LIGHT THROUGH STONE
A RETREAT for FEMALE FOUNDERS WHO ARE READY for BOLD CHANGE.
9 founders. 3 days. 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 YOU 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.
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.
BEFORE & AFTER
Hear how participants of the last retreat felt when they arrived vs when they left, 3 days later.
PHYSICAL & ENERGY STATE
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Ill at the end of every month for four months — stress cycling into exhaustion cycling into burnout
Relying on artificial energy to keep going; not eating or drinking well
Thought the answer was to keep pushing — didn't realise the body was signalling something
"I was stuck in this cycle of anxiety and stress, then run down, then feeling like I couldn't stop working."
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Understood what she actually needed — rest, nervous system care, space to regulate
Gave up artificial stimulants; more energy as a result, eating and drinking better
Felt balanced and resilient
"I need to really take a step back and look after my body, look after my nervous system. I did not know that that is what I needed."
BUSINESS CLARITY & ACTION
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Avoiding selling the main offer; building workarounds to stay busy without doing the hard thing
Plateaued — maintaining run rate but stuck, no clear path to growth
Big unresolved decision being carried alone; tied in knots, too many directions
"I kept coming up against the same brick walls, just further down the line."
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Made one small, significant change to the offer that had felt impossible for months
Clear on exactly what needs to change to double run rate — and landed a new client within a week
Made the big decision clearly; quickly implemented changes on return
"That clarity is something I didn't have before the retreat. It was exactly what I was looking for."
SELF-BELIEF & INNER VOICE
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Carrying self-doubt and negative self-talk she didn't know was there — pushed down, never aired
Panic and scarcity mindset running constantly in the background
Felt she didn't qualify; convinced everyone else had it more together
"I didn't realise just how much they were holding me back."
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Heightened self-belief — felt she could figure out what she needed to by herself
Real trust in her own judgment; confident backing her instincts loudly
Reassured that even the founders who seemed further ahead had the same fears
"Trust is a really good word. That is what has shifted."
CONNECTION & BELONGING
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Isolated, lonely, trying to figure it all out alone — wondering if she was the only one who felt this way
Guards up; not an oversharer, wary of new rooms and new people
Felt she didn't belong — that everyone else was further ahead or more qualified
"Am I the only one who feels like this?"
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Part of a group who'd seen each other at their most honest — something to lean on when doubts return
Shared more than expected, more quickly than expected — and it felt completely natural
Left inspired by every person in the room; realised it was exactly the room she needed
"I learned from every person there. I came away feeling so impressed and inspired."
