A 5-Day Immersive Training in the hills of Barcelona - Jan 12-17th, 2026

What is this about?

You’ve taken on more responsibility—within your team, your community, your organisation. You’re being asked to hold complexity, guide others, and make tough decisions. But the old top-down model of leadership no longer works.

What’s needed now is a new kind of leadership—one that balances clarity with care, courage with humility, and decisiveness with deep listening.

Collaborative Leadership isn’t about having all the answers or doing it all alone. It’s about learning to hold the center—without being the center. To step forward and step back, skilfully. To empower others while staying grounded in your own leadership voice. And that starts with your nervous system. Because how you show up—your regulation, your presence, your awareness—shapes everything around you.

If you’re ready to lead with more honesty, more humanity, and practical tools that actually work, you’re not alone. Let’s learn to lead differently. Let’s lead together.

What Makes This Training Different

We don't teach you how to be the perfect leader; we help you discover your authentic leadership voice and give you practical tools to navigate the messy, beautiful reality of collaborative work.

You'll practice everything in real-time with a cohort of peers who get it. No theory without application. No advice without embodied practice. No leadership development that ignores the nervous system realities of group dynamics.

Our Leadership Philosophy:

We believe in adult-to-adult leadership, treating everyone as equally empowered, autonomous, resourceful people who are co-responsible for shared objectives.

We rotate roles: you follow me when it's my turn to be in front of the room, and I follow you when it's your turn.
We practice successional leadership: enrolling others to take over roles as we outgrow them, creating leadership pipelines rather than bottlenecks.
We believe effective leadership starts from a regulated nervous system. Your inner state is contagious: that nervous system awareness isn't just personal development, it's essential group stewardship.
We connect to the clarity of our conviction and inner resolve to do things differently, even when it means going against the grain of traditional leadership culture.

What You'll Experience

Morning Sessions: Frameworks That Work

Collaboration Rhythms: The 4 essential pulses every team needs for connection, planning, working and reflecting
Visioning & Strategy: how to rise up from the day-to-day operational responsibilities, lift your eyes to the horizon and think big
Collective Decision-making: concrete tools for efficiently including people in participatory decisions
Psychological Safety in Practice: Concrete tools for building trust and belonging
Navigating Resistance, Polarisation, and Conflict: Working with the tensions that emerge in collaborative spaces

Note: our agenda is subject to change, based on what’s most relevant to the group.

Afternoon Sessions: Skills in Action

Live Simulations: Practice navigating real leadership challenges with immediate feedback
Role-Playing: Explore different leadership qualities through embodied practice of fictional scenarios
Peer Facilitation: You'll host sessions and get coached by the group
Group Coaching Circles: Work through your actual leadership challenges with expert guidance

Training Methodology:

You'll practice everything immediately. No theory without application
Peer-to-peer learning pods. Ongoing support from fellow participants
Small cohort for deep, personalised attention
Expert facilitation team with decades of collaborative leadership experience
We are trauma-informed and share nervous system regulation practices to support you in staying within – and gently expanding – your window of presence for discomfort

Who This Is For

You're ready for this intensive if you recognise yourself in any of these:

You're an upcoming leader, curious to expand your practice with innovative tools that account for distributed power dynamics
You have amazing people and resources but your team is not reaching their full potential - there's something missing and you want to unlock it but don't know how
You're frustrated being stuck in patterns of dis-regulation and interpersonal conflict that keep your team from thriving
You want to learn how to support others without being an overbearing boss but you're feeling out of your depth, lacking confidence, wrestling with imposter syndrome
You're navigating the paradox of authentic leadership - you want to show up vulnerably but not dump your anxieties on your team unskilfully
You're caught in the leadership sandwich - trying to honour your values while managing up and working within existing organisational constraints

This program is for people who are:

Open to exploring both practical frameworks and personal leadership patterns
Willing to step out of their comfort zone in a supportive environment
Ready to practice vulnerability skilfully and receive feedback with curiosity
Committed to supporting fellow participants in their leadership experiments
Ready to design and inhabit new aspects of their leadership identity

The Setting

Casa Tilo sits in the hills of the Maresme coast, 45 minutes from Barcelona.

A purpose-built retreat center designed for collaborative learning. You can choose between a single or a shared room and will have access to shared common spaces for connection.

With multiple hiking trails just outside the door, it’s the kind of environment that naturally supports both focused work, rest and meaningful connection.

Practical Details

When: January 12-17th, 2026

Agenda:

Monday: Arrival and welcome circle after dinner
Tuesday-Friday: Full workshop days
Saturday: Departure after breakfast

Pricing is on a sliding scale from €1,750 to €2,725 (excl. VAT), depending on the room you choose, and whether you’re paying for yourself or your organisation is paying. See more info on the registration form.

Price includes food, accommodation, training and transport to & from the local train station.

💞 Come with a teammate and you get 20% off.

Ready to Transform How You Lead?

This isn't about adding more tools to your toolkit - it's about fundamentally shifting how you show up as a leader. You'll leave with practical frameworks, a supportive peer network, and the confidence to lead collaboratively even in challenging situations.

Questions? Reach out to contact@thehum.org. We're happy to have a conversation about whether this program is right for you.

"The best leaders don't create followers - they create more leaders." This intensive will help you become the kind of leader who builds collective capacity, not dependency.