Find Your IKIGAI Now Retreat

Name: Find Your IKIGAI Now Retreat
Start: 2025-02-06T19:00:00+1300
End: 2025-02-09T17:00:00+1300
Location: Wainui

Thu, 6 Feb, 7pm - 9 Feb, 5pm 2025 NZDT

Wainui

wainui, new zealand

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Unlock Your Purpose, Passion, and Potential

ARE YOU READY TO UNCOVER WHAT TRULY DRIVES YOU, ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH WHAT YOU LOVE, AND CONNECT WITH SOMETHING GREATER THAN YOURSELF?

If you:

want to step away from your daily demands and into a space of in-person learning, creativity, and growth
want to dedicate three days of your life to deep-dive into your purpose, passion, and potential
want to benefit from serenity and nature, and real-life interactions with your expert guides and like-minded peers
want to experience powerful body & soul nourishment

You're in the right place.

Join us for a three-day transformational retreat on the breathtaking Banks Peninsula. Here, in a serene haven between ocean and lush forest, you’ll find clarity, reconnect with yourself, and uncover actionable steps to living a life of deeper meaning and purpose.

Through guided workshops, inspiring talks, and rejuvenating practices, you’ll:

Uncover Your Strengths: Identify what makes you unique and powerful.
Discover What You Love: Connect with your passions and values.
Align with Purpose: Explore what the world needs from you and how you can make a difference.

This retreat offers the time and space to pause, reflect, and envision a fulfilling life while equipping you with the tools to turn insights into action.

What Awaits You

Immersive Workshops: Gain clarity on the building blocks of a meaningful life and career.
Inspiring Talks: Learn practical tools and perspectives to guide your journey.
Body & Soul Nourishment: Yoga, meditation, breathwork, and cacao ceremonies for deep connection.
Unstructured Time: Journal, forest bathe, or simply relax and enjoy the surroundings.
Supportive Sharing Circles: Articulate your insights and gain valuable feedback.

You’ll leave with a renewed sense of purpose and a clear roadmap to bring your IKIGAI to life.

Who Is This For?

This retreat is for you if you:

Long for a life of deeper meaning and fulfilment.
Seek clarity on your strengths, passions, and purpose.
Want to align your career or lifestyle with what you value most.
Are ready to invest three days in self-discovery, nature, and transformation.

The Location: A Haven of Tranquility

Wainui, Banks Peninsula – a magical spot nestled between ocean and forest. Stay on a secluded hilltop property with sweeping views, serene surroundings, and the perfect setting to reconnect with yourself.

Start Your Journey Today

Your purpose is waiting to be discovered. Join us and take the first step toward clarity, purpose, and fulfilment.

Most of us live our lives by accident ... Fulfilment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

- Simon Sinek -

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Welcome to Your Journey of Clarity, Purpose, and Fulfilment

Find Your IKIGAI Now's mission is to make every life meaningful.

To make this mission a reality, we combine Ancient wisdom with state-of-the-art innovation and transformation methods. We empower people to create lives where passions, talents, and purpose converge through:

Immersive online courses that keep screen-time to a minimum
Retreats in beautiful remote locations that inspire new perspectives
Urban workshops that fit into modern life
1:1 guidance that tailors support exactly to individual's unique needs
Curating communities of experts and fellow IKIGAI seekers

Our expert guides have decades of experience and are deeply anchored in the values of humility and sincerity.

René Andersen is a HPI (Hasso Plattner Institute) certified Design Thinking coach, and has taught and coached hundreds of people in Design Thinking and IKIGAI.

Claudia Pommer is an accomplished industrial and product designer, and an expert in creativity, ideation and connecting with the organic patterns in nature as a source of inspiration.

Kathy Guidi is a certified Shamanic Breathwork Master Practitioner, and has been hosting and organising transformational retreats for nearly ten years.

Start your journey today. Your purpose is waiting to be discovered.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

- Viktor Frankl -

René Andersen

Early in life, René completed post-graduate degrees in Physics and Philosophy, and spent twelve years in the academic world. In 2011, he moved across to the corporate world, initially as an advisor for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in Wellington, New Zealand. Since then, he has worked with American Express, Deloitte, Audi, Swiss Post, Transport for New South Wales, Wikimedia Foundation and other large organisations in Australia, Europe, North America and New Zealand.

In 2017, René undertook a year long training program at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany (a sister institute of the North American Stanford d.school for Design Thinking) and became a certified Design Thinking coach. Since then, he has trained and coached hundreds of people in Design Thinking, and supported organisations in applying Design Thinking to product and service innovation, as well as to organisational change and development.

Since 2019, René has also been teaching the Japanese concept of IKIGAI and its Western interpretation to groups of individuals and helped them gain greater clarity of their greatest strengths, the things they love doing the most, and causes & values that they feel most passionate about in the world. He has used his background in Design Thinking to guide them towards actionable results and life changes that have moved them towards lives of deeper meaning & purpose.

Claudia Pommer

Claudia's career includes roles in corporate environments such as Kathmandu, Macpac, Mountain Buggy, and Phil&teds, where she refined her expertise in practical design solutions and creative problem-solving. Claudia has also founded ventures like Proffer in Wellington and Momentum, a consulting business focused on ideation and creative collaboration.

Deeply inspired by nature, Claudia seamlessly integrates her passion for sustainable design into her work, believing it to be both a responsibility and a driving force for progressive change. Her ability to think outside the box allows her to uncover unique sources of inspiration, enabling her to craft innovative solutions that go beyond convention. By drawing from the natural world and her deep understanding of design, she creates outcomes that are transformative and grounded in thoughtful purpose.

As a designer, entrepreneur, and ideation enthusiast, Claudia is known for her commitment to uncovering novel ideas, her dedication to sustainability, and her vision for progressive change. Her ability to approach challenges with care and creativity makes her a trusted guide in driving innovation and unlocking potential.

Kathy Guidi

Having worked in finance and investment in San Francisco for fifteen years, Kathy migrated to New Zealand in 2006, feeling the call to live a simpler and more meaningful life. In 2018, she undertook a two year training program and became certified as a Shamanic Breathwork Master Practitioner.

Kathy is comitted to earth stewardship and helping people with their unique journeys towards wholeness. Her passion centers around personal development, understanding the psyche, healing internal wounds, and becoming conscious heart-centered humans. She loves to create sacred spaces for individuals to connect with nature, themselves, and their community.

She is currently working on her doctorate degree in Psycho-Spiritual studies. Her background in the corporate world and two decades in the wellness world beautifully blend her business and organizational skills with her grounded, calm, and earth-rooted presence and capacity to hold space for others.

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