychologically safe environments that support embodiment, reflection, creativity, rest, and authentic human connection. Suitable locations may include countryside venues, forest or seaside environments, boutique retreat spaces, wellbeing venues, creative studios, eco-locations, and intimate hospitality settings designed for immersive group experiences. Programme-only facilitation model preferred, with the client or hosting partner arranging venue, accommodation, and catering logistics. However, retreat venue suggestions and local retreat partnerships in the Netherlands, Italy, or Romania may also be explored and arranged upon discussion depending on the retreat format and needs.

Retreat Overview

Retreat Description

Rooted & Alive is an immersive and psychologically informed retreat experience designed to help participants slow down, reconnect with themselves and others, and explore embodiment, creativity, emotional wellbeing, reflection, play, and authentic human connection in a grounded and meaningful way.

In modern life, many people spend long periods functioning from stress, pressure, overstimulation, disconnection, or constant performance mode. This retreat creates space to pause, breathe, reconnect, reflect, and experience a different rhythm through experiential workshops, embodied practices, creativity, storytelling, group interaction, and restorative human connection.

Blending evidence-informed facilitation with experiential and embodied approaches, the retreat combines elements of nervous-system awareness, creative exploration, guided reflection, movement, symbolic exercises, communication practices, LEGO® Serious Play®, storytelling, role-play, and facilitated group experiences in accessible and gentle ways.

Depending on the retreat format and setting, participants may:

  • Participate in embodiment and nervous-system-informed grounding practices
  • Explore emotional awareness, self-expression, and communication through experiential exercises
  • Engage in creative reflection, symbolic exercises, storytelling, and metaphor work
  • Experience LEGO® Serious Play® activities and interactive group facilitation
  • Participate in role-play and psychodrama-inspired exercises exploring relational patterns, identity, communication, and authenticity
  • Reconnect with creativity, imagination, play, and curiosity through guided activities
  • Engage in reflective dialogue, mindful pauses, nature-based reflection, and human connection experiences
  • Explore themes such as wellbeing, boundaries, stress, authenticity, embodiment, leadership, self-awareness, communication, belonging and meaningful connection

The retreat is designed as a psychologically safe and engaging environment where participants can reconnect with themselves beyond roles, pressure, and performance while building emotional resilience, creativity, self-awareness, embodiment, and authentic connection through shared experience and meaningful interaction.

Other Focus / Benefits

Benefits

• Reduced stress and cognitive overload
• Greater embodiment, grounding, and nervous-system awareness
• Increased emotional awareness and self-reflection
• Enhanced creativity, imagination, and playfulness
• Improved communication and relational awareness
• Stronger emotional resilience and self-regulation
• Authentic connection and meaningful human interaction
• Increased psychological safety and group cohesion
• Space for rest, reflection, creativity, and reconnection
• A memorable and transformative shared experience

Ideal for:
Wellbeing retreats, leadership wellbeing, women’s retreats, burnout prevention initiatives, international communities, creative wellbeing programs, emotionally intelligent leadership experiences, and human-centered team retreats.

Focus Themes

Wellbeing & RecoveryLeadership & StrategyTeam & IncentivesClient & RelationshipsOther/Special Purpose (eg. innovation/culture/communication)

Retreat Model

Programme only (client books venueyou provide programme/facilitation)

Logistics & Delivery

What’s Included

Depending on the retreat format, pricing may include:

• Experiential workshops and group facilitation
• Embodiment and nervous-system-informed practices
• Creative and reflective exercises
• LEGO® Serious Play® and experiential activities
• Guided reflection, storytelling, and role-play exercises
• Group dialogue and integration experiences
• Retreat materials used during activities
• Refreshments, snacks, or catering depending on format
• Venue access depending on retreat structure
• Accommodation for multi-day retreats where applicable

Longer retreat experiences may additionally include curated wellbeing experiences, nature-based activities, creative sessions, co-facilitation, and extended integration practices.

Final pricing varies depending on retreat duration, location, accommodation, venue type, catering, group size, travel requirements, level of customization, and additional retreat experiences included.

Minimum Planning Time (weeks)

4

Would Travel Elsewhere?

Yes

Languages

EnglishRomania

Commercial & Partnership

Additional Info

Open to both collaborative retreat partnerships and standalone facilitation opportunities. Particularly interested in psychologically informed, experiential, and human-centered retreat formats that combine embodiment, creativity, wellbeing, reflection, communication, play, and meaningful human connection in grounded and accessible ways.

Partnership Model

commission-promotionculturist-promotion

Corporate Experience

No

Hosted by Ana Maria Mitrofan

About the Host

Ana Maria Mitrofan is a somatic practitioner, ICF coach, and experiential facilitator whose work explores the intersection of psychology, embodiment, creativity, play, and human connection. With a background spanning research, tech, leadership, and group development, and more than 15 years working in international and high-performance corporate environments, she brings together strategic thinking, emotional depth, and creative facilitation in ways that feel both grounded and engaging.

Through workshops, retreats, wellbeing sessions, women’s circles, and immersive group experiences, Ana Maria creates reflective and interactive spaces designed to support emotional wellbeing, communication, psychological safety, self-awareness, creativity, and meaningful connection. Her work combines evidence-informed coaching with experiential approaches such as LEGO® Serious Play®, psychodrama-inspired practices, nervous-system-informed techniques, storytelling, metaphor work, role-play, guided reflection, and embodied facilitation.

Warm, psychologically informed, and deeply human in her approach, Ana Maria supports individuals and teams in reconnecting with clarity, confidence, creativity, communication, and sustainable wellbeing through experiences that invite curiosity, reflection, interaction, and authentic dialogue.

Certifications & Credentials

ICF ACC Certified Coach
Somatic Alignment Practitioner / Nervous system informed Facilitation
LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator
MSc Psychology (in progress)
Psychodrama Practitioner Training (in progress)

Client Requirements

Requirements depend on the type of session and group size. Most sessions require a quiet and comfortable space with chairs that can be moved or arranged flexibly for group interaction. For some workshops, tables, flipcharts/whiteboards, projector/screen access, LEGO® materials, art materials, or open floor space for movement and experiential exercises may be beneficial.

Focus Areas

Creative/CultureWell-being/HealthDevelopment/Coaching

Location

Delft, Netherlands

Languages

English, Romanian

Travel Locations

Open to discussion.

Corporate Experience

Moderate

Session Types Offered

Interactive & Passive

Past Experience Doing Sessions

Yes - Interactive

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