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Insight in ActionExecutive Retreats

Transformational retreats for executives and entrepreneurs.
Austrian Alps · September 2026  |  Fujairah · July 2026

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Step out of the noise, do the inner work, and return with clarity, energy, and habits to lead your next chapter.

Your benefits

What you will take home

01

Unblock mental challenges that limit business performance.

Identify the inner barriers, stress patterns, and limiting beliefs that can slow down decision-making, leadership clarity, and business growth.

02

Strengthen leadership energy and personal resilience.

Reconnect with your mental and physical energy so you can lead with more focus, confidence, and emotional stability in challenging times.

03

Create clarity for better business decisions.

Through guided exercises, individual coaching, and group reflection, gain a clearer view of your current situation, priorities, and next steps.

04

Transform routines, emotions, and leadership habits.

Leave with practical tools to reshape daily routines, manage emotions effectively, remove internal blocks, and focus your energy on what creates real value.

Insight without action changes nothing.

Our Approach

Real change happens at a different level.

Most personal development approaches work at the level of behaviour — new tools, new habits, new perspectives. And for a while, something shifts.

But beneath behaviour lies a deeper layer: the subconscious beliefs and identity patterns that drive 95% of your decisions. As long as these remain unchanged, the old patterns return. Not because you lack discipline — but because your subconscious is still running an older version of you.

The Neurocode Methodology, developed by Dr. Hajo Horst over 35 years of clinical and business psychology practice, works at this level. Drawing on applied neuroscience, EMDR, and psychodynamic psychology, it goes where most approaches don't reach.

The methodology does not ask you to think differently. It identifies the specific subconscious beliefs creating the ceiling — and dissolves them. Using the brain's own neuroplasticity, it rewires the patterns that have been quietly shaping your decisions, your energy, and your sense of what is possible.

The result is not motivation. Not a new strategy.

A different operating system.

Dramatic alpine peak and mountain hut

Retreat 01

Insight in Action.Austrian Alps,
September 13–19, 2026.

Seven days in the Austrian Alps. Fourteen participants.
Hotel Sacher Seefeld-Tirol. All-inclusive.

This is not a retreat where you sit in a room.

It moves. It challenges. It takes you outside — literally — into the Austrian landscape. And then it takes you somewhere more important.

Over seven days, you will work at the level of beliefs and identity — the level where real transformation actually happens.

You will leave with clarity, a personal action plan, and a different understanding of what is possible for you.

EUR 9,900per person · all-inclusive

Minimum 10 · maximum 14 participants.

What's included

  • Neurocode Methodology workshops
  • Individual & group coaching
  • Hiking in the Austrian Alps
  • Yoga, breathwork & luxury spa
  • Private visit to Red Bull, Salzburg
  • Private visit to Swarovski, Wattens
  • Cultural visit to Salzburg
  • Award-winning cuisine, Hotel Sacher
  • Exclusive branded gift
  • 6 nights accommodation · all meals

Not included

  • — International flights
  • — Personal extras outside of regular meals
  • — Excessive or non-house alcohol consumption
Fujairah coastline with Hajar mountains

Retreat 02

INSIGHT Weekend Fujairah.July 17 - 19, 2026

A two-day immersion where the Hajar Mountains meet the Arabian Sea. The same methodology, distilled into a focused weekend — your entry point to the  Insight in Action work.

AED 5,550programme fee

includes Hotel accommodation (2 nights) in Address Hotel Fujairah 
Fullboard (Breakfast, lunch, dinner)

The Team

Built by practitioners.

Dr. Hajo HORST

Dr. Hajo HORST

Performance Psychologist for Aligned Leadership

Dr. Hajo is the creator of the Neurocode Methodology — a framework from transformational psychology that identifies exactly what keeps high-performers from living the life they deserve. His work goes beyond behaviour and capabilities to the level of identity and values — because when you change who you believe you are, everything else follows.

Dr. Maria GALPER

Dr. Maria GALPER

Founder & Programme Director, Insight in Action

Maria works at the intersection of business achievement and personal fulfilment. With a PhD in Economics, an MBA, and a Master Coach certification, she brings a rare combination of academic rigour and transformational coaching to executives and leaders. Having worked extensively with MBA programme participants, she identified the pattern that inspired Insight in Action: the most successful people often carry the deepest questions about whether they are truly living the life they want.

Werner BAUMGARTNER, MBA, LLM

Werner BAUMGARTNER, MBA, LLM

Co-Founder, Insight in Action

Werner brings decades of senior executive experience across Europe and the Middle East, including his role as Head of Swarovski Middle East. As the chairman of the Austrian Business Council, he bridges the worlds of luxury business, international leadership, and personal transformation. His personal connection to both the Austrian Alps and the UAE gives Insight in Action its distinctive dual identity.

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Or email us directly at insight-in-action@woibd.com