Personal Development & Self-Leadership
“Bring things in order before they exist”. Tao te Ching
A Guided On-Site Experience in Two Parts
This is a practical, experiential journey into personal change and self-leadership. The Transformation Intensive unfolds in two connected parts, each a five-day-long retreat, allowing space for deep integration and ongoing development.
TI Part 1 – Self-System & Self-Leadership
Part 1 focuses on the core of the self – the beliefs and identities that shape how you see and move through the world. With skilled guidance, you learn to spot and shift the hidden assumptions and patterns that often limit you, usually outside your awareness, introspection or logic.
It’s a process of cleaning up and coming home to yourself – building clarity, inner stability and choice. It’s action-oriented, moving you into action aligned with your essential self. It’s also a chance to take yourself a little less seriously – and befriend yourself in the process. This first part lasts 5 days, it starts with an individual session, and it can be booked separately.
Part 2 – The Relational Field & Leading
Part 2 of the TI moves into the relational space. Here, the work continues as you explore the roles, dynamics and games you are part of – consciously or not – in your relationships. You keep working on the patterns that show up in your own life, and now also take a closer look at how others enter your space, or how you might be entering theirs. What games are you inviting others to play, even as your words or conscious efforts suggest something else? What are you unconsciously outsourcing? You learn to see, shift and take new positions in the field of connection, leadership and responsibility. In many ways, this is deep integrity work – not in a moral sense, but in the sense of becoming whole and meeting others as that whole person. It will affect your personal life and your leadership.
The Arc of Transformation
The whole programme, Part 1 and 2, delivers valuable new perspectives and realisations about your hidden assumptions and thought patterns that operate constantly and efficiently beyond your level of awareness. You learn where to look and how to find, identify and integrate these patterns and beliefs. Over time, you deepen your capacity to integrate inner conflicts and redefine yourself from the stable ground of a healthy self, with clarity, power and lightness. This opens up new choices in how you relate, how you perform, and how you lead.
The two parts build on each other. You could see them as two complementary moves. One is the way of action and agency; the other is of sensing, feeling and relating. One works through fullness – building inner clarity and a stronger sense of self. The other works through emptiness – letting go of judgement and reaction, creating space for others, for connection, and for change to happen in the in-between.
The whole arc of transformation allows for personalised transformative processes. The work is done in a group setting, but is done individually. There is no need to share personal content. The insights generated can be directly applied to daily life and work challenges, such as decision-making, personal resilience, and leadership. Although we also love thinking, no theoretical knowledge is required; the learning is practical and experiential and adapts to your starting point. Methods are content- and dogma-free and adapt to each individual and context.
The Deep Dive
For those curious people who want to go further, a 5-day deep dive offers a space to go further in your explorations. More insight, deeper journey, wider challenge. It’s for those who want to explore the more intricate, entangled, and intractable patterns in their own consciousness and how it relates to others and beyond. It’s about stepping into wider fields of responsibility, and doing it with lightness, whole-heartedness and more fun. We’ll offer Deep Dives within the community of practice, based on interest and demand.
For Leaders and Managers
This training builds essential leadership capacity for today’s environments – complexity, uncertainty, and constant change. Participants strengthen core self-leadership skills:
- Improve their decision-making skills under complex conditions
- Managing inner reactivity and cognitive bias
- Building presence, personal resilience and alignment
- Understanding relational dynamics and building skills in relational intelligence
- Leading with alignment between intent and impact
It’s practical, structured work that supports better judgement, grounded action and more effective leadership across systems.
What is included?
- Part 1 consists of a 5-day retreat with intensive guidance. It can be booked as a stand-alone.
- Part 2 consists of a 5-day retreat with intensive guidance. The completion of Part 1 is a condition.
Both parts have the following features:
- Coaching on your topics by the two lead trainers, Anne Caspari and Johann Entz
- Course materials and theoretical background
- A limited number of participants of max. 6 to guarantee that each participant gets intensive attention
- A personalised and safe atmosphere in natural surroundings
- Practical tools, methods, and approaches to apply in your everyday life
- 1 Coaching session after the retreat
- Access to a community of practice and regular online and face-to-face meetings
- Access to low-cost reviewer meetings and the other follow-up programmes
The Transformation Intensive is for people who:
- Feel held back by recurring patterns at work or in life
- Are experienced with coaching, leadership or inner work and want to expand their agency and influence
- Want to learn how to access insight through intuition
- Seek greater alignment with who they truly are
- Long for renewed clarity and direction
- Sense they’re flying under the radar
- Are tired of living in scarcity, in whatever form it takes
- Want to move beyond their current set point
- Are navigating a period of transition
- Are curious about their next growth edge
What do you take home?
- Insights into the most hidden /fast mechanisms of your consciousness
- Liberation from self-sabotaging patterns and immunity to change
- Release from limitations and blockages
- Internal clarity and alignment
- Unconscious choices made conscious
- Revived agency and decision-making power
- A box of practical tools, methods, and approaches that you can apply at any time at home.
- Theory context, frameworks and maps around these phenomena
Adaptive Methods
We use a mix of proven and carefully chosen approaches, drawing on over 20 years of experience in transformative coaching, Immunity to Change work, and other integrated, intuitive methods. At its core, this is shadow work – or more precisely, integrity work, from integer: entire, complete, whole. The aim is to become whole again by identifying and reintegrating the parts of the self that have been disowned or projected. We offer the frameworks and tools, but it takes your willingness to look honestly, face resistance, and go beyond it.
The programme adapts to your level of expertise or experience. Should you have already done a lot of work on yourself, you have that as a starting position, and your process will be different accordingly. Our methods go beyond normal coach training (e.g. CTI), so Coach colleagues are most welcome to join to deepen their game. This course is equally suitable for highly sensitive people and post-conventional thinkers.
Next Course: April 25 – 29, 2026
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Testimonials
| “Transformation ist ein großes Wort, trifft hier aber wirklich zu. Die Zeit in Schmagerow war eine sehr intensive Zeit, die durch die Magie des besonderen Ortes unterstützt wird. Die Trainings waren für mich wie ein Katalysator. Ich habe Werkzeuge an die Hand bekommen, die mir auch in den schwierigsten Situationen helfen, gefühlt eine ‚Abkürzung‘ zu nehmen und diese Blockaden innerhalb kürzester Zeit wieder aufzulösen. Das erlaubt mir, mich mit innerer Ruhe, Gelassenheit und Selbstvertrauen den immer neuen Herausforderungen im Job zu stellen und ist zudem wertvoll für die Arbeit mit meinem Team.“ Karin Busse, Grünenthal GmbH |
| Cercavo un’esperienza profonda. Sentivo il bisogno di riconoscere chi sono davvero e come funziona la mia coscienza. Ho letto molti libri, ho cercato su internet, ho frequentato diversi seminari. Qui e lì, ho trovato alcune cose interessanti, ma sentivo di rimanere sempre in superficie. Mi mancava qualcosa. Il corso Transformation Intensive è stata un’esperienza totale, poiché investe sia la ragione che il “sentire”. Grazie a esercizi semplici e potenti, si arriva a osservare i propri schemi mentali, a capire come essi influenzino la propria vita quotidiana, per poi re-imparare a modificarli. In questo modo, ciò che porta dolore, resistenza, paura, conflitto, disallineamento evapora in modo gentile e stupefacente. Si scopre che tutto quello che viviamo è in noi, è un nostro prodotto. È un percorso che apre una prospettiva nuova su sé stessi. Tutto questo avviene in un ambiente professionale, rispettoso, sereno e familiare. Ciascuno si spinge fin dove vuole, con la leggerezza ed efficacia. A Schmagerow, con Anne e Hannes, ho finalmente trovato quello che cercavo. Pierpaolo Grezzi, Autore |
| “I remember going through layers of self-created BS before reaching some kind of truth. Most other courses just skim the surface, never resolving anything fundamental. Probably because it is hard work. Highly recommended.” Emil Vikström, Agile Coach, SE |
| The workshop is a journey in a welcoming and safe environment, it’s carefully crafted and it has been one of the most profound experiences I ever lived. It is diving in your inner self, allowing you to have time to understand how your attention works and see things in a different way. It is a deep discovery of your beliefs and “convenient fictions” which help you navigate a complex reality but also keep you trapped and impose you limits. With the guidance of Anne and Johann, highly skilled coaches and the best company you can wish for in a journey like this one, you will be able to awake your own will and reach a higher level of awareness. Angela Cardoso, PRT |
The workshop is a journey in a welcoming and safe environment, it’s carefully crafted and it has been one of the most profound experiences I ever lived. It is diving in your inner self, allowing you to have time to understand how your attention works and see things in a different way. It is a deep discovery of your beliefs and “convenient fictions” which help you navigate a complex reality but also keep you trapped and impose you limits.
With the guidance of Anne and Johann, highly skilled coaches and the best company you can wish for in a journey like this one, you will be able to awake your own will and reach a higher level of awareness.