reflect & recharge

Revitalising your mind and your mood

Reflect & Recharge courses offer you all the benefits of a traditional short-break plus the additional bonus of a challenging personal development course. As a result, you will return home not only with renewed mental and emotional energy but also an inspiring action plan. Gael has been leading similar courses in Spain for several years and has received many testimonials that prove that this kind of experience can be life-changing, fun and also the foundation for life-long friendships.

Here are some examples of the kinds of topics that are commonly addressed on our courses:

Career change or development
Positive personal life planning
Making a difficult decision
Reviewing a relationship with a colleague, friend or family member
Finding more life-balance
Making a more confident impact
Managing frustration and anger
Asserting yourself in challenging situations
Making plans for a positive life transition
Making successes out of set-backs
Improving social skills for networking and making friends
Recovery from emotional hurt or loss
Parenting with more confidence.

Our course programmes

We offer a choice of the following:

Individual Consultations Courses
5 x 1-1 sessions plus welcome and action planning groups. Participants work on self-help assignments in between consultations.

Skills Training Courses
1 and 2 day interactive training seminars.

Creative Group Work Courses
2 day advanced personal development workshop using drama, art and music to facilitate problem solving plus a 1-1 consultation.

All other activities will be arranged informally by participants and you can choose to join in on as many or as few as you like.

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Our location

The courses are held in Rota, a small historic town on the Costa de la Luz in southern Spain. Rota is situated in the Bay of Cadiz and is surrounded by 16km of beautiful sandy beaches. Because of its temperate climate (ranging from average of 15 – 35º) and its invigorating Atlantic sea air, it attracts many tourists (mostly from within Spain) in July and August. Out of this high season (when our courses take place) it functions as a typical lively Andalusian small town. It has a strong sense of community and life-balance is taken very seriously so don’t be surprised if you find yourself welcomed into the midst one of its many traditional festivals.

Course sessions will be held in various locations in the centre of Rota. When the weather is suitable, some meetings may take place in secluded corners of the beach.

Rota is surrounded by miles of beautiful coastline and stunning hillside villages. The historic towns of Jerez, Seville and Cadiz offer a rich cultural heritage - the heart of Flamenco - interesting architecture, museums, theatres and churches, as well as enticing bars and restaurants.

If you are keen for some additional stimulation and learning,vwe can also advise you on where to take classes in the following:

Horse-riding
Sailing
Flamenco dancing
Spanish
Yoga

If you want to chill out after all this activity, there is a local hydrotherapy spa and a qualified osteopath who does excellent therapeutic massage.

Accommodation and food

You will stay in a hotel of your choice in the centre of the town which is only ever a few minutes walk from one of the beautiful beaches. We will provide you with contact details of our recommended list of hotels ranging from a luxurious 4 star to small budget hotels. Rota has many excellent and very reasonably priced restaurants and small tapas bars. The fish is particularly fresh and superb as fishing is one of the town’s principle industries. In good weather, participants can easily arrange group picnics.

How to get to us

Rota is 30 minutes from Jerez airport which has twice daily low-cost flights from London. There are also daily flights to and from other European cities as well as several major towns within Spain. Depending on the time of your arrival, you can travel from the airport by taxi or by bus. Alternatively car hire is cheap and the drive to Rota is straight forward.

Alternative airports are Malaga (2 1/2 hours drive) and Seville (1 3/4 hours drive).

The nearest rail stations are Puerta de Santa Maria and Jerez. Rota also has excellent bus services.

Please contact us if you would like more advice on travel.

Course leaders

On most of these courses Gael will be the key consultant but she will often be joined by a guest consultant. The consultants working on Reflect & Recharge are all personally selected by Gael for their engaging personal qualities as well as their high level of specialist expertise.

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