“Away from it all: a retreat for world leaders”
Robert Booth
The Guardian News & Media (UK)
The next time Gordon Brown or Nicholas Sarkozy need a bolthole in which to recharge their batteries or a place for a private pow-wow, they might find themselves lured to a new retreat amid the pink rocks of the Nevada desert.
Donna Vassar, part of the Vassar education dynasty, has launched plans to build a $300m private getaway for stressed-out presidents and prime ministers who want to “reconnect with their unique purpose in life”….
“The Universitas Leadership Sanctuary will be a centre specifically created to embrace and challenge leaders,” says the vision document which Vassar has published. “Together we will create an individual journey leading to the highest place within, enabling leaders to reconnect with their unique purpose in life. They emerge – renewed, with clarity, and reflecting true transformation….”
Patterson [the architect] travelled to study the life and architecture of Buddhist Dzongs (monasteries) in Bhutan and the Christian orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos and Meteora in Greece….
[U]nder a dome of glass, will be the spiritual heart of the development – the contemplation space where leaders will be encouraged to sit in silence.Click here to read this entire article.
