LIGHT THROUGH STONE

A RETREAT FOR female founders WHO ARE READY FOR bold change.

9 founders. 48 hours. Rewire your system and change everything.

Thursday 24th Sept - Saturday 26th Sept 2026

YOU’RE READY FOR THE next level.

Things are OK right now. The business is evolving and you can see where it could head.

But you can also feel the ceiling.

There's a bigger version of this: a business where revenue flows in consistently. Where you aren’t the bottleneck. Where you can take two weeks off without everything falling apart. Where your income reflects the value you create, not just how many hours you can physically work.

You can picture her: the version of you running that business. How she spends her days. What she's stopped doing. The decisions she makes without second-guessing herself.

THE GAP BETWEEN where your are AND where she is COMES DOWN TO ONE THING: how you’re wired.

The patterns running underneath everything: how you respond to pressure, what your nervous system allows and doesn't allow, where you draw the line without realising you've drawn it.

You've noticed it more lately. Pushing through doesn't work like it used to. Your energy isn't unlimited. Your patience for time-wasting bullshit is gone. The way your body responds to stress has changed. You need more recovery than you did five years ago, and your business is demanding more, not less.

That's incredible information to have. And it’s time to listen to it.

It’s time to rewire how you operate at the root.

SOMETHING HAS TO shift.

NOT EVENTUALLY. now.

THE problem ISN’T THAT YOU don’t know WHAT TO DO.

You've already proven you can build something from nothing. You've made bold moves before - launching, pivoting, hiring, firing, surviving the hard years.

The problem is you don't have the space to think clearly about what comes next.

Every week is full of client calls, team management, firefighting. Your best thinking happens at 11pm when you should be sleeping, or in the shower, or on the rare weekend when you're not checking Slack every twenty minutes.

You can't strategise your way out of this while you're still buried in it. You need separation. Space. Others who understand exactly what it costs to build what you're building. Someone who knows how to help you access what you already know but can't quite reach on your own.

That's what Light Through Stone is.

WHAT YOU’LL experience.

This isn't a conference. There are no keynotes or panels. No networking small talk or forced icebreakers.

You arrive Thursday late morning to coffee and a group of women who get straight to what matters. Within the first hour you'll be having conversations more real than most you've had all year.

OUR WORK MOVES THROUGH 3 phases.

RECOGNITION

We surface the brave moves, both seen and unseen, that brought you here. You’ve done hard things before. You can do them again.

VISION & CLEARING

Define your boldest business and the person leading it. Then confront the fears, inherited beliefs and habits standing in the way.

COMMITMENT & INTEGRATION

We’ll name the bold move(s) you’re going to make to shift your reality, you’ll share it with eight women and build the structure to make it stick.

THROUGHOUT THE weekend.

  • Somatic practices and movement that get you out of your head and into your body - where intuition actually lives

  • Silent walks in the Fens at dawn when your thinking is clearest

  • Facilitated spaces where you're deeply listened to without being fixed or advised

  • Time in the hot tub letting the day's insights settle

  • Conversations around the table with others who understand exactly what it costs to build what you're building

  • The space to actually rest - because rest is where breakthrough becomes possible.

THE setting.

Mepal, Cambridgeshire. A private chapel in the heart of the Fens.

This is not a hotel conference room with the furniture pushed back. This is not a WeWork with a whiteboard and lukewarm coffee.

The chapel itself is a work in progress - much like all of us. It's far from perfect, mid-renovation, raw in places. But that's part of what makes it right for this work. The energy of the space is extraordinary. There's something powerful about doing transformation work in a place that's actively being transformed. The imperfection isn't a flaw - it's permission.

It’s set in a place where the skies are so wide they change how you think. Where ancient droves and riverbanks have been walked for centuries. Where at night the stars are extraordinary - the kind you forget exist when you live and work in cities.

The Ouse Washes stretch out around you - one of the most remarkable wetland landscapes in Britain. Created in the 1600s by Dutch engineers who looked at an impossible marshland and decided to transform it entirely. A landscape that exists because someone made a bold decision and committed to it completely.

In September the fens turn golden. Migrating birds gather overhead. Barn owls hunt the field edges at dusk. The fenland sky is enormous and everywhere.

The days are held in the old Sunday School rooms of a private chapel built in 1840 - old walls, open space and streaming light, complete privacy, a space that has witnessed important moments before and knows how to hold them.

Your base for the weekend is The Three Pickerels - a beautiful riverside inn with views straight out over the Washes, 5 minutes walk from the chapel. The kind of place that feels like it was made for exactly this sort of gathering.

Evenings are spent around a long table sharing exceptional food. Later, conversation continues in the way it only can when guards are down and something real has happened.

THE INVESTMENT

£1,200

Includes all facilitation, two nights accommodation in the beautiful village inn on the river, all meals from Thursday lunch through Saturday breakfast, materials and 90-day post-retreat accountability structure.

Payment plans available.

Deliberately, UNCOMPROMISINGLY SMALL.

Small enough that you can't disappear into the background. Big enough for powerful group dynamics. Intimate enough that real transformation is possible.

9 places. When they're gone, they're gone.

Applications close Sept 3rd or when full.

HOW TO APPLY

The group is curated. This isn't first come, first served - it's about getting the right mix of founders

in the room together.

Your application takes 10 minutes:

Where you are in your business right now

What you need from this weekend

Why now

Selected applicants will have a short conversation to confirm fit.

YOUR HOSTS

THEA BROOK IS A CFO and three-time founder WHO HAS SPENT THE PAST TWENTY YEARS HELPING BUSINESSES grow with clarity AND COMMERCIAL CONFIDENCE.

She works with founders who are past the early scrappy stage but find that growth has started to feel heavier rather than easier.

Her work focuses on helping businesses reduce founder dependency, stabilise delivery and build models that support sustainable growth.

STEPHANIE SATRIAWAN IS A coach, mentor and intuitive entrepreneur WITH OVER TWENTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THERAPIES AND PRACTICES THAT nourish, heal and restore.

She works with people who are ready to step away from the relentless pace of modern life and return to a rhythm that has balance, creativity and space.

Her work draws on cyclical living, yoga nidra and somatic practices to help people reconnect with their intuition and build a life that feels genuinely sustainable, from the inside out.

FEEDBACK FROM previous WORKSHOP ATTENDEES:

  • "This wasn’t just information - it changed how I think about my business. I still come back to the frameworks months later."

    Bonnie Wims

  • “Thea has a way of cutting through the noise without overwhelming you. The training was structured, clear and genuinely confidence-building.”

    Pete Finlay

  • “The session felt practical, calm and incredibly focused. I left knowing exactly what to do next - and why.”

    Emily Potts

  • “I felt really focussed in the room. Thea makes complex things feel manageable and gives you tools you can actually use.”

    Hattie Willis

  • “I loved how hands-on it was. Nothing fluffy - just smart thinking, clear structure and practical next steps.”

    Lisa Benson

  • “Thea explains things in a way that just clicks. I finally understood what to focus on and what to stop worrying about.”

    Nonie White

  • “It felt like being guided, not lectured. Thoughtful, supportive and incredibly useful.”

    Gavin McLean

  • “Thea’s training helped me step out of overwhelm and into better decisions. I’d recommend it to any founder who wants clarity without pressure.”

    Julie Moses

YOU ALREADY KNOW SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE. This is where that starts.