Leadership RESET

July 7-8 | Toronto

A 1.5 day micro retreat for leaders ready to lead differently

Leadership RESET

July 7-8, 2025

Co-hosted by PlaySpace and SHARE

The Practice Room, 688 Richmond Street West, Suite 302 Toronto

Monday 9am–5pm & Tuesday 9am–1pm


Sliding Scale Pricing

Limited Spaces Available.

If you’re feeling the weight of constant uncertainty...
If the usual ways of leading aren’t working anymore...
If you’re craving space to pause, connect, and realign...

This is your invitation.

You’re not alone in feeling burned out, overwhelmed, or disillusioned. The pressure to perform and the isolation that often comes with leadership can drain even the most visionary among us.

What if you didn’t have to figure it out alone?

Relational Leadership in Practice is a restorative, immersive experience for people who are ready to slow down, reconnect with creativity, and explore new ways of working with others—not against the grain of exhaustion and survival.

 What to Expect

This is not your typical leadership training. It’s a space to:

  • Slow down and reconnect with your own humanity

  • Experience embodied practices that restore energy and build trust

  • Explore shared leadership practices that center care, connection, and collaboration

  • Practice improvisational and creative approaches to leading in uncertainty

  • Discover tools for creating cultures of belonging and adaptability

You’ll leave feeling grounded, energized, and equipped with practices that make leadership more sustainable—not just for you, but for your teams and communities.

 This Is For You If You Want To:

  • Trade burnout for wholeness

  • Shift from control to curiosity

  • Lead from connection, not just strategy

  • Build capacity for meaningful change—in yourself and your organization

Program Themes

Leading Through Uncertainty

Reclaiming Creative Capacities

Recovering from Burnout

Relational Ways of Leading

Cultivating Cultures of Collaboration

Learning Outcomes

Relational Depth - Increased capacity to connect with others beyond roles and hierarchies, fostering more authentic and human-centered collaboration.

Pattern Disruption - Tools to identify and shift unhelpful leadership patterns—especially those that emerge under pressure or in times of uncertainty.

Team Wellbeing - Practices that support healthy team dynamics, psychological safety, and shared accountability.

Embodied Leadership - A deeper understanding of embodied, intuitive, and relational leadership methods that enhance responsiveness and creativity.

Sustainable Change Strategies - Concrete strategies for building trust, distributing leadership, and sustaining meaningful transformation in organizational and community contexts.

Why It Matters

In a time when burnout is high and the pace of change feels relentless, many organizations are defaulting to familiar leadership models that prioritize control over care—and stability over adaptability. But what’s needed now isn’t a return to old ways. It’s a courageous step into something more human, more connected, and more regenerative.

This program offers a different path. It centers the capacities we too often overlook: presence, relational intelligence, intuitive decision-making, and creative responsiveness. These are not luxuries—they are survival tools for leading in complex, uncertain environments.

Whether you lead from a position of authority or as a catalyst within your community, this intensive is a chance to pause, replenish, and reimagine your approach. You’ll leave with renewed energy, grounded practices, and concrete strategies to co-create healthier, more collaborative ways of working—within your teams, your organizations, and the systems you’re part of.

Meet Your Facilitators

"True leadership begins within—by nurturing our own wellbeing and creative spirit, we become catalysts for positive change in our communities."

— Veronica Escalante

Veronica Escalante (Yucatán) is a cultural anthropologist, artist, and facilitator committed to fostering deep connections between people. As the founding executive director of the SHARE Foundation, she has extensive experience in promoting wellbeing and resilience through expressive arts therapy, reaching over 300,000 individuals across 90 countries. Veronica’s holistic approach blends art, movement, and reflective practices to help leaders cultivate emotional regulation and care—key components for sustainable and compassionate leadership. In this workshop, she will share dynamic strategies for recovery from burnout and building resilience, guiding participants to reconnect with their creativity and purpose to lead with renewed energy and impact.  www.fundacionshare.org

“I am continually amazed and inspired by the unexpected magic that transpires in processes of collective collaboration. When space is made for each unique voice in their diverse ways of being and knowing to be included, the joy of togetherness and the creative potential that emerge are remarkable to witness and model the kind of world I want to live in.” 

- Mairéad Filgate

Mairéad Filgate (Montréal) has toured nationally and internationally as a performer, choreographer, and educator, working with many of Canada’s most celebrated dance artists. She uses her wealth of knowledge gained from over two decades of intensive artistic practice centering collaborative process and improvisation, to shape educational experiences for community members of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. She has led workshops and creative projects in diverse contexts across Canada and the United States and co-developed process-focused multi-disciplinary programming for youth, with the Toronto Public Libraries and tiger princess dance projects. Mairéad is currently working towards the publication of an oral history of Canada’s Danny Grossman Dance Company that explores the social, economic, political, and personal landscapes that influenced the company through a multitude of voices and perspectives. With Shannon Litzenberger, she is the co-founder of PlaySpace, applying creative practice toward collaborative leadership, community health, and inclusive culture-making. www.maireadfilgate.com

“Taking time to feel and sense, to expand our attention, to listen with our whole bodies, to play without agenda, to connect and to express freely allows for unforeseen possibilities to emerge. I believe this is what our world needs more of right now, in order to do the necessary work of transformation.” 

-Shannon Litzenberger

Shannon Litzenberger (Toronto) is an award-winning choreographer, director, researcher, and embodiment facilitator. She creates sensory-rich, multi-disciplinary performance experiences that animate our relationship to land, community, and the forgotten wisdom of the body. Her creative practices inform her work in leadership, organizational development, public policy, and systems change. She works frequently across corporate, academic, and social benefit sectors in Canada, the US, and Europe, delivering leadership programs and workshops for organizations like RBC, National Bank, McKinsey & Company, THNK School of Creative Leadership, Laidlaw Foundation, TAC Leaders Lab, Banff Centre, Business / Arts, and the Trudeau Foundation, among many other. Shannon is the co-founder of PlaySpace with Mairéad Filgate, a faculty member in the Creative Leadership Masters Program at MCAD, a Public Imagination Fellow, and Artist-Researcher-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, where she explores the intersections of art, leadership, and democracy. www.shannonlitzenberger.com

Pricing Tiers

We offer a sliding scale to honour different financial realities. Choose what fits.

Testimonials

  • "I would recommend this session to all senior leaders looking for reminders of their own wisdom and how to put it into practice to support their teams."

    -Sonia Sakamoto-Jog | Senior Director, Toronto International Film Festival

  • "I think everyone could benefit from this work. I would say everyone who's trying to function in a group, which is everyone all the time."

    -Rick Roberts | Actor

  • "Movement as a leadership practice is more than just about being creative, it's about discovering who I am and how I show up for my team. "

    -Nidhi Khanna | Vice President, Program Operations, Skills for Change