Authentic Self-Expression
- October 4-6, 2024
- Innviertler Versailles, Upper Austria
Leading and being yourself:
How do you express yourself in times of change?
This year in 2024, the hummingbird uptre.at is focusing on:
The Power of Authentic Self-Expression.
Welcome to the Hummingbird Uptre.at 2024
Welcome to the Hummingbird Uptre.at 2024, where authenticity takes flight! Nestled in the heart of the Austrian Alps, our retreat invites you to explore the art of self-expression, leadership, and transformation. Here’s your backstage pass to an unforgettable experience:
The Power of Authentic Self-Expression?
It’s the courage to be, in the face of the unknown, to stand in your truth, even when you’re alone. It’s the art of leading with vulnerability, embracing change with agility and ability.
Global citizens and leadership?
As global citizens, we recognize that leadership is not just about authority and decision-making, – it’s about fostering creativity, self-expression, and empathy while guiding others toward positive change.
Understanding diverse cultures and perspectives is essential for effective leadership. We’ll engage in cross-cultural dialogues, celebrating our differences and finding common ground.
In times of change, expressing oneself authentically can be a profound way to navigate through uncertainty and maintain a sense of grounding.
The Authenticity Study
Have you ever heard of the study conducted in 2020 during the pandemic with corporate leaders who rated their authenticity at work on a daily basis?
Every day, they rated if they felt themselves and showed authentic leadership based on empathy, connection, and collaboration. They put one coin in Box A, let’s call it the green box. Each day, they felt like leading their teams in a robot mode, – too strict, too disconnected, too much time on auto-mode, only delivering vs. seeing the bigger picture, they put one coin in Box B, let’s call it the red box.
Guess what? After 100 days, – how many coins were in each of the boxes? 70 in the red box. 30 in the green box. This means that in 70 days they felt in between leading and reacting.
True story? Nope – we just invented this study. Because we’re curious, what would your red box and green box look like?
When life and work go smoothly it is so much easier to be yourself and fill up your green box with coins. When life takes you in the unknown, when leading a team through a massive change process, when moving countries, when quitting corporate life, when starting your company, when becoming a parent…those are the times that take your full presence and work to double down on the coins in the green box.
How can you be yourself, especially in times of utmost change? Change sets us into a default mode. We are stressed, exhausted, moody, snappy and suffer to not know what comes next. When you lead a team in times of not knowing, your team might copy how you cope with the situation.
At the hummingbird uptre.at
Our exclusive leadership retreat is designed for curious leaders like you who seek growth, connection, and crave a strategic break.
Last Year’s Success: Our inaugural hummingbird pioneering group of 2023 experienced a transformative leadership program. We honed their rhythm of rest and flight, inspiring them how to seamlessly integrate personal growth into work and life.
This Year’s Promise: Level up with us! We’re committed to supporting you as you lead through change and be authentically yourself. Our three-day retreat offers:
- Full Learning: Dive deep into leadership principles, communication strategies, and self-awareness techniques.
- Connection: Network with other curious leaders who share your passion for growth.
- Strategic Space: Escape the hustle and bustle. No rush, no crowded agendas - just space to reflect and recharge. Feel your symphony of Self.
- Authenticity: Mask off, soul on. From the moment you step into our castle retreat, be your true Self.
Your hummingbird Program
Grounded. Connected. Glowing.
Friday
Grounding you with cultures & stories, weaving a fine connection between everyone.
Saturday
Connecting you to your power of authentic self-expression.
Sunday
Glowing YOU with your authentic self-expression.
What you will take home
- 15+ hours of leadership mixed with body intelligence, martial arts & dance, professional writing and personal leadership coaching
- Offline learning in a castle. No class room style, flipcharts or boring powerpoints. You’ll experience stories, proven leadership tools, a journal used by leaders globally to reflect and create clear visions, melodies that catch your dancing and movement mood, and uplifting exercises to really create your OWN leadership way of being and expressing.
- A clear vision of the Being and Doing concept - used so many times in leadership. This time, you will learn how to integrate it in your life and also how to use it as a leadership tool with your teams.
Registration
- Write us a message ‘I’m in’ to connect@uptre.at. Your registration is secured once the payment has been received.
EUR 706,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments)
EUR 757,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments)
EUR 857,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments)
EUR 957,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments)
Your hummingbird hosts
Sin-Wei Tan builds diverse and inclusive communities in all areas in her life: at work bridging strategy, communications and connecting global stakeholders. In her own intercultural consultancy Tan Consulting – connecting cultures and business opportunities and in her private life connecting the most inspiring and impactful people from all corners of the world. Sin-Wei is enthusiastic about creative processes. With openness, her feisty style, and a large portion of empathy, she places importance on setting accents in the trainings and sessions.
Gertraud Eregger stands for creating community and opening up stories & hearts. Creating vulnerable spaces, pouring into her experience as recruiter, entrepreneur, mother and global nomad calling Austria, Ethiopia and Jamaica her home. When life and work gets too messy, my daily 5 min mantra at the open window, a bike ride, the ocean (or just its sound) and fresh mountain air, sitting and chatting with friends having all the time on the planet and a passionfruit cider get me in my magic again. She’s an executive coach & founder of create your move.
Sin-Wei Tan builds diverse and inclusive communities in all areas in her life: at work bridging strategy, communications and connecting global stakeholders. In her own intercultural consultancy Tan Consulting – connecting cultures and business opportunities and in her private life connecting the most inspiring and impactful people from all corners of the world. Sin-Wei is enthusiastic about creative processes. With openness, her feisty style, and a large portion of empathy, she places importance on setting accents in the trainings and sessions.
As a native Austrian with Chinese heritage and Malaysian born parents, she believes in creating ideas and showing expectations in a culturally relevant and unambiguous way – with curiosity, lightness and fun, a respectful communication on eyesight. Living in Mondsee. Traveling the world. Coming from various experiences of different rhythms in places, systems, and communities. She used to be an on-camera host, working in diplomatic services under high pressure and stress – resting times became vital to her.
Sin-Wei has been a compassionate dancer for decades and she combines rhythm, movement, her cultural heritage, and her global mind in her work as trainer and cross-cultural facilitator.
“Curating my resting time has always been a part, a question, a playground of inspirations, an oasis to me, – resting times are vital to me. I have manifested rest in my world of decision making. It’s sometimes colorful, in silence, in rhythms, in consciously observing, in dis/-connecting. I will meet you exactly where you are. I love to shape the ground for self-confidence and self-expressions, in particular through DANCE.”
Sin-Wei Tan
Gertraud Eregger stands for creating community and opening up stories & hearts. Creating vulnerable spaces, pouring into her experience as recruiter, entrepreneur, mother and global nomad calling Austria, Ethiopia and Jamaica her home. When life and work gets too messy, my daily 5 min mantra at the open window, a bike ride, the ocean (or just its sound) and fresh mountain air, sitting and chatting with friends having all the time on the planet and a passionfruit cider get me in my magic again.
She’s an executive coach & founder of create your move. Lived and worked in HR leadership roles in Ethiopia and Jamaica. Loves to coach global talent and extraordinary human beings on their journey to re-discover joy for work and life. Works in Graz with organizations like Caritas to shape their leadership culture, and works with CINT building a true welcoming culture here in Graz for anyone coming from abroad who is trying to find home here.
Proud mum of two wild & adventurous girls. Feeling free and full of ease when riding or walking steep hills, with one intention for 2023: to be in nature, in the woods.
“I love to be with you in your messy middle – listening, holding space for what’s bothering you and getting in your way, and kicking your butt to open your heart again. Don’t be afraid of the mess, let it in, and magic will spark. Going through a transition process with a wild and open heart is the most vulnerable experience, takes a ton of courage and needs conscious rest and grounding yourself over and over again. We’ll take you to those places, and free this light and fun version of you again.”
Gertraud Eregger
Learn more
Whether you’re a seasoned executive, aspiring leader, or simply curious: this retreat is for you. Let’s redefine your leadership and create a ripple effect of positive change.
- Leaders from the corporate world who crave to belong, rather than delivering to fit in.
- If you’re in a massive transition, you do not know what your next three months will look like, whether you start a business or you will go back to corporate. You certainly need space to get more clarity on how you want to be yourself in change.
- Powerful missions need this crazy amount of energy and dedication. Many leaders working in high level roles in NGOs face high pressure while forgetting the core impact of their work. To be yourself in a super fast paced environment is the hardest challenge.
- Hummingbirds from last year, eager to listen and connect to extraordinary leaders.
- Everyone who has multiple homes, is a global citizen by heart or loves to work with different people and believes that we need to be ourselves at work and at home to be fully happy.
- The Innviertler Versailles is a 300 year old baroque castle, beautifully renovated, 1h from Linz, 2h from Vienna and Graz. In the middle of woods, surrounded by water.
- You will stay in one of the 8 private boutique apartments. Breakfast will be delivered to your doorsteps, and you can choose your selection in the breakfast menu for what you crave in the morning. All ingredients come from farmers nearby.
- If you decide to drive every day to the castle. No problem. We start on Saturday at 8.30 and on Sunday at 9. Come on time and give yourself time to sit in the castle court listening to the birds before the program starts.
- Our culinary partner is Eat Art. A fusion cuisine restaurant based in Ried, run by chef Camillo Grüneis. His team combines fresh and local ingredients with a global twist. You’ll enjoy delicious and warming soups, freshly baked bread, Italian grana and Mexican homemade recipes.
- Camillo will cook for us in the castle and create a unique lunch and dinner experience for us.
You have a fridge with local juices and wines to choose from (beverages are not included in the package price). Simple and all selected by the owners of the castle.
- Bring comfortable clothes, a yoga mat, your favorite pen and an empty journal you love.
- In the evening we will enjoy stardust conversations with open fire outside on Friday and Saturday. Bring a warmer jacket and a hat just in case it gets cold.
- If you’re brave – leave your mobile phone in the room. Being offline and fully present is a gift we give ourselves rarely.
- Pioneer Hummingbird – eligible for everyone who attended the hummingbird uptre.at 2023:
EUR 706,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments) - Early Hummingbird until June, 30th, 2024:
EUR 757,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments) - Regular Ticket until August, 30th, 2024:
EUR 857,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments) - Lazy Hummingbird until September 5th, 2024:
EUR 957,- (plus EUR 85,- per night in the boutique apartments)
All prices are VAT excluded. No tax added.
- Full Program Ticket incl. all meals and seminar snacks for Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Workshops and Hummingbird Leadership Toolbox (10 Leadership Exercises exclusively shared!)
- World class trainers
- Lunch & Dinners by Eat Art and private chef included
- Breaks with juices, fruits and healthy snacks
- Your beautiful hard copy of your Level Journal
- Remarkable meeting venue in the castle with moat and stay in one of the boutique apartments with hundreds of years of history
- Bonfire in the evenings
- One hummingbird connection call after the uptre.at to revisit sustainable learnings
Write us a message ‘I’m in’ to connect@uptre.at. Your registration is secured once the payment has been received.
No refund possible on the retreat fee. The hotel can be canceled within 24hrs before. The retreat fee will be subsidized through a personal 3hrs coaching session by Gertraud & Sin-Wei, plus the Level Journal.
Upon receipt of the booking confirmation, the full contribution will be transferred within 14 days. In any case of cancellation, the withdrawal must be made by e-mail. If a substitute person is provided, all cancellation costs are waived. The contribution of the uptre.at can be canceled latest until 31st of August. In case of unexpected sickness after the 31st of August, Sin-Wei and Gertraud will create a 3hrs private coaching & dance session for you in a virtual setting after the uptre.at weekend. In case the uptre.at is canceled by the organizers, the full cost of the uptre.at will be refunded and another date will be announced. The amounts of the hotel will be transferred according to the cancellation policies of the Innviertler Versailles. Apartment cancellation is until 48hrs prior to departure free of charge.
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Testimonials
This is what our hummingbirds 2023 said about the learning experience at the uptre.at…
I experienced in particular in the first months of motherhood, how challenging it is to juggle parenthood and being a business owner. I embody resilience, balance, and a commitment to personal growth. Before arriving at the uptre.at, I felt stressed and utterly exhausted. But as I left on Saturday, my perspective had shifted completely. My check-ins:
- Pre-Retreat: Stressed and beyond tired.
- Post-Retreat: Rested, connected, understood, grateful, focused, and motivated. I even left my phone on flight mode for more uninterrupted time.
The retreat’s biggest lesson for me? Learning, sharing, and connecting with like-minded, international individuals is a form of rest. The mindful guidance of the organizers played a crucial role in this transformative experience.
Are you curious?
… to travel back and see all the pictures of 2023’s Hummingbird uptre.at? Or to stay in touch on LinkedIn?
