Elevate Your Leadership
An exclusive 5-day leadership retreat for creative professionals in the hills of Piemonte, Italy – May 2026.
Step out of your daily routine and into a transformative journey designed to elevate both your professional practice and your personal leadership.
This intensive course is limited to just 10 participants, ensuring a highly personalized and powerful experience. Over five inspiring days, you will:
• Gain clarity on your unique leadership style.
• Build a purposeful action plan for the next stage of your career.
• Explore how your inner leadership can drive innovation and transformation in your sector.
• Strengthen your ability to create real impact – in your work and beyond.
Guided through a carefully crafted process, you will leave with both fresh insight and concrete strategies, ready to take action with confidence.
All of this takes place in the serene and inspiring surroundings of Piemonte’s rolling hills – the perfect setting to pause, reflect, and create your next chapter.
INTENSIVE COURSE / Piemonte, Italy
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May 4th - May 8th 2026
Individual and group coaching before and after
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Apply before December 1st 2025Â for Early Bird opportunity.
La Cassera, Piemonte, Italy
The course unfolds in a nurturing environment designed to help you slow down, focus, and dream big — while gathering the inspiration you need to turn vision into action.
Our venue, La Cassera, is a tranquil nature resort nestled in a quiet valley among the rolling green hills of Castelletto d’Erro, Piemonte — less than a two-hour drive from Milan Airport.
With 12 double rooms, each with a private bathroom, as well as a swimming pool, tennis court, and inviting outdoor spaces, La Cassera offers the perfect balance of comfort and seclusion. The outdoor areas will be for walks, group explorations and time for your inner process and reflexion.Â
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When we step into leadership, as we need to do again and again in our professional lives, our personal agency becomes visible — and we encounter ourselves in new ways. Facing ourselves can turn challenges into opportunities for growth and transformation.
The course is grounded in a practical, purposeful view of leadership: leadership as the intentional act of making things happen through and with others.Â
As a creative professional embracing leadership, you will explore how you want to take on your role in a way that maximizes your impact within your field the way you want and find valuable.
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The Program
This course is designed as a complete process that unfolds in three phases. It gets it's impact by combining personal reflection, group learning, and new theoretical and methodological insights.
Before the Retreat – Prepare & Align
Individual online coaching session with Thea Mikkelsen
Group online kick-off session
3 hours of self-study with curated course material to prepare for the La Cassera retreat.
The La Cassera Leadership Retreat (5 days in Italy)
Immerse & Transform
Intensive training and guided reflection in a unique, inspiring environment.
A balance of individual exploration, group dialogue, and structured leadership development.
After the Retreat – Integrate & Apply
Group online coaching session to reflect, integrate, and continue your momentum.
Final individual online coaching session with Thea Mikkelsen to refine your action plan and next steps.
Fill out the form to get more informationYour course facilitators:
Head of program: Thea Mikkelsen
For more than 15 years, I have been an organizational psychologist and leadership coach dedicated to the creative industries. I help professionals strengthen their personal and professional self-awareness while developing a clearer understanding of their opportunities, influence, and impact — supporting them in making meaningful changes within their careers and the creative fields they shape.
Co-facilitator: Elise Langager
Elise is educated as both a psychologist, MSc, and as a film editor. She has been working for Thea since 2021, and has supported Thea in developing the leadership courses, coaching courses and the leadership training method "Leading Scenarios". She facilitate group meetings and coaching sessions based on the professional development approach Thea has developed.
Some of our leadership course clients:
A room of your own...
When we need to rethink our professional lives time alone is precious. During your stay there will be group learning and reflection sessions as well as individual reflexion time.
Group sessions also consist of individual reflection time.
Your room will have a desk where you can work between sessions.Â
La Cassera
You are invited to apply, if...
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You work in the creative industries (architecture, film, media, design, fashion, art, museums, research, etc.)
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You have more than 10 years of professional experience and has the responsibility for a big budget, a group of people and/or an important purpose.
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You have already created work you are proud of — and you have ambitious plans for the future
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You sense that something within you must be faced and transcended to reach the next level — and you are ready to look both inward and outward for answers
To create the best possible learning environment, we use an application process to ensure a committed group.
Your Investment
€3,700 per person — a complete, all-inclusive journey to uncover and elevate your unique leadership potential.
Early Bird Opportunity:
€3,200 per person: Pay before December 1, 2025 and receive €500 off.
Breakdown of value:
Lodging & meals: €1,000
30 hours facilitated course & coaching: €2,700
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Payment & Cancellation
To secure your place in the course:
A €1,000 non-refundable deposit is required upon acceptance.
The remaining balance is due by March 15, 2026.
Cancellation:
You may cancel your participation up until March 15, 2026.
This policy ensures your spot is reserved while giving you flexibility to plan with confidence.
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Write us and schedule a call with Thea Mikkelsen if you have any questions.
Questions?
Find out if this course is for you.
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