Your data-driven resilience offsite
An actionable and immersive workshop led by pro athletes and performance physicians
gap between how stressed leaders feel and what their body shows (Sapiens research, n=189)
increase in Body Reserve Score, measured with hair, saliva and heart biomarkers after Sapiens programs
A data-driven resilience offsite to feel and perform like pro athletes
7,000 professionals loved how actionable it is
Trusted by executives from these companies and many more
We customize the agenda to your goals and context
Plenary intro
Powerful experiences to acquire resilience principles from Olympic gold medallists and assess your resilience bottlenecks
Olympic champion Tarja Mulari takes your team down her world record run and shows that resilience is self-regulation, not endurance.
Breakout round 1
Select a breakout to address your first resilience bottleneck
Athlete lunch and movement practice
Breakout round 2
Address your second resilience bottleneck
Breakout round 3
Address your third resilience bottleneck
Action planning
Turn insights from the day into 1-3 individual and team habits
Powerful resilience experience, like ice bathing
Learn how to regulate your nervous system state in ice water or pick another powerful group experience
Sapiens diagnostics launch
Initiate the journey of Sapiens scientific biomarker diagnostics to refine your resilience action plan and track the impact
“In 30 years we Olympic scientists shifted our focus from training to regeneration. That’s where we found the key to peak performance and more joy. With Sapiens we bring the same strategies to executives.”
“The Sapiens diagnostics solutions are built on cutting-edge allostatic load research, and the team develops them with scientific rigor.”
Get a tailored resilience offsite design for free
No commitment until you have seen the tailored design
Only then do you decide whether to bring it to your team
Measure the impact with body data
Optionally, participants can choose to start their resilience diagnostics journey straight after the workshop
Our diagnostics integrates body data from hair stress hormones, heart rate recovery analysis, daily cortisol, glucose and more
Each participant has a team of experts by their side to refine their action plan and sustain healthy habits
Frequently Asked Questions
Format and fit
No theory lectures to sit through. People breathe, balance, test their reaction time and work in pairs and small groups. Facilitators speak for minutes, not hours.
We have hosted resilience offsites for boards of 10 people up to 2,000 participants, at companies like SAP. We tailor the day to any audience, with plenary sessions and as many breakout experiences as you need.
Yes. The format is built for leaders who are skeptical of classic wellbeing workshops: data, sport and no chair circles. The average rating from around 7,000 participants, from top-tier consultancies to tech firms and C-level leaders, is 4.8 out of 5.
Yes. We can customize the workshop to your available space. For an optimal experience of a large event, we need one plenary room and 3 to 6 breakout spaces. We check the venue with you in the first meeting.
Commitment and follow-up
The first meeting and the tailored concept are free. You only commit once you have seen the design. Pricing depends on group size, breakouts and follow-up. Ask us for the one-pager with indicative ranges: janphilipp.martini@be-sapiens.com
Everyone leaves with 1 to 3 commitments. Optionally, we support habit change with daily habit tracking and proactive coach support when people struggle with their habits. We also offer ongoing journeys with diagnostics, 1:1 expert support and group interventions. Watch an example journey video
About two hours in total: a first meeting, one call to align the design, and a short briefing for your HR business partners before the day.
Yes. Many teams pilot with one leadership team of 10 to 30 people before rolling out.
Data and privacy
No participant data from the offsite is stored. Self-assessments run on the device and are not saved by us. Only the optional diagnostics journey collects data, with each person’s explicit opt-in, on EU servers (Microsoft Azure), deletable on request.
Never. Individuals see their own results. The company only gets anonymised team-level insights, and only for groups of 8 or more who opt in.
Yes. We operate under GDPR, use data processing agreements and support your legal and IT due diligence. Nothing leaves the EU.
No. It is prevention and performance coaching, not diagnosis or treatment. The doctors on our team work as health coaches and refer people on when something looks medical.
Reduce the price your body pays for stress
The session in detail
Stress is not the problem. The price your body pays for it is. The session runs in three steps.
Learn to detect the signs of chronic stress earlier. We look at how seven body systems respond to stressors, and which signs lead and which lag when stress builds up, so you can spot them in yourself and in your team.
The intervention starts with your nervous system, in the transition between meetings. Participants are connected to live stress testing devices and try new techniques, or test the ones they already use, to bring their stress response down. Everyone leaves with one thing to do between meetings, using breathing, vision, body tension or attention.
Learn more about the experienceAn interactive assessment of the 16 energy leaks shows which one escalates most for you under chronic stress, and which small tactics keep it in check.
Learn more about the experience
Build a balanced body for record speed
The session in detail
A professional movement screen, customized to your group. From a library of around 16 tests, we select the ones that fit the time available, your goals and the age group of the participants. Every result is compared with people of the same sex and age.
Asymmetries and gaps show up before they become injuries. Everyone leaves with their own resilience profile and the first exercises to fix their weakest spots.
Example: an eight-test screen
This is one possible selection. Each test measures one fitness attribute, and together they cover movement quality, muscular strength and cardio.
How the stations run
One example of a round robin: participants pair up and rotate clockwise through the stations. One person does the test, the partner counts, measures and notes the result on the worksheet, then they swap and move on. In practice, lower-body mobility gets several tests, and balance is measured with the more precise Y-balance test.
Your personal resilience profile
Each score becomes a percentile against people of your sex and age, drawn on an eight-axis web. A round web means a balanced body. Dents show weak spots. Red flags mark left-right differences, like a weaker leg or uneven balance.
From results to exercises
Everyone types their worksheet values into the training plan page on their phone. It shows the profile, the two lowest areas and the left-right differences to fix first. Then it picks exercises for their level and equipment, each with a short video.
Choose your state under extreme pressure
The session in detail
Hanny won a world title in orienteering and raced ultra distances. What she learned: more workload does not raise your cortisol by itself. The state you bring to the work does.
We start with a stress test, for example a squat hold. Everyone notes how long they hold, how hard it feels on a scale from 1 to 10, and which state they slip into by default.
Participants explore how they show up under pressure along four performance states: the Determined Warrior, the Tactical Athlete, the Wise Sage and the Playful Panda. Each one has its place, and each one has a cost.
For long efforts and sustainable performance, you need to stay just below your red line. Hanny shares her 900 km run along the GR10 across the Pyrenees: the first days she defaulted into Panda, then slid into Warrior by accident, and from day six she chose every state on purpose. Same mountains, different state.
In pairs, participants reflect on their default state and how they show up at work. What is the upside of that state, and what is the downside?
Everyone repeats the squat hold, this time choosing their state deliberately with music, posture, breath, gaze or a cue word. 95% of people score significantly better than when they defaulted into their most dominant state.
Improve focus under pressure and reduce mental fatigue
The session in detail
A Formula 1 driver makes hundreds of decisions per lap at 300 km/h. The edge is not more effort. It is reading the car and the driver, then choosing the right mode for the next corner. This session gives your team the same view of its own brain.
Everyone starts with the Sapiens cognitive performance test on their phone. Two minutes, and it speeds up every time you get it right. Results appear live as a team distribution. At the end the team takes it again and sees the shift. In this group, 31 of 38 people improved.
Try the cognitive testThe session follows three moves. Recognize the state you are in. Regulate it toward what the task needs. Reduce the mental fatigue that builds up over a day.
Like a race engineer reading telemetry, you learn to read your own signals. The first one is the 60-second time test: eyes closed, tap when you think a minute has passed. The more activated you are, the earlier you tap, and the room sees it live.
Two vital signs decide how well you think: how activated your nervous system is and how much mental fatigue you carry. High activation gives fast, linear thinking for getting things done. Low activation opens up creative, deliberate thinking for strategy and people. Add fatigue and you slide into scattered or sluggish.
Mental fatigue costs accuracy, patience and decision quality long before you feel tired, so it mostly goes unnoticed. You learn its early signs and how to match your state to the task: Speed for execution, Strategy for ideas and conversations.
Techniques to move up or down: breathing patterns, vision, body tension and attention. A short switch between meetings makes the biggest difference.
Everyone draws one typical day on the worksheet: where load builds up, where the pit stops are and where real regeneration happens. The example shows a common pattern: long stretches of load and very few breaks.
Together the team does a guided non-sleep deep rest practice, then re-tests. Try the 10-minute practice yourself. More practices for focus and regeneration are in the Cognitive Performance Toolkit.
The title is on the line. In pairs, everyone builds a plan for their next high-stakes day across four moments.
Eat for steady energy under pressure
The session in detail
The session is led by our certified nutritionists and medical doctors, such as Dr. med. Lara Fischer or Dr. med. Dominique Sauter Peschke. It opens with a highly interactive exercise: together, the team arranges a long table of food items from most to least healthy, and discusses where their intuition was right and where it was not.
Then we go to the first principles of performance nutrition and cut through the noise: how the hormonal system and the HPA axis interact with what we eat, how the stress response shapes eating behavior and the other way around, how the microbiome influences mood and decision making, and how mitochondrial energy production depends on what is on the plate.
On these principles, the team builds its approach to nutrition, then personalizes it to each person's current situation, schedule and goals. Everyone learns how food affects resilience, focus and decision quality through long workdays, travel and high-stakes periods.
On multi-day offsites, some participants wear a glucose sensor in the days before. We use the team's own data to shape the session.
Find calm in the cold
You experience this performance equation first-hand: by entering the ice and learning to lower your resistance to the stressor.
Why? To put the self-regulation techniques from the offsite into practice under real pressure: long exhales, feet on the ground, open vision. The ice stands for those work stressors that feel impossible to stay calm in. Once you can down-regulate while facing them, they lose much of their grip.
Participants arrive prepared in Sapiens clothing and enter the ice in T-shirts and trousers. Martim prepares the group with ten minutes of self-regulation exercises. Then participants enter one by one, each with a technique ready, guided by trained Sapiens ice bathing facilitators and with all safety procedures in place. Entering is entirely voluntary, and there are different degrees: hands only, legs, or the full body.
The first thirty seconds usually show the raw stress reaction: the breath wants to go fast and shallow, the body wants to tense, the mind wants out. Participants practise the opposite and learn to down-regulate under high pressure. Most people calm down within sixty seconds and start to enjoy it. The more you resist and tense up, the longer it takes until it feels effortless.
Afterwards: warm tea, bathrobes and a short debrief. What worked, where did you resist, and how does this compare to your last hard board meeting? Martim links it back to the three elements of nervous system regulation: focus, calming through breath and body, and the capacity to go up and come down again.
Groups leave with a deep bond, and the smiles at the dinner table that evening say the rest.
Experience and assess your resilience baseline
Tarja Mulari takes your team down her world record run. Eyes closed, music on, 200 km/h. Then the question to a partner: what holds me back from going insanely fast? The answer is rarely fitness. It is self-regulation, and that is what resilience means here: not less stress, but the ability to time it and use it.
Lara follows with the biology from a performance doctor’s view and the first measurement of the day: a breath hold (BOLT) that shows how early your nervous system reads a threat, and a live stress demonstration on the room screen with one volunteer.
Everyone then maps their resilience web in a five-minute self-check on their phone: physiology, movement, emotions, cognition. The team sees its combined picture before the breakouts start, and you choose your three sessions from where your own web is smallest.
Real-time stress testing
We don't lecture about stress. We bring people into real-world pressure scenarios and measure their stress reaction with biofeedback technology.
Difficult conversations, mental arithmetic under pressure, handling a mistake, moderating a town hall. People see their stress response in real time, debrief it with a partner and then learn techniques to regulate it, using breath, body tension, attention regulation or vision.
Once participants have found self-regulation routines that work for their own context and physiology, we turn them into meeting transition routines and re-run the stress scenarios to measure the impact.
Live resilience screening
Through a digital assessment, participants answer scientifically validated questionnaires on the critical resilience pillars, which maps the group's resilience patterns. No data is stored and no names are collected, yet everyone receives a personal resilience profile across four dimensions: physiological, musculoskeletal, cognitive and emotional resilience, plus the energy leaks behind each.
Next to the questions, real-time stress tests like hand ice baths and breath-hold exercises let people explore the pillars experientially. Their results feed into the assessment.
We use the results to prioritize the intervention areas for the group and to personalize the whole offsite. They also help each participant choose which breakouts to join.
Provocative stress testing scenarios
We design every scenario around your context and goals, so the pressure feels like your team's real work, not a generic exercise.
One example is the cold pressor test. At the start of the session, everyone puts a hand into ice water. We look at how people react and how long they can stay in comfortably.
Then participants learn techniques to lower their resistance and calm the stress response. At the end we repeat the hand ice bath, and most people stay in much longer, and far more comfortably.
We run many more scenarios in the same way, for example confrontational or courageous conversations.
Neurofeedback training
Participants wear EEG headbands that measure their brainwave activity and classify their brain state into four areas: idea generation, analytic problem solving, insight incubation and routine processing.
Prejwal Prabhakaran, the neuroscientist in our Sapiens team, developed this based on five years of university research on brainwave measurement and state classification. The result is a cutting-edge solution for measuring brain states on the job.
Participants learn, in real-world situations, to shift their brain state on demand between states that support creativity and states that support focus. No brain state is bad, but it matters to match each task with the right state.
We build customized scenarios, like board meetings, strategy meetings or product meetings, that replicate real situations from your company, and measure brain states in exactly those moments.
Participants leave more aware of how they show up in critical work moments, and of how environment, breathing, attention regulation and meeting preparation influence their focus, creativity and mental fatigue.
Cognitive tests under pressure
The purpose of this experience is to measure mental fatigue. We start by measuring it, then participants learn practices to reduce it, using body awareness and attention regulation techniques, and then we measure again.
We use scientifically validated cognition tests like the Vienna Determination Test. It gets faster and faster the better people perform, so everyone reaches a state of overwhelm, which is exactly what we want to test. This is very close to the real-world work environment.
For 90% of participants, mental fatigue goes down. Everyone leaves with a meeting transition routine that reduces mental fatigue during the day, so they stay sharp until the end of it.
Measure, reset, measure again
Everyone takes the two-minute test, already tired from the workday. We count the correct reactions. Then each person marks where they spend most of their day on the matrix below.
Next comes a short pit stop. Participants learn to shift their nervous system on purpose. Bright light, cold and faster breathing move you up into Speed. Dim light, warmth, slow breathing and releasing body tension bring you down into Strategy.
Then everyone takes the test again and compares. Each person writes down two or three actions to cut mental fatigue at work. A QR code on the worksheet lets them re-test at home.
The matrix shows why this matters. With low fatigue you work in Speed or Strategy. Fatigue pushes you into Scattered or Sluggish, where the same work costs more effort.
Ice bathing
The ice bath reveals your default response to pressure. Most people tense up and fight the cold at first. Once they relax into it, staying in becomes much easier, and after a few seconds most even start to enjoy it. The ice stands for the everyday stressors at work: the moment you stop resisting, you gain room to act.
Participants apply the techniques they learned earlier in the workshop, breathing, vision and releasing body tension, under real pressure. It is a fully immersive experience and a powerful moment for the team. People go in wearing T-shirts and prepared clothing, so it works in any workplace and across cultures.
Live energy leak assessment
Building resilience rarely starts with optimizing every detail of your life. It starts with being deliberate about the few energy leaks that cost you the most, across the physiological, emotional and cognitive domains.
We have identified the 15 most common energy leaks among our high-performing executive clients, from blood sugar swings and poor sleep timing to perfectionism, people pleasing and fragmented attention. Left unchecked, they feed a loop of job strain, stress habits and chronic stress.
How the session runs
A short interactive assessment shows each participant which energy leak weighs on them most right now.
We introduce the energy leak framework: job strain drives stress habits, stress habits open energy leaks, and the leaks fuel chronic stress.
Participants team up with someone who shares the same leak. Using the leak posters, they choose one or two small tactics that keep the leak from building up during stressful periods.
People leave with a few very specific, high-leverage tactics for what actually slows them down, instead of getting caught in the self-optimization loop.
Professional movement screen
A professional movement screen, customized to your group. From a library of around 16 tests, we select the ones that fit the time available, your goals and the age group of the participants. Every result is compared with people of the same sex and age.
Asymmetries and gaps show up before they become injuries. Everyone leaves with their own resilience profile and the first exercises to fix their weakest spots.
Example: an eight-test screen
This is one possible selection. Each test measures one fitness attribute, and together they cover movement quality, muscular strength and cardio.
How the stations run
One example of a round robin: participants pair up and rotate clockwise through the stations. One person does the test, the partner counts, measures and notes the result on the worksheet, then they swap and move on. In practice, lower-body mobility gets several tests, and balance is measured with the more precise Y-balance test.
Your personal resilience profile
Each score becomes a percentile against people of your sex and age, drawn on an eight-axis web. A round web means a balanced body. Dents show weak spots. Red flags mark left-right differences, like a weaker leg or uneven balance.
From results to exercises
Everyone types their worksheet values into the training plan page on their phone. It shows the profile, the two lowest areas and the left-right differences to fix first. Then it picks exercises for their level and equipment, each with a short video.
Glucose testing
On multi-day offsites, participants wear a glucose sensor for a few days before the nutrition session. It sits on the back of the upper arm and tracks blood sugar around the clock: meals, meetings, travel and sleep.
In the nutrition session, we debrief the results from those days. Which meals, meetings and nights moved the curve, and what kept energy steady. Everyone sees their own curve next to the team pattern.
The session itself opens with the food sorting challenge: together, the team arranges a long table of food items from most to least healthy.
Propose to my HR
Hi,
I came across a powerful resilience offsite by Sapiens that could fit us well. It's run by pro athletes and physicians, and the 2-8 hours are super hands-on and actionable: live stress tests, cognitive tests, no lectures.
Here's the overview.
They tailor the agenda for free and offer a full demo before we commit anything.
You can book a 15-min discovery call with Sapiens founder Jan-Philipp by clicking here and then see if it could fit us.
Thanks!
