Wintering
A weekend retreat for leaders and organizations
for teams to rest, harvest and vision the season ahead.
Wintering isn’t a waste
A facilitated weekend retreat where your team rests, reviews the year together and plans the next one.
Facilitated Weekend Retreat
Somatic Rest & Silent Walk
Harvest Circles
Mycelium Mapping
Collective Visioning
“Wintering brings about some of the most profound and insightful moments of our human experience, and wisdom resides in those who have wintered.”
- Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Winter isn't only a season for slowing down.
It's when a forest takes in everything the year has given and quietly turns it into what comes next.
Wintering gives your team that same pause: a weekend to rest together, make meaning of what you've harvested, and decide what you'll grow next.
Arrive Friday, leave Sunday..
Rested, rooted and
with a shared plan for the year ahead.
For the woman
ready to lead
her whole forest
What we'll tend together
Built on my leadership philosophy - The Mother Tree Way™
YOUR LEADERSHIP | Rooted Wholeness
Holding your boundaries, your rhythm and your self-trust through a full year of real decisions, real pressure and real seasons, so you never go back to leading on empty.
YOUR TEAM | Reciprocal Relationships
Bringing matriarchal structures into how your team decides, collaborates and grows, so leadership is shared and the mission no longer depends on you holding it all together.
YOUR ECOSYSTEM | Rhythmic Wisdom
Mapping and strengthening the partnerships, alliances and voice that grow your impact beyond what your team can carry alone, timed to the season your organization is actually in.
Four seasons to strengthen the mycelium
Nature doesn't transform in twelve weeks, and neither do organizations. The Mycelium moves with the seasons, each quarter building on the last and closing with a Harvest Day with your leadership team.
Months 1 - 3
Season 1: SEED
Starting within. We anchor your own leadership first: your boundaries, your rhythm, your non-negotiables. We look honestly at where extraction still lives in how you lead, and set the intention for the year.
Months 4–6
Season 2: ROOT
From carrying to sharing. We introduce matriarchal structures to your leadership team, such as circle practices, shared decision-making and reciprocal roles, so leadership stops living in one person.
Months 7 - 9
SEASON 3: WEAVE
Weaving outward. We map your ecosystem, strengthen the partnerships and alliances that multiply your impact, and clarify the voice your organization brings to the world.
Months 10 - 12
SEASON 4: HARVEST
From practice to culture. We integrate what's grown, make it part of how your organization runs, and plan the year ahead in rhythm, not in a rush.
What is included
1:1 coaching twice a month for 12 months, to hold your boundaries, lead cyclically, trust yourself in hard decisions, and keep your voice alive
Voice-note support between sessions, for the hard email, the tense meeting, the decision you can't sleep on
Four seasonal Harvest Days with your leadership team, one each quarter, to bring matriarchal structures into how you work together
Ecosystem mapping to identify and strengthen the partnerships and alliances that grow your impact
A year-long rhythm: seasonal planning that replaces sprints and deadlines with cycles your organization can sustain
Meet your guide
I am Pukhraj. For fifteen years I built leaders, communities and partnerships across education and social impact. I mentored teachers with Teach For India, stewarded a global network of 700+ education ambassadors at HundrED, and founded an impact marketplace that partnered with women-led maker organizations reaching 500+ artisans.
Then I ran my own business into burnout, because I believed sacrifice was proof of how much I cared. Rebuilding myself led me to the Mother Tree Way™, and to the belief that a woman's leadership only lasts when the structures around her are rooted too.
The Mycelium is where I bring all of it together: the coach, the weaver, and the woman who had to learn this the hard way.
REMEMBERING THAT LEADERSHIP WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE EXTRACTIVE
15+ years across education, social impact and entrepreneurship. WISE Emerging Leader in Education, Vital Voices Global Ambassador, Break Fellow with EU Female Founders. 200hr certified Yoga Teacher and YACEP Sound Healer.
You lead an organization, a team or a movement, and you want the change in you to become the culture around you.
You've done inner work before, and you want support that lasts beyond a program.
You want to bring matriarchal ways of leading into your team, not just talk about them.
You're ready to grow your impact through partnerships, not by working harder.
You want a thinking partner for a full year of real decisions.
This is for you if...
You're looking for a quick fix or a one-off intervention.
You want to change your team without changing how you lead.
You're not yet ready to look honestly at the structures you've built.
You want to win the extractive game faster, not change it.
This is NOT for you if...
What women say about working with me
Investment
The program fee is set on a sliding scale, based on your organization's annual operating budget:
Less than €1M: €6,000
€1M – €10M: €12,000
Greater than €10M: €27,000
A 10% deposit secures your place at the start of our partnership. Payment plans are available.
FAQ
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No. Though it is ideal and many women come to the Mycelium after Root to Rise, it's not a requirement. In our first season, we touch similar foundations directly into your year.
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Root to Rise is a 12-week journey focused on you. The Mycelium is a full year, 1:1, and it goes beyond you, into your team, your partnerships and the way your organization runs.
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Your leadership team, or the people you lead most closely. We'll decide together who should be in the room, based on your organization's size and structure.
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Yes. Many leaders invest in the Mycelium as part of their organization's leadership development budget. I can invoice your organization directly.
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1:1 coaching happens online. Harvest Days can be held online or in person, depending on where you and your team are.