June 7–12, 2026 · Carcassonne, France
Lost in Service.
Found in France.
Five days where senior women in healthcare finally unfurl - from the role, the responsibility, the relentlessness - and find themselves waiting.
LOCATION Le Manoir d'Amiel, Languedoc-Roussillon
DURATION Five days, five nights
SPACES Up to 10 women
You came into this profession to give.
You have given, and given, and given.
She is still there - the woman you came in as. She has been waiting for you.
Somewhere between your first day and today, it happened. Not all at once, you would have noticed that. Gradually. A meeting where you stayed silent. A corridor where you made yourself smaller. A version of yourself you performed so consistently, you almost forgot it was a performance.
This is not a failure. It is what happens when a deeply caring, deeply capable woman spends decades inside a system that was not built to hold her whole.
This retreat is five days in the south of France where you stop performing and start remembering.
Not who you should be.
Who you already are.
THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF…
You recognise yourself
in any of these.
"I have spent so long being what this job needs me to be that I'm not entirely sure what I need any more."
"I know what I'd say. I know what I think. But speaking feels costly, so I've stopped. I'm not sure when that happened."
"I've been told I'm too much. Too direct, too confident, too loud for the room. So I learned to dial it back. I'm still dialling."
"My children are leaving, or have left. Something that held my identity in place has shifted and I don't know who I am on the other side of it."
"I take care of everyone. Patients, colleagues, family. I am not on the list, and I'm not entirely sure I know how to put myself there."
"I'm still showing up. Still doing the work. But the fire that brought me into this, I can't remember when I last felt it."
There is nothing wrong with you. You were simply the right person, in the wrong culture, for too long.
WHAT AWAITS YOU?
Five days of unhurried, embodied return
Not a lecture. Not a programme. A lived experience, in a place that holds you while you find your way back.
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Each day begins in the body, not the mind. Kundalini-based yoga, entirely beginner-friendly, followed by guided meditation. A gentle, unhurried ritual of arrival in France, and in yourself.
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Intimate group sessions using the Heart-Led Leaders Compass. For Pathfinders: six private sessions with Becs, threaded across the weeks before and after the retreat, so the work continues long past France.
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The heart of the five days. Guided, experiential practice using my 4-Part Voice Reclamation Process, to name what has gone unsaid, understand what silence has cost, and speak one truth that begins to change things.
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Afternoons held gently. Sound therapy. The pool. The hot tub. Long, unhurried meals. The kind of rest that is not empty, that is, in fact, full of exactly the right things.
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Embodiment sessions that move through what words alone cannot reach. More joyful than you're expecting. More liberating than you thought you still had in you. Chanting that opens up your heart to your voice.
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Chef-prepared, bespoke, nutritious food. Shared tables. Women who understand, because they have lived inside the same world. The connections formed here tend to outlast the week by years.
THE PLACE
Le Manoir d'Amiel,
Carcassonne
You are in the Land of the Cathars. Languedoc-Roussillon, where the light turns gold by four and the stone walls hold the warmth of centuries. The scent of jasmine. The particular quiet of a place that has no interest in rushing you.
Le Manoir d'Amiel was home to Augusta Amiel. a philosophical, poetic woman whose avant-garde memoirs are woven into the very walls. A place already shaped by a woman who refused to diminish herself. It suits this retreat perfectly.
Luxury accommodation, a pool and hot tub, chef-prepared meals at long tables, and the very particular freedom of being somewhere nobody needs anything from you.
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Carcassonne, Toulouse, Béziers
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Arranged where possible
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Private & shared options
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All included, three daily
YOUR GUIDE
Dr Becs Winterborn
Who she is, and why she built this
For 28 years, Becs has worked inside the NHS. Eleven of those as a Consultant Vascular Surgeon. She knows this world not from the outside but from inside the wards, the meetings, the culture that asks you to lead with your head and leave your heart at the door.
She knows what it is to lose your voice in slow motion. And she knows the moment when that stops.
When she could no longer perform the version of herself the system required, she had to find out who she actually was beneath the role. That journey, back to her own voice, her own authority, her own life is the foundation of everything she now teaches.
"The qualities that made me good at my work, sensitivity, compassion, the refusal to accept harm, were the same qualities the culture kept asking me to suppress. I am done suppressing them. And I am done watching others do the same."
The retreat is held by Becs alongside Amrit, another doctor, with her own hard-won understanding of what it costs to lose yourself in service, and what it takes to find your way back.