The Executive Reset is a private one-to-one retreat in Ubud, Bali designed for people who carry significant responsibility and rarely have the opportunity to step completely outside the demands of their professional and personal lives.

This is not a corporate off-site, a networking retreat or a programme of back-to-back workshops. It is a highly personalised space to pause, reflect, recalibrate - and return with greater clarity.

Over seven days, you will be supported to examine how you operate, understand your natural strengths and patterns, release accumulated pressure, restore mental and emotional balance, and gain a clearer perspective on your leadership, career, relationships and the next chapter of your life.

The experience brings together real-world leadership insight with carefully selected practices drawn from ancient wisdom traditions and modern approaches to wellbeing and human performance. Meditation, breath practices, Vedic knowledge, Shamanic Energy Healing, hypnotherapy, sound healing and breathwork may all form part of the experience — but the modalities are selected according to you, rather than following a fixed programme.

You do not need to be burnt out to benefit from stepping back. Sometimes the most valuable time to pause is when things are going well — before a major decision, a new level of responsibility or the beginning of a new chapter.

You don't come to reset because something is wrong. You come because you recognise the value of stepping back before moving forward.

Entirely One-to-One

Your retreat is built around you. There are no group workshops, networking events or corporate agendas. Every session, practice and modality can be selected according to your current circumstances, goals and needs.

The schedule is deliberately spacious. Between guided sessions, you have time to think, walk, journal, sleep, read, reflect or simply be. There is no expectation to fill every hour.

You spend enough of your professional life moving from meeting to meeting. This retreat gives you space to think without anyone asking anything of you.

Meet Your Retreat Lead — Jason Buchanan

Jason brings a distinctive combination of real-world business experience, entrepreneurial insight and senior leadership expertise, alongside a longstanding interest in ancient wisdom and human potential.

He founded the Australian operation of Research Now and went on to build and lead its Asia-Pacific business. He has since been involved in successful technology and research ventures and held senior leadership roles across the insights sector.

Today, as a Director of The Juicy Effect, Jason brings this experience to the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern leadership. His interests include Vedic and Buddhist traditions, meditation and breath awareness, and the practical application of these approaches to personal and professional development.

As Retreat Lead, Jason oversees a curated retreat experience that brings together contemporary leadership perspectives and time-honoured practices for reflection, self-awareness and personal growth.

The Executive Reset is built on a simple premise: greater clarity begins with understanding how you operate, recognising the patterns that help or limit you, and creating the space to approach life and leadership with greater intention.

Real-world leadership experience. Ancient wisdom. Modern application.

A Carefully Selected Team Around You

Jason Buchanan leads The Executive Reset, overseeing the retreat experience and ensuring that the approach, practitioners and practices are aligned with your individual goals.

The retreat brings together a carefully selected team of practitioners from The Juicy Effect and its wider network, with the experience tailored to your needs.

·       Jason Buchanan — Retreat Lead: Oversees the retreat design and implementation, coordinates your experience and ensures continuity throughout your journey.

·       Sharon Marie — Healing and Transformation: Provides energy healing and transformational practices.

·       Specialist Practitioners: Selected practitioners may be included for modalities such as sound healing or breathwork, according to your needs.

·       A Personalised Approach: The combination of practices and practitioners is considered in relation to your goals, creating a tailored experience rather than a one-size-fits-all programme.

Ancient Wisdom. Modern Application.

Across thousands of years, different wisdom traditions developed sophisticated approaches to attention, breath, awareness, self-knowledge, emotional balance and human potential.

The Executive Reset does not ask you to adopt a belief system. Instead, it explores selected practices and frameworks from these traditions and translates them into practical tools for modern leadership and life.

·       Meditation and breath practices for attention, balance and mental clarity.

·       Vedic knowledge as a framework for understanding individual strengths, tendencies and patterns.

·       Energy Healing as a personalised process for release, energetic clearing and creating space for what is ready to emerge.

·       Hypnotherapy to work with unconscious patterns and beliefs that may influence confidence, performance, relationships or decision-making.

·       Sound healing or breathwork to support restoration, release and nervous-system regulation, selected according to the individual.

·       Contemplative practices to create space for insight between sessions.

The Leadership Blueprint

Understand your strengths. Recognise your patterns. Work with your natural potential.

The Leadership Blueprint is a signature experience within The Executive Reset. Drawing on Vedic knowledge, it explores the qualities, strengths, tendencies, challenges and unconscious patterns that can shape how an individual naturally operates.

The intention is not prediction. It is self-understanding — using an ancient framework to generate practical insight into how you operate and how you can work with your natural strengths more consciously.

·       Where do you have natural capacity?

·       What conditions allow you to perform at your best?

·       Where might you overextend or work against your natural tendencies?

·       How do you tend to respond to pressure and challenge?

·       Which patterns can become strengths when consciously directed?

·       What might need to change as you move into your next level of leadership or life?

The insights are then translated into modern application: leadership, decision-making, relationships, energy management and the conditions that support sustainable performance.

Who Is The Executive Reset For?

This retreat is designed for people who carry significant responsibility, including:

·       CEOs, founders and entrepreneurs

·       Board members and senior executives

·       Senior professionals and business owners

·       Leaders preparing to step into a larger role

·       People navigating organisational or career transition

·       Founders approaching an exit or considering their next venture

·       High performers questioning what the next chapter should look like

·       Accomplished people who want a broader or more meaningful definition of success

You do not need to be struggling. The retreat is equally suited to someone who is successful and simply wants the space, perspective and tools to make their next decisions more consciously.

What You Can Expect to Gain

·       Greater clarity about where you are and what you want next.

·       A deeper understanding of your natural strengths, patterns and operating style.

·       Practical tools for managing pressure, attention and emotional responses.

·       Greater awareness of what supports or undermines sustainable performance.

·       Space to release accumulated pressure and create room for new perspectives.

·       A clearer relationship with your own definition of success.

·       Greater confidence in making important decisions and navigating transition.

·       A personalised set of practices and priorities to take back into daily life.

·       A clearer 90-day direction and practical next steps for the chapter ahead.

Your Private Executive Sanctuary

The retreat takes place in a stunning private villa in Ubud, creating a rare environment away from meetings, notifications and the constant demands of leadership.

·       Private villa accommodation

·       Airport pick-up and drop-off

·       Curated welcome gift

·       Daily breakfast and lunch from Unity Cafe

·       Two private villa massages

·       Time for rest, reading, journalling and reflection

·       Contemplative walks through the nearby rice fields

·       A quiet, private environment for uninterrupted thinking

A Seven-Day Journey — Tailored to You

The following provides a broad overview of the rhythm and progression of The Executive Reset. It is not a fixed programme or timetable. The types, number and sequence of sessions may be adjusted before and during the retreat according to your circumstances, goals and what emerges as the week unfolds. Jason will work with you to shape the experience so that the right balance of leadership mentoring, ancient practices, restoration, reflection and deeper work is created around your individual needs.

A personalised experience: The outline below is designed to give you a feel for the journey, not to prescribe every moment. Session choices can be changed, moved or replaced where this would better support your needs.

DAY 1 — ARRIVE & UNWIND

·       Airport pick-up and arrival at your private villa.

·       Settle in, decompress and begin stepping away from the demands of everyday life.

·       Private massage in the villa — a gentle way to begin relaxing, settling into your surroundings and allowing the transition into retreat mode.

·       Relaxed morning at your own pace.

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Time to rest, read, journal, unpack or simply enjoy the sanctuary.

·       11:30am — Private introductory session with Jason: where are you now, what is demanding your attention and what would make this retreat genuinely valuable?

·       Establish your personal intentions and the areas you want to explore during the retreat.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Afternoon and evening intentionally unstructured — rest, reflect, journal, walk or simply be.

DAY 2 — UNDERSTAND & RECALIBRATE

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Relaxed morning to sleep, rest, journal or enjoy the villa.

·       11:00am — Morning meditation and breath practice — ancient practices for the modern world.

·       11:30am — The Leadership Blueprint

·       A personalised exploration drawing on Vedic knowledge to understand your natural strengths, tendencies, challenges and patterns — and how these may influence the way you lead, make decisions and perform.

·       Translate the insights into modern application: how to work with your strengths, recognise potential blind spots, navigate challenges and create the conditions in which you perform at your best.

·       This session sets the tone for the retreat by creating a deeper understanding of how you naturally operate and what you want to explore over the days ahead.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Personal reflection and integration.

·       Contemplative walk — tailored to your needs and based around an ancient practice designed to support clarity and balance of the mind and emotions, while creating space for insights that can support your life and the decisions ahead.

·       Generous unstructured afternoon and evening for rest, journalling and reflection.

DAY 3 — BALANCE & RESTORE

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Relaxed morning to rest, read, journal or enjoy the villa.

·       10:00am — Morning meditation and breath practice with Jason.

·       11:30am — Personalised Sound Healing or Breathwork session.

·       The modality is selected according to your needs. Breathwork may be appropriate where deeper release, body awareness or emotional processing would be beneficial. Sound Healing may be chosen where deep rest, sensory restoration and settling the nervous system are more appropriate.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Personal integration and reflection.

·       Contemplative walk — tailored to your needs and based around an ancient practice designed to support clarity and balance of the mind and emotions, while creating space for insights that can support your life and the decisions ahead.

·       Generous unstructured afternoon and evening for rest, reading, journalling or simply being.

·       Jason remains available to adapt the following stages of the retreat according to what is emerging for you.

DAY 4 — RELEASE & RENEW

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Relaxed morning to rest, journal, read or enjoy the sanctuary.

·       10:00am — Morning meditation and breath practice with Jason.

·       11:30am — Shamanic Energy Healing with Sharon Marie.

·       A personalised session focused on releasing what you have been carrying that is ready to be released, clearing what is no longer serving you and creating space for new energy, clarity and possibility.

·       The session is an opportunity to work more deeply with accumulated pressure, emotional load, energetic depletion, transition or whatever is currently ready to shift.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Second private villa massage — allowing the body to rest and integrate after the morning's work.

·       No major scheduled work after the massage unless specifically requested.

·       Rest, sleep, journalling, reading or a quiet contemplative walk tailored to your needs.

·       Contemplation practice — an ancient practice selected for you to support clarity, emotional balance and useful insight.

DAY 5 — REPROGRAM & REALIGN

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Relaxed morning to rest and integrate.

·       10:00am — Morning meditation and breath practice with Jason.

·       11:30am — Personalised Hypnotherapy with Jason.

·       The session is selected according to your current goals and may include Inner Child  where unconscious patterns around confidence, worth, perfectionism, approval, achievement or receiving are relevant.

·       Alternatively, the hypnosis session may focus on confidence, leadership presence, decision-making, performance, transition, identity or another goal that is important to you.

·       If Jason feels another modality would better support your needs, the programme can be adapted accordingly.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Personal integration time.

·       Contemplative walk — tailored to your needs and based around an ancient practice designed to support clarity and balance of the mind and emotions, while creating space for insights that can support your life and the decisions ahead.

·       Generous unstructured afternoon and evening for rest and reflection.

DAY 6 — INTEGRATE & CLARIFY

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Relaxed morning to rest, reflect and enjoy the sanctuary.

·       10:00am — Morning meditation and breath practice with Jason.

·       11:30am — A personalised integration or additional session, selected according to what would be most valuable at this stage of the retreat.

·       This may be a further mentoring conversation, a complementary modality, an additional hypnotherapy session, or another carefully selected practice based on the client's needs.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Personal integration time.

·       Contemplative walk — tailored to your needs and based around an ancient practice designed to support clarity and balance of the mind and emotions, while creating space for insights that can support your life and the decisions ahead.

·       Generous unstructured afternoon and evening.

DAY 7 — CLARIFY & COMMIT

·       Breakfast from Unity Cafe.

·       Relaxed morning to rest, journal and prepare for the final day.

·       11:00am — Final meditation and breath practice with Jason.

·       11:30am — Dedicated Next Chapter Mentoring Session  — a designated mentoring session to support the 'what's next?' and translate the retreat into practical direction.

·       Review what has changed, what has been released, what has been clarified and what you are choosing now.

·       Explore: What does success mean now? What needs to change? What do I want to create? What do I need to protect? What is next?

·       Create a Personal Leadership & Life Plan, including priorities, practices, leadership principles, energy management, decision-making and next steps.

·       Define practical priorities for the next 90 days.

·       Closing conversation and completion of the retreat.

·       Lunch from Unity Cafe.

·       Airport drop-off / onward travel.

POST-RETREAT — CONTINUE THE MOMENTUM

·       Two to four weeks after returning home, you will receive  a private follow-up mentoring session.

·       This session provides a dedicated space to reflect on what has changed since the retreat and support the transition from insight into implementation.

·       Review what has been put into practice, what decisions have been made and what is emerging in your professional and personal life.

·       The intention is to ensure that the value of the retreat continues beyond Bali and becomes part of your ongoing way of operating.

The Daily Rhythm

Each day is designed around three layers: a relaxed morning, focused guided work, and generous space for reflection and integration.

·       GUIDED WORK — focused sessions

·       PERSONAL REFLECTION — meditation, journal prompts or a tailored contemplative walking practice.

·       SPACE — generous unscheduled time to rest, think, walk, read, integrate and allow new perspective to emerge.

The retreat is not another schedule to manage.

What Makes the Retreat Personal

The retreat is deliberately modular. The structure above provides the journey, but the content is tailored to the individual.

·       The number and focus of sessions can be adjusted.

·       The Leadership Blueprint is explored early in the retreat and interpreted through the client's current professional and personal context, helping set the direction for the days that follow.

·       Breathwork or Sound Healing is selected according to the client's needs.

·       Hypnotherapy is tailored to the client's goals and may focus on Inner Child or another relevant objective.

·       Additional modalities can be considered where they would add value.

·       The balance between guided sessions and private time can be adjusted throughout the week, with the post-retreat mentoring session providing continuity after the client returns home.

The intention is not to fit the client into a programme. It is to create the right programme around the client.

The Promise

Step out of the demands of leadership. Step back. Recalibrate. Return with clarity.

The Executive Reset is an opportunity to pause before the next move — to step outside the constant demands of leadership, see your life and work from a wider perspective, reconnect with what matters and make your next decisions from a more grounded place.

Ancient Wisdom. Modern Application.

Additional points to think about – not to be included on the site.

The core retreat structure is strong. A few additions could make the executive proposition even clearer and more premium:

·       A short pre-retreat consultation  to establish the client's goals, current transition or leadership challenge, and what they want to leave with.

·       A confidential pre-retreat questionnaire so the retreat team can tailor the Leadership Blueprint, modalities and mentoring focus before arrival.

·       A clear 'What You Leave With' section on the website, describing the practical tools, Personal Leadership & Life Plan and next-90-day priorities the client takes home.

·       A post-retreat integration session with Jason is now included as part of the experience, ideally two to four weeks after returning home.

·       A simple confidentiality statement. For senior corporate clients, explicitly stating that the retreat is private and confidential will add reassurance and professionalism.

·       A clear distinction between the retreat being suitable for both people navigating a challenge and people who are already successful but want perspective before their next move.

A discreet concierge-style arrival and departure experience, reinforcing that the retreat is designed to remove logistical friction as well as professio