My memories of El Bolsón (first team retreat!)

We arrived in El Bolsón (Patagonia) with the usual retreat hopes: alignment, clarity, bonding, maybe one meaningful breakthrough.

What we got was better. Messier. More real!

Mati, one of Volt founders, kicked things off with a welcome. He lives there all year round 🤯

We started driving around with our beloved red Cronos. (Literally this car 🚗!)

We took some profile pics, which sounds silly until you realize what it implies. Identity. Pride.

Somewhere after that, we went trekking and we got lost. Which ended up being a perfect team diagnostic disguised as a dumb challenge. Who leads, who jokes, who stays calm, who turns chaos into momentum. Mild confusion is surprisingly revealing.

For me, the retreat’s best flex was the L10 in the lake. Our usual weekly meeting in a beautiful place.

Hiking did what hiking always does: it loosened the mind and got others worried about their health. Breathing hard, we reached the top, staring at something too beautiful to multitask through.

By the time we talked about values with Migue, it didn’t feel like an exercise. It felt like something we’d already all agreed with during our adventures in nature.

On our last night at El Bolsón, Mati made an incredible asado to send us off (We are all Argentinians, so what would you expect?!)

And then, naturally, we almost missed a flight and had to run our lungs out! The perfect ending. A little chaos, a little adrenaline, one last shared moment to seal the retreat in our memory.

I didn’t leave with one grand epiphany. I left with something more useful: a clearer emotional map of the team. El Bolsón delivered.