Inner Leadership 2025
Athens, Greece
Transformational training for soul-based professionals
October 19 - 24, 2025
Join the Magical Leadership Journey to Athens
It's time to start the change you are longing for.
Become inspired by the wisdom of ancient Greece to return to your essence. Join us to harvest new insights in the beautiful nature and feel how you can take inspired leadership.
From her deep connection with healing methods from ancient civilizations,
Hélène van Oudheusden carefully brings you in touch with your infinite leadership potential.
Welcome to Inner Leadership 2025
Listen to the Whispers of Your Soul
6-Day Authentic Leadership Training
In the oldest sanctuary of Greece
Being a leader, it is important that you pay attention to your own growth processes.
After all, people are looking at you for direction, to make decisions and to inspire their personal or professional development.
Inner growth towards authentic leadership
When you give attention to your inner growth processes, you will get to know yourself on deeper levels. You will discover recurring triggers and blind spots and know how to transform them. Your uniqueness grows and you will develop yourself as an authentic leader. This provides you with focus and clarity so that you can become a beacon of light for yourself and for colleagues.
Discover your personal Hero's Journey
Walking your journey towards authenticity is called The Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell). As a leader, as a hero, you set out to discover new worlds where you will find new talents.
Step by step you will find out what you really stand for by encountering trials on this path that test your courage and by meeting people who will help you. When you discover the treasure of your new talent or pass a crucial trial, you will share your new insights, at home and at work. This way you can lead in a fulfilling and inspiring way.
Let your soul and personality co-operate
The ancient Greeks assumed that we have a soul and a personality. Our soul is naturally wise, gentle and forgiving. Our personality is, as it were, the coat we chose in this life to work out soul processes. For balance in your leadership, it is essential that you know how to let your soul and personality become friends in order to grow together.
Content
We will walk our inner leadership journey in a small, safe group. You will learn how to live your purpose as a leader from your core, firmly grounded.
A few topics we will be studying:
- What is your purpose, soul mission, as a leader?
- How do you become aware of signals that indicate it is time for change?
- What is a healing movement for your leadership?
- How can you deal with opposing forces in a nourishing way?
- What insights can you receive from a specific, recurring dream that you cannot quite put your finger on yet?
- Which soul desires require your attention in the coming year?
In the Leadership Retreat we explore the deeper layers of our personal processes. You learn how to distinguish between soul's desires and personality themes.
We work with inspiring energy tools, the power of Greek mythology in your leadership story, dream research and the direction of your soul's desires. This way you can take on your leadership role from integrity and purity and create space to offer aligned leadership. First to yourself and then to your team, organization or class.
A special location
We are staying in a beautiful private villa in the Greek countryside, near the Aegean Sea, next to the oldest sanctuary in Greece: the Amfiareion (circa 400 BC).
Amfiarios, the healer, prophet and leader from ancient Greece inspired residents to travel to the Amfiareion for healing, advice and wisdom. This sanctuary, dedicated to several Gods and Goddesses, is still a source of gentle wisdom from ancient civilizations. We work in and around this special temple where we are inspired on deep levels in the growth of our inner leadership.
Feel what you essentially stand for and bring the compassionate change in your organization that only you can initiate.
Will you join us?
Register now, there are only a few rooms available.
About Hélène van Oudheusden
To the outside world, everything was going well in my life. A job in television, a lease car, lots of travelling, social contacts and smart enough to find my way. And yet I wasn't happy. I tried to convince myself that I should be content but my body knew better and a burnout forced me to stand still and let go of everything in the year 2000.
I started my inner journey to who I was in essence and what I deeply longed for. Connecting with my core was confronting, enlightening and above all liberating. I am still happy every day that I have the courage to face shadow parts and make crucial decisions in my private and personal life.
Was it easy? No, certainly not, loneliness and sadness are part of personal growth.
Was it inspiring? Absolutely, for myself and in my coaching. 'I have been there' and I understand what you are going through.
The result is that I feel free, creative and fearless in my leadership. With a healthy balance of male and female energy. I know how walking your own path will lead you to a sense of fulfillment you could not have imagined. So beautiful, loving and filled with inner peace. I sincerely wish you that same sacred space!
My home is in The Hague, The Netherlands and in Greece. If I had a house in this beautiful country, it would be in the garden of the leadership retreat.
Ancient wisdom and state of the art principles from systemic work, shamanism and mythology form the foundation of teachings. From lightness and with humor I guide you on your way.
Author of Empower Yourself at Work and Teaching Refugee Children.
Information & Registration
Sunday 19 to Friday 24 October 2025
Location: Private villa in Kalamos, Athens (Greece)
Group size: 6 - 10 participants
Leader & Trainer: Hélène van Oudheusden
Investment in yourself
Early Bird until 10 March 2025
€2,995 per person/private individual, for the entire journey
€3,477 per person/organization for the entire journey
VAT free. The training is deductible as professional education.
Included:
- Introductory meeting with Hélène van Oudheusden
- Preparatory leadership assignments
- All leadership training & two individual coaching calls with Hélène van Oudheusden
- Five nights in the private villa based on a luxury double room
- Five breakfasts and four lunches (excluding drinks)
- Water, tea and coffee during the day
- Entrance to the Amfiareion Sanctuary with guided tour
- Transfer from and to Athens International Airport
- Book Empower Yourself at Work by Hélène van Oudheusden
- Pre en post retreat support
Single room supplement € 247,= (on request)
Not included:
- Your flight to/from Athens
- Vocational textbook authentic leadership
- Diners
- Additional activities/treatments outside the program
- Compulsory travel/cancellation insurance
Register now
There are only six rooms so book early to ensure your spot.
Follow your Bliss
- Joseph Campbell
About the Amfiareion Sanctuary
In ancient Greece, leaders, merchants, artists, mothers, fathers, athletes and kings traveled to a temple for wisdom and healing.
The Amfiareion is the oldest Greek sanctuary (400 BC) where healer, prophet and leader Amfiarios was asked for help and healing. In this temple the God Asclepius (father) and the Goddess Hygeia (daughter) were also worshipped. Visitors slept in the abatons, the dream quarters at the temple. The next day they told their dreams to the priest(ess), who interpreted the dream and knew which remedy or advice suited the visitor's request for help.
We work next to and in the sanctuary with inspiring working methods to find answers to your questions and with which you can firmly establish your leadership.
Enjoy the serene silence in this unknown part of Greece where you only hear the sound of the sacred river, the trees and the many birds.
Would you like to schedule a meeting?
Enter your details here, Hélène van Oudheusden will contact you within two days.
What participants say about Inner Leadership training
Hélène is fantastic. She creates a relaxed, pleasant atmosphere and is passionate.
Hélène jumps into the unexpected, is a nice person to travel with and is an example in inner leadership. First because she organizes this trip but she also dares to think outside the box and has a fascinating personal story of her development as an inner leader.
Everything she says is a testament to taking inner leadership. Wow.
Mariette Werle, Soest
Hélène helps you to cross the threshold with her warm way of guidance.
I now dare to really look at my inner parts and hear my silent wishes. Hélène gave me the tools to walk my own leadership journey.
Caroline de Bruin, Dordrecht
In new situations, often what is needed is a new story that can help supply a map for the new journey and a toehold when that journey feels like climbing up a steep and dangerous mountain.
— Carol S. Pearson
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Hélène van Oudheusden is a senior personal counselor and trainer based in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is author of Empower Yourself at Work and Teaching Refugee Children.
Hélène van Oudheusden, Personal Coach is registered as an educational institution with the CRKBO and therefore complies with the quality code for training institutions for short vocational education.
