Where Europe ends, the reset begins

Give your team three days by the Atlantic that change how they work for a year.

Nervous system and leadership, in one programme. Physiology assessed, capacity built, measured at day 0 and day 30.

Breath, movement, cold water, sleep and real connection, led by professionals on the Portuguese coast.

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Built into your offsiteTeams of 8 to 50Algarve · Sintra · ComportaMethod by Accelerate Health
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Accelerate Health, Berlin, developed the measured, physiology-based method. Atlantic Reset brings it to teams on the coast.

The reset

Feels like a week off. Works like a programme.

Your people arrive wired. They leave slept, moved, breathed, and closer to each other than a year of meetings could manage.

A group in a morning movement session on an empty beach at first light.
Sunrise on the sandThe quiet before anyone has checked a phone
A group walking into the ocean together, laughing.
Cold water, warm groupNervous laughter, then the calm that follows
A person sitting at a clifftop edge as the sun sets over the ocean.
Silence at the edgeTwenty minutes with nothing to solve

Why it works

Under pressure, people do not lose their skills. They lose access to them.

Most culture programmes work on mindset. We work on the physiology that decides whether the mindset is available at 4pm on a hard Thursday.

23%of employees worldwide are engaged at work. The rest are running on reserve.Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2024
>90%recommendation rate across three Accelerate Health programmes, 55 participants, physiological and qualitative data.Accelerate Health programme data, 2024 to 2026
Day 0 → 30Every programme is measured before and after. You see the change, not a testimonial.Programme design

Three benefits, one body

Emotional, mental, physical. They were never separate.

A three-dimensional approach: physiology first, then leadership expands on the capacity it now has.

A group of colleagues sitting together on driftwood by the sea, relaxed.
Emotional

Balance through connection

  • Feeling understood, not managed
  • Less reactivity, faster repair after friction
  • Trust that survives a bad quarter
Five people sitting on warm rock above the sea, eyes closed.
Mental

Presence and clarity

  • Clearer decisions under pressure
  • More focused hours in the day
  • The same hours, more of the person in them
Colleagues running into the ocean together, laughing.
Physical

Energy, sleep, longevity

  • A regulated nervous system, measured
  • Sleep that recovers instead of pauses
  • Habits that protect health for the long run

Healthy intensity, not grind

In the age of AI, the human is the edge. We put people back at the core of the game.

Ambition stays. Long weeks stay. What changes is how energy, focus and recovery are managed, so high performance comes from the state rather than against it.

23% higher profitability in business units with high engagement, across 183,000 units in 53 industries. Gallup meta-analysis, 2024.

A day on the coast

Nervous system and leadership, in one programme.

Physiology assessed, capacity built, measured before and after. One sample day; your strategy agenda keeps its slots.

Silhouettes of a group jumping on the beach at sunset.
Evening · Praia da Falésia
  1. Early risersOwn meditation and journaling, with tea.
  2. Contrast therapy and movementCold water, warmth, breath. Guided, optional.
  3. Breakfast by our nutritionistNourishing, anti-inflammatory, built for the group.
  4. Opening circle and leadership workshopTailored to your team and the moment it is in.
  5. LunchLong table, outside.
  6. Group experience on depthLed, structured, mostly without words.
  7. Guided intrinsic experienceNervous-system reset through a hike, nature meditation or sound bath.
  8. Bookable 1:1 with an expertPhysiology, breath or leadership. Confidential.
  9. DinnerThen a fire, or a closing gathering.
  10. Night timeA ten-minute sleep protocol people keep for years.

The programme

Three phases. The middle one is the trip.

Phase 1

Baseline

14 days before · 30 minutes to 2 hours per person, by format
  • Confidential intake: energy, sleep, load, recovery
  • Optional physiological measurement through a wearable, where the company opts in
  • A call with leadership to name what the team is carrying
  • Everyone sees their own state. Nobody else does.
Phase 2

Reset

Half day to 3 days · on the coast, inside your offsite
  • Led sessions in nature: breath, embodiment, cold water, reconnection
  • Each session explained in plain physiology
  • Everything optional, designed so people choose it
  • Your agenda keeps its slots; the programme goes around them
Phase 3

Integration

30 to 90 days · at work
  • A daily five-minute breath routine, the protocol shown in a randomised trial to improve mood and lower arousal within a month (Balban 2023)
  • Two 45-minute online sessions, week 2 and week 6, plus one with leadership
  • Day-30 re-measurement against each person's own baseline
  • Aggregated, anonymised report for the board, groups of eight or more

What's included

We build the whole programme. You bring the team.

Personnel

Facilitators, breathwork and somatic practitioners, and the Accelerate Health team including clinicians and therapists. Fully staffed and briefed.

Programme design

Every session sequenced and timed around your existing agenda.

Assessment protocols

Baseline, day-30 and day-90 measurement, built and interpreted by the team.

Logistics

Coordinated with your venue or agency. One contact, one budget.

Reporting

An aggregated, board-ready outcome report.

The science, in plain terms

Evidence before claims. Here is what the research supports.

We use these findings to explain the mechanism, not to promise miracles.

Self-regulation

The body's regulation capacity can be measured

Heart-rate variability reflects how well the prefrontal brain regulates the stress response, and it is trainable.

Thayer, Åhs, Fredrikson, Sollers & Wager (2012), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Breath

Five minutes of structured breathing beats mindfulness for mood and arousal

One month of daily five-minute breathwork improved mood and lowered physiological arousal more than an equal dose of meditation, in a randomised trial.

Balban et al. (2023), Cell Reports Medicine.
Connection

Social connection is a survival factor, not a soft one

Across 148 studies and 308,849 people, stronger relationships meant a 50% greater likelihood of survival.

Holt-Lunstad, Smith & Layton (2010), PLoS Medicine.
Engagement

Disengagement is the most expensive line nobody reports

Low engagement costs the global economy an estimated 8.9 trillion dollars a year, about 9% of GDP.

Gallup (2024), State of the Global Workplace.

How a programme is measured

Illustrative, aggregated per team
Day 0 · baselineReset · 2 to 3 daysDay 30 · re-measureDay 90highlow
Energy, sleep quality, recovery capacityReactive load, intent to leave

What people take home

Depth, without the language of a retreat.

  1. Their own state measured and explained, not only felt.
  2. Why they become reactive under pressure, and how to steer it on purpose.
  3. Three routines that fit a working week, and a body that remembers the coast.
  4. Clearer decisions, more focused work, calmer leadership, visible against their own baseline.
  5. A connection to the people next to them that outlasts the trip.
Cimberley Groß, founder and programme director of Atlantic Reset
Cimberley GroßFounder and programme director

Who leads it

Meet Cimberley Groß.

Cimberley created the first health and leadership programme built around the nervous system, and developed the physiology-based method behind Accelerate Health. Atlantic Reset is where she brings it to teams on the coast.

  • Trained in Ayurveda and breathwork; years of leading groups who had never done this before
  • A background in climate and impact investing, so she speaks the language of the people who sign budgets
  • Directs every programme personally, with Accelerate Health's practitioners on measurement and the clinical and psychological layer

You meet her, and the practitioners who will be in your room, before you sign.

Where

Portugal, where Europe ends and the ocean begins.

Two hours from most of Europe, sun in February, coastlines that do half the work. Bring your hotel, or let us place you.

Golden cliffs and a sandy cove on the Algarve coast.Algarve

Whole teams

Cliffs, warm sea, beaches at the door. Teams of 20 to 50.

Dense green forest on the Sintra hills.Sintra and Cascais

Leadership teams

Forest and ocean, thirty minutes from Lisbon airport. 8 to 30 leaders.

Footprints on a long empty beach at Comporta.Comporta and Alentejo

Deep work

Empty beaches, cork forests, an hour south of Lisbon. Teams up to 30.

Formats

Delivered inside the offsite you already run.

Teams up to 50 · half day

Reset Day

Inside a kick-off or leadership day

  • 30-minute baseline intake for everyone
  • Opening breath for the whole group, one led session outside
  • Take-home routine, one online check-in, day-30 re-measure

Priced per head. Shared on the call.

Ask about Reset Day
Teams of 12 to 50 · 2 to 3 days

Atlantic Reset

The full programme, on the coast

  • Baseline phase, 1 to 2 hours per person, optional wearable
  • Sunrise reset every morning, the long exhale every night
  • Group depth work, guided nature experiences, bookable 1:1s
  • Integration: routines, check-ins, day-30 re-measure, board-ready report

Fixed fee plus per head. Shared on the call.

Ask about the Atlantic Reset
8 to 30 leaders · 4 to 5 days

Leadership Reset

Founders and leadership teams

  • Two-hour individual baselines with one-to-one interpretation
  • Senior practitioners; clinically trained where needed, always opt-in
  • Strategy time held inside the arc
  • 90-day integration with leadership

Designed case by case.

Ask about Leadership Reset

Five things this is not

Clear lines make it easier to say yes.

A spa weekend

Pleasant, and gone by Monday. We want observable change in the working week, or it did not work.

Esoteric

Somatic and breath practices, explained in plain physiology and tied to the evidence. No belief required.

Clinical treatment

Prevention, rebuilding and recovery after exhaustion. Not a substitute for medical or psychological care.

A talking circle

We lead. Structured practices with a clear beginning and end. Nobody shares their feelings with the room.

Biohacking

Data serves self-regulation, not optimisation for its own sake. Health data is never an employer's instrument.

Questions we get

Straight answers.

Is this a retreat with a corporate label?

It feels like the best parts of one. It works like a programme: a baseline, a led reset on the coast, an integration phase at work, and a day-30 measurement. Half of it happens before and after the trip.

Who sees the measurement data?

Each person sees their own. The company sees aggregated, anonymised results for groups of eight or more. Health data is stored separately, never used as an employer instrument, and deleted after the programme unless the participant asks to keep it.

Our people are sceptical engineers and salespeople.

Our best room. Every session is explained in physiology before it starts, everything is optional, and the first one is easy and slightly fun. By day two the sceptics are usually in the water first.

Cold water. Really?

Only for those who want it, always guided, never a test of anyone. Most people go in on day two, once they have seen what it does for the people who went in on day one.

Where does Accelerate Health come in?

Cimberley, our founder and programme director, created the first health and leadership programme focused on the nervous system and developed the physiology-based method behind Accelerate Health. Atlantic Reset is where she brings that method to teams on the coast. Accelerate Health's practitioners deliver the measurement and the clinical and psychological layer.

How far ahead do we need to book?

Four weeks for a Reset Day inside an event you have already planned. Eight to twelve weeks for the full programme, because the baseline phase needs two weeks before the offsite.

Start here

Tell us about the team. We will tell you what we would build.

A 20-minute assessment call. No deck. You describe the group and the moment it is in; we come back within a week with a programme outline, the measurement plan and a price.

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